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UnDisciplined 2016
Program Schedule
Friday, April 1, 2016
WELCOME & OPENING PANEL
4 – 6 p.m.
Welcome
- Natalia Equihua and Adil Ahmed, UnDisciplined Collective
- Prof. James Miller, Director, Cultural Studies Program, Queen’s University
Moderator: Prof. Laura Murray (Department of English Language and Literature + Cultural Studies, Queen’s University)
- Jessica Davey-Quantick and Michelle Smith
Ermahgerd!: Internet culture as metadata and intertextual connections - Erin Elizabeth Schuurs and Taylor Alexandra Currie
Deconstructing the Lumbersexual: Rugged Masculinity and Calculated Risk in 20th Century North America Culture - Elena Cecchetto
Grocery Stores: Colonized Spaces Perpetuating Visual Stereotypes
RECEPTION
6 – 9 p.m.
Saturday April 2, 2016
SESSION ONE: CONCURRENT PANELS 1, 2 and 3
9:15 –10:45 a.m.
PANEL 1 – “Problems of Representation”
Moderator: Spence Revoy (Cultural Studies, Queen’s University)
- Erin Hynes
Categorizing Contemporary Female Representation: The Rise of Proto-Feminist Cinema in the Mainstream - Janice Feng
The Phenomenological Body and Gender Constitution: Feminist Reevaluations of Merleau-Ponty’s Notion of Anonymity - Kaziwa Salih
ISIS and Systematic Rape of Kurdish-Ezidi Women
PANEL 2 – “The Politics of Sexual Difference”
Moderator: Bronwyn Jaques (Cultural Studies, Queen’s University)
- Sylvia Grills
The [White Male] Sexual Revolution will be televised: Colonizing Pansexuality - Geraldine King
Embodying Indigenous Feminist Resurgence: From Indigenous Erotica to Liberation - Morgan Oddie
“Playing” with (the Inescapability) of Race?: BDSM, Race Play, and Racialized Bodies
Moderator: Spencer Revoy (Cultural Studies, Queen’s University)
- Kristen Cochrane
Unsettling Sexuality: Fluidity of Genre and Identity in Contemporary Argentinian, American, and Canadian Cinema - Eleni Arvanitopoulos
Orange is the colour of the Prison Industrial Complex; analyzing the imprisonment of trans-women of colour through media representations - Gabrielle Doiron
Queer Play: Contemporary Toy Design, Utopia, and the Pedagogical Potential of Shame
SESSION TWO: CONCURRENT PANELS 4, 5 and 6
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
PANEL 4 – “Powers of Media and Media Spaces”
Moderator: Michelle Smith (Cultural Studies, Queen’s University)
- Fa’Ttima Omran
“Crip Resistance” Spoken word, Acessibility and the Exploration from Desexualization to Expressive Agency - Jamie McKenzie-Naish
Critical Applications of Intersectionality in Museum Space - Nicholas McGrath
Mediatory and Threshold Noises: OpenSystem Sonic Feedback in Sound Art and Music
PANEL 5 – “Frontiers of Critical Theory”
Moderator: Kristen Cochrane (Cultural Studies, Queen’s University)
- Galen Watts
Addiction, Spirituality and the Search for Meaning - Ian Cuthbertson
The Promise of Enchantment - Sebastiaan Boersma
Queerness and the Dialectic at a Standstill: Reading at the Intersection of Redemption and Reparation
PANEL 6 – “Cultural Resistances”
Moderator: Julia Chan (Cultural Studies, Queen’s University)
- Brittainy Bonnis
Combating Anti-Muslim Bias Through Comedic Counter Narratives - Adil Ahmed
An X for Our Times: Understanding Malcolm X as a Self-Reflexive Cultural Critic and Strategist - Max Charest
Attachment Theory, Perception of God and Experiences of HIV
LUNCH
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
SESSION THREE: CONCURRENT PANEL AND ARTIST TALKS
1:30 – 2:45 p.m.
- Amanda White, Teresa Carlesimo, and Michael Dirisio
PARKhive - Stéfy McKnight
Hawk Eye View: Shifting the Surveillant Gaze
Moderator: Justine Hobbs (Cultural Studies, Queen’s University)
PANEL 7 – “Human, Material, and Environmental Ecologies”
Moderator: Lib Spry (Cultural Studies, Queen’s University)
- Ruth Lapp
Exploring the functional indigeneity in soil and its relationship to sustainable human communities - Zoya Islam
Reworking Canada’s Understanding of Transnational Labour Exploitation - Natalia Equihua
“Strictly Residents Only”: a Project of Immigration, Objects and ‘Belongings’
PERFORMANCE
3 – 3:30 p.m.
Nicole MacDougall
Exploring Virtual Violence through solo performance
Moderator: Carina Magazzeni (Cultural Studies, Queen’s University)
CLOSING SESSION – KEYNOTE TALK
3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
“Culture is Ordinary”
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Sharday Mosurinjohn (School of Religion, Queen’s University)
Moderator: Adil Ahmed (Cultural Studies, Queen’s University)
Thinking around Stuart Hall’s argument on the commonplace nature of culture, and the ordinariness of learning and the arts, this talk will raise and address questions about the privileges of academia, academics’ responsibilities within and outside their institutions, and the value of interdisciplinarity. It will also be an opportunity for the audience to reflect on the conference, on our relationships as academics, artists, and activists with our institutions, and on our responsibilities to culture and to the community within and outside the academy.