Date & time
Friday, March 3, 2017
9 a.m. – 3:15 p.m.
9 a.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Workshops & seminars
Share this event:
Workshop
Flattering the Demos: The Politics and Fictions of Democratic Citizens
Speaker(s)
Full program provided in the event description
Cost
This event is free
Organization
Marlene Sokolon, Ed King and Travis Smith, Department of Political Science
Contact
Where
Henry F. Hall Building
1455 De Maisonneuve W.
Room 1220
Wheel chair accessible
Yes
This one-day workshop seeks to stimulate interdisciplinary dialogue on the broad topic of democratic political thought found in literary sources, including novels, poetry, graphic novels, theater, and film. Literary sources are crucial to democratic politics as they can offer a civic education or way for citizens to think about and understand politics and political debates. These sources are also essential to democratic discourse because they provide a way to engage in politics through critique and protest.
Itinerary:
Panel 1 – Technology and Liberty: 9-10:30am – Chair: Dr. Jarrett Carty, LAC, Concordia
Dr. Kimberly Hurd Hale (Coastal Carolina University), Only Human: Free Will and Choice in Asimov’s I, Robot
Dr. Erin Dolgoy (Post Doctoral Fellow: Rhodes College), Algorithmic Tyranny and the Loss of Freedom: Ken Liu’s “The Perfect Match”
Dr. Travis Smith (Concordia University), The Abolition of Iron Man
Panel 2 – Historical Explorations: 10:45am-12:15pm – Chair: Eli Friedland, Concordia University
Derval Ryan (Doctoral Fellow RCGS McGill University), Of Villains and Victims: Guilt and ‘Bad Conscience’ in Richard III
Dr. Eleni Panagiotarakou (Concordia University), The Emergence of Democracy and Old Comedy in Ancient Athens
Dr. Marlene Sokolon (Concordia University), Poetic Democracy: Euripides and the Question of the Best Regime.
Panel 3 – Consequences for Interpretation: 1:45-3:15pm – Chair: Dònal Gill, Concordia University:
Steven Orr (PhD Candidate, Carleton University), Form, Genre, and the Style of Political Philosophy
Alexandra Ioana Manoliu (PhD Candidate, Université de Montréal), Fictional politics = Real-life cynical citizens?
Dr. Ed King (Concordia University), “Salt Dug From a Foreign Mine”: Poetry and Contemporary Political Thought
James Beneda (PhD Candidate, University of California Santa Cruz), A Band of Brothers Against Terrorism: The Citizen-Soldier Ideal in Post-9/11 US Military Mobilization
Dr. Mark Blackell (Vancouver Island University), Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and the Allure of the Post-Apocalyptic Narrative: a Symptom of Democracy?
Dr. Bruce Peabody (Fairleigh Dickinson University), The Paranoid Style in American Fiction
For more information, please contact Eli Friedland at elifriedland@yahoo.ca