"Invitation to Participate--Forty Years of Understanding Media: A Symposium" June 4 Online comments are being accepted for the web-based counter-environment project for this commemorative symposium at the 2004 Social Sciences and Humanities Federation Academic Congress at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg (Rm. 100, Fletcher Argue). On June 4th, 12:30 - 2 PM, The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto and the McLuhan Global Research Network, in partnership with the Association of Media Ecologists North, InSounds McLuhan Oral history project, and other interested participants, will celebrate the 40th anniversary of publication of "Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man", written by one of the University of Manitoba's most eminent alumni, Marshall McLuhan. The symposium will be held in conjunction with the University of Manitoba's own commemoration of McLuhan, in which members of McLuhan's family will also participate. The responses online will be curated and displayed as part of the multi-media event. In order to contribute, please visit http://www.mcluhan.ca/umsymposium. For further information, please contact Dr Liss Jeffrey at the University of Toronto (ljeffrey@mcluhan.org) or Phil Rose at York University (prose@mcluhan.org).