The conference will feature a keynote lecture by Dr. Sarah Sharma, Professor of Media Theory and Director of the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology, University of Toronto.

Dr. Sharma’s research and teaching focuses on the relationship between technology, time and labour with a specific focus on issues related to gender, race, and class. She is the author of In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics (Duke UP, 2014). Her edited volume (with Rianka Singh) Re-Understanding Media: Feminist Extensions of Marshall McLuhan (Duke UP 2022) highlights her time as director of the McLuhan Centre between 2017-2022. Sarah is currently working on a new book on the topic of gender, technology and escape tentatively titled Broken Machine Feminism (Fall 2025).