Just to confirm:
all of the conference fun is happening on Ryerson campus. Friday’s events are being held at Oakham House. Saturday’s events will be in the George and Helen Vari Computing and Engineering Centre, in the basement.
Alan has written extensively on pedagogy at the undergraduate level. He is the faculty member that facilitates the Arts TA program. And, he’s wonderful to work with.
As a close to Vitals, Alan is going to share some ideas and lead discussion on Anti-Disciplinarity.
Thanks to everyone for their continued enthusiasm! We’re getting really excited to share a great line up with you!
Saturday 10:00 am Registration and Coffee 10:30 – 11:30 am Rhetorics of Invention, Renegotiating Interaction (ENG LG 11) Panel Chair: Prof. Isabel Pedersen Daniel Browne, Communications and Culture, Ryerson and York Universities, Some Remarks on the Future of ‘The Invention Without a Future’ Matthew Greaves, Communications and Culture, Ryerson and York Universities, Morbid Disavowals: The Labour Ontology of the iPad Kimon Kaketsis, Communications and Culture, Ryerson and York Universities, Manufactured Nostalgia: Digital Snap Shots and the Dissemination of the Family Album Generating a Multiplicity of Voices: Making Sense of Pluralities (ENG LG 12 Panel Chair: Miles Weafer Felan Parker, Communications and Culture, Ryerson and York Universities, Millions of voices: Star Wars, Digital Games, Fictional Worlds and Franchise Canon Sylvia Blake, Communications and Culture, Ryerson and York Universities, Diversity of Voices and Policy-Making in the Canadian Media: Follow-Up to the 2007 CRTC Diversity Hearings Joey Jakob Communications and Culture, Ryerson and York Universities, The Community of the Stranger: A Study of The Rally to Restore Sanity 11:40 am – 12:20 pm Participatory Culture in the Media Industries (ENG LG 11) Panel Chair: Laura Wiebe Jessica Whitehead, Communications and Culture, Ryerson and York Universities, Soap Operas: Fan Communities and the Structure of Feeling Mary Elizabeth Luka, Communications, Concordia, Media production as signs of vitality: Katerina Cizek’s “Out My Window” – 2010 and CBC Artspots Pilot Project (MacMillan/MacNutt/Markle) – 1998 Vital Video Games: New Perspectives on an Old Medium (ENG LG 12) Panel Chair: Alex Hayter Daniel Joseph, Communications and Culture, Ryerson and York Universities, Fighting for recognition: The importance of America's Army for mass communication and cultural policy in Canada Tamara Peyton, Communications and Culture, Ryerson and York Universities, Of dudes, pew pews and pwnage: Ganking the male stereotype of the gamer 12:30 – 1:20 pm Screening: Coffee with Kafka (ENG LG 11) by Mansoor Behnam, Cultural Studies, Queen's University Follow-up Psychogeography Workshop with Arun Jacob & Natalia Dmuchowska (ENG LG 12)
1:30 – 2:50 pm Vitalities in Transition: Emergent Perceptions of Established Forms (ENG LG 11) Panel Chair: Erika Biddle-Stavrakos David Clarkson, Interdisciplinary Master of Art, Design and Media, OCADU, A Phenomenological Approach to Mars and the Imaginary Nicola Waugh, Communications and Culture, Ryerson and York Universities, Moving Still: Jeff Wall, Stan Douglas and the Convergence of Photography and Cinema Marc Champagne, Philosophy, York University, Semiotic Inquiry: A Thousand and a Half Years of Vitality Erin McCurdy, Communications and Culture, Ryerson and York Universities, Reading the Arensberg Salon as a Vital Sign of a Culture in Flux
Representing Relationships, Communicating Culture (ENG LG 12)
Panel Chair: Prof. Kevin Dowler
Danielle Jeanine Deveau, Communications, Simon Fraser University,
Humour and the Negotiation of Identity
Lindsey Campbell, Cinema Studies, Concordia,
All in the Game: Representations of Post-9/11 Urban Experiences on HBO’s The Wire
Zhang Xiaochen, College of Journalism and Communication, University of Florida,
When Coffee Culture Clashes with Tea Culture: How do Chinese Perceive the Practice of Coffee Drinking?
Olena Decock, Communication, University of Ottawa,
Filming the in-between: studying the representation of immigrant cultural identity in Canadian and Quebec cinema
3:00 – 4:20 pm Emerging Internet Politics: A Vital Sphere (ENG LG 11) Panel Chair: Fenwick McKelvey Luke Simcoe, Communications and Culture, Ryerson and York Universities, 4CHAN as Carnival: the embryonic politics of the lulz Adam J. Langton, English, The University of Western Ontario, Universals in Cyberspace: Derrida’s Unconditional and the Political (Un)Grounding of Cyberspace Cyrus Lewis, Media Studies, Concordia University, Tactical Media Interventions: Vitality as Both a Blessing and Curse Jamie Rennie, Sociology and Equity Studies, OISE, Environmentally (Un)Friendly: The Uses and Limits of The Ecological Metaphor in Media Studies Checking Up On the Body: Looking for Vital Signs (ENG LG 12) Panel Chair: Prof. Stuart Murray Victoria Millious, Cultural Studies, Queen's University, Besting Culture: The role of the natural in breastfeeding discourses Jennifer Boland, Communications, Carleton University, ”Don’t Touch My Junk!”: Body Scans, Biopolitics and Boycotts Jaigris Hodson, Communications and Culture, Ryerson and York Universities, The Vitality of Online Interactions: A Call to Re-Embody Online Experience 4:30 – 5:00 pm Dr. Alan Sears, Activism and Knowledge: An Anti-Disciplinary Approach 5:00 – 5:15 pm Matt Feagan & Zorianna Zurba, A Vital Close
Friday Evening Oakham House 4:30 pm Registration & Visual Display Niki D’Amore, Social and Political Thought, York University, Ec-stasy Nicola Waugh, Communications and Culture, Ryerson and York University, Mimico Jessica M. Barr, Cultural Studies, Queen’s University, February 20, 2006 and … Continue reading
Arun & Natalia will be conducting a two-stage workshop on psychogeography. More details to come… stay posted… and check here for updates!
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Brooke FordShe's a fast-talker and fast-mover. She's a smarty pants and she'll knock your socks off.
Brooke Ford has agreed to read from her recent book, The Summer Idyll. The book takes us through a summer of reckless desire as three teenaged girls come together, drift apart, and come together again.
Brooke will also be interviewed by Joey Brooke Jakob!
