Anonymity in Authorship and Activism Workshop
This one-day workshop is hosted by Gabriella Coleman (Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, 平特五不中) and Emily Kopley (Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English, 平特五不中). Speakers will include Andrew Bricker (Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, English, 平特五不中), Simon Macdonald (Max Weber Fellow, European U Institute), Eli MacLaren (Assistant Professor, English, 平特五不中), Emily Kopley (Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, English, 平特五不中), Robert Griffin (Associate Professor, English, Texas A&M), Darin Barney (Chair, Art History and Communications, 平特五不中), Sophie Toupin (Media @ 平特五不中), Molly Sauter (PhD student, Communications, 平特五不中), Gabriella Coleman (Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy, Art History and Communications, 平特五不中).
Anonymity in Authorship and Activism will take place on Friday, September 25, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., at Morrice Hall 17 aka Tuesday Night Caf茅 Theatre, 平特五不中, 3485 McTavish Street, Montreal.
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The program is as follow:
9:00 a.m.
Andrew Bricker
"Stalking Grub Street: Publishing the Anonymous and Pseudonymous in Eighteenth-Century London"
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Simon Macdonald
"Anonymity, Identification, and the Late Eighteenth-century Literary Market: The Novelist Elizabeth Meeke and the Burney Family"
Eli MacLaren
"Motives and Consequences of Literary Anonymity: Some Canadian Examples"听听聽
Emily Kopley
"Christian Humility and the Case of the Champneys Family"
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KEYNOTE (11:15 a.m.)
Robert Griffin (Associate Professor, English, Texas A&M)
"The Waning of Anonymity"
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Lunch Break (12:30 鈥� 1:30)
1:30
Darin Barney
"The Political Subject of Sabotage"
Sophie Toupin
"Anti-Colonial Hacking: Encryption, Secrecy and the South African Struggle Against Apartheid"
Molly Sauter
"Anonymity and Digital Crowd Activism"
Gabriella Coleman
"The State of Anonymous"
KEYNOTE (3:45 p.m.)
Marco Deseriis (Assistant Professor, Program in Media and Screen Studies, Northeastern University)
"Anonymity as Transduction"
Reception following the event.
For more information contact:聽emily.kopley [at] mcgill.ca (Emily Kopley)
Sponsored by the Mellon Foundation, the Department of English, the Department of Art History and Communication Studies, the European Institute, and the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy