McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology
39A Queen's Park Crescent East M5S 2C3 Toronto, ON, Canada

We’re excited to announce a Call for Proposals for Proxy Festival, an online event organized by one of our working groups, The Only Space is Here! Submission deadline: April 16 #TheGlobalSpillAge... https://www.mcluhancentre.ca/cfp-proxy-festival

Very excited to share this special issue of the Islamophobia Studies Journal based on the work of our Digital Islamophobia working group. This issue is based on the "Transnational Feminism in a Time of Digital Islamophobia" Symposium organized by the working group at the Centre in March 2019. --... Full Table of Contents: Preface: the Techno-Logics of Digital Islamophobia by Sarah Sharma Introduction: Transnational Feminism in a Time of Digital Islamophobia by Zeinab Farokhi and Yasmin Jiwani Cyber Homo Sacer: A Critical Analysis of Cyber Islamophobia in the Wake of the Muslim Ban by Zeinab Farokhi The Virtual Killing of Muslims: Digital War Games, Islamophobia, and the Global War on Terror By Tanner Mirrlees and Taha Ibaid Gendered Islamophobia in the Case of the Returning ISIS Women: A Canadian Narrative By Yasmin Jiwani Claiming our Space: Muslim Women, Activism, and Social Media by Faiza Hirji The Poetry of Suheir Hammad: Transnational Interventions in the Age of Islamophobia and Digital Media By Kenza Oumlil https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/islastudj.6.issue-1

April 1st is the deadline to submit an abstract for our #UrsulaFranklin working group's special essay series. Read more and apply below. https://www.mcluhancentre.ca/cfp-what-would-ursula-franklin

Check out this event happening on Thursday featuring a talk by Marie-Pier Boucher, lead convener of our Space Media working group. #TheGlobalSpillAge

Next week on November 9 we're partnering with the University of Toronto Digital Humanities Network to host a lightning lunch featuring Dr Devon Powers (Temple University), Dr Sophie Bishop (King's College London) and Dr Dan Guadagnolo (University of Toronto). Moderated by Beth Coleman (Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology) Link to register: https://utoronto.zoom.us//tZMsdeGurjItGdXzLQhS_SeUGhzw_MXE

Congrats to one of our favourite collaborators Baruch Gottlieb for #MarshallMcLuhanFeedback5 in Frankfurt. We are sorry we can't be there after all but the McLuhan Centre is part of the Toronto landing of Feedback as soon as we can proceed! Stay tuned.

Our plans for the 2020/21 year are now live! Looking forward to fresh research & virtual initiatives under our theme of #TheGlobalSpillAge. Excited to announce 10 working groups for the year and our first ever cohort of graduate reading groups. Read more at https://mailchi.mp/990f9d8555d2/fall2020newsletter

Our Call for Working Groups for 2020 - 2021 is now live! We are offering an extended and more expansive working group/reading group program over a period of 18 months! Taking inspiration from Marshall McLuhan's notion of The Global Village, The Global SpillAge invites proposals for working and graduate student reading groups that address the unfortunate effects of connection but also the new relations and possibilities for social change. In particular we are seeking working groups that will engage with the current technological and political dimensions related to anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism and the global COVID-19 pandemic. All the details and links to online application forms can be found here: https://www.mcluhancentre.ca/research