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Reading Group, Session 1: Tom McEnaney’s Acoustic Properties

Reading Group, Session 1: Tom McEnaney’s Acoustic Properties

Visit the Public Humanities Hub-supported Sound and the Humanities Research Cluster website to view their Fall program. To gear up for our Fall Invited Speaker, our first reading group session will discuss the Introduction, “Learning to Listen,” and Chapter 7, “The Ends of Radio: Tape, Property, and Popular Voice,” of Prof. McEnaney’s Acoustic Properties (Northwestern […]

Vancouver Premiere of Concrete Valley at VIFF

Vancouver Premiere of Concrete Valley at VIFF

Visit the Public Humanities Hub-supported DocUBC Research Cluster‘s website to see their Fall program. Among the massive concrete block towers of Toronto’s Thorncliffe Park neighborhood, a Syrian doctor struggles to hold on to his cultural identity as his family begins to grow roots in their new community. Working as an unlicensed physician for his neighbors […]

“How Are You?” Moments of Connection and Isolation