Past Congress Participants

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Below are lists of UWaterloo English presenters at past meetings of the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences.

2023

Name Title Society/Group/Conference Date/Time Location
Kathy Acheson Marginalia and the Gendering of the Early Modern English Woman CSRS May 29, 11:30 a.m. ACW 002
Carol Acton Intimacy as emotional survival: letter exchanges between couples in the First World War International Auto/Biography Association Conference 2023 July 5-8 University of Warsaw, Poland
Lamees Al Ethari Patterns of Telling in Women's Migration Narratives CCLA May 30, 10:45 a.m. TBA
Lamees Al Ethari "They Never Get to See Me": Muslim Women's Job-Seeking Experiences in Waterloo Region Municipal Public Services (Panel) ANSER-ARES May 28, 1:30 p.m. TBA
Maab Al-Rashdan Reckoning with the Insidious Thriving of White Supremacy and Racism CAPS

May 28, 8:30 a.m.

Virtual
Sally Beresford "I'm giving you my story exclusively": Controlling publicity in Dorothy L. Sayers's public and fictional lives ACCUTE May 27, 8:30 a.m. TBA
Sally Beresford Discovering Belonging in the Public, Private, Professional, and Academic Communities in Dorothy L. Sayers’s Gaudy Night Captivating Criminality TBA Bath, UK
Jennifer Clary-Lemon Ecological Feelings: Reflecting on Care, Hope, Joy, and Optimism Conference on Communication and Environment 2023 June 6, 11:00 a.m. Harrisonburg, Virginia
Bruce Dadey The Event Horizons of Rhetoric RhetCanada May 31, 1:30 p.m. CC 211
Stacey Denton Co-Creation: Reimagining Agency in the First-Year Seminar CSSHE May 30th, 2:45 p.m. SLH A
Stacey Denton Supporting Agency through Co-creative Student Partnerships in the First-Year Classroom UWTL May 4, 11:45 a.m. UWaterloo, STC 0040
Stacey Denton Panel Discussion - Alternative Assessments: Kindness in the First-Year Classroom UWTL May 4, 3:00 p.m. UWaterloo, STC 0050
Carolyn Eckert Vaccine Rhetorics: Myth, misinformation or Conspiracy? Examining the Epidemic of Uncertainty in Canada’s Freedom Convoy ACCUTE May 27, 10:30 a.m. TBA
Lara El Mekkawi Expected Resilience in ContemporaryPalestinian Literature ACCUTE May 28, 3:30 p.m. TBA
Lara El Mekkawi WE WERE HERE: Reclamation of Palestinian History through Literary Activism CAPS May 30, 1:00 p.m. AKT 004
Giuseppe Femia Failure in Disability Game Studies CGSA/ACÉJ 2023 June 6-9 Online
Aleksander Franiczek Writing the Subject at Play: An Autocritical/Autofictional Approach to Videogame Analysis ACCUTE

May 28, 1:30 p.m.

TBA
Aleksander Franiczek Interpreting Gameplay Experience through Narrative Design CGSA/ACÉJ 2023 June 6-9     Online
Aleksander Franiczek Immersion as Narrative Engagement and Player Desire International Conference of Games and Narrative

May 15, 10:00 a.m.

Waterloo/Online

Kyle Gerber Re-imagining the Rhetorical Powers of Prayer RhetCanada May 31, 8:30 a.m. CC 211
Kenneth Graham Rhetorical Decorum and Herbert's Historical Faith CSRS May 28, 11:30 .m. ACW 003
Randy Harris Rhetorical Figures and Emergent Syntax RhetCanada June 1, 8:30 a.m. CC 211
Melissa Johnson Crippin' Frankenstein: Embracing Parenthetical Knowledge, Refusing Myths of Uniformity NASSR April 1, 2:45 p.m. Huntsville, Texas
Monique Kampherm Ghostwriting Ethos: Social Media’s Effect on Political Leaders’ Debates RhetCanada June 1, 8:30 a.m. CC 211
Shannon Lodoen “Always-On/Always-On-You”: The Constancy of Kairos in Contemporary Smartphone Society RhetCanada June 1, 8:30 a.m.     CC 211
Shannon Lodoen Cross-Disciplinary Applications of the Frankfurt School in Research and Pedagogy

15th International Critical Theory Conference of Rome

May 8, 5:30 p.m.

