2015 Undisciplined Collective Members
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QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY CULTURAL STUDIES GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM
FRIDAY, MARCH 27TH DOORS OPEN AT 3:45 PM
Welcome
Carina Magazzeni, Undisciplined Collective
James Miller, Director, Cultural Studies Graduate Program, Queen’s University
Keynote [Panel 1] 4 PM – 6 PM
Undisciplined Potentials: Cultural Studies Interventions into Public Pedagogy
Panel Chair Marlie Centawer (Cultural Studies, Queen’s University)
Panelists:
Sunny Kerr, Double Take: Interruption and Public Method (Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Cultural Studies, Queen’s University)
Lorinda Peterson, Rendering Visible: Experience, Research, and Creativity (Cultural Studies, Queen’s University)
Michelle Smith + Jessica Davey-Quantick, Twilight of the Living Dead: Engaging students with Cannibalism and Glitter (Cultural Studies, Queen’s University)
Reception [Light Refreshments] 6 PM – 8 PM
SATURDAY, MARCH 28TH DOORS OPEN + REGISTRATION AT 8:45 AM
[Light Refreshments + Coffee + Tea]
Concurrent Panels: 9:15 AM – 10:30 AM:
[Panel 2] Decolonizing Cultural Studies Methodologies
Panel Chair: Avery Everhart (Gender Studies, Queen’s University)
Panelists:
Pansee Atta, Curating Resistance, Resisting Curation: The Decolonial Possibilities and Limitations of Objects in Institutions (Cultural Studies, Queen’s University)
Shaina Humble, “Forts & Furs”: Challenging Colonial Narratives Through Children’s Play (English, Queen’s University)
[Panel 3] Undoing Popular Media
Panel Chair: Elena Cecchetto (Cultural Studies, Queen’s University)
Panelists:
Filza Naveed, Examining Pakistani Identity in Non-Western Cinema in the Post 9/11 Landscape (Cultural Studies, Queen’s University)
Maya Stitski, Feminism, Politics, and Emancipation: Undoing Culture (Cultural Studies, Queen’s University)
Deniz Zorlu, A Magnificent Century (Cultural Studies, Queen’s University)
Concurrent Panels: 10:45 AM – 12 PM:
[Panel 4] Spirituality in Contemporary Cultural Contexts
Panel Chair: Junyu Ke (Cultural Studies, Queen’s University)
Panelists:
Ian Alexander Cuthbertson, Secular Magic and the Limits of Modernity (Cultural Studies, Queen’s University)
Alexis Black, “To A Better Place…”: Contrasting Metaphors in Francophone Obituary Production (Social and Cultural Analysis, Concordia University)
Galen Watts, On the Lived Nature of Contemporary Spirituality (Cultural Studies, Queen’s University)
[Panel 5] Cultural Production in an Academic Context
Panel Chair: Lib Spry (Cultural Studies, Queen’s University)
Panelists:
Stéfy McKnight, Dining Room Table: Hammering Out Gender Performativity (Cultural Studies, Queen’s University)
Andrew Rabyniuk, Thank You (Cultural Studies, Queen’s University)
Dane Stewart, Theorizing an Anti-Oppressive Framework for Ethical Processes of Artistic Creation (Individualized Program, Concordia University)
[Light Refreshments]
Concurrent Panel + Workshop 1 PM – 2 PM:
[Panel 6] Race, Power and the Canadian Neoliberal State
Panel Chair: Adam Saifer (Cultural Studies, Queen’s University)
Panelists:
Joddi Alden, Pinay, Balikbayan, Canadian: Transnational Trajectories of Filipina Domestic Workers in the Negotiation of Contemporary Neoliberalisms (Gender Studies, Queen’s University)
Lydia Nicole Fanelli, The Irresponsibility of Responsibilization: Problematizing the Canadian Discourse Regarding Inuit Health (Sociology, Concordia University)
Workshop: The Tor Browser, the Darknet Market and the Limits of Resistance in Today’s Cyberspace
Host: Nicole MacDougall (Cultural Studies, Queen’s University)
Presenter: Spencer Revoy (Cultural Studies, Queen’s University)
Final Presentation + Screening: “Por Amor al Arte” 2:15 PM – 3 PM:
Host: Lois Klassen (Cultural Studies, Queen’s University)
Presenter: Jessica Burgess (Cultural Studies, Queen’s University) + Filmmaker Diana Montero (Cuba)
