The Human Condition Series

2008 Conference Program

THURSDAY, MAY 1st

Location: Summer Suites Campus Hotel Meeting Room

6-9:00 Pre-Registration & Meet and Greet Official Welcome from Dr. Cherylyn

Cameron, Associate Vice-President, 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 3

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

4:30 –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.