Mediation Workshop

Supported by the GEM Lab and the Center for Transcultural Studies

//May 1-2, 2025

//10:00-5:00 PM

//GEM Lab

//FB 630.15

Full schedule here.

The Mediation Workshop explores the critical role of mediation in the constitution of the present. Beyond familiar notions of coming in between (a set of given terms or points of reference), we invite participants to consider the consequences of giving agency to media and to processes of mediation. In short, how do media intervene in, enliven or suture social and political forms? And how might problems of emergence, circulation, and relation help us to recast contemporary media theory’s implicit focus on a sliver of life in Euro-American cities? Our aim is at once to recalibrate ongoing fascinations with new technologies, geographies of value, and teleological histories anchored in the Global North, and to gather new insights, terms, and ecologies for theorizing global media.

Presenters:

• Michelle Cho (University of Toronto)

• Bishnupriya Ghosh (UC Santa Barbara)

• Iuliia Glushneva (McGill University)

• Christine, Goding-Doty (New School)

• Cassandra Guan (University of Chicago)

• Jordan Kinder (Wilfrid Laurier University)

• Burç Kostem (USC)

• Ani Maitra (Colgate University)

• Matthias Mushinski (Concordia University)

• Joshua Neves (Concordia University)

• Rafico Ruiz (CCA)

• Bhaskar Sarkar (UC Santa Barbara)

• Mehak Sawhney (McGill University)

• Marc Steinberg (Concordia University)

• Thomas Lamarre (University of Chicago)