UnDisciplined 2019 Conference Schedule
AGNES ETHERINGTON ART CENTRE,
36 University Ave, Kingston, ON
Thursday, April 4th, 2019
3:30 – 5:30 pm
WELCOME, KEYNOTE & OPENING PANEL
Welcome/Reception
- Ben Schnitzer, PhD Candidate, Cultural Studies Program, Queen’s University
Keynote ‘In The Beginning’
- Dr. Bill Nichols
Bill Nichols is an American film critic and theoretician best known for his pioneering work as founder of the contemporary study of documentary film.
Opening Panel: “Infiltrated with Arty-Tarty Types”: Queerness, National
Unity, and the National Film Board
Moderator: Jill Price
- Anthony Lomax, Sylvia Nowak, Michelle MacQueen
Closing Remarks
5:30 pm
- Ben Schnitzer, PhD Candidate, Cultural Studies Program, Queen’s University
CONFERENCE SOCIAL
7:30 pm
Please join us in the Cultural Studies space for a casual meet and greet. B176, Mackintosh-Corry Hall.
Friday, April 5, 2019
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST & REGISTRATION
8 – 9 am
SESSION ONE: CONCURRENT PANELS 2 & 3
9:30 –10:50 am
PANEL 2 – “Social Media”
ATRIUM
Moderator: Yasmine Djerbal
- Fredrika Thelandersson
‘Meme Through This:The radical potential of Instagram’s mental health peer networks’ - Renée Whittaker
‘Self-care, Critical-Race theory, Communalism, Feminist, Diaspora’ - Holly S. Tyson
‘Twitch as a Postfeminist Media Platform: Streaming and Self-Sexualization’
PANEL 3 – “The Animal”
STUDY ROOM
Moderator: Claude
- Jennifer O’Connor
‘Arranging the Skin: Gender, Art, and Nature’ - Luba Kozak
‘Representing Dogs as Rational Near-Equals in Eighteenth-Century British Portraiture’
SESSION TWO: CONCURRENT PANELS 4 & 5
11:10 am – 12:30 pm
PANEL 4 – “Community, Identity and Communication”
ATRIUM
Moderator: Michelle MacQueen
- Desmond A. D. O’Doherty
‘An Analysis of the Development of Tongzhi Identity in (Post-)Colonial Hong Kong’ - Lubna Alarda
‘Solidarity in Films about the Palestinian Revolution’ - Xenia Reloba de la Cruz
‘Searching modernity: New communicative practices in an online Cuba.’
PANEL 5 – “History, Nationalism and Activism”
STUDY ROOM
Moderator: Bronwyn Jacques
- Tanzina Tahereen
‘The Politics of ‘Naming’ and ‘Un-naming’: Nationalism and Colonized Adivasi in Bangladesh’ - Mona Hedayati
‘Political Wall Writing as Activism’ - James Beirne
‘History Devours Itself: Revolutionising Irish historical method’
LUNCH
Atrium
12:30 – 2:00 pm
PERFORMANCES/SCREENINGS
12:30- 2:30 pm
• Jill Price Unwinding ATRIUM
• Elvira Hufschmid Drawing from Life
• Zak Jones Poetry STUDY ROOM
• Mona Hedayati Film Screening
SESSION THREE: CONCURRENT PANELS 6 & 7
2:00 – 3:20 pm
PANEL 6 – “Resistance and Resilience”
ATRIUM
Moderator: Sylvia Nowak
- Vrinda Sharma
‘Untitled Student activism & resistance’ - Maija Duncan
‘Doing Activist and Academic Work Through and With Pain ’ - Jill Price
‘An Unwinding #1’
PANEL 7 – “Politics and Art”
STUDY ROOM
Moderator:
- Jessa Laframboise
‘The Gender Divide: Feminism and Performance Art ’ - Zak Jones
‘Polyglossic Opry: A Chorus of Appalachian Shoals’ - Hannah Barrie
‘Stories on Stage: Vulnerability, Intimacy and Gender in Performative Storytelling’
SESSION FOUR: CONCURRENT PANELS 8 & 9
3:40 – 5:00pm
PANEL 8 – “Witches, Faeries and Robots: Queer Things”
ATRIUM
Moderator: Anthony Lomax
- Emma Croll-Baehre
‘Between Liberty and Oppression: Queer Witchcraft as Enchanting Infrastructure and Object’ - Marta Croll-Baehre
‘Mud Wrestling on the Land: Spectacles of Excess, Spatial Practices, and Mythologies in Eastern Ontario Radical Faerie Circle’ - Schyler Palm
‘Where Are All the Gay Robots?: Finding More Fully-Queer Utopias in AI Science Fiction’
PANEL 9 – “Restorying: Decolonization and Resistance”
STUDY ROOM
Moderator: Scott Rutherford
- Sonia Hill
‘Womxn Water Warriors: Restorying Relations with Water Through Kanien’keha:ka Ontology - Claude Bock
‘Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Resistance in Canadian (Content) Comic Books and Graphic Novels ’ - Golam Rabbani
‘Protest Music, Activism, and Shoti-Ma Tradition: Baul Women against Heteronormative and Colonial Patriarchy’
DINNER
5:15 – 7:00pm
Sponsored by Queen’s Cultural Studies, hosted in the
Agnes Etherington House
CULTURAL STUDIES END OF TERM PARTY
8:00 pm
Grad Club, 162 Barrie Street, (7 min walk from the Agnes)
SATURDAY, APRIL 6th
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:00 – 9:00 am
‘The Uncertainty Game’ – Lib Spry
9:00 am -12 pm
STUDIO SPACE
SESSION FIVE: CONCURRENT PANELS 10 & 11
9:00 am – 10:20 pm
PANEL 10 – “Art and Community”
ATRIUM
Moderator: Jackie
- Simge Erdogan
‘Multiple Narratives of Display and Heritage in Museums: Iznik Ceramics in Comparison’ - Iris Robinson
‘Night and Day: An Exploration of Toronto’s Rio Theatre Through Urban ‘Revitalization’ and the ‘Urban Night’ - George Martin
‘There is something very definite about disappearance, a kind of pathology of presence.’
PANEL 11 – “Affect and Archive”
STUDY ROOM
Moderator: Prerna
- Kendall Witaszek
‘And When You Go, Take this Heart: Japanese War Brides and Alternative Imaginatory Possibilities in Mitski’s Happy’ - Ethan R. Jackson
‘Archiving Narratives with/in Trans Time on YouTube’ - Angus Tarnawsky
‘Variable Frequencies: Sound, Affect and Installation Art ’
SESSION SIX
10:30 – 11:50 am
PANEL 12 – “Processes of Research-Creation”
ATRIUM
Moderator:
- Camille Georgeson-Usher
‘Disruptions’ - Anthony Lomax
‘Flower Duets’ - Elvira Hufschmid
‘The Space that you Occupy’
CLOSING REMARKS & CONFERENCE ENDS
12:00 – 12:30 pm
Ben Schnitzer