This working group investigates those movements of the body that we call "gestures," and all of their vexing social, philosophical, and ethical implications; their entanglement in culture and social conditioning; their bearing on gender, racialization, class, disability, and sexuality; their relationship to language, communication, and sociality. While gesture is a well-established field in disciplines such as linguistics or the sciences, we contend that the significance of gesture as a category for knowledge generation and social organization warrants deeper engagement within the arts and humanities. How might we understand gesture as an intellectual object? And conversely, how might gesture serve as a lens through which to explore complex philosophical and cultural questions, including those related to agency, freedom, identity, and society?
Leads
- Tia Glista, PhD Candidate, English
- Kass Banning, Associate Professor, Cinema Studies
Faculty Members, University of Toronto
- Corinn Columpar, Associate Professor, Cinema Studies
- Signy Lynch, Assistant Professor, English & Drama, UTM
- Mary Nyquist, Professor, Comp Lit
- Kara Patterson, Associate Professor, Physical Therapy
- Brian Price, Professor, Cinema Studies
- Scott Richmond, Associate Professor, Cinema Studies
- Terry Robinson, Associate Professor, English & Drama, UTM
- Nicholas Sammond, Professor, Cinema Studies
Faculty Members Outside University of Toronto
- Bridget Cauthery, Art Media Performance & Design (AMPD), York University
- Mary Fogarty, AMPD, York University
- Mark-David Hosale, AMPD, York University
Graduate Students, University of Toronto
- Martin Austin, CDTPS
- Miguel Esteban, OISE Social Justice Education
- Caitlin Gowans, CDTPS
- Meera Kanageswaran, CDTPS
- Soykan Karayol, CDTPS
- Ilana Khanin, CDTPS
- William Layng, English
- Keira Mayo, CDTPS
- Hillary Sunberg, CDTPS