Venues

Morris. J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue and SFU at Harbour Centre
 

Opening Address

W.J.T. Mitchell (Professor of English and Art History, University of Chicago)
"Addressing Media, or Why We Shout at the Television Set"
 

Keynote Speakers

Yopie Prins (Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan)
"Robert Browning, Transported by Meter"

David Finkelstein (Professor of Media & Print Culture, Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh)
“Print Culture, New Media and Communication Revolutions”

This year’s conference on "Print Culture and New Media," invites investigation into the problem of definition that surrounds the emerging interdisciplinary field of print-culture studies and seeks to explore the research terrain and conceptual boundaries consolidating the field of study. The panel topics encourage analyses of the complex links between print and the nineteenth-century "media explosion." We welcome both theoretical reflections on and historical approaches to Victorian print culture and the intersections of old and new media.

This conference is jointly supported by SFU's Print Culture MA Specialization, Department of English, School of Communications, School for the Contemporary Arts, Graduate Liberal Studies, Department of Humanities, Institute for the Humanities, Master in Publishing Program, W.A.C.Bennett Library Special Collections, the 40th Anniversary Celebrations Fund, Department of History, and the prestigious Munro Lecture Series.