Daniel Hambly & Jennifer Marotta, Co-chairs of @HLA_IFOA
Humber College’s School of Liberal Arts and Sciences in association with the International Festival of Authors (IFOA) presents its third annual interdisciplinary conference “Truth, Lies, and Manufacturing Memory” October 28th and 29th at the Harbourfront Centre.
Our keynote is New York Times Reporter, Author, & Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges speaking on "The Price of Journalism in a Post-Fact World."
Chris Hedges has written for Foreign Affairs, Granta, The New Statesman, Harper’s, Mother Jones, The Nation, Adbusters, and The New York Review of Books. He writes a weekly column for Robert Scheer’s web magazine Truthdig.com and is a senior fellow at The Nation Institute.
In preparation for the event, the IFOA asked Chris Hedges 5 questions and his answers can be found here: ifoa.org/2016/five-questions-with/5-questions-chris-hedges
The conference aims to facilitate cross-disciplinary discussion among scholars and researchers who study topics on the themes of truth and lies. Some emergent themes to be explored include, but are not limited to: contested meaning, repressed truth, testimony studies, trauma, victimhood, distortion, “lies that tell the truth”, revisionism, selective memory, gaslighting. For full program information or to contact us directly please visit our website.
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Cost: keynote only $53.60, full conference registration $212.60
