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Title:	Embodied Theory in the Technosphere
Description:	Praba Pilar began a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities and New Media with the Hub for InnoVative Exchange (HIVE) of the Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Winnipeg in January of 2013. On Friday, March 1, Ms. Pilar will present a talk on Embodied Theory in the Technosphere, where she will discuss her research and her contestational performance projects BOT I, The Church of Nano Bio Info Cogno, and The Cyborg Soap Opera/SARLAR Presents. All are welcome to this free event – reception and refreshments to follow. Ms. Pilar is a Colombian performance artist, technologist and cultural theorist exploring aspects of emerging technologies that generate new forms of economic, environmental and sexual exploitation and erasure. She has spent the last decade presenting site works, performances, street theatre, writing and websites that provide a counternarrative to the overarching rhetoric about the beneficence of biotechnology, information technology, and nanotechnology. She is finalizing a PhD in Performance Studies (with Designated Emphases in Feminist Theory and Research, and in Studies in Performance Practice as Research), at the University of California, Davis. Her dissertation is titled Latin@s Byte Back: Contestational Performance in the Technosphere. This event is proudly sponsored by: The Department of Women’s and Gender Studies Special thanks to: The University of Winnipeg’s Research Office & The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
When:	March 1, 2013, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Where:	Room 2M70 University of Winnipeg 515 Portage Ave. Winnipeg, MB Canada Map
Contact:	Liyana Fauzi l.fauzi@uwinnipeg.ca 204.786.9878
Category:	Other

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