Media@McGill is pleased to present Bassem Youssef who will give a talk entitled, "Tickling Giants". Montreal activist and poet Ehab Lotayef will join him in dialogue, followed by an audience Q&A.

This event will take place on Monday, November 13, 2017 and is free and open to the public.

EVENT IS SOLD OUT - TICKETHOLDERS: PLEASE PRINT TICKETS AND BRING WITH YOU TO EVENT.

SEE LIVESTREAM HERE (STARTING AT 5:30 P.M.)

This year’s theme is Media, Art, and Politics. In the context of the neo-fascist turn in regional and global politics, ongoing eruptions of white supremacist violence, “alternative facts” and attacks on scientific discourse and research, the entrenchment of irreconcilable political positions, the crises of gender-based violence directed at people of colour and Indigenous people, and the countless other events that make despair seem like a viable option, we redirect our attention. Media@McGill’s programming for the year focuses on dissent, mobilization, politicized art practice, and insurgent media. Toward that end, we are organizing events that stimulate discussion about the oppositional and generative potential of artist and activist collectives, storytelling and satire, direct action (on and offline), alternative media networks, dialogue across echo chambers, and anti-violence agitation.

Media@McGill seminar with AHCS graduate students and faculty

"The community media assemblage:

community media theory through the lens of the discursive-material knot"

Nico Carpentier, Uppsala University

Wednesday, 4 October 2017