PAST TALKS:

In addition to those listed below, past Brown Bag Cultural Studies Lecture Series Speakers have included Dr. Peter Urquhart (Communication Studies), Dr. Gregory Cameron (Cultural Studies), Dr. Kelly Bronson (Cultural Studies), Dr. Penelope Ironstone (Cultural Studies).

Thursday, February 11th, 2010: "Vodou Groove:  Major and Minor Transnationalisms in Black Popular Music" by Dr. Alexandra Boutros, Cultural Studies, Communication Studies

Friday November 10, 2009: "Exploring Debates in Transgender Studies: Diversity or Division" presented by Dr. Patricia Elliot, Department of Sociology

Friday April 7, 2008: "Commemorating the Rwandan Genocide: Documentaries of Terror & Trauma" presented by Dr. Madelaine Hron, Department of English

Friday March 3, 2008: "Colonial Past and Present: Sikh Veterans and the Royal Canadian Legion" presented by Dr. Margaret Walton-Roberts, Geography and Environmental Studies.

Friday February 3, 2008: "In Bed with Marc Jacobs? Cindy Sherman and the Art of Advertising Fashion" presented by Dr. Michelle Meagher, Cultural Studies and Women's Studies.

Friday November 18, 2008: "From Worst-Case Scenarios to Palliative Commodities: Mediating Risk in Popular Culture" presented by Dr. Penelope Ironstone-Catterall, Communication Studies.