Past Event! Note: this event has already taken place.
| When: | Monday, April 29th, 2019 |
| Time: | 1:30 pm — 5:30 pm |
| Location: | Richcraft Hall, 4400 - Reader's Digest Resource Centre |
| Audience: | Current Students, Faculty |
| Cost: | Free, registration required |
Featured Speakers
Michael Darroch (U of Windsor)
Dann Downes (UNB, Saint John)
Zoë Druick (SFU)
Sandra Gabriele (Concordia)
Mark Hayward (York)
Alison Hearn (Western)
Lowell Gasoi, Ira Wagman, Liam Young (Carleton)
Overview
Thinking about texts, practices, and technologies is what communication scholars do. But how often do we turn our attention to the techniques of scholarship, administration, and pedagogy that underlay our own intellectual field? This workshop looks beyond the oral histories and origin stories that have dominated accounts of the field’s formation in Canada and toward the slow and often ad hoc work of developing, maintaining, and institutionalizing the field—formally, within the academy, and informally, across other scholarly networks. What stories do paperwork and forms of “grey literature” such as course syllabi, departmental memoranda, bibliographies, meeting minutes, e-mail and other banal modes of communication tell us about how programs, curricula, and departments cohere into larger intellectual formations and “traditions”? Importantly, documents are crafted and activated by people: administrators, faculty, students, and more. How do these documents impact on the practices of our departments, who performs the work of paperwork, and how might we centre such stories in accounts of intellectual history and field formation?
This workshop gathers researchers from across Canada to begin to explore these questions through a variety of methods, building new connections among archival research and interviews, media theory, intellectual history, paperwork and labour studies. We hope to shed light on documents and practices that people use to maintain, or even “repair” the bumps and breaks that tell the story of a field’s continuity. In this way, new voices come to the fore, and we complicate some of the received histories of our discipline.
The event is free to attend, but registration is required: Register here
For more information, please contact:
Lowell Gasoi (lowell.gasoi@carleton.ca)