SPT Goes to the Learneds 1999

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SPoT Goes to the Learneds--Again 1999 (the Congress of the Social Sciences and the Humanities), Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada, June 2 to 12

The following list was compiled by M. Michael Schiff. There are likely SPT students and faculty members who will be presenting papers at the Learneds who are not listed here.

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June 3, 1999

Barbara Godard
Presentation title: "Traduction comme réception: quelques écrivaines québecoises au Canada anglais"
Session title: "En d'autres mots: re-lectures..." (Deuxi&eacutre;me séance/ Session II)
Society: Joint Session of Association for Canadian and Québec Literatures and ACT/CATS
Date, time and Location: Thursday, June 3, 2:00 p.m., 304 Hamilton, Bishop's

June 4, 1999

Anne Gatensby
Session title:"STS"Feminist Transgressions in STS: Rethinking Cyborgs, Politics, and Boundaries"
Presentation title:"Politics, Feminist Epistemologies and Social Studies of Science: Diffractions, Essential Tensions, or Failures of Nerve?"
Society: Joint: Canadian Women's Studies Association and Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science
Date, time and location: Friday, June 4, 8:30 a.m., Room A4-262

Barbara Godard
Session title: "En d'autres mots: re-lectures..." (Troisiéme s&eacutre;ance/Session III, part 2)
Society: Association for Canadian and Québec Literatures
Date, time and Location: Friday, June 4, 10:15 a.m., Johnson 200, Bishop William's Hall, Bishop's

Christine Ramsay, Chair
Session title: "Canadian Film Policy"
Society: Film Studies Association of Canada
Date, time and location: Friday, June 4, 11:00 a.m., A1-332 Sherbrooke

Darrell Varga
Presentation title: "The Body in Space: Henri Lefebvre's The Production of Space and Mike Hoolboom's Panic Bodies"
Session title: "Experimental Space"
Society: Film Studies Association of Canada
Date, time and location: Friday, June 4, 1:45 p.m., Room A1-332

John McCullough, Curator
Title: "Film Screening: Recent films from the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre"
Society: Film Studies Association of Canada
Date, time and location: Friday, June 4, 8:00 p.m., Room A2-101

Janine Marchessault, Moderator
Session title: "Focus on Godard"
Society: Film Studies Association of Canada
Date, time and location: Friday, June 4, 3:30 p.m., Room A1-128

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June 5, 1999

John Caruana, alumnus and Ryerson
Presentation title: "tba"
Session title: "Desiring the Good: Levinas' Reading of Plato and Descartes"
Society: Canadian Philosophical Association
Date, time and location: Saturday, June 5, 9:00 a.m., D7-409

Brenda Longfellow, alumna and York professor, Janine Marchessault, Participants; Susan Lord, Chair of session, one-day alumna, Queen's professor
Session title: Executive Organised Panel: "A Roundtable on Teaching Women in Film'"
Society: Film Studies Association of Canada
Date, time and location: Saturday, June 5, 9:15 a.m., Room A1-207

Peter Morris
Presentation title: "Earnie Shipman"
Session title: "Film Histories"
Society: Film Studies Association of Canada
Date, time and location: Saturday, June 5, 11:00 a.m., Room A1-207

Lee Parpart
Presentation title: "Film/Mind/Emotion, or What is Natural About Film Theory Naturalized?"
Session title: "Philosophy and Film"
Society: Film Studies Association of Canada
Date, time and location: Saturday, June 5, 1:45 p.m., Room A1-207

Lesley Jacobs
Presentation title: "tba"
Session title: "Modern Poverty Discourse and Contractualist Moral Theory"
Society: Canadian Philosophical Association
Date, time and location: Saturday, June 5, 2:00 p.m., D7-415

Susan Lord, alumna, Queen's professor, Chair
Session title: "Canadian Cinema and Global Identities"
Society: Joint: Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English and Film Studies Association of Canada
Date, time and location: Saturday, June 5, 9:00 a.m., Room A1-207/Room 208, Old Administration Building, University of Sherbrooke

Brenda Longfellow, alumna, York professor
Presentation title: "The Red Violin: Commodity Fetishism and Global Identity"
Session title: "Canadian Cinema and Global Identities"
Society: Joint: Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English and Film Studies Association of Canada
Date, time and location: Saturday, June 5, 9:00 a.m., Room A1-207/Room 208, Old Administration Building, University of Sherbrooke

Lorraine Code
Session title: "Canadian Philosophical Association Equity Committee: The Road Not Taken: Equity and Non-Traditional Career Paths"
Society: Canadian Philosophical Association
Date, time and location: Saturday, June 5, 2:00 p.m., Room D7-422

Patricia Stamp
Presentation title:"'We have the skirt, now we need the blouse': Herera Women's Agency in Emergent Namibian Local Governance"
Session title: Gender and the State in Southern and East Africa
Society: Canadian Association of African Studies
Date, time and location: Saturday, June 5, 3:00 p.m. (location tba)

