Oct 7 Critical Tech Talk: Ecomedia and the Cost of Technological Progress

[Arts Communications]

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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