Affectionately known as The Coach House, The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology is situated behind the Centre for Medieval Studies, next door to the Centre for Multiculturalism and the Toronto School of Theology at The University of St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto. Consult the history section to know more about the program since its opening in 1963. In 2009, the iSchool, also known as the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, launched the Coach House Institute (CHI) as a clearly defined research unit under which the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology now operates.
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Digital Technologies and the Life of The Mind

Join the Coach House Institute for the second in a series of Monday Night Seminars for Spring 2012. Tonight’s theme – ‘Digital Technologies and the Life of The Mind’.

7 May 2012, 6:00-8:00 pm
39A Queen’s park Crescent East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 2C3

As Marshall McLuhan foresaw, the expanding ubiquity of digital media [...]


The New Sensorium

Embodied perception, extensions of humanity and digital communication

An international symposium, 20-21 April 2012, BIOS, Athens

The Department of Communication, Media and Culture of Panteion University and its postgraduate programme in Cultural Management, in association with the Coach House Institute (CHI) and its McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology (MPCT) at the Faculty of Information [...]


Spring series of the Monday Night Seminars, 2012 April 9

The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology of the Coach House Institute, Faculty of Information (UofT, resumes the Spring series of the Monday Night Seminars at the McLuhan Coach House on April 9.

Topic: Books: The Humanistic Roots of The University

Date: Monday, 2012/04/09 – 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Place: 39A Queen?s park Crescent East, Toronto, [...]