Friday, March 27th, 1998
McNally Auditorium, Fordham Law School
140 West 62nd Street
Lincoln Center Campus, New York City
8:30 AM Coffee and Danish
9:00 AM *Welcome and Opening Remarks*
Lance Strate, Symposium Coordinator
Robert Grimes, S.J., Dean, Fordham College at Lincoln Center
Robin Andersen, Chair, Department of Communication & Media Studies
Joseph A. 0'Hare, S.J., President, Fordham College
9:30 AM *McLuhan's Thought and Thoughts About McLuhan*
Moderator: John M. Phelan, Fordham University
"Media Transcendence" ó Lance Strate, Fordham University10:45 AM *Public and Private Minds*
"Fragments of Marshall McLuhan: The Paradoxical Legacy" ó Liss Jeffrey, University of Toronto "The Extended Mind: Understanding Language and Thought in Terms of Complexity and Chaos Theory" ó Robert Logan, University of Toronto
Moderator: Edward Wachtel, Fordham University
" Way Cool Text through Light Hot Wires: The Fate of Hot and Cool in the Digital Age" ó Paul Levinson, Connected Education, Inc.
" The Global Village Versus Tribal Man" ó Susan B. Barnes, Fordham University " Technology, Self, and the Moral Project" ó Kenneth Gergen, Swarthmore College11:45 AM *The Media on McLuhan*
Moderator: Joseph Dembo, Fordham University
" Marshall McLuhan: From Literary Critic to Media Critic" ó Philip Marchand, Toronto Star " Marshall McLuhan: Intellectual Waterbug" ó John Leo, U.S. News and World Report " McLuhan in the Digital Age: Where Are You Now That We Need You?" ó Neil Hickey, Columbia Journalism Review
" Hold the 21st Century! I'm Not Ready!" ó Michael J. O'Neill
1:00 PM Lunch
2:30 PM *Communication and Media Studies*
Moderator: Gwenyth Jackaway, Fordham University
" Marshall McLuhan Meets Communication 101: McLuhan as Exile" ó Gary Gumpert, Queens College
" Having Her Say: Tracking the Influence of The Mechanical Bride" ó Robin Andersen, Fordham University
" Why Print is Cool, and Oral is Body Temperature." ó Ray Gozzi, Jr., Ithaca College
" From Tribal to Global: A Brief History of Civilization from a McLuhanesque Perspective" ó Joshua Meyrowitz, University of New Hampshire
3:45 PM *Legal Studies*
Moderator: James A. Capo, Fordham University
" Too Hot Not to Cool Down: Copyright and the Usurious Artisan" ó Neil Kleinman, University of Baltimore
" An Ear for an Eye? Technology and Metaphor in American Law" ó Bernard Hibbitts, University of Pittsburgh
" Can Law and Lawyers Survive in the 'Age of Paratroopers'" ó Ethan Katsh, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
" Turning the Machine OffóViolence in a Technological Society " ó Stephanie Gibson, University of Baltimore
5:00 PM *McLuhan in the Digital Age*
Moderator: Susan B. Barnes, Fordham University
" Heart of Whiteness: Marshall McLuhan's Wired Tribalism" ó Mark Dery
" A Political Economy of the Global Village" ó Jesse Hirsh, University of Toronto "Remediation: Understanding New Media" ó Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin, Georgia Institute of Technology
6:00 PM Reception
Saturday, March 28th, 1998
Pope Auditorium, Lowenstein Hall
113 West 60th Street
Lincoln Center Campus, New York City
8:30 AM Coffee and Danish
8:45 AM Welcome and Opening Remarks
Lance Strate, Symposium Coordinator
Video Interview: John CulkinóEva Stadler, Fordham University9:30 AM *Humanities*
Moderator: Eva Stadler, Fordham University
" McLuhan s Shakespeare - Shakespeare as McLuhan" ó David Linton, Marymount Manhattan College
" Integral Awareness: Marshall McLuhan as a Man of Letters" ó Elena Lamberti, Universita di Bologna
" Why World History Needs McLuhan" ó James M. Curtis, University of Missouri-Columbia
" Understanding McLuhan in Theological Space" ó Robert Lewis Shayon, University of Pennsylvania
10:45 AM *Critical Theory and Postmodernism*
Moderator: Anahid Kassabian, Fordham University
" Retrieving McLuhan for Cultural Studies and Postmodernism" ó Paul Grosswiler, University of Maine
" The Hypertext Heuristic: McLuhan Probes Tested" ó Michel Moos
" Analogue and Digital Authors" ó Mark Poster, University of California, Irvine
" HE DIDN'T DO IT: Some Cautions on the Current McLuhan Revival" ó Frederick Wasser, Tufts University, and Harris Breslow, York University
12:00 PM *McLuhan Reconsidered*
Moderator: Marsha Clowers, Fordham University
" Beyond McLuhanism: McLuhan and the Digital Age" ó Donald Theall, Trent University
" The Net: The People are the Message" ó Richard Barbrook, University of Westminster
" Six Questions about Media" ó Neil Postman, New York University
1:00 PM Lunch
2:30 PM *Mosaic*
Moderator: Ron Jacobson, Fordham University
" McLuhan and Holeopathic Quadrophrenia: The Mouse-that-Roared Syndrome" ó Bob Dobbs
" The Invention of Lasagna Made the Pullman Car Obsolete: Or How I Got Marshall McLuhan's Message" ó Marvin Kitman, Newsday
" Children of the Mechanical Bride: Additional Abstractions of Human Stereotypes" ó Barbara Jo Lewis, Brooklyn College
" It's Alive: The Media Virus" ó Douglas Rushkoff
3:45 PM *Art and Media*
Moderator: Norman Cowie, Fordham University
" The Interface between Writing and Art" ó Denise Schmandt-Besserat, University of Texas-Austin
" McLuhan and Art History" ó Frank Gillette, School of the Visual Arts
" McLuhan and Earthscore" ó Paul Ryan, New School for Social Research
4:45 PM *Perception*
Moderator: Michael V. Tueth, S.J., Fordham University
" A (W)Rap Around an Emperor with (K)No(w) Close" ó Gerald O'Grady, Harvard University
" Sensus Communis: McLuhan s Theory of Perception in Historical Context" ó Judith Stamps, University of Victoria
" Did Picasso and DaVinci, Newton and Einstein, the Bushman and the Englishman See the Same Thing When They Faced The East at Dawn? Or, Some Lessons I Learned From Marshall McLuhan about Perception, Time, Space and the Order of the World" ó Edward Wachtel, Fordham University
" Virtuality and McLuhan's World As Art Form: Fragments from a Lost Tape" ó Frank Zingrone, York University
6:00 PM Reception