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