The Everyday: Experiences, Concepts, Narratives is an upcoming Graduate Program in Humanities conference looking at the "everyday" as it relates to politics and ethics, power and knowledge, ontology and history.

Keynote speakers Professor (left) of the School of Geography at Queen Mary, University of London, and 91亚色 film Professor Caitlin Fisher, Canada Research Chair in Digital Culture and director of the in the Faculty of Fine Arts, will delve into the everyday further.

The conference will take place April 14 to 16 on 91亚色鈥檚 Keele campus. Click here for the conference program and venues.

Ogborn, who won the Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2001 for his outstanding contribution to the discipline of geography, studies the "everyday" from a global and local perspective within the context of cultural geography and cultural history.

He will be talking about how spaces become "everyday" and what that means for how the world works. Drawing on the work of Michel de Certeau, among others, and on a range of historical material from diverse geographical settings from 17th-century Madras to 18th-century London and Jamaica, Ogborn will explore the making and unmaking of everyday geographies of walking, writing and talking. He will argue that the everyday has to be actively made through its geographies and that the process of that making has to be forgotten or obscured. The historical geographies of the production of everyday spaces, however, mean they can always be unmade.

Ogborn鈥檚 most recent books include Global Lives: Britain and the World, 1550-1800 (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company (University of Chicago Press, 2007).

Right: Caitlin Fisher

Fisher is working to construct and theorize spatial narrative environments and build expressive software tools for artists. Her current research interests include digital archiving, lifelogging, data visualization and experimental game structures for storytelling. She is an international award-winning digital storyteller.

In addition to the keynote speeches, there will be several panel discussions with graduate students from across North America and the United Kingdom presenting their research on the issue of the "everyday", visual artists Faye Mullen and Nathan Cyprys will unveil their work and poet Arun Nedra Rodrigo will perform.

The conference is organized by two 91亚色 graduate students, Justin Derry and Martin Parrot, and funded by the Faculty of Graduate Studies, the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, the Department of Humanities, the Humanities Graduate Student Association, the Graduate Student Association and the 91亚色 and Ryerson Joint Graduate Program in Communication & Culture.

For more information, visit The Everyday: Experiences, Concepts, Narratives conference website.

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鈥淐aribbean Religion and Female Esthetic鈥� will take place Thursday, March 10, from 12:30 to 2:30pm in the Conference Centre on the fifth Floor of the 91亚色 Research Tower, Keele campus.

In particular, Duncan will look at the religious dress in the Spiritual Baptist faith as a site of meaning-making and identity construction. Drawing on ethnographic research, multiple associations of religious dress, including modesty, leadership and African diasporan religious identities are discussed.

鈥淢y research suggests that religious clothing is simultaneously material culture, artistic production and narrative in cloth, linking contemporary life experiences in large urban centres, to which Caribbean people have emigrated, and Caribbean past,鈥� says Duncan.

Left: Carol Duncan

She is the author of This Spot of Ground: Spiritual Baptists in Toronto (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008) and co-author of Black Church Studies: An Introduction (Abingdon Press, 2007).

The event is co-sponsored by Founders College, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, the Department of Humanities, Vanier College, African Studies, Culture & Expression and Religious Studies.

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The launch of Berliner Chic will take place Wednesday, Feb. 2, from 4 to 6pm in the Senior Common Room, 010 Vanier College, Keele campus. Everyone is welcome to attend. Light refreshments will be served.

Ingram, who is affiliated with the (CCGES) and the Research Group on Translation & Transcultural Contact, co-authored the book with alumna (MA 鈥�06), who also earned a Canadian Centre for German & European Studies graduate diploma at 91亚色.

Since becoming the capital of reunited Germany, Berlin has had a dose of global money and international style added to its already impressive cultural veneer. It is now a fashion showplace that attracts the young and hip.

Left: Susan Ingram

The book looks at fashion as it developed through a series of historical eras and events, including the confusion surrounding the split and reunification of East and West Germany, an unsuccessful effort to launch a fashion museum and the debut of Berlin Fashion Week in 2007. It explores the line between fashion and photography, its presence on the silver screen, the flux of corporate luxe and the state of fashion today.

