Event Details - BMP Webinar: Marshall McLuhan, the Man Behind Québec’s October Crisis?

On Tuesday, October 13 from 12:20-1:45 pm, the Canadian Studies Program will host the annual Bridgewater McGill Plattsburgh Lecture as a Zoom webinar. Dr. Jonathan Slater, Chair of Journalism and Public Relations at SUNY Plattsburgh, will present “Marshall McLuhan, the Man Behind Québec’s October Crisis?”

“In the 1960s and 1970s … McLuhan worked largely within the confines of the University of Toronto, far away from the social and political unrest fermenting in Québec … However, two of McLuhan’s contemporaries, his Toronto colleague Northrop Frye and Montreal author Hugh MacLennan, accused McLuhan of stirring up trouble in Québec. McLuhan’s open friendship with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau ostensibly was behind Frye’s assertion that McLuhan was interfering in Québec’s affairs. MacLennan believed McLuhan’s contentions about mediated environments were abetting French nationalist sentiment in the province.”

Jonathan Slater is director of the Institute for Ethics in Public Life at SUNY Plattsburgh, where he chairs the Department of Journalism and Public Relations and directs the Jewish Studies program. He is currently researching and writing a book about mass media’s role in the tumultuous years between Québec’s Quiet Revolution and the October Crisis.

The webinar is open to the BSU community and the public.

Zoom link: https://bridge.zoom.us/j/94097944342

Meeting ID: 940 9794 4342