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BRAVO! Retired Trent president and Cultural Studies professor Donald Theall's 1995 book Beyond the Word: Reconstructing Sense in the Joyce Era of Technology, Culture, and Communication was one of seven finalists last month for the Harold Adams Innis Book Prize, sponsored by the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada. In June, he published James Joyce's Techno-Poetics and gave a paper on Early Joyce Studies in Canada: Frye, McLuhan and the Toronto School of Communication at a conference at the University of Toronto. In April, he gave a lecture to the Finnegan's Wake Society of New York City. An article he recently completed on Canada, Censorship and the Internet will appear in a volume on Canada and Censorship in 1998 by University of Toronto Press. Last month, Theall presented a paper on McLuhan and the Introduction of French Theory into North America at a conference on French Theory in North America. His work was recently profiled in an article in the Australian futurology magazine 21C. Tom Hutchinson (Environmental and Resource Studies) is one of three Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council members named to a new NSERC standing committee on communications. A celebration of heritage sponsored by the Heritage Canada Foundation, Royal Society of Canada and Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada featured the launch of The Place of History: commemorating Canada's Past, edited by Trent's founding president and Vanier Professor Tom Symons. Joseph So (Anthropology) presented a paper, Is Postmodern Paradigm Viable in Biomedical Anthropology: A View From Cross-Cultural Mental Health, at the annual meeting of the Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology, London, Ont. Nov. 6. Professor emeritus David Gallop presented a paper, Jane Austen and the Aristotelian Ethic, Nov. 8 to the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics third international convention in San Francisco. Ian Storey (Ancient History and Classics) has given the following papers this term: For I Know That No Harm Can Come From a Joke, at the conference, Comedy and the Discourse of the Polis, at Dalhousie/St Mary's universities in Halifax Oct. 3-4; an MA seminar at Queen's University, Chasing Aristophanes's Victims, Nov. 7; three talks on C.S. Lewis in November at St. James Cathedral in Toronto. Arlene Allan (Ancient History and Classics MA student and teaching assistant), gave a paper, From Saviour to Scapegoat: The Theatre on Trial in Aristophanes's Frogs, at the conference, Comedy and the Discourse of the Polis, at Dalhousie/St Mary's universities in Halifax, Oct. 3-4.
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