Media @ the Center: A McLuhan Centenary Symposium at Fordham

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MEDIA

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Marshall McLuhan

Centenary Symposium

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Fordham University

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September 17, 2011

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Sponsored by

President Joseph M. McShane, SJ

Provost Stephen Freedman

Dean of Faculty John P. Harrington

Dean of Fordham College Rose Hill Michael E. Latham

Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Nancy A. Busch

Dean of the School of Professional and Continuing Studies Isabelle Frank

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Department of Communication and Media Studies

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Fordham University Lincoln Center Campus

McNally Auditorium

Law School Building

140 W. 62nd Street, Between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues

New York, New York

Free and Open to the Public

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http://www.fordham.edu/mcluhan

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Marshall McLuhan & John Culkin 

@ Fordham University, circa September 1967

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9:00-10:30 AM           McLuhan @ Fordham

Moderator:           Lance Strate, Fordham University

Panelists:              John Carey, Fordham University

Jacqueline Nardi Egan, QD Healthcare Group

Pete Fornatale, WFUV

Anthony Perrotto, Independent Video Producer

Paul Ryan, New School for Social Research

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11:00 AM-Noon                  McLuhan & Theology

Moderator:           John M. Phelan, Fordham University

Presentation:                   "Marshall McLuhan's Theological Anthropology"

Joseph Kim, Lancaster Bible College

Discussants:         Babette Babich, Fordham University

Eric McLuhan, University of Toronto

Paul Ryan, New School for Social Research

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1:30-3:00 PM              McLuhan & New Media

Moderator:           Janet Sternberg, Fordham University

Presentations:                 "Digital McLuhan"

Paul Levinson, Fordham University

                                          "Understanding New Media"

Robert K. Logan, Ontario College of Art and Design

                                          "Confessions of a Would-Be Twitter Novelist"

Robert Blechman, St. George's University

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3:30-4:30 PM              Keynote Address

Moderator:           Andrew McLuhan

                                          "Media and Formal Cause"

Eric McLuhan, University of Toronto

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4:30-5:00 PM              Reception and Book Signing

for Media and Formal Cause

by Marshall and Eric McLuhan

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7:00-9:30 PM              Media @ the Center

Moderator:                       Lance Strate, Fordham University

Pecha Kucha:                   "The Medium is…"

Screening:                                    The Gutenberg Galaxy

1961 television program produced by Gary Gumpert

Panelists:                          Daniel Czitrom, Mount Holyoke College

Paul Grosswiler, University of Maine

Gary Gumpert, Urban Communication Foundation

Joshua Meyrowitz, University of New Hampshire

Dominique Scheffel-Dunand, University of Toronto

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Photograph courtesy of John Carey

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Media @ the Center

A McLuhan Centenary Event

Continues

@ Fordham University's McNally Auditorium

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September 25, 2011

1:00-5:00 PM                        Preview Screening of Connected, a new film by Tiffany Shlain

                                    Followed by a Panel Discussion

Moderator:                       Lance Strate

Panelists:                          Susan Maushart

T.C. McLuhan

Terence P. Moran

Robert Seidman

Frederick J. Wertz