Prior to 91亚色, Ingram lectured in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong and has taught in Germany and Poland. She is the author of (University of Toronto Press, 2003). She also co-edited a series of volumes on the mutually constitutive cross-cultural constructions of Central Europe and North America.

The launch is presented by CCGES and the Office of the Master of Vanier College.

For more information, visit the website. Attendees are asked to register in advance at ccges@yorku.ca.

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The talk, presented by the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at 91亚色, will take place Sunday, Nov. 21 at 3:30pm in W136 Executive Learning Centre, Seymour Schulich Building, Keele campus. The lecture is free of charge.

Right: Xu Xin

Xin, director of the Glazer Institute for Jewish Studies at Nanjing University, is the recipient of an honorary doctorate from Bar-Ilan University in Israel and the only professor of Jewish studies in China.

The Centre for Jewish Studies at 91亚色 is Canada's first interdisciplinary research centre in Jewish studies, bringing together a vibrant community of scholars and teachers to promote cutting-edge research in the field.聽Jewish studies encompasses the study of the texts, histories and cultures of the Jewish people, which developed alongside and within Western and non-Western civilizations.

The event is being co-sponsored by the 91亚色 Centre for Asian Research and the Department of Humanities.

For more information, visit the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies website or call 416-736-5823.

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鈥淐ultures of Militarization,鈥� edited by (right), professor in 91亚色鈥檚 Department of Humanities, and Blake Fitzpatrick, professor in the School of Image Arts at Ryerson University, features contributions from 22 international scholars and artists.

Drawing on a rich array of research sites and interdisciplinary resources, the authors explore how human relations, social policies and cultural values come to be defined by military interests, and how such interests might be freshly understood. They delve into the notion that the culture of war is both hidden and widespread, reaching deep into civic culture and affecting government, families, media, entertainment, public policy and personal beliefs.

Berland cites the recent WikiLeaks expos茅 of classified US military documents as evidence of the hidden aspects of war. 鈥淚t is interesting to note that US military operatives face military proceedings not for atrocities or misinformation, but for participating in leakages of classified documents,鈥� Berland says. 鈥淎nd while civilian deaths and acts of torture have remained invisible and secret, it's impossible to miss the images of invasion and imprisonment that circulate the world on the Internet, on TV and in video games.鈥�

Berland cites other prominent examples: the Pentagon's classified budget for research and acquisition of information development has increased 78 per cent since 2001, totaling $34 billion in 2009. 鈥淥ur own military spends $9 billion on F-35 fighter planes while remaining silent on questions regarding their technical and military justification,鈥� she says.

Berland notes that this widespread increase in militarization does not only affect war zones. In the community of Glace Bay, N.S., a debate rages about the naming of a new school after Jimmy MacNeil, a Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan in June 2010. From coast to coast, yellow ribbons adorn trees and lampposts, while in Ontario, Highway 401 is now known as the Highway of Heroes.

鈥淗ere in Toronto, we saw it play out in the streets during the G20 summit. Military culture is everywhere. Ultimately, we are all living the consequences of global militarization,鈥� Berland says.

TOPIA subscribers will receive the special double issue; the book is available through . It will be formally launched at the Gladstone Hotel鈥檚 Melody Bar on Dec. 6, from 6 to 8pm. All are welcome.

For more information, visit the TOPIA website.

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The Victorian Studies Network at 91亚色

Faculty and students from English, history, political science, science & technology, and the Scott Library will discuss their current scholarship during the symposium, which will take place Oct. 22, from 10am to 2:45pm, 203A Norman Bethune College, Keele campus.

The morning session, moderated by Katey Anderson of the Department of Humanities, will start with聽Alison Halsall of the Department of English discussing 鈥淭he Polysemic Pliancy of Elizabeth Siddal in H. D.'s White Rose and the Red". The manuscript , had never been published and instead had been tucked away in archives until Halsall's edited聽version was published last year.

