The Date: Friday, March 2 The Place: RSU building 55 Gould St — Room G (just past Oakham Café) The Time: 4:15-6:30 (speakers from 4:15-5:15) The Speakers: Lai-Tze (Lychee) Fan, (Communication & Culture), Jamil Jivraj, (Electrical & Computer Engineering), Lacey Williams (Urban Planning) The Abstracts: Lai-Tze (Lychee) Fan, (PhD, Communication & Culture): The Adaptation of […]
Tags: adaptation, Alan Moore, dogs, engineering, feminist criticism, mythology, Norval Morrisseau, robots, Toronto, urban water systemsNovember WIDEN on: Disaster! Event Details: When: November 23rd, 2011, 4:30pm Where: Ram in the Rye, VIP room — 63 Gould street, can be accessed from Church Street as well. Presentations: OMG, I’m “mad” David Reville (School of Disability Studies) Is a diagnosis of mental illness a complete disaster? This presentation will look at people […]
Tags: disability, disaster, fashion, mental health, urban planningFriday, October 28, 2011 Presentations: “Using technology to adapt to changes in cultural experiences due to disability” David Fourney (Mechanical and Industrial Engineering) One’s lifespan is defined by change. With age comes disability. Hearing loss is the third most chronic disability among older adults and the fastest growing hidden disability in North America. It affects […]
Tags: change, culture, disability, engineering, fashion, sustainabilityFriday, April 29, 2011 Presentations: Ethical Movement and Paralysis Karen Dewart McKewen, Communication Studies Through this WIDEN presentation, I will attempt to briefly outline, and open up a conversation about, the ethical substance and significance of metamodernism. This emerging cultural theory describes the current Western ethos as continually in movement “between a typically modern commitment […]
Tags: cities, commitment, communication, ethics, gentrification, movement, paralysis, pedagogy, planning, responsibility, shifts, testtag, Toronto, weight, youth