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June 6, 1999

M. Michael Schiff
Presentation title: "Revolution in Marxist Language: Culture, Commodity, Kristeva"
Session title: "Spaces, Places, and Times of Memory From the Perspective of Feminist & Socialist Theory and Practice"
An abstract of an earlier version of this paper is available at: http://www.yorku.ca/spot/25th/abs.htm
Society: Joint: Canadian Women's Studies Association, Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association and Society for Socialist Studies
Date, time and location: June 6, 9:00 am., Nichols 314, Bishop's University

Mike Palamarek, Discussant/Commentator
Session Title: From Adorno to Deleuze
Society: Canadian Political Science Association
Date, time and location: Sunday, June 6, 10:30 a.m., D7-351

Kim Sawchuk, alumna and Concordia professor
Presentation title: "Critical Biography and Intellectual Influence: The Case of C. Wright Mills"
Session title: "Biography and Identity in Communications Research"
Society: Canadian Communication Association
Date, time and location: Sunday, June 6, 10:30 a.m., D7-340 Pavillon Marie-Victorin

Dennis Soron, Session Organizer and Presenter
Presentation title: "Fatalism and Redemption in the Global Economy"
Session Title: Revaluing the 'Economic'
Society: Society for Socialist Studies
Date, time and location: Sunday, June 6, 10:45 a.m., Nichols 314, Bishop's University
(Dennis Pilon of the Graduate Programme in Political Science at York will chair this session; David Bernans, formerly of Political Science, York, now at Concordia, will present "Globalization: What is an Externality to Do?"; and Clarice Kuhling of the Graduate Programme in Sociology at York will present "Idols of the Marketplace: Bringing Home the Bacon in an Era of Globalization").

Jon Short
Presentation title: "Bodies of Thought: Outside the Subject"
Session title: "Lines of Flight, Lines of Capture" (alternatively titled: "Benjamin's Angel: Flights of Forgetting, Sites of Remembrance and Reclamation"
Society: Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association
Date, time and location: Sunday, June 6, 12:30 p.m., location tba

Bill Conklin, alumnus and Windsor professor
Presentation title: "The Invisible Origins of Thomas Hobbes' Civil Law"
Session title: "Foundations of Political Theory"
Society: Canadian Political Science Association
Date, time and location: Sunday, June 6, 1:30 p.m., D7-348

Mike Palamarek
Presentation title: "Speculating (in) Economies: A Revaluation of Irigaray"
Abstract available at: http://www.uottawa.ca/associations/cpsa-acsp/agm1999-abstracts.html
Session Title: Feminist Theory I
Society: Canadian Political Science Association
Date, time and location: Sunday, June 6, 1:30 p.m. (location tba)

Rob Heynen, Coordinator
Session title: Transitions in the Soviet and Post-Soviet World
Society: Society for Socialist Studies
Date, time and location: Sunday 6 June, 1:30-3:15, Nicholls 114

Rob Heynen
Presentation title: "The Making of Homo Sovieticus, or, Is There a Liberal Subject in There?"
Session title: Transitions in the Soviet and Post-Soviet World
Society: Society for Socialist Studies
Date, time and location: Sunday 6 June, 1:30-3:15, Nicholls 114

Norma Jo Baker
Presentation title: "Everything you know is wrong: Making the Capitalist Economic Agent in the New Russia"
Session title: Transitions in the Soviet and Post-Soviet World
Society: Society for Socialist Studies
Date, time and location: Sunday 6 June, 1:30-3:15, Nicholls 114

Chad Thompson
Presentation title: "Noblesse Oblige: Educational Imperialism and the Cultivation of Corruption in Contemporary Uzbekistan"
Session title: Transitions in the Soviet and Post-Soviet World
Society: Society for Socialist Studies
Date, time and location: Sunday 6 June, 1:30-3:15, Nicholls 114

John McCullough
Presentation title: "John Glenn: Starchild, Or the Trace of Race in Space"
Session title: "Science Fiction"
Society: Film Studies Association of Canada
Date, time and location: Sunday, June 6, 1:45 p.m., Room A1-332

Lorraine Code, Symposium participant
Session title: "Bilingual Symposium"
Society: Canadian Philosophical Association
Date, time and location: Sunday, June 6, 2:00 p.m.

Laura Suski
Presentation title: "The Alternatives and Impasses of Development Theory"
Session title: "Alternative Theoretical Approaches"
Society: Canadian Association for Studies in Development
Date, time and location: Sunday, June 6, 2:30 p.m., J113

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June 7, 1999

Caitlin Fisher
Presentation title: "Women in the Digital City: Wanderings, the Body, Curiosities"
Session title: "New Technologies and Narrative Space"
Society: Film Studies Association of Canada
Date, time and location: Sunday, June 6, 3:30 p.m., Room A1-128

Shannon Bell, Chair
Session Title: Feminist Theory II
Society: Canadian Political Science Association
Date, time and location: Monday, June 7, 8:30 a.m.

