McLuhan in a POMO World
LCMND 2010 Conference Program
Thursday, Friday & Saturday
October 14-16, 2010
Hosted by the University of Winnipeg
Thursday, 14 October 2010
I. A) 11:30-12:45 Understanding Media and Family:
a Panel
Welcome by Chair: Judith Kearns (UW Dept. Rhetoric, Writing, Communication)
Richard Stecenko, “Family Photos: Analogue and Digital Messages”
Jaqueline McLeod Rogers (UW), “Teen [Girls], Technology and Tribes in
Television and Internet Times: Surviving Global “Cooling”
Mary Anne Loewen, “Thinking Through My Mother: Getting Out of the House
Using Writing”
I. B) 1:00-2:00 Media and Mind
Chair: Jennifer Clary-Lemon (UW)
Christine Grossman (NDSU), “McLuhan, Modern Mass Media and ‘Maus' Mentees:
A Match Made in Heaven?”
Heather Allen (UM), “Constructing Realities: The Medium vs. the Mind”
I. C) 2:15-3:30 Sounds, Speech, Symbols
Chair: Sheila Page (UW)
Karen Sorenson (NDSU), “Emoticons: Acceptable Symbols of Communication
in Business Emails”
Larissa Wodke (UW), “MP3 as Message: What Does it Say Music is Worth in
the 21 st Century?” `
Roseanne Tavares (UM Centre for Globalization), “Analyzing the
Use of a Cultural Approach in Contemporary EFL Classroom Discourse”
I. D) 3:45-4:45 video/film clips
Introduction: Jaqueline McLeod Rogers
Natasha Havrilenko and Dunja Kovacevic (UW): “Trading Flesh for
Virtual Skins: Meet McLuhan in Clips”
Friday, 15 October 2010
II. A) 9:00-10:15 Religion/ reform/ rhetoric
Chair: Ursula Hovet (UND)
Michelle Sauer (UND) “Regendering and Revisioning Gerald of Aurillac”
Kathleen Rettig (Creighton U), “American Prisons: Punishing Communities”
Bobbi Dyekma (Independent Scholar, Seattle WA ) “The Sins of the World:
A McLuhanist Exploration of Perception and the Birth of Print Culture in the
Early Lutheran Reformation”
II. B) 10:30-11:45 McLuhan and Modernity
Chair: Tracy Whalen (UW)
David Beard (University of Minnesota-Duluth), “Modernity, History, Rhetoric:
The Uncomfortable Case of Marshal McLuhan and I.A. Richards”
James Floyd (University of Central Missouri ), “Tribal Warfare in the
Global Village: A State of Transition ?”
Light Lunch served in 2M70, 11:45-12:30
12:30-1:30
KEYNOTE 1: ROBERT
LOGAN
Welcome: Jaqueline McLeod Rogers (UW)
Introduction: Gabor Kunstatter (UW, Physics)
II. C) 1:45-2:45 Philosophy in the Disciplines
Chair: Catherine Taylor (UW)
Andrew Iliadis (Ryerson & York), “Archives of Repression: Derrida's
Psychoanalytic McLuhanism”
Henrietta Shirk (Montana Tech of the UMontana), “The Postmodern Visual
Rhetoric of Photographs”
II. D) 3:00-4:15 Marshall McLuhan at Play: “boy-oh-boy-oh-boy”
Chair: Glenn Moulaison (Associate Dean, Faculty of Art, UW)
Wade Nelson (UW), “The Absorption of the Old BMX Freestyle Cycling Media
by the New”
David Linton (Marymount Manhattan College) (double time):“McLuhan's Playboy:
Playboy's McLuhan”
II. E) 4:30-5:30 McLuhan in Canada
Chair: Linda Dietrick, Panel of Invited Speakers
Allen Mills, “McLuhan, Trudeau and Politics”
Morley Walker, “All his changes were here”
5:45-6:45 complimentary coffee/tea, light hors d'oeuvres
(light supper menu available by order, charged to individual diners)
University of Winnipeg Faculty Club
7-8 pm
RIDDELL HALL
Keynote 2:
DOUGLAS COUPLAND
Saturday, 16 October 2010
III. A) 9:15-10:30 Fiction and Language
Chair: Stephan Jaeger (UM; upcoming LCMND President)
Michelle Willman (UND), “Creating an Australian History and Identity in
Marcus Clark's For the Term of his Natural Life”
David Godfrey (Jamestown College), “'Simultaneously Wounded and Purified':
Jordan Lerner's ‘Ambiguous Initiation' in Kate Braverman's Wonders of the
West ”
Steven Hammer (NDSU), “Magic quiet door go sideways: Palahniuk's dialect
fiction as inscribed terminsitic screens”
III. B)10:45-11:45 Religion/Film/ McLuhan
Chair: Dave Navratil
Laurence Broadhurst (UW), ‘Religion-hunting': the letters of Marshall
McLuhan, the films of Christopher Nolan and the biography by Douglas Coupland.”
Nicolas Greco (Providence College): “Memory doing violence to its origins:
Coupland, Nolan, and McLuhan's discarnate man.”
12:00-1:00
LCMND 2010: 51st Annual General Meeting (2M70)
III. C) 1:15-2:30 Languages and Cultures
Chair: Ivan Roksandic
Karin James (UM), “Intercultural Communicative Competence: Why Bother?”
Craig Rood (NDSU), “Collaborative Argument: Writing With Those Who Speak
Back”
III. D) 2:45-4:00 Languages and Discourses
Chair: Gaby Divay (UM)
Emma Popowich (UM), Les tresses mortelles dans le monde humaniste”
Vina Tirven-Gadum (Athabasca University), “ Pour une littérature-Monde
en français : Resistance to French continued 'Imperialism' or
a new Form of Utopia?”
Amalia Jiminez (UM), “Michel de Montaigne et la culture Politique
de la France Renaissance”
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