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Schedule
Friday March, 24
Saturday March, 25
Sunday March, 26
Friday March 24
7:00 pm |
Opening Remarks: Studio A
Peter Ryan, Conference Chairperson
R. Bruce Elder and Fred Fletcher,
Program Directors
The Joint Graduate Programme in
Communication and Culture |
7:30 pm |
Alumnus Keynote Address
Dr. Wade Rowland,
The First Communication and Culture
Programme Doctoral Graduate |
8:00 pm |
Media and Culture Stream Keynote Address
Dr. Marcel Danesi,
Department of Anthropology,
University of Toronto |
8:30 pm |
Wine and Cheese Reception: Studio A |
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Saturday March 25
Eaton Lecture Theatre - Rogers Communication Centre
8:30 am |
Registration /Breakfast: Atrium |
9:00 am |
Opening RemarksOpening Remarks |
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9:15 am |
Off the Map: Portraits of Contested Toronto
Panel Chairperson: Dr. Bob Hanke |
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Narcotography:
Mapping the Social Geography of Addiction in Toronto
Chris Smith,
Joint Graduate Programme in
Communication and Culture,
York and Ryerson Universities |
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Submerged Environments:Taking Notice of Ecologies of Abjection
Neil Balan,
Division of Humanities, York University |
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Erasure Through Aesthetics:
Gentrification and the Remaking of Space
Ryan Bigge,
Joint Graduate Programme in
Communication and Culture, York and Ryerson
Universities |
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10:25 am |
Panel Break |
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10:30 am |
Lost in Transition:
Borders, Surfaces and Translation
Panel Chairperson: Dr. Michael Prokopow |
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Maps of the Smart Border
Aaron Gordon,
Department of Art History and
Communication Studies, McGill University |
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The Depth of Skin:
A Study of Surface-play in Contemporary Architecture
S. Yahya Islami,
Department of Arts, Culture and
Environment, University of Edinburgh |
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Unfolding of Language:
The Productive Tension of Translation
Natalia A. Mikhailova, Department of Comparative
Literature, SUNY-Buffalo |
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12:00 pm |
Lunch: Ryerson Student Union Building |
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ADJUNCT WORKSHOP:
ePOLITICS, POLICY, COMMUNICATION & CULTUREf
By the Toronto Universities Policy Discussion Group
(TUPDiG) |
1:00 pm |
Welcome from TUPDiG Representatives |
1:05 pm |
Politics and Policy Stream Keynote Address
Dr. Patricia Mazepa,
Joint Graduate Programme in Communication
and Culture, York and Ryerson Universities |
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1:30 pm |
Internationalization
Panel Chairperson: TBA |
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The Operationalization of Civil Society:
The Canadian International Development Agency
(CIDA) and the Associational Terrain of Democracy
Roy Bendor,
School of Communication, Simon Fraser
University |
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U.S. Cultural Policy as/and U.S. Foreign Policy
Tanner Mirrlees,
Joint Graduate Programme in
Communication and Culture, York and Ryerson
Universities |
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Framing the Public Mind: Strategic Language, Framing
and the Invasion of Iraq
David Clifton,
Joint Graduate Programme in
Communication and Culture, York and Ryerson Universities |
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2:40 pm |
Panel Break |
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2:45 pm |
Identity Politics and Policies
Panel Chairperson:
Dr. Amin Alhassan
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Outlining the Need for an Interdisciplinary Discourse
Analysis of Poverty Coverage in Canada
Joanna Redden,
Joint Graduate Programme in
Communication and Culture, York and Ryerson
Universities |
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The Network as a Resolution to the Refugee Problem:
Towards a Theory of an Alternative Understanding of
the Refugee
Stephanie Silverman,
Political Science, York University |
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Go Directly Online, Do not Pass eEmergf:
Seeing the Social Construction of Health Information
Websites Through Policy
Karen Smith,
School of Communication, Simon Fraser
University |
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3:55 pm |
Panel Break |
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4:00 pm |
Advocacy and Criticism
Panel Chairperson: Dr. Colin Mooers |
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Why did Canadian Private-Sector Cultural Policy
Advocacy Fail?: The Canadian Arts Council and the
Federal Government (1945-58)
Gregory Klages,
Joint Graduate Programme in
Communication and Culture, York and Ryerson Universities |
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From Communicated Boundaries to Inclusivity and
Intergenerational Solidarity: The Discourse of Adult
Perceptions of Youth
Amy Brandon,
Faculty of Education, York University |
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In Search of the Knockout:
The Mediafs Fixation with Competitive Communication
in Canadian Federal Election Debates
J.P. Lewis,
Department of Political Science,
