The legendary media theorist Marshall McLuhan will be celebrated in Toronto at the most significant gathering of McLuhan thinkers and creators ever assembled. Then | Now | Next: International Conference and DEW Line Festival runs from November 7 to November 10, 2011.

The conference and festival is the centrepiece of a year-long celebration in honour of the centenary of Marshall McLuhan’s birth (1911-1980).

Info: http://mcluhan.ischool.utoronto.ca

DAY 3 — WEDNESDAY, 9TH NOVEMBER 2011
INSIGHTS INTO “NEXT” (1)
10:45–12:15 Parallel Sessions · D3 Multisensorial
Paolo Granata (Univ. of Bologna, Italy)
The Aesthetics of Marshall McLuhan: the Medium as Expressive Form

The upcoming conference and festival allow Toronto to host the world. Coming to the city is a unique interdisciplinary group of Canadian and international experts on media and culture, drawn from the humanities, social sciences, and science and technology departments within universities, together with artists and leading public thinkers. Speakers and presenters hail from Brazil, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as McLuhan scholars from every Canadian province and territory. Held over four days, 100 speakers will deliver keynotes, panel presentations and debates, along with more than sixty academic papers presented thematically.

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