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[ecrea] Dispersions: Canadian Association of Cultural Studies 2014 Conference (Jan. 16-19, 2014)

Mon Jan 06 19:35:38 GMT 2014




Please join us at Dispersions the Canadian Association of Cultural Studies National Conference which will take place January 16-19, 2014 at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, 67 Erb St. W, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

The full conference schedule can be viewed here http://dispersions2014.sched.org/. Registration for the conference, as well as information about the organization, the locale, and conference events can be accessed through our website http://cacs-acec.ca/. We also draw your attention to the following free public conference events;

Join food activists and researchers in a roundtable discussion: Mixing Ingredients: Bringing Food Research Outside the University, 7pm January 16, 2014, Rm 145, Balsillie School of International Affairs, 67 Erb. St. W., Waterloo, ON. More information; http://cacs-acec.ca/roundtable-panel-mixing-ingredients/

Dal Puri Diaspora: Film Screening and Director's Talk with Richard Fung, 7pm, January 17, 2014, Princess Original Cinema, 6 Princess St. W., Waterloo, ON. Shot in Toronto, Trinidad, and India the film traces the remarkable journey of the recipe for dal puri across space and time, linking colonialism, migration and the globalization of tastes. More information: http://cacs-acec.ca/screening-and-directors-talk-dal-puri-diaspora-2012/

Keynote and Reception: Dr. Mimi Thi Nguyen (Women and Gender & Asian American Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) will be giving our keynote talk followed by a reception. Damage Control, and the Art of Governing Through Freedom elaborates upon liberalism as a practice and principle for the rationalization of government, which claims at its heart freedom as the reference of its politics. 5pm, Saturday, January 18, 2014, CIGI auditorium, 67 Erb St. W, Waterloo, ON. More information http://cacs-acec.ca/cacs-acec-keynote-and-reception-january-18-2014/ .

alexandra boutros, phd | associate professor, communication studies | cultural studies program-coordinator | chair, canadian association of cultural studies | wilfrid laurier university | t: 519.884.0710 (2917) | (aboutros /at/ wlu.ca)


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