John Felice Rome Center of Loyola University Chicago, Rome 
Shannon Lodoen No Need to Cheat, Every Reason to Succeed: The Benefits of Alternative, Authentic Assessments in Online English Literature Courses ACCUTE

May 29, 8:30 a.m.

TBA
Shannon Lodoen Analyzing Smartphones As Persuasive Technologies: A Rhetorical Framework CCA

May 31, 3:30 p.m.

DB 1016
E Alicia Oropeza "I thought you could only do English there": creating a new space/place for anti-oppressive teaching and learning within the writing centre (panel) CWCA May 26, 12:30 p.m. Online
Alison Purnell Medieval Disability, Modern Ableism International Congress on Medieval Studies May 13, 1:30 p.m. Kalamazoo, Michigan
Christopher Rogers Shoreline Rhetoric: Welcoming Complexity in Fluid Spaces RhetCanada June 1, 10:30 a.m. CC 211
Christopher Rogers Ecological Feelings: Reflecting on Care, Hope, Joy, and Optimism (panel) Conference on Communication and Environment 2023 June 6, 11:00 a.m. Harrisonburg, Virginia
Humaira Shoaib "They Never Get to See Me": Muslim Women's Job-Seeking Experiences in Waterloo Region Municipal Public Services (Panel) ANSER-ARES May 28, 1:30 p.m. TBA
Winfried Siemerling Book launch with author Winfried Siemerling and translator Patricia Godbout of Les écritures noires du Canada: L’Atlantique noir et la présence du passé ( U of Ottawa P, 2022), the French translation of The Black Atlantic Reconsidered ACT-CATS May 30, 5:15 p.m. CLH M
Heather Smyth "They Never Get to See Me": Muslim Women's Job-Seeking Experiences in Waterloo Region Municipal Public Services (Panel) ANSER-ARES May 28, 1:30 p.m. TBA
Sarah Tolmie Afterlives of Piers Plowman (panel) International Piers Plowman Society Conference July 6 Malet House, University of London
Maša Torbica

Centering Student Tutors/Staff in Relational and Embodied Ways: Hiring, Mentoring, and Training (panel)

CWCA May 24, 2:00 p.m. Online
Maša Torbica "I thought you could only do English there": creating a new space/place for anti-oppressive teaching and learning within the writing centre (panel) CWCA May 26, 12:30 p.m. Online
Maša Torbica Idle No More and the Limits of Reconciliation Rhetoric  RhetCanada

May 31, 8:30 a.m.

CC 211
Valerie Uher “Bloody Sore”: Eugenic rhetoric and the production of the “Universal Worker” in Irene Baird’s Waste Heritage ACQL/ALCQ May 30, 3:30 p.m. ACE 008
Andrew Weiler Somatic Literacies: A Hermeneutics and Rhetoric of the Body RhetCanada May 31, 10:30 a.m. CC 211
Brianna Wiens Storming the TechBro-stille: Breaking Down Technology’s Exclusionary Gates (panel discussion) CCA May 31, 3:30 p.m. DB 3069
Brianna Wiens Activists Archiving the Internet: Social Justice Informed Approaches to Digitally Born Content (panel discussion) Shaking Up the Archives June 24, 11:30 a.m. Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, Scotland
Brianna Wiens The Feminist Urge to RESIST: Feminist Memes as Affective Socio-Political Vernaculars (with Shana MacDonald) International Communication Association May 29, 2023, 9:00 a.m. Toronto

2019

Name Title Society/Group Date/Time Location
Becky Anderson Exploring Canadian Corrections: A Security Governance Approach to Simulating Risk CGSA June 7, 1:30pm TBA
Veronica Austen Perceiving Beauty: George Elliott Clarke’s Photoverses ACQL June 1, 8:30 a.m. BUCH D214
Betsy Brey "FNaF Can't Be Solved!": Para-Narrative Structure in Five Nights at Freddy's CGSA June 5, 1:30 p.m. TBA
Bruce Dadey Rhetoric without End: Occupy and the Strategy of Silence RhetCanada June 5, 10:00 a.m. Math 104
Lai-Tze Fan Interdisