LAMACS

Benoît Awazi Mbambi Kungua is Doctor in philosophy. His research focuses on the search of an ethic leadership for “Another Africa”. He is the President of the Centre de recherches pluridisciplinaires sur les Communautés d’Afrique noire et des diasporas (CERCLECAD), in Ottawa, Canada. He published “De la postcolonie à la mondialisation néolibérale. Radioscopie éthique de la crise négro-africaine”, Harmattan Editions, Paris.

Pierre Ndoumaï is doctor in Patristics at the University of Saint-Paul in Canada. He teaches patristics and the history of Christianity at the University of Acadia (Campus of
Montreal). In addition to historical Christianity, his research focuses on African and intercultural studies. He is associated with the Audiovisual media lab for the study of cultures and society (AMLAC&S). He is the author of two books: On ne naît pas noir, on le devient. Les métamorphoses d’une idéologie raciste et esclavagiste, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2007 and Indépendance et néocolonialisme en Afrique. Bilan d’un courant dévastateur. Paris. L’Harmattan. 2011.

BA Communication and Sociology

Yvette Lubrun was instrumental in the design and maintenance of the first interation of the lab’s website.

Co-op Student, BA in Communication

During his internship at the Lab, Peter edited many audiovisual documentaries for to the Conversation Series.

MA Political Science & Women’s Studies, Research Assistant

Emilie Jabouin conducts research for the lab on memory and the question of gender for the organization of conferences and projects.

BA Communication, Research Assistant

Yasmina Djimani is a research assistant in AMLAC&S since May 2010. She conducts bibliographical research for the conference/workshop on memory in cinema.

PhD Student, Guest Academic

Miia Rantala is a PhD student at the University of Lapland (Rovaniemi, Finland) and an associate member of the Doctoral School of Communication Studies in Finland 2010-13. The aim of her multidisciplinary doctoral thesis is to analyze the visual represen- tations of ethnicity and ‘race’ in Finnish primetime TV ads
on commercial channels.

M.A. History, Research Assistant

Dana W. Sherwood’s work in the lab focuses on the Promised Land Project and the multiple trajectories of discriminatory experience across Canada during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Afua Cooper is a Associate Researcher for LAMAC&S and has written The Hanging of Angelique.

Imre Szeman was a Senator William McMaster Chair of Globalization and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, where he has taught since 1999. He is the recipient of the John Polanyi Prize in Literature (2000), Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award (2003), the Scotiabank-AUCC Award for Excellence in Internationalization (2004, for the Institute on Globalization), and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (2005–7), among other awards. He is a co-founder of the Canadian Association of Cultural Studies and a founding member of the Cultural Studies Association (U.S.). Szeman is co-editor of Cultural Spaces, a book series published by University of Toronto Press, as well as co- editor of the Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies and a member of the editorial collective of the journal Mediations.

Dr. Szeman’s main areas of research are in globalization, visual cultural studies, contemporary popular culture, postcolonial studies, and social and cultural theory. He is author of Zones of Instability: Literature, Postcolonialism and the Nation (2003) and co-author of Popular Culture: A User’s Guide (2004). He is also co-editor of Pierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Culture (2000), the second edition of the Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism (2005), Global-Local Consumption (forthcoming 2008) and Canadian Cultural Studies: A Reader (forthcoming 2008).