Programme

 

Friday, 20 April 2012

10:00 – 10:30 am 

Arrival and registration

10:30 – 11:00 am – Video recording (NB: audio missing in first few minutes)

Welcome and introduction
Dr Costis Dallas, Department of Communication, Media and Culture, Panteion University, Greece  &  Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, Canada
Dr Dominique Scheffel-Dunand, McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, Faculty of Information,  University of Toronto, Canada

Opening address
Dr Nikos Leandros,   Department of Communication, Media and Culture, Panteion University, Greece

11:30 am – 12:00 noon

Coffee break

12:00 noon – 1:30 pm – Video recording

Chair:  Dr Persa Zeri,   Department of Communication, Media and Culture, Panteion University, Greece

Performative storytelling: how Ong and McLuhan wrote and embedded post-literacy 
Dr Elena Lamberti, Department of Modern Languages and Literature, University of Bologna, Italy  

At theory’s end: notes on McLuhan’s media materialism 
Dr Gregory Paschalidis,  School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Towards an integrative theory of reception
Dr Maria Kakavoulia, Department of Communication, Media and Culture, Panteion University, Greece   

 1:30 – 2:30 pm

Lunch break

2:30  - 4:30 pm – Video recording

Chair:   Dr Gregory Paschalidis, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Performances of presence: living an extended present
Dr Paolo Granata, Postgraduate School for Art and Historic Heritage, University of Bologna, Italy     

Tactility and its discontents
Dr Nikos Bubaris & Dr Eleni Myrivili, Department of Cultural Technology and Communication, University of the Aegean, Greece  

Microphysics of hardware or the gigantism of the immeasurably small
Dr Dimitris Ginosatis, Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece & Dr Dionyssis Kavvathas, Department of Communication, Media and Culture, Panteion University, Greece  

4:30 – 5:00 pm

Coffee break

5:00 – 5:30 pm – Video recording

E. Lamberti, Marshall McLuhan’s Mosaic: Probing the Literary Origins of Media Studies, Toronto: University of Toronto Press (2012)
A conversation between the author,  Dr Elena Lamberti, Department of Modern Languages and Literature, University of Bologna, Italy, and Dr Paolo Granata, Postgraduate School for Art and Historic Heritage, University of Bologna, Italy   

5:30 – 6:30 pm – Video recording (24’40″ – end)

Young researchers colloquium

Chair: Dr Martha Michailidou, Communication, Media and Culture Department, Panteion University, Greece

Learning, community and identity in digital spaces: an example of the use of digital technology to support learning communities  
Tina Papathoma, University of Bristol, United Kingdom

Το δίκτυο υπό έκθεση: μια ανα-διαμορφούμενη παράσταση πραγμάτων [The network exhibited: a re-representation of things, in Greek]
Georgia Voudouri, Communication, Media and Culture Department, Panteion University, Greece

Cyborg artists: σώμα και ταυτότητα στην κυβερνητική τέχνη και η ανάδυση του υβριδικού υποκειμένου [Cyborg artists: body and identity in cybernetic art, and the ascent of the hybrid subject, in Greek]
Dimitra Gitsa, Communication, Media and Culture Department, Panteion University, Greece  

Διαβάζοντας Thomas Pynchon με τον McLuhan: πλεονεκτήματα και αδυναμίες [Reading Thomas Pynchon with McLuhan: strengths and weaknesses, in Greek]
George Maragos,  Communication, Media and Culture Department, Panteion University, Greece  

Saturday, 21 April 2012 

10:30 – 11:30 am -  Video recording 

Chair:  Dr Costis Dallas, Communication, Media and Culture Department, Panteion University, Greece & Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, Canada

Oh, What a Blow that Phantom Gave Me! Self consciousness and the new sensorium
Dr Pavlos Kavouras, Department of Music Studies, University of Athens, Greece  

The Virus and the Avatar. Ways of socializing the sensible in computer culture
Dr Antonio Casilli, Paristech & Centre Edgar Morin, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France

11:30 am – 12:00 noon

Coffee break

12:00 noon – 1:00 pm - Video recording 

Chair:  Dr Dimitris Ginosatis,  Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece

The making of reading pleasure: is the new sensorium a social one?
Dr Mary Leontsini, Department of Early Childhood Education, University of Athens, Greece   
[NB. Dr Leontsini's talk had to be cancelled due to an emergency] 

Letters to a young outlier. Oops … to a young academic!
Dr Dominique Scheffel-Dunand, French Studies, York University & McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, Canada

1:00 – 2:30 pm

Chair and moderator: Dr Yiannis Skarpelos, Department of Communication, Media and Culture, Panteion University, Greece

Young researchers colloquium: best paper award presentation  

Video recording (1h 31’10″ – end)

Symposium report: taking stock of  the new sensorium
Dr Dominique Scheffel-Dunand, McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, Faculty of Information,  University of Toronto, Canada
Dr Costis Dallas, Communication, Media and Culture Department, Panteion University, Greece & Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, Canada 

Concluding fishbowl discussion