Grierson Colloquium
The Grierson Colloquium on Communication, Media and Politics is held annually in Department of Art History & Communication Studies at McGill University. It features original research by graduate students from across the Montreal universities.
2021
Heather Anderson, “Ambivalent Infrastructure: The Case of the Australian Radio Quiet Zone”
Ella Myette, “Seeing Infrastructurally: Unpacking the Politics of Language, Metrics, and Expertise in Environmental Assessments for New Mining Projects in Canada”
Janna Frenzel, “A New Northern Frontier? The Kolos Data Center Project in Arctic Norway”
Julia Bugiel, “Infrastructural Afterlives and the Construction of Legacy: The 2010 G8/G20 Summits”
Grace Rochelle Guimond, “Oh No Mile-ex! Surveillance Infrastructures and Montreal’s O Mile-ex Complex”
Robert Hunt, “Designing the New Normal: Imagining the Future of Office Infrastructure”
Laura Boyce, “Living in the Sentence, the City, the Crisis: The Infrastructure of Language in Renee Gladman’s Houses of Ravicka and the Infrastructural Possibilities of Social Science Fiction”
Sadie Couture, “‘I Ate a Little Kiwi for Breakfast, Trying to Stay Healthy': Call-In Talk Radio, the Public Sphere, and Infrastructure Otherwise”
2020
Maggie Mills ,“Sabotage, ‘Divine Violence’ and the Whitney Biennials”
Aishwarya Singh, “The Longue Durée of Refusal in Toni Morrison’s Beloved”
Alex Chartrand, “The Politics of Call-outs as Sabotage on Social Media”
Pauline Hoebanx, “#metoo and Unattainable Expectations: A Saboteurial Perspective”
Nina Morena, “Sabotage, Misinformation, and the Platform-as-Container”
Cameron Tardiff, “Sports and Sabotage: Redefining the Frameworks and Language of Contractual Holdouts and Equipment Manipulation”
Danji Buck-Moore, “Sabotage and Democratic Confederalism in Kurdistan: An Inquiry into Abdullah Öcalan's Political Theory and Action”
2019
Chanelle Lalonde, "Ruins of the Future: Oceanic Plastic's Performed Temporalities"
Mirra-Margarita Ianeva, “Splitting the Screen of Flow: Towards an Aesthetic against Logistics in Ursula Biemann’s Black Sea Files(2005)”
Hannah Tollefson, “Lines, Mines, and Ports: Infrastructural Mediation in Northwest BC”
Julia Aucoin, “Infrastructures and Mukbang: Wi-Fi Accessibility, Commuter Television and Networks of Consumption in South Korean Food Broadcasts”
Andy Stuhl, “Suspending Signals: The Emergency Alert System’s Acoustic Infrastructure”
Helen Hayes, "Material Resistance and Legal Persistence: A Case Study of Hurricane Katrina’s Storm Levy Infrastructure and the Katrina Canal Breaches Consolidated Litigation”
2017
Allyson Rogers, "The Romance of Transportation in Canada: Representations of Large-scale Infrastructure Projects in Postwar NFB Films"
Clinton Glenn, “Top/Bottom In/Out: Queer(ing) Infrastructure and Homonormative Geographies of Montreal”
Mathilde de Laage, “Pressure on the North: Thinking the PlanNord's Project”
Hannah Tollefson, “The Line to Nowhere: Transmission and Extraction in Northwestern British Columbia.”
Sophie Toupin, “Infrastructural Necropolitics: From Cameroon’s Internet Shutdown to its Associated Resistance”
Burç Kostem, “The World is Sinking! Artificial Islands as Critical Nodes of Infrastructural Negotiation”
2015
Sophie Toupin, “Anti-Colonial Hacking”
Ayça Koseoglu, “Saboteurial Urbanisms: Haussmannization as a Strategy against Direct Action”
Kathryn Jezer-Morton, “Intentional Communities: Lifestyle, or Sabotage?”
Fenimore Love, “A Constellation of Sabotage”
Isadora Hellegren, “Breaking a State of Surveillance: Conceptualizing Resistance to Panoptic Oppression”
Ayesha Vemuri, “Redefining Freedom: Sabotage from an Ecofeminist Perspective”
Trish Audette, “Disentangling Tar Sands Politics from Anti-Politics”
Jonathan Karpetz, “Sabotage in the Sharing Economy: An Uber Case Study”
Jason Rovito, “Neuro-sabotage: a sketch”