Taking Back Our Spirits by Jo-Ann Episkenew

She is part of Acting Out!, a multi-university theatre project that develops aboriginal youth leadership and intersects with her research in indigenous literature of Canada and the United States, theatre and health, and literature and public policy. Jo-Ann Episkenew is Professor of English and Director of the Indigenous People’s Health Research Centre at the First Nations University of Canada. She is the author of Women, Writing, and Language in Early Modern Ireland (Oxford University Press, 2010), Co-Investigator of the collaborative ’Women’s Poetry 1400-1800 in English, Gaelic, Scots, Scots Gaelic and Welsh’ project, and a former member of the Perdita Project. Marie-Louise Coolahan, Senior Lecturer in English at the National University of Ireland, Galway, was recently awarded a European Research Council Consolidator Grant for her major digital study, RECIRC: The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550-1700. Her research interests encompass new media, comparative media studies, Asian-American culture, and critical theory. Her current book project is titled Imaginary Networks, and she is the author of Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (2011) and Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (2006), both with MIT Press. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Professor and Chair of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University and Visiting Professor at Leuphana University (Luneburg, Germany).

Lister Wild Rose, Lister Conference Center, U of A “Indigenous Youths’ Relational Wellbeing in the Digital Era” Jo-ann Episkenew, First Nations University of Canada Lister Evergreen, Lister Conference Center, U of A “Post-Recovery: Shadowy Absences and ‘Found Collectivity’” “The Digital Turn and Early Modern Women’s Writing” Marie-Louise Coolahan, National University of Ireland at Galway The plenary lectures (see below) are free and open to the public.įor further information and the full program see KIAS is proud to sponsor Digital Diversity 2015: Writing | Feminism | Culture, an exciting conference to celebrate the Orlando Project’s 20th Anniversary, taking place at Grant MacEwan and the University of Alberta May 7-9th.

Taking Back Our Spirits by Jo-Ann Episkenew