Location Watson Hall Room 217
Breanne Oryschak presents the final Free Queen’s class of the semester on “Making Sense of Cinema: Looking beyond Plot and Character for Meaning in Film”
This lecture will survey basic film theories that push the moviegoer to consider aspects of film production and composition, which inform and inflect a movie’s meaning beyond issues of storyline and characterisation. …
In Dunning Hall Room 12 from 6:30-8:30pm, Dana Olwan and Wail Qattan present “Critical Readings of Palestine in Media and Film”
This lecture examines representations of Palestine in North American popular media and film. We will discuss how Palestine has been constructed, as well as why there is a pervasive silence surrounding who the Palestinians are culturally and politically. The aim …
In Dunning 12, 6:30-8:30pm
Susan Cahill and Carla Taunton present “Performing Culture: Gender, Race, and Class in Nineteenth-Century World’s Fairs”
This seminar investigates the ways in which identities were constructed, promoted, and maintained on behalf of those who were silenced due to their gender, race, and/or class. Including issues of imperialism, colonialism, power relations, and constructions of the Other(s), our discussion …
In Dunning Hall Room 12, 6:30-8:30pm
Ian Johnston presents “Shakespeare and his Contemporaries: Reading Renaissance Drama”
This lecture will examine the historical context of Shakespeare’s, as well as his contemporaries’, drama, and explain how to use that context to better understand these plays. Shakespeare’s plays in particular will be considered in the context of a vibrant, competitive, as well as cooperative play …
Mark Streeter presents “Panel Discussion: The Art of Comics” in Dunning Room 12.
Don’t let that new “Graphic Novel” section in your local bookstore fool you: we’ve been using sequential art to talk to each other for at least a thousand years. Comic narrative is a system of communication that represents time and space on the one-dimensional surface of the page. …
Mon March 3 at 6:30pm in Dunning 12
Scott Rutherford helps make meaning of “liberation” in Canada during the Cold War by examining the period between 1945 and 1975. His lecture discusses how a wide array of actors imagined liberation by simultaneously drawing from their own local experiences while conceptually linking to a politics of global dissent. Through an examination …
Vee Blackbourn presents “Reading Contemporary Travel and Tourism” as part of the Free Queen’s Winter 2008 Course entitled “Making Meaning”
6:30-8:30pm in Dunning 12. Please note there is no class Mon Feb 18th due to Family Day and Reading Week.
What does modern-day luxury tourism have to do with the legacy of European imperialism? This lecture will focus on a section of …
Check out the fourth class of Free Queen’s, Making Meaning: Conversations on Society and Culture on Monday February 4th, 6:30pm in Dunning Hall Room 12 (Union St and University Ave)
Cheryl Cundell: “How beautiful is That?”
Using examples from the works of Wyatt, Surrey, and Sidney, the class outlines some of the conventions, forms, and rhetoric of Early Modern sonnets in order …
Free Queens presents Making Meaning: Conversations on Society and Culture
The Free Queens Winter course will be presented by Queen’s University Graduate students. You can access details about each week of the course here: http://www.queensu.ca/freequeens/?page_id=7 .
On Monday January 28th, 6:30 pm in Dunning 12, Andrew Stevens presents “Calling for resistance: Union organizing and the globalization of information technology employment”
This …
The upcoming Winter Term course, titled What is Women’s Studies? will open for registration on Monday, January 8th, at 9 am.
To register interested participants may contact the Equity Office by phone or email at (613) 533-2563 and equity@post.queensu.ca. Drop-ins are also welcome to Room 12 Richardson Hall, University Avenue. Registration will be conducted on a first-come first-served …