McLuhan

Paolo Granata è l’unico italiano ad aver vinto una delle borse dell’Università canadese. Resterà in Canada fino a dicembre. E’ l’unico italiano. Assieme a lui un greco e tre canadesi, tra cui il figlio di McLuhan, Eric, il solo ad aver seguito la via del padre come studioso. Hanno tutti vinto una delle prestigiose borse a livello internazionale destinate a docenti universitari promosse dall’Università di Toronto, in occasione del centenario della nascita di Marshall McLuhan che si celebra quest’anno.
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The Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, is pleased to announce five communications and media experts have been chosen as the first McLuhan Centenary Visiting Fellows with the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, signifying a revitalization of the previously unpaid Fellowship program.

Renamed in honour of McLuhan’s birth 100 years ago (July 21, 1911), the Fellowships are now awarded to academics (instead of students), and provide recipients with $10,000 each over the course of their residency at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Dimitris Gkinosatis, Dr. Paolo Granata, Dr. Stephen Kline, Dr. Eric McLuhan and Dr. Daniel Robinson will spend up to a half year exploring the future as well as the past and the present of Marshall McLuhan’s influential theories. The Fellows will interact with faculty and students by lecturing at the iSchool Colloquia, giving lectures based on their research, hosting workshops, and participating in conferences.

The McLuhan Program, housed at the Faculty of Information (also known as the iSchool), wanted to expand the program globally. “As part of our efforts to revivify the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the famed Coach House, we wanted to emphasize that McLuhan’s legacy is greater than just a retelling of his work,” says Prof. Seamus Ross, Dean of the iSchool.

The Faculty is hosting or partnering with a number of organizations such as the City of Toronto and Mozilla over the course of year to offer various “McLuhan100” events to celebrate McLuhan’s contributions, including an international academic conference (November 7-10), Doors Open Toronto (May), and an exhibition at the University of Toronto Art Centre (fall). Starting October 17, (and continuing Oct. 31, Nov. 14, and Nov. 28), the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology resumes the Monday Night Seminars entitled “The Edge of Academe” at the University of Toronto’s legendary McLuhan Coach House.

“The celebratory events are meant to infuse the city with McLuhan’s edgy spirit, and to raise awareness in young minds about McLuhan’s works and incite them to play with the ideas he probed. The McLuhan100 Committee believe that Toronto should be a place of the mind,” says Dr. Dominique Scheffel-Dunand, Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology.

About the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology

Created for Marshall McLuhan in 1963 as the Centre for Culture and Technology, the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, affectionately known as “The Coach House,” has been part of the Faculty of Information (also known as the iSchool), University of Toronto, since 1994. Fifteen years later, the iSchool launched the Coach House Institute (CHI), whose Director is Professor Brian Cantwell Smith, as a clearly defined research unit under which the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology now operates.

Links:
http://www.ischool.utoronto.ca/research/mcluhan-fellows
http://mcluhan.ischool.utoronto.ca/
http://mcluhan.ischool.utoronto.ca/visiting-fellows/