Next on the program will be 91亚色 student Benjamin Mitchell鈥檚 talk on 鈥淪omewhere Between Light and Shadow: Alfred Russel Wallace, Spirit Photography and the Trial of Henry Slade鈥�. Wallace was a British naturalist and聽an associate聽of Charles Darwin. Scott Library Librarian Scott McLaren will then聽look at 鈥淭he Unmapped Country Within Us: New Acquisitions in Victorian Print Culture鈥�.

In the afternoon session, moderated by of the Department of Humanities, 91亚色 student Constance Crompton will talk about 鈥淏uilding Gentility: Eugen Sandow and Middle-Class Masculine Muscles鈥�. This will be followed by history Professor 鈥檚 look at 鈥溾�楢 Strange Dice-Box of a World鈥�: The Transcolonial Careers of Henry Samuel Chapman鈥� and a talk by Melinda Baldwin 鈥� 鈥溾�業 Wish I Were Wise Enough to Understand More of it鈥�: 狈补迟耻谤别鈥檚 Audience, 1869-1880鈥�.

Everyone is welcome to attend.

The VSNY is an interdisciplinary network whose membership spans a range of departments and programs across 91亚色. The symposium is sponsored by the Office of the Associate Dean of Research in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies.

For more information, visit the VSNY website.

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The round table will take place Tuesday, Sept. 7, from 6:30 to 8pm, at the Campbell Conference Facility in the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, 1 Devonshire Place in Toronto.

Two books will provide the jumping off point for the speakers 鈥撀�91亚色 English Professor Julia Creet, 91亚色 humanities Professor and English Professor of the聽University of Bologna in Italy 鈥� as they tackle the issue of memory in a global setting.

The first book is the forthcoming , edited by Creet and Kitzmann of the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies.

In addition to the panel discussion, the event is also the launch of Memory and Migration, which is expected out in September. This international collection of essays looks at the integral part memory plays in how individuals and societies construct identity. Memory is usually considered in the context of a stable, unchanging environment, but this collection explores the effects of immigration, forced expulsions, exile, banishment and war on individual and collective memory.

The second book is , edited by Lamberti and Vita Fortunati, also of the University of Bologna. Memories and Representations of War assesses how memories of the two World Wars have been readjusted each time in relation to the evolving international historical setting and through various mediators of memory, including cinema, literature, art and monuments. The essays help unveil a cultural panorama inhabited by contrasting memories and by divided memories and acknowledge the ethical need for a truly shared act of reconciliation.

Lamberti, who teaches American and Canadian literature, will discuss reconciliation during the round table, while Creet will talk about reconceptualizing cultural memory given the displacements and mobility of people in the 20th century. Kitzmann will present a specific case study on the expulsion of ethnic Germans after the Second World War and 91亚色 architectural history and visual culture Professor of the Faculty of Fine Arts will act as moderator.

Creet is the producer and director of MUM, a documentary drawn from her mother鈥檚 memoirs, letters and poems, and which leads to Hungary where local memory reveals the story her mother tried to forget. (See YFile, May 6, 2008.) She also teaches memory studies and literary nonfiction at 91亚色.

Kitzmann has written widely on the impact of communications technology on the construction and practice of identity, electronic communities, and the influence of new media on narrative conventions. He is the author of and , and co-editor of .

Lamberti is the author of several books, including . She is currently completing the forthcoming volume, Marshall McLuhan鈥檚 Critical Writing: Probing the Literary Origins of Media Studies.

Hornstein is the co-editor of and . She is currently completing the forthcoming book, Losing Site: Architecture, Memory and Place. Hornstein is was the recipient of the 2008-2009 Walter L. Gordon Fellowship.

Anyone wishing to attend the round table should RSVP before Sept. 4 to 416-921-3802 ext. 221 or iictoronto@esteri.it. Admission to the event is free.

The round table is presented by the聽Italian Cultural Institute in Toronto聽in collaboration with the European Union Centre of Excellence at the Centre for European, Russian & Eurasian Studies at the University of Toronto, the University of Bologna and the at 91亚色, with the support of the European Union National Institutes for Culture.

For more information, visit the Web site.

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