Karen Ruddy
Presentation title: "Writing at the Limit: Towards a Postcontemporary Feminist Theory"
Session Title: Feminist Theory IV
Society: Canadian Political Science Association
Date, time and location: Monday, June 7, 10:30 a.m. (location tba)

Peter Ives, Alumnus, Simon Fraser University
Presentation title: "Competing Visions of Language and Community in a United Europe"
Session title: Multilevel Governance IV
Society: Canadian Political Science Association
Date, time and location: Monday, June 7, 11:30 a.m. (location tba)

Cancelled:
Sharmini Peries
Presentation title: "Women in Sri Lanka"
Session title: "Taking Stock (I): Women, Nation and State in 1999"
Society: Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association
Date, time and location: Monday, June 7, 2:00 p.m.

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June 8, 1999

Chad Thompson
Presentation title: "Civil Society in Uzbekistan"
Session title: Politics and Economics in Post-Communist Europe I
Society: Canadian Political Science Association
Date, time and location: Tuesday, June 8, 8:30 a.m. (location tba)

Norma Jo Baker
Presentation title: " In the Short Run, We're All Dead Too': The Political and Social Consequences of Privatization in the Siberian Oil Industry"
Session Title: Politics and Economics in Post-Communist Europe I
Society: Canadian Political Science Association
Date, time and location: Tuesday, June 8, 8:30 a.m. (location tba)

Shannon Bell
Presentation title: " Scribblings' in Time"
Session Title: "Speed Theory: Constellations/Juxtapositions I"
Society: Canadian Political Science Association
Date, time and location: Tuesday, June 8, 8:30 a.m. (location tba)

Jenny Burman
Presentation title: "Bad Tourist Art: A Case Study in Cross-cultural Insults"
Session Title: "Reading Popular Culture: Part One"
Society: Canadian Communication Association
Date, time and location: Tuesday, June 8, 9:00 a.m., D7-346

Asher Horowitz
Presentation title: "Indignation and Cooperation, Responsibility and Society: The Moral and Political in Levinas and Habermas"
Session Title: "Speed Theory: Constellations/Juxtapositions II"
Society: Canadian Political Science Association
Date, time and location: Tuesday, June 8, 9:30 a.m. (location tba)

Nadia Habib
Presentation title: "Always Haunting the Shore: Women's Changing Swimming Practices in Egypt"
Session Title: "Reading Popular Culture II"
Society: Canadian Communication Association
Date, time and location: Tuesday, June 8, 10:30 a.m., D7-346

Wesley Cragg, Co-presenter
Presentation title: "Responsibilities: Mapping the values of a Canadian mining company"
Session title: "The Canadian Mining Industry: Helping or Hurting Communities?"
Society: Environmental Studies Association of Canada
Date, time and location: Tuesday, June 8, 10:30 a.m. (location tba)

Chad Thompson
Presentation title: "No Commercial Brakes"
Session Title: "Speed Theory: Constellations/Juxtapositions III"
Society: Canadian Political Science Association
Date, time and location: Tuesday, June 8, 11:30 a.m. (location tba)

Asher Horowitz, Chair
Session Title: "Theoretical Stakes I"
Society: Canadian Political Science Association
Date, time and location: Tuesday, June 8, 1:30 p.m. (location tba)

Shannon Bell, Chair
Session Title: "Speed Theory: Constellations/Juxtapositions IV"
Society: Canadian Political Science Association
Date, time and location: Tuesday, June 8, 11:30 a.m.

Shannon Bell, Chair
Session Title: "Speed Theory: Constellations/Juxtapositions V"
Society: Canadian Political Science Association
Date, time and location: Tuesday, June 8, 1:30 p.m.

Victoria Tahmasebi
Presentation title: "Radical Subjects, Speeding Identities"
Session Title: "Speed Theory: Constellations/Juxtapositions V"
Society: Canadian Political Science Association
Date, time and location: Tuesday, June 8, 1:30 p.m.

Barbara Godard
Presentation title: "Translation and Nation Building: Linguistic Struggles in the United Canadas in the 1840s"
Session title: "Translation and the Roots of Canadian Public Culture"
Society: Canadian Communication Association
Date, time and location: Tuesday, June 8, 2:00 p.m., D7-347 Pavillon Marie-Victorin

Shannon Bell, Chair
Session Title: "Speed Theory: Constellations/Juxtapositions VI"
Society: Canadian Political Science Association
Date, time and location: Tuesday, June 8, 3:15 p.m.

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June 9, 1999

Catriona Sandilands, Conversant
Session title: "Conversations Toward a Canadian Ecofeminism"
Society: Environmental Studies Association of Canada
Date, time and location: Wednesday, June 9, 1:00 p.m. (location tba)

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June 10, 1999

Catriona Sandilands, Conversant
Session title: ""Contributions of Theory to the Cultural Study of Parks and Protected Areas"
Presentation title: "A Flaneur in the Forest? Strolling Point Pelee With Walter Benjamin"
Date, time and location: Thursday, June 10, June 10, 10:30 a.m. (location tba)

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