[acc-cca-l] Critical Tech Talk 10: Cajetan Iheka | October 7

[Marcel O'Gorman]

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Dear CCA Friends,

I am pleased to invite you to the 10th (!) iteration of Critical Tech Talk (CTT), featuring Cajetan Iheka, author of the award-winning book African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics (Duke, 2021). CTT promotes “honest talk about innovation,” and I’m sure this event will live up to that mission. Hope to see you there! Information is below.

Best,
m.

Join the Critical Tech Talk series to hear guest speaker Cajetan Iheka, Professor of English at Yale University, on the cost of technological innovation among communities of colour in the West and global south.

WHEN: Monday, Oct 7, 4:30 to 6:00 PM
WHERE: Biology 1, room 271 and online
DETAILS AND REGISTER<https://uwaterloo.ca/arts/events/critical-tech-talk-10-ecomedia-and-cost-technological>

About the speaker
Dr. Cajetan Iheka specializes in African literature, ecocriticism, ecomedia, and postcolonial literature. He serves as director of the Whitney Humanities Center, chair of the Council on African Studies, and head of the Africa Initiative at Yale. Professor Iheka is the author or editor of four books, including Naturalizing Africa: Ecological Violence, Agency, and Postcolonial Resistance in African Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2018). Naturalizing Africa won the 2019 Ecocriticism Book Award of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, and the 2020 First Book Prize of the African Literature Association. His African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics (Duke University Press, 2021) received six book prizes and honors, including the 2022 African Studies Association Best Book Prize, the Ecocriticism Book Award of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, and the Harold and Margaret Sprout Award of the International Studies Association..
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Professor Marcel O'Gorman, PhD
University Research Chair
Past President, Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA)
Founding Director, Critical Media Lab
Department of English
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
Tel: 519 888 4567 x32946
http://criticalmedia.uwaterloo.ca
http://marcelogorman.net

I acknowledge that I work and teach on the traditional territory of the Attawandaron (Neutral), Anishnaabeg, and Haudenosaunee peoples. The University of Waterloo is situated on the Haldimand Tract, land promised and given to Six Nations, which includes six miles on each side of the Grand River.






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