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Course Description

Tired of Cyborgs? Mystified by Artificial Intelligence? Trying to remember what life was like before your smartphone took over the job of remembering everything for you? This talk introduces the wide and diverse field of posthumanism, beginning with an explanation of how it differs from the transhumanist tropes and cliches that continue to proliferate in the culture all around us. But who is ‘us’, exactly? And what is so great about being human, anyway? We consider these and other questions using a diverse array of examples from film, television, literature, and other media.

Instructor

Russell J. A. Kilbourn is Professor and Chair of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. His books include The Cinema of Paolo Sorrentino: Commitment to Style (Wallflower/Columbia UP, 2020), W.G. Sebald’s Postsecular Redemption: Catastrophe with Spectator (NWU Press, 2018), The Memory Effect: The Remediation of Memory in Literature and Film (co-edited with Eleanor Ty; WLU Press, 2013), and Cinema, Memory, Modernity: The Representation of Memory from the Art Film to Transnational Cinema (Routledge 2010). Dr. Kilbourn is also one of the founders of the Posthumanism Research Network (based at Brock University and Wilfrid Laurier), and is an associate editor at Interconnections: Journal of Posthumanism, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies. His current project is on posthuman memory.

Location

Waterloo Memorial Recreation Complex, Community Pavilion (101 Father David Bauer Drive, Waterloo, ON)

  • Parking is free.

  • Download the facility map (PDF) to find facilities and parking lots.

  • Check Grand River Transit for public transit locations, times and fees

Notes

  • Lecture Time :  130-300 pm
  • Lecture Cost:  $14.00 + HST

  • Participants must register for the class before the start date of the course. There will be no opportunity for purchase the day the class begins.

  • Laurier’s online registration system accepts Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Visa Debit, and MasterCard Debit.

  • You will only be able to purchase 1 seat at the time of registration. If looking to register more than 1 person, each registrant will require their own account to complete the registration.

  • Lectures are non-refundable

  • Contact

    Please email lall@wlu.ca with any questions

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