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