Intersections 2009 Conference Preliminary Schedule

Student Campus Centre, room 115
Ryerson University
55 Gould Street

6:30 pm
Registration opens

7:00 pm
Opening remarks

Sanja Obradovic, conference chairperson

Barbara Crow, Programme Director, York University
Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture

Colin Mooers, Programme Director, Ryerson University
Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture

7:30 pm
Keynote address
Meltdown Media : Communication in the Current Capitalist Crisis

Nick Dyer-Witheford
Associate Professor and Associate Dean Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario

Reception with cash bar to follow.

Ted Rogers School of Management, room TRS 3-176
Ryerson Universty,
575 Bay Street/corner 55 Dundas West

8:30 am
Registration and Breakfast (served)

9:00- 9:50 am
Panel A: Interventions into cityscapes
Chair: Janine Marchessault

Some wonder: Marketing nature and managing 'deviance' in Vancouver
Julia Aoki, Ryerson and York Universities

Elms, Wombs and Walmart in Truro, Nova Scotia
Stephanie Yorke, University of New Brunswick

10:00- 10:50 am
Panel B: Urban In/Exclusions
Chair: Lewis Kaye

Luminato Festival: Toronto’s response to the crisis of space and place
Michele Anderson, Ryerson and York Universities

Creativity in Crisis: Becoming Imperceptible Within the New-Normal Surveillance Apparatus
Matthew Tiessen, University of Alberta

COFFEE BREAK 10:50- 11:10

11:10- 12:50pm
Panel C: Displaced boundaries and crisis of identities
Chair: Steven Bailey

Dead Air: Communicative Action and the Suicide Bomber in Paradise Now
Kris Pikl, University of Manitoba

Untraumatizing the Past/Future: Architectures of Crisis in Synecdoche, New York and Blindness
May Chew, Ryerson and York Universities

“The Greatest Show on Earth”: Gender and Subjective Crises in The Biggest Modern Woman of the World and The Final Confession of Mabel Stark
Alison Toron, University of New Brunswick

What I See Three Times is True
Angela O’Hara, Ryerson and York Universities

1:00pm- 2:00 pm Lunch (served)

2:00 –3:00 pm: Communication and Culture Peer Address

Introducing Democracy – a Cautionary Tale
Irena Knezevic, PhD Candidate
York and Ryerson Universities

3:10 pm- 4:20 pm
Panel D: Bodily pleasures and anxieties
Chair: Bruce Elder

Rage, fear, and reason: A catastrophic reading of Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front
Michael Lockett, Queen’s University

Undisciplined, Abject, and Undesired: American 'Obesity Prevention' PSAs and the Enactment of Fat/ness
Kristen A. Hardy, York University

Subversive Body and Its Pleasures
Tatiana Koroleva, Concordia University

4:30- 5:40 pm
Panel E: Gender and Sexuality in Crisis
Chair: Dennis Denisoff

Diasporic Castration: Reading Lacan in Relation to M.G. Vassanji’s No New Land
Taryn Beukema, McMaster University

Engaging with Mal(e)functions: Progress and Politics in Daphne Marlatt’s Ana Historic
Carolyn Krahn, University of Victoria

a+b=c?: An Examination of Shirin Neshat’s Adaptation of Shahrnush Parsipur’s Women Without Men
Risa Shoup, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York

7:00pm Creative keynote presentation
(Student Campus Center, room SCC 115, 55 Gould Street)
Transmission Machine
Istvan Kantor


Reception with a cash bar to follow

Ted Rogers School of Management, room TRS 3-176
Ryerson Universty,
575 Bay Street/corner 55 Dundas West

8:30 am
Registration and Breakfast (served)

9:00- 9:50 am
Panel F: Crisis of the Environment
Chair: Brenda Longfellow

Chasing Arrows: Reproducing Hegemony Through Recycling Advertisements
Max Liboiron, New York University

Re-mapping the river on film: Livelihoods and hydropower along the Salween
Vanessa Lamb, York University

10:00- 11:40 am:
Panel G: Mediating Crisis
Chair: Brady Curlew

Renewing the Global Information Order: Assessing Channel NewsAsia as a Contra-Flow to Western News Domination
Shan Wu, Simon Fraser University

Freelance Writers and the Crisis of Media Labour
Nicole Cohen, Ryerson and York Universities

The Non-Profit Industrial Complex: A Key Concept for Social Justice Activism and Resistance
Candace Mooers, Ryerson and York Universities

Communicating Crisis: Participatory Reflections of Statelessness
Jacqueline Strecker, Ryerson and York Universities

COFFEE BREAK 11:40am - 12pm

12:00- 1:30 pm
Panel H: Navigating Ruptures in Digital Environments
Chair: Barbara Crow

Going Viral: Contagion and Containment on the Internet
Jamie Rennie, University of Toronto – OISE

‘Legitimate Peripheral Participation’: Mitigating Digital Change in Traditional Animation Production
Tony Tarantini, York University

“Crisis” as Tool in the Digital Games Industry: Resistance or Command and Conquer?
Owen Livermore, University of Western Ontario

A Nation of Pirates: The Geopolitical Strategies of the Pirate Bay
Fenwick McKelvey, Ryerson and York Universities

1:30- 2:30 pm Lunch (served)

2:30- 3:40
Panel I: Reading Temporal Ruptures
Chair: Murray Pomerance

Be Here in Now-Time: Walter Benjamin, Crisis, and The Last Bolshevik
Papagena Robbins, Concordia University

Time’s Arrow as Postmodern Apocalypse: Temporal Ruptures, Perpetual Crisis and the Capacity for Cultural Speculation
Laura Wiebe Taylor, McMaster University

Nostalgia for Crisis: Representing Revolution in North American Popular Culture
Emily Truman, Carleton University

3:50- 4:50 pm
Panel J: Theoretical articulations of culture in crisis
Chair: Stuart Murray

The ‘Night of the World’: A Psychoanalytic Critique of Economic Crisis, Labour Disruption and the Paradox of the Symbolic Order
Matthew Flisfeder , Ryerson and York Universities

Back to the Symbiotic Struggle! How to Save Cultural Studies with French Continental Philosophy
Andrew Iliadis, Ryerson and York University

5:00- 6:45 pm
Student & Faculty Roundtable: Crisis of the University- Considering Involvement, Intervention and Invention
Chair: Jody Berland

Ten Theses on the York University Strike
Bob Hanke

They'll go all the way: Demanding the Impossible from the Neo-Liberal University
Tom Keefer

Reaching Lower – The Crisis of Overextending Enrolment at Ryerson University
Alicia VanDe Weghe

University Codes of Conduct and Academic Freedoms: On a Collision Course
Penni Stewart

7:00 pm: Conference Closing Remarks