UnDisciplined 2018 Conference Schedule
AGNES ETHERINGTON ART CENTRE,
36 University Ave, Kingston, ON
Friday, March 23, 2018
REGISTRATION
Atrium
3 – 4 p.m.
WELCOME, KEYNOTE & OPENING PANEL
Atrium
4 – 6 p.m.
Welcome
- Dr. Susan Lord, Director, Cultural Studies Program, Queen’s University
Keynote
- Tamara Lang, PhD Candidate, Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies, York University
Opening Panel: “Strategies for Ecological Humanities: Pedagogy, Planetarity, Axiology, and Spirituality”
Moderator: Dr. Jackie Davies
- Victoria Sicilia
“Pedagogy” - Rohit Revi
“Planetarity” - Golam Rabbani
“Spirituality” - Joshua Noiseux
“Axiology”
RECEPTION DINNER
The Agnes Etherington House
6 – 8 p.m.
AFTER DINNER SOCIAL
The Grad Club
8 – 10 p.m.
All conference attendees are welcome to join Cultural Studies for a casual meet and greet session at The Grad Club, 162 Barrie St. Both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages will be available for purchase onsite.
Saturday, March 24, 2018
REGISTRATION
Atrium
8 – 9 a.m.
SESSION ONE: CONCURRENT PANELS 1 & 2
9:15 –10:45 a.m.
PANEL 1 – “Gender, Bodies, and Hybridity in Media”
Atrium
Moderator: Dan Vena
- Michelle O’Halloran
Only Yesterday and the Transnational Power of Anime - Jamieson Ryan
“That looks like a penis…only smaller”: The Body as Power and Comedy in Hockey Films - Alicia Alves
Queer Hybridity and the Animal-Vampire Body in Bram Stoker’s Dracula
PANEL 2 – “Meditations on Life and Death: Intervention, Emancipation and Memory”
Study Room
Moderator: Dr. Scott Rutherford
- Cassandra Silver & Colleen Osborn
“Sweetness Follows”: Bystander intervention and the Theatrical Event - Kate Johnson
The Lived Reality of Correctional Workers - Kathryn Lawson
“A Glass of Whiskey”: A Short Film
SESSION TWO: CONCURRENT PANELS 3 & 4
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
PANEL 3 – “Representation and Consumption: Playlists, Performance and Politics ”
Atrium
Moderator: Michelle Smith
- Gustavo Santos
“The Definition of Playlist”: Reflecting on How Music Consumption is Shaped - Lois Klassen
Performance – Key-ART-words
PANEL 4 – “Racism, Resistance, Resurgence”
Study Room
Moderator: Yasmine Djerbal
- Samhea Alghamdi
The Implicit Mechanisms of Racism - Sarah Kent
“constellations of co-resistance”: Black Lives Matter and Indigenous Resurgence in Tall Paul’s “No Questions” - Sylvia Nowak
“Visual Resistance”: Learning from Anti-Racist Activities in Toronto
LUNCH
Atrium
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
SESSION THREE: CONCURRENT PANELS 5 & WORKSHOP
1:45 – 3:00 p.m.
WORKSHOP – “Embodied Un/Learning”: Unsettling Settlers Using Performance Methods
Presented by Lib Spry.
This workshop begins at 1:00 pm in the STUDIO. Participants are advised to dress comfortably and be prepared to move.
PANEL 5 – “Our Environments, Our Selves: Exploring Space, Place and Relationship”
Atrium
Moderator: Sebastian De Line
- Emma Bass
“Objects and Affect in Religious Studies”: Experiencing Incense in Shanghai’s Buddhist Temples - Sonia (Jakji) Hill
Haudenosaunee Relations to the Land - Robin Westland
Ecopsychology and its Role in Modern Universities
SESSION FOUR: CONCURRENT PANELS 6 & 7
3:15 pm – 4:30 pm
PANEL 6 – “Coming to Terms, Coming to Love: Negotiating Representation and Identity ”
Atrium
Moderator: Lindsay Rodgers
- Emmanuelle Andrews & Pedro Daher
“Coming to Love”: A Short Film - Priyanka Patel
“The East-West Dichotomy”: Contemporary and Historical Representations of Indian Bodies - Adi Sheffi
“Mothers under the Shadow of Terror”: Representation of Motherhood in Intifada II Israeli Documentary Cinema
PANEL 7 – “Theorizing Performance/Performing Theory”
Study Room
Moderator: Morgan Oddie
- Sarah Garton Stanley
“Positioning the Problem”: Can theatre lay claim to being any part of the solution? - Igor Rodin
“Theorization as a Creative Act”: A Contingent Thinker Paradigm - Dana Sidebottom
“Performed Passion”: Rasa, Affect, and the Impact of Acted Emotions
CLOSING REMARKS
Atrium
4:30 p.m.
