The Human Condition Series

THE HUMAN CONDITION SERIES - Terror 2008



2008 Conference Program

THURSDAY, MAY 1st
6:00–9:00
Pre-Registration & Meet and Greet Official Welcome from Dr. Cherylyn Cameron, Vice-President Academic University Partnership Centre at Georgian College.
8:00–9:00
Chat with Sunera Thobani
9:00
Film Presentation: Toronto Filmmaker Jonathan Culp’s Plasticman and the Justice League.
FRIDAY, MAY 2nd
8:00–9:00
(K BUILDING WEST ENTRANCE) Registration
(K226) Coffee/Tea and Continental Breakfast
9:00–10:00
Breakfast Chat with Sut Jhally
9:30–11:00
(K second floor center arenas) Concurrent Sessions 1
11:00–12:30
(K second floor center arenas) Concurrent Sessions 2
11:30–1:00
Plenary Session 1 (Alumni Hall) Featuring:
(11:30-12:15) Hector Aristizabal from “Theatre of the Oppressed”
(12:15-1:00) Richard Koenigsberg: Death to the Non-Believer: As I Have been
Terrorized, so Shall You Be Terrorized.
1:15–2:15
(Georgian Dining Room) Lunch & Official Welcome, Dr. Susan Silverton
Vice-President, Academic (Anglophone Affairs), Laurentian University.
2:30–4:00
(Rowntree Theatre) Keynote Address by Henry Giroux: Higher Education
and the Culture of Terror: The Militarized Academy after 9/11
4:00–5:30
(Rowntree) Community Outreach Event: Brant Bardy, Communications Officer, Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte.
4:00–5:30
(Alumni Hall) Canadian Writer and Critic, Barry Callaghan
7:30
(Georgian Dining Room) Banquet
Keynote Address by Sunera Thobani: The ‘War on Terror’ and the Crisis of American
Masculinity.
SATURDAY, MAY 3rd
8:00–9:00
(K222) Registration
(K223) Coffee/Tea and Continental Breakfast
9:00–10:00
Breakfast Chat with Henry Giroux
9:30–11:00
(K second floor center arenas) Concurrent Sessions 3
11:00–12:30
(K second floor center arenas) Concurrent Sessions 4
11:30–1:00
Plenary Session 2 (Alumni Hall) Featuring:
(11:30 - 12:15) Valerie Senyk: Spoken Word Art
(12:15 – 1:00) Kabir Joshi-Vijayan: Canadian State Terror at Home and Abroad
1:15–2:15
(Georgian Dining Room) Lunch
2:30–4:00
(Rowntree Theatre) Keynote Address by Sut Jhally: Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land: the media, terror, and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
4:00–5:30

(Rowntree Theatre) Roundtable with Henry Giroux, Sut Jhally, and Sunera
Thobani (Facilitator: Richard Day, Queens University).

Official Closing of Conference

6:45
Shuttle Ride to Downtown Barrie and waterfront dinner at Shirley’s Grill and
Bistro
9:00
Afterdinner drinks Monsoon Martini Bar
10:00
Shuttle Ride back to campus.