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Faculty of Education » Home » LLED Research Seminar: Biopolitics Under the Skin

LLED Research Seminar: Biopolitics Under the Skin

Language and Literacy Education (LLED) Research Seminar Series continues with Dr. Mary Bryson.

Date: Thursday December 4
Time: 12:30-1:30 pm
Location: Digital Literacy Center, Ponderosa Office Annex F, 2008 Lower Mall

 

Title: Biopolitics Under the Skin: Relating Cancer Narratives — An Archive of the “Talking Dead”

Abstract: This talk draws from a 3-year CIHR-funded project “Cancer’s Margins” which addresses memoro-politics, narrative and the intermedial poetic imaginary. In this paper, I trace “survivor” discourses, in terms of fields of mediatised knowledge—systems of knowledge that are shaped and organized within specific mediatically organized generational and institutional frames of reference. I take up cancer “survivor” autobiographical accounts as exemplary of a choreographic knowledge practice constitutive of a technological imaginary. My analysis tracks the complex improvisatory affective labour of mobilizing attachments in the face of precarity vis-à-vis the intersectionally linked right to health, right to knowledge, right to memory and the right to be human.

 

Dr. Mary K. Bryson (http://ubc.academia.edu/MaryKBryson) is Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education & Director and Professor, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, Faculty of Arts. Dr. Bryson is Project Leader of the CIHR-funded Cancer’s Margins research project (www.lgbtcancer.ca) and author of multiple publications concerning sexual and gender alterity and the role of networked social media in shaping access to health knowledge and its mobilization. Dr. Bryson is the recipient of multiple awards for their interdisciplinary scholarship, including the Significant Body of Work Award (American Educational Research Association), and a Senior Fellowship at Stanford University’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research.


All welcome!


Feel free to bring your lunch.


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