Joan Donovan | Phreaking Democracy

Joan Donovan (UCLA) will illustrate how protesters use new and old communication technologies to organize for social change, highlighting the role of the telephone. This talk explores the history of phone phreaking to draw out comparisons to today’s activist use of voice-to-voice communication in the struggle for democracy.

Monday, January 22 | 1:30 – 2:30 PM
CJ 5.301 Loyola Campus
Concordia University
7141 Sherbrooke Street  

Raiford Guins | Atari Modern: Towards a Design History of Atari’s Coin-Ops
Henry Lowood | Replay: Games, Performance, Preservation

Raiford Guins (Indiana University) and Henry Lowood (Stanford University) will be presenting their recent work on the history and culture of video games. This talk is presented by the Residual Media Depot, a project of the Media History Research Centre cluster of the Milieux Institute at Concordia University.

November 10 | 3 – 5:30 PM
VA 323 – Visual Arts Building
1395 Boulevard René-Lévesque O,
SGW Campus, Concordia University

We have an exciting roster of events upcoming at the MHRC!
Mark your calendars for our autumn speaker series:

Jennifer Holt | Cloud Policy: Anatomy of a Regulatory Crisis 

Jennifer Holt will examine the legal and cultural crises surrounding the regulation of data in ‘the cloud’. The challenges of distributing and protecting data in a policy landscape that is simultaneously local, national and global has created a set of problems that defy legal paradigms, national boundaries and traditional geographies of control. Jennifer will examine these challenges with emphasis on a history of obscene phone calls, wiretapping of organized crime, the Patriot Act, Facebook and battles over net neutrality.

October 30 | 5 PM
GEM Lab, FB 630.15
Sir George William Campus
Concordia University
1250 Guy St.  

Benjamin Loveluck | The Internet as Ideology and Practice: A Genealogical Perspective

Examining the conceptual and practical affinities between liberalism and the idea of “free flow of information” on the Internet. Benjamin Loveluck presents a framework for understanding the political dimensions of the Internet, as well as shedding light on the transformations of contemporary liberalism, and showing how the two issues are closely related.

November 1 | 4 PM
CJ 5.219 Loyola Campus
Concordia University
7141 Sherbrooke Street  

Robyn Maynard | Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to Present 

Laying bare the violent realities behind Canada’s veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces four hundred years of state-sanctioned surveillance, criminalization and punishment of Black life in Canada. Through an unapologetically intersectional, feminist and abolitionist lens, this talk looks at how slavery’s legacy has been carried forward by the state, exposing the social and historical forces behind carding/street checks, the war on drugs, the school-to-prison pipeline, welfare “fraud” and child welfare enforcement, deportation, and the disproportionate incarceration of Black folks in Canada’s jails, prisons, and immigration detention centres.

November 9 | 4:30 PM
Milieux Institute EV 11.705
Concordia University
1515 St. Catherine St. W 

For more information, email fenwick.mckelvey@concordia.ca
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