This talk seeks to answer the question of whether we’re entering a new age of opportunity or witnessing the end of knowledge work as we know it. Here, I challenge the dominant narrative that today’s industrial transformation will ultimately create more and better jobs, with education remaining the best route to social mobility and economic […]
This lecture is part of Mediatic Empire: Critical Inquiries into Environment, Technology, and Media Cultures, a five-part public lecture series organized by UBC’s Department of English Language & Literatures and Green College. View the full series schedule. TALK ABSTRACT This lecture centres Indigenous responses to climate change by focusing on a US proposal for deep-sea […]
This lecture is part of Mediatic Empire: Critical Inquiries into Environment, Technology, and Media Cultures, a five-part public lecture series organized by UBC’s Department of English Language & Literatures and Green College. View the full series schedule. It is also a Dorothy L. Black Lecture. The Dorothy L. Black First Year English Speakers’ Series Endowment was established through […]
Curiosity moves us. Determination gets us there—because progress doesn’t happen on its own. See how we push forward.