Carleton University |
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5:15 pm |
Saturday Closing Remarks |
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Sunday March 26
9:00 am |
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Registration / Breakfast: Atrium |
9:30 am |
Spatial Orbits: Ever (R)evolving Personal
Spaces and their Outer Effects
Panel Chairperson: Dr. Jennifer Vanderbergh |
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From Affectation to Affect: Thinking Corporeal
Susceptibilities in the Cultural Surround
John Hunting,
Department of Art History and
Communication Studies, McGill University |
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MySpace.com: Exploring Online Music Spaces
Jeremy Morris,
Department of Art History and
Communication Studies, McGill University |
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Reclaiming the Past:
Transforming the Scapes of Schizophrenia
Susanne Cardwell,
Department of Communication,
University of Calgary |
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10:40 am |
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Panel Break |
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10:45 am |
Streetscapes:
Negotiating the Urban Environment
Panel Chairperson: Dr. Michael Murphy |
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Faith in the Street
Charlotte Scott,
Joint Graduate Programme in
Communication and Culture, York and Ryerson Universities |
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The eCar(e)less Drivingf Incident:
Elementary Exercises in Auto-Intervention
Chris Smith,
Joint Graduate Programme in
Communication and Culture, York and Ryerson Universities |
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Between Exploitation and Play:
Skateboarding and the Negotiation of Resistance
Jason Phillips,
Department of English and Film Studies,
Wilfred Laurier University |
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12:00 pm |
Lunch: Ryerson Student Union Building |
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1:00 pm |
Youfre So Spacey:
Technology in Practice Stream Keyholes
Dr. Richard Fung,
Faculty of Art, Ontario College of Art and Design
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Dr. John Greyson,
Department of Film, York University |
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1:45 pm |
Where do you want to go Today?:
Tourism, Technology and Transformation
Panel Chairperson: Dr. Ed Slopek |
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Destination Place Identity and Tourism Advertising
Imagery: Place Images in Caribbean Destination
Advertisements
Susan Dupej,
Joint Graduate Programme in
Communication and Culture, York and Ryerson
Universities |
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Surfing under Palm Trees: The Internet and Everyday
Life in Barbados
Samantha Moonsammy,
Joint Graduate Programme in
Communication and Culture, York and Ryerson
Universities |
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Intersection of Social Classes and Gender Relations:
A Case Study on the Socio-Cultural Domestication of
Mobile Phone in Port-au-Prince
Margareth Cormier,
Department of Communication,
University of Ottawa |
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2:55 pm |
Panel Break |
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3:00 pm |
tranSfOrMAtions
Panel Chairperson: Dr. Janine Marchessault |
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Seeing and Experiencing Chouinard:
The Body Language of the Spectator
Kate Cornell,
Joint Graduate Programme in
Communication and Culture, York and Ryerson
Universities |
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Reworking the Desirous Gaze:
Self Constructed Eros in Cinema
Shana MacDonald,
Joint Graduate Programme in
Communication and Culture, York and Ryerson
Universities |
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The Twists, Turns and Torsions of (Re)volt
Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof,
Joint Graduate Programme in
Communication and Culture, York and Ryerson Universities |
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What Light Through Yonder Filmstrip Breaks?
Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach to the Semiotics
of Cinema:
A Case Study of Stan Brakhagefs Black Ice
Kelly Egan,
Joint Graduate Programme in
Communication and Culture, York and Ryerson Universities |
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4:10 pm |
Panel Break |
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4:15 pm |
Consuming Territories: Ecologies and
Economies of Popular Culture
Panel Chairperson: TBA |
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The Circuit of Labour and Leisure in the Age of
Biopolitical Production
Scott Stoneman & Max Haiven,
Department of English
and Cultural Studies, McMaster University |
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Consuming Currency: Gold Farming, Alienation, and the Consumption of Virtual Goods Between Online and
Offline Environments
Jennifer Martin,
Faculty of Information and Media
Studies, University of Western Ontario |
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Girls Gone Wild/Raunch: The Patriarchal and
Consumeristic Relations of an Adolescent Sub-Culture
Naomi Nichols,
Graduate Program in Education, York
University |
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5:25 pm |
Conference Closing Remarks |
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