[eccr] Understanding Media Symposium

http://www.mcluhan.ca/symposium_understanding_media.phtml

Understanding Media: The extensions of man by Marshall McLuhan (1911- 1980), Canada's intellectual comet, was published in 1964. Forty years later, the McLuhan Global Research Network invites scholars, students, artists, and members of the public to participate in this online symposium on the impacts and relevance of this now classic work.

The responses online will be curated and displayed at the Understanding Media Critical symposium to be held in Winnipeg at the University of Manitoba (McLuhan's alma mater) on June 4, 2004, 12:30 - 2 PM, as part of the annual Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Congress. 


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Forty Years of Understanding Media: A Symposium
June 4 
At the 2004 Social Sciences and Humanities Federation Academic Congress at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, on June 4th, 12:30 - 2 PM, The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto and the McLuhan Global Research Network, in partnership with the Association of Media Ecologists North, InSounds McLuhan Oral history project, and other interested participants, will celebrate the 40th anniversary of publication of Understanding Media: The extensions of man, written by one of the University of Manitoba's most eminent alumni, Marshall McLuhan. This will be a multi-media event. Online comments will be accepted for the web-based counter-environment project for this symposium, starting Wednesday, March 17, 2004. For information, please contact Liss Jeffrey at the University of Toronto ((ljeffrey /at/ mcluhan.org)) or Phil Rose at York University ((prose /at/ mcluhan.org)). 

Understanding Media : Quarante ans plus tard
Le 4 juin 
Le programme McLuhan en culture et en technologie de la University of Toronto et le McLuhan Global Research Network, en partenariat avec l'Association Media Ecologists North, le project InSounds histoire parlant, et autres int¨¦ress¨¦s c¨¦l¨¦brera le quaranti¨¨me anniversaire de Pour comprendre les m¨¦dias, de Marshall McLuhan, illustre ancien de la University of Manitoba. Il s'agira d'un ¨¦v¨¦nement multim¨¦dia. Veuillez diriger vos questions ¨¤ Liss Jeffrey : (ljeffrey /at/ mcluhan.org) ou Phil Rose: (prose /at/ mcluhan.org).



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