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Friday, March 23
Saturday, March 24
Sunday, March 25

Friday, March 23

Student Campus Centre (SCC), Rm 115 (Multipurpose Hall)
55 Gould Street, Ryerson University, Toronto

7:00 pm	Registration Opens / Immediately Outside SCC 115
7:30 pm	Opening Remarks / Programme Greetings
8:00 pm	Keynote Address: Henry A. Giroux Disabling the Future: Youth, Education, and the Politics of Disposability Followed by catered reception with cash bar

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Saturday, March 24

Roger Comunication Centre (RCC), Rm 204 (Eaton Lecture Theatre)
80 Gould Street, Ryerson University, Toronto

8:30 AM	Registration Opens & Breakfast Available
9:00 - 10:10	Moral Misappropriations Within Pop Culture
	Panel Chairperson : Steve Bailey
	1	Borat: Transnational Identity Theft and the Remediating of Cultural Appropriations Adam Cantor , McGill University
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	2	Translation as Appropriation: Subtitles/Dubs and Cultural Imperialism Stephen Mandiberg , New York University
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	3	First Retards, Then Rats, Now This: Reflecting on Vice's Total Moral Vacuum Ryan Bigge, York University / Ryerson University
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10:20 - 11:30	Ethical Politics in Creative Representations
	Panel Chairperson : Stuart Murray
	1	*The Invisible Line: Ethical Responsibility Between Professor and Student in the Academic Play: Butley* (1971), Educating Rita (1980) and Oleanna (1992)** Matt Fullerty , George Washington University
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	2	Ethical Andy Warhol: The Visual Signifiers of Unspoken Politics Laura Moses , York University / Ryerson University
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	3	Looking after Harry: Ethics and Politics in Alfred Hitchcock's The Trouble with Harry Kris Erickson , York University / Ryerson University
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11:40 - 12:30	Ethical Turns in Cultural Policy: Urban Canadian Perspectives
	Panel Chairperson : Michelle Coyne
	1	Harm Reduction as Anarchist Practice: Notes on the Politics of Addiction in Canada Chris Smith , York University / Ryerson University
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	2	The Value of Culture: Cultural Policy in the City of Toronto Catherine Argiropoulos , York University / Ryerson University
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Lunch (1 hour) Provided
1:30 - 2:30	Special Event Communication and Culture Peer Address: Steven Schnoor Canada the Good? A Discussion of Canadian Complicity in Human Rights Violations in Guatemala and Honduras
2:40 - 4:00	What's Right / Right Here 1: Responsibilities of Higher Education
	Panel Chairperson : James Cairns
	1	Re-politicizing the Classroom in Postmodernity?: Critical Pedagogy and the Politics of Neutrality Taunya Tremblay , York University / Ryerson University
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	2	"The Cause of Democracy": Toward an Analytic of the Government of Student Subjectivity Dan Colson , University of Illinois , Urbana-Champaign
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	3	Dispossession, Attachment and the Crisis of Subjectivity Scott Stoneman , McMaster University
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	4	The Ethics of Responsibility and Fantasies of Otherness Charles Wells , York University
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4:10 - 5:20	What's Right / Right Here 2: Ins and Outs of Interdisciplinarity
	Panel Chairperson : Elley Prior
	1	Interfering Interdisciplinarities: Feminist Technoscience and the Natures of Knowledge Ellen Moll , University of Maryland
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	2	Irony and the Academic Gaze: Cultural Studies as a Tool for Exploring Power in Social Enquiry Brian Foster & Karen MacAlpine , Carleton University / University of Waterloo
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	3	Cruising the Ruins: Toward a Queer Ethic of the Faculties Derritt Mason , McMaster University
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Sunday, March 25

Roger Comunication Centre (RCC), Rm 204 (Eaton Lecture Theatre)
80 Gould Street, Ryerson University, Toronto

9:00 AM	Registration Opens & Breakfast Available
9:30 - 10:40	Ethical Questions in Digital Technology
	Panel Chairperson : Fenwick McKelvey
	1	Tazered Subjects and Weeping Warriors: On Camera Phones, YouTube, and Conceptions of Power Kyla Reid , University of British Columbia
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	2	Strategic Animism as an Ethics of Radical Belonging Nick Anderson , York University / Ryerson University
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	3	"Your Blog Made Money!": The Affiliate Marketing in Japanese Blogosphere Yukari Seko , York University / Ryerson University
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10:50 - 11:50	Ethical Understandings of Basic Needs
	Panel Chairperson : A. Brady Curlew
	1	The Good of Water (and Other Qualities that we Drink and Flush) Cecilia Chen , Concordia University
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	2	Where Does Bread Come From?: Acknowledging our Detachment from Survival Processes as a Point of Departure for an Ethics of Technology Danielle Deveau , Simon Fraser University
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12:00 - 1:00	New Visualizations of Ideals, Old and New
	Panel Chairperson : Ganaele Langlois
	1	Dynamic Sightlines for All: Visualizing the Public Sphere in the Information Age Zach Devereaux & Peter Ryan , York University / Ryerson University
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	2	Reclaiming the Map: Towards a New Ethics of Cartography Stacy Douglas , Trent University
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Lunch (1 hour) Provided
2:00 - 3:00	Special Event Communication and Culture Faculty Panel Discussion On the Ethics and Ethoi of Contemporary Critical Thought and Practice
3:10 - 4:20	What's Right / Right Here 3: Ethical Language and Discourse
	Panel Chairperson : Bob Hanke
	1	Disability's Ethical Question of (K)notted Relationality Jacqueline Cahill , Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
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	2	Capital letters: Rendering Visible the Ethos of Representation Jason Rovito , York University / Ryerson University
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	3	Discerning Public Discourses Susan Pell , Simon Fraser University
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4:30 - 5:50	What's Right / Right Here 4: Rethinking Relativism & Pluralism
	Panel Chairperson : Tina Sikka
	1	An Antagonism on Populism: The Laclau-Zizek Debate Matthew J. Flisfeder , York University / Ryerson University
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	2	No Detached Observer: The Role of Anthropologists in Developing Cultural Relativism as a Global Moral System Michael Reid , Trent University
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	3	Gender Equality without Uniformity: Dilemma of Feminism in Multicultural India Babita Bhatt , University of Western Ontario
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Panels have been scheduled in a manner that allocates 15-17 minutes for each presentation. To ensure there is time for questions from the audience, please refrain of preparing anything that takes more than 15-17 minutes present.

2 Person Panel	50 mins
3 Person Panel	70 mins
4 Person Panel	80 mins

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