Month: May 2024

DAY 1
OPENER	FRIDAY, MAY 10th (9:00AM-9:45AM)
	Justin Brooks
Chair	Olivia Brodowski
PANEL 1	FRIDAY, MAY 10th (10:00AM-11:00AM) | Theme: Environmental Concerns: Water and Ecological Disaster
	Jeremy Audet (he/him) : Re-Imagining Sustainability Through Water-Centrism in Canadian Diasporic Poetry
	Luiz Henrique Reggi Pecora : Conflict and Tension in the Outskirts of Capitalism: Illegal Gold Mining and the Yanomami Struggle for the Protection of the Land-forest
	Sarah Sharp (she/her) : Portrait of a Young Artist, a Pothos: A Proposal to Investigate “Photogenesis”
Question Period	20 minutes
Chair	Jindi Huang
PANEL 2	FRIDAY, MAY 10th (11:15AM-12:15PM) | Theme: Social Discrimination and Compliance: Inquiries of Colonial Normativity
	Stephanie Erickson (she/her) & Kara Hagedorn (they/them) : Reproducing Barbie: A Critical Reading of Feminism in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie (2023)
	Kyle Cook (he/him) : Bringing Our Relatives Home: Rematriation in an Age of Reconciliation
	Caitlin O’Keffe : Photography, Violence and the Politics of Desire
Question Period	20 minutes
CATERED LUNCH	12:30PM-1:30PM
Chair	Emilia Koehn
PANEL 3	FRIDAY, MAY 10th (1:30PM-2:30PM) | Theme: Social Justice and Equity: Structural Violence and Community Care
	Kenzie Rattray (she/they) : Resource Illusions: Cultural Paranoia as a Catalyst for Social Instability and Political Change
	Jessie Gomburg (she/her) : Let the Right Ones In: The Good Character Requirement of the Law Society of Ontario and Creation of the Regulatory Offender
	Elif Cansu Gumuspala (they/them) : Opacity Behind the Windows: The Role of Bar Culture in Queer Liberation
Question Period	20 minutes
FRIDAY NIGHT SOCIAL	Details TBD
DAY 2
Chair	Bethany Scholfield
PANEL 4	SATURDAY, MAY 11th (9:30AM-10:30AM) | Theme: Inquiries of Visibility: Creative and Aesthetic Emancipation
	Joel Wheeler : Playlist Novels and Their Possibilities: Playlistening Through Vernon Subutex
	Spencer Robinson (he/him) : Transidentity in French Children’s Books: the Fluidity of Identity in a Normative World
	Frances Wear (they/them) : Heretical Dreams: Emancipatory Art Beyond Sublime Climate Catastrophe
Question Period	20 minutes
Chair	Olivia Brodowski
KEYNOTE & CATERED LUNCH	SATURDAY, MAY 11th (11:00AM-12:30PM)
	Kit Dobson (he/him) & Naava Smolash (she/her) : What Does It Mean to Be an Embodied Academic?
Question Period	30 minutes
Chair	Stephanie Erickson
PANEL 5	SATURDAY, MAY 11th (1:00PM-2:00PM) | Theme: Environmental Ethics and Spirituality: Building Resilience and Eco-Spirituality
	Meghan Richey (she/her) : Building Resilience in the Ecological Crisis: An Exploratory Study of the Role of Ecospirituality for Members of Generation Z
	Avia Amon (they/them) : Exposing the Limitations of Reconciliation: Protester Memory Discourses in Post-Dictatorship Chile
	Elliot Ugalde (he/him) : Recognition, Refusal, and Pluriversalism(s): Mapping a Theoretical Cartography of Anti-Colonialism Across Turtle Island and Abya Yala
Question Period	20 minutes
CONCLUDING CEREMONY	2:20PM-3:00PM