Some of you may be interested in this event at McLuhan Centre.

Best Regards, Ishtiaque

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Toronto, ON, CA Ph: +1 647 220 3482 Skype: syed.ishtiaque.ahmed web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/ My Availability: Google Calendar Link https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ishtiaque.uoft%40gmail.com&ctz=America%2FToronto

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Sarah Sharma sarah.sharma@utoronto.ca Date: Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 9:42 AM Subject: Jayna Brown and Steven Jackson at McLuhan Centre September 23 To: k.mckittrick@queensu.ca k.mckittrick@queensu.ca, Rinaldo Walcott < rinaldo.walcott@utoronto.ca>, Nicole Charles n.charles@utoronto.ca, Beverly Bain beverly.bain@utoronto.ca, Deborah Cowen < deb.cowen@utoronto.ca>, Dana Seitler d.seitler@utoronto.ca, Shaquilla Singh shaquilla.singh@gmail.com, Lauren Cramer lauren.cramer@utoronto.ca, cesharpe@yorku.ca cesharpe@yorku.ca, Dai Kojima dai.kojima@utoronto.ca, Christine Shaw christine.shaw@utoronto.ca, John Ricco < john.ricco@utoronto.ca>, Ladan Mohamed Siad ladanmohamedsiad@gmail.com, R. Cassandra Lord cassandra.lord@utoronto.ca, Ishtiaque Ahmed < ishtiaque@cs.toronto.edu>, Vinh Nguyen vinh.nguyen@uwaterloo.ca, Jayne Wilkinson wilkinson.jayne@gmail.com

Wanted to get the word out to those of you who may not be on our mailing list or on our FB/twitter first roll out.

Registration is going fast!

Jayna Brown and Steven Jackson will be at the McLuhan Centre talking about repair, speculation, and technical breakdown to open our HotMessAge: Media Studies Takes the Call year of programming!

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/monday-night-seminar-line-dead-repair-calls-tick... https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/monday-night-seminar-line-dead-repair-calls-tickets-71535736313 Monday Night Seminar: Line Dead, Repair Calls https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/monday-night-seminar-line-dead-repair-calls-tickets-71535736313 Join us as we open the HotMessAge season with Jayna Brown and Steven Jackson with a night on repair for the end of the world! We will be addressing the HotMess via speculative life, black utopias, and the break down of our technical systems. We will discuss and think through together the significance of breakdown but also the opportunity for improvisation and creativity in science, tech, and new media fields. The “Monday Night Seminar” carries on the tradition of Marshall McLuhan's public seminars at the University of Toronto. All seminars take place within the same intimate Coach House setting where McLuhan once held court. In this up-close and personal environment, a range of thinkers – academics, activists, scientists, artists, designers and planners – will explore digital culture from a feminist perspective. The Monday Night Seminars are designed to challenge prevailing cultural notions about technology and provoke new insight on the possibilities for a more equitable technological futu www.eventbrite.ca

Sarah Sharma Associate Professor, University of Toronto Director of the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology --Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (UTM) --Faculty of Information (St. George)

Website: sarahsharma.com