Marconi Galaxy: 100 Years of History + Science

On the occasion of the Marconi Foundation’s year-long celebration of Guglielmo Marconi’s 1909 Nobel Prize in physics, the Italian Cultural Institute invites you to:

MARCONI GALAXY: 100 YEARS OF HISTORY AND SCIENCE
Launch of the Project
Wireless Communications and the Marconi Galaxy: Culture, Technology and Myth-Making

November 6, 2008
6:30 pm

Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Toronto
496 Huron St., Toronto
Free admission
Infoline: 416.921.3802 ext. 221

The project brings together Italian and Canadian scholars and institutions to probe the role that the wireless has played in shaping our everyday practices since Marconi’s single ‘click’ created by an electromagnetic impulse more than one century ago.

The evening features:

A talk by Professor Kim Sawchuk, Concordia University:
Tales from the Marconi Trail

On December 12, 1901, Guglielmo Marconi and his assistants received the first transatlantic wireless communication transmitted from Poldhu, Cornwall to Signal Hill, Newfoundland. In Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton region there still is a driving route called “The Marconi Trail” that runs along the eastern coast of Nova Scotia, from Glace Bay to Louisbourg. It is the shortest and least well-known of the five designated ’scenic’ tourist routes that follow the coastline of Nova Scotia.

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The launch of the Canadian Journal of Communication
Issue on “Wireless Technologies, Mobile Practices”
edited by Barbara Crow, Kim Sawchuk and Richard Smith.

Presented by:
Istituto Italiano di Cultura

in collaboration with:
Guglielmo Marconi Foundation - Bologna
Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies - York University Toronto
Centro di Studi Canadesi “Alfredo Rizzardi” - Università di Bologna
Canadian Journal of Communication
Mobile Media Lab - York University (Toronto) & Concordia University (Montreal)