UnDisciplined 2017
Program Schedule
#UnD2017
Friday, March 31, 2017
REGISTRATION
3 – 4 p.m.
WELCOME, KEYNOTE & OPENING PANEL
4 – 6 p.m.
Welcome
- Dr. James Miller, Director, Cultural Studies Program, Queen’s University
- Introduction to Jessica Bebenek
Performance: “Rag Bag” Durational Performance Art
Keynote
- Dr. Jill Scott, Vice-Provost (Teaching and Learning), Queen’s University
Opening Panel: “Narrating Female Bodies”
Moderator: Yasmine Djerbal
- Natalia Equihua
“My mother was a traitor, my mother was a savior”: Deconstructing the Ambivalence of the Mexican National Identity through its Female National icons - Lorinda Peterson
Feminism, Trauma and Women’s Bodies: what does art say? - Julia Chan
Surveilling the Female Body: (Non)consent and the Teen Sex Comedy
RECEPTION DINNER
6 – 8 p.m.
Saturday April 1, 2017
SESSION ONE: CONCURRENT PANELS 1 and 2
9:15 –10:45 a.m.
PANEL 1 – “Queering Perspectives”
Moderator: Kristen Cochrane
- Athina Angelopoulou
SCARchiTEXTURES: On Surgical Transformations and Morphogenesis through Destructive Topologies (Skype Presentation) - Mary Morrissey
Deconstructing Queer Youth Suicide: The Production and Limitations of Queerness in Hometown Obituaries - Devin West
Unsettling The Homestead: An Archive of Female Masculinity in Saskatchewan
PANEL 2 – “Space and Place”
Moderator: Andrea Phillipson
- Theresa N. Kenney
The Hunger Games Trilogy and the Cultural Studies of Space - Sydney Hart
Place of No Place: Art and Mobility at Canadian Airports - Delila Bikic
Every City Tells its Story: The Politics of Memory in Post-War Bosnia
SESSION TWO: CONCURRENT PANELS 3, 4 and 5
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
PANEL 3 – “Music, Sound and Performance”
Moderator: Robin Alex McDonald
- Rocio Paulina Behler
The Story Behind the Music - Fabia Brustia
Voices Remapping the Space: Negotiation of Presence in a Literary Analysis of Novecento by Alessandro Baricco - Keira Mayo
Performance: The List
Cast
Jennifer – Janet Truong
Mona – Haley Tibbitts
Sonia – Lisa Ziegler
Heather – Dayle Mayo
PANEL 4 – “Policies, Law and Critical Theory”
Moderator: Adam Saifer
- Niki Peterson Kaiser
The Illusion of Inclusion for Children with Invisible Disabilities in Ontario Public Schools - James McCarthy
It’s in who to give? Respectability politics and the regulation of blood donation in Canada - Meg Lonergan
The Surrealism of Men’s Rights Discourses on Sexual Assault Allegations: A Feminist Reading of Kafka’s The Trial
PANEL 5 – “Ways of Knowing”
Moderator: Caelan Salisbury-White
- Rebecca Stroud Stasel
More than this: A journey into finding one’s research voice - Nelly Matorina
Possible Worlds: Reimagining Scientific Participation - Ariane Legault
Gertrude Stein: The Vichy Paradox
LUNCH
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
SESSION THREE: CONCURRENT PANELS 6, 7 and 8
1:45 – 3:00 p.m.
PANEL 6 – “Human Ecosystems in the 21st Century”
Moderator: Dan Vena
- Krista Bailie
The Fashion of Minimalism: Rethinking ‘Waste’ in an Age of Experienced- Based Consumerism - Stéfy McKnight
Hunting for Prey: Security, Private Property & Technologies in Northern Ontario - Morgan Oddie
Fucking the Flora: Ecosex and Hedonistic Environmentalism
PANEL 7 – “Tactics of Governance and Resistance”
Moderator: Scott Rutherford
- Grace Levy
The Disintegration of Independent Media in Hungary - Priyanka Patel
A Vision of Solidarity Between Indigenous People and People of Colour Towards Dismantling Settler Colonialism and White Supremacy
PANEL 8 – “Exploring Boundaries”
Moderator: Sarah Murphy
- Dominic Pizzolitto
Understanding the Other: New Horizons for the 21st Century - Galen Watts
Spirituality, Identity and Modernity - Alysse Kushinski
Incontinent Domains: Thinking through Leaks in the Contemporary Moment
COFFEE BREAK
3:00-3:30 p.m.
CLOSING SESSION – GUEST TALK
3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Guest Speaker: Dr. Dorit Naaman (Alliance Atlantis Professor, Department of Film and Media, Queen’s University)
Dr Naaman will use her interactive documentary “Jerusalem, We Are Here” to anchor a discussion on research-creation, and community based research, in the context of Cultural Studies.
If houses and streets, neighbourhoods and cities could tell us their stories, what would these be? The present dominates our sense of our space, but the past is always enduring under the surface, even when it has been socially, politically and economically concealed. Jerusalem, We Are Here is an interactive documentary that digitally brings Palestinians back into the Jerusalem neighbourhoods from which they were expelled in 1948. Focusing primarily on Katamon, Palestinian participants or their descendants probed their families’ past, and engaged with the painful present. Together we produced short, poetic videos, filled with nostalgia, sorrow, and fleeting returns. The films are embedded into a virtual tour, where the audience – in Amman, Cairo, Jerusalem, Paris, Toronto and beyond – can “walk” down the streets of Katamon as these were filmed in 2012-2015. As we meander down the streets of contemporary Jerusalem, our sound-scape soundscape is of the 1940s; and when we reach the home of each participant, we can watch the video/audio produced. As the generation of Palestinians who survived the Nakba (the 1948 catastrophe) is aging and passing on, there is an urgent need to collect their stories and knowledge, and remap the space that has been declared entirely Israeli. When people flee war, they rarely take with them their photo albums or documents or the art off the walls. In Remapping Katamon, the map side of “Jerusalem, We Are Here”, we will continue to organically and communally remap the neighbourhood, house by house.
