THE HUMAN CONDITION SERIES - Terror 2008
| 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 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. |