CICAS Talk Series
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Previous Recordings
| ~ | ~ | ~ |“Two-Eyed Seeing, Wise Practices in Indigenous Health Research and Applications for Indigenization” Dr. Cindy Peltier September 28th, 2016
"The Future of Human(ity)" (July 22-24, 2016)
The Inaugural Conference of The Centre for InterdisciplinaryCollaboration in the Arts and Sciences (CICAS)
Welcome __________Keynote: Friday July 22, 2016
Dr. Adam Nash, (RMIT University, Australia)“Actual Fantasy, Modulation Chains, and Swarms of Thought-Controlled Babel Drones: Digital Ontology in the Posthuman Era” __________
Dr. Catherine Jenkins (Ryerson, Canada)“Human versus Cyborg Life: Quality versus Quantity” __________
Dr. Eric Weichel (Nipissing, Canada)“The Posthuman: Donna Haraway, Cyborgs, and Contemporary Art” __________
Dr. Andy Belyea (Royal Military College, Canada)“Self-Defence: Bodies at War in the Posthuman Era” __________
Keynote: Friday July 22, 2016
Dr. Peter Eckersall (CUNY Graduate Theatre, USA)“Towards a Dramaturgy of Robots and Object Figures” __________
Dr. David R. Wirtzing (U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA)“Exercises in Secular Heresy: Technological Determinism, Civil Liberties, and the Taboo of Diminishing Returns” __________
Keynote: Saturday July 23, 2016
Dr. Fred Spier (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)“Wished futures and expected futures: a reflection on scenarios of the future of humanity from the point of view of big history” __________
Dr. Hilary Earl (Nipissing, Canada)“Reflections on Death Tourism in the Age of Experiential Education” __________
Dr. Gillian McCann (Nipissing, Canada)“Secular Pilgramage: Making Meaning in Late Modernity” __________
Dr. Pavlina Radia (Nipissing, Canada)“From Gas Chambers to 9/11: The Ecstacy of Postmemory and Contemporary American Culture” __________
Dr. Eric Weichel (Nipissing, Canada)“Rehabilitating the "Universal Classic": Dancing Bodies in Motion and Mutation” __________
Dr. Paul Monaghan (Nipissing, Canada)“A Stratigraphy of the Imagination: Greek Theatre, the Posthuman, and the Future" __________
Dr. Christine Bolus-Reichert (University of Toronto-Scarborough, Canada)“The Shock Doctrine in Apocalyptic Fiction" __________
Dr. Laurie Kruk (Nipissing, Canada)“Guy Vandehaeghe and the Future of the Marginalized Canadian Male" __________
Keynote: Saturday July 23, 2016
Dr. Keith Hipel (University of Waterloo, Canada)“Technology and Policy Options for a Low-Emission Energy System in Canada” __________
Thanks __________ Dr. Aaron Weiss (York University, Canada)“Interdisciplinarity as the Future of Academia, the Arts, and Sciences” __________
Dr. Timothy Sibbald (Nipissing, Canada)“Developing Secondary Teachers Who Engage in Interdisciplinary Thinking” __________
Dr. Eli Park Sorensen (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)“Blade Runner and the Right to Life” __________
Dr. Manuel Litalien (Nipissing, Canada)“Gender, Religions and Social Development: A Reflection on the Transnational Role of the Sakyadhita and the Alliance for Bhikkhunis” __________
Dr. Maggie Zeng (CCFC, Canada)“Gender Mainstreaming in Peace and Security” __________
Dr. Anahit Armenakyan (Nipissing, Canada)“International Business Relationships” __________
Issac Owusu Frimpong (Jilin University, China)“Migration Concerns in the 21st Century” __________
Keynote: Sunday July 24, 2016
Dr. Chris Vitale (Pratt Institute, NYC, USA)“Living Within the Neuro-Screen: Post-Humanism, Post-Cartesianism, and the Challenge of Artificial Neural Networks for an Increasingly Neuralized World”
2015 - 2016 Talk Series
Keynote: Friday April 8, 2016 - 1pm
Dr. Ted Chase, Professor Emeritus, Nipissing University “From Einstein to LIGO: The Epic Quest for Gravitational Waves”
Keynote: Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Dr. Shauneen Pete, (Faculty of Education, University of Regina) “Unraveling Community in Indigenous Community-University Research Collaborations”
1st Talk, October 28, 2015
Sal Renshaw (GESJ), Renee Valiquette (GESJ), Joe Boivin (Biology), Nathan Colborne (Religions and Cultures), Candace Ghent (GESJ/Philosophy Student), & Alicia McPhee (Biology Student) “Dishing the Dirt: An Interdisciplinary Panel on 3 Years and 5 Versions of the Interdisciplinary Concept Courses at Nipissing”
Keynote: Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Dr. Wendy Wenner (former Dean of the Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies, Grand Valley State University) “Weaving a Web of Support for Interdisciplinary Studies”
2014 - 2015 Talk Series
6th Talk: April 16, 2015 (held at the WKP Kennedy Gallery, Capitol Centre)
Drs. Colleen Franklin (English, Thorneloe University/Laurentian University; retired), Elizabeth Ashworth (Schulich School of Education, Nipissing University), and Laurie Kruk (English, Nipissing University) “Creating the North”
Keynote: Thursday, March 26th, 2015
Dr. Joan Simalchik, Coordinator of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga; Founding executive director of the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture; Founding board member of the Canadian Centre for International Justice. “The Banality of Torture: Violence in an Age of Fear”
Keynote: Friday, March 6th, 2015
Dr. Elizabeth P. Presa, Head of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ideas, Faculty of the VCA & MCM, The University of Melbourne “Labyrinths: Saying Yes to Experimentation and Possibility”
5th Talk: February 26, 2015
Dr. Nathan Colborne (Religions and Cultures) and Dr. Wendy Peters (GESJ) “Television, Politics and Pedagogy: Is TV the Opium or LSD of the People?”
4th Talk: January 29, 2015
Drs. Richard Wenghofer (Classical Studies, Nipissing University), Mark Wachowiak (Computer Science, Nipissing University), Alex McAuley (Classical Studies, McGill University), and Steve Mason (History, University of Aberdeen)“Digital Approaches to the Ancient World”
3rd Talk: December 2, 2014
Drs. Paul Monaghan (Classics), Pavlina Radia (English Studies), Gyllian Phillips (English Studies), Robert Hemmings (Liberal Arts Muskoka/English Studies), and Marc Plamondon (Digital Humanities) “Masks, Megaphones, Cyborgs and Cybernauts: Redefining the Human in the Twentieth Century and Beyond”
2nd Talk: October 29, 2014
Dr. Aroha Page (Nursing) and Dr. Haibin Zhu (Computer Science) “IT in Health Care Scheduling”
1st Talk: September 29, 2014
Dr. Sarah Winters (English Studies) and Dr. Susan Srigley (Religions and Cultures)“You Teach, YouTube: Authority and Affect in the Wired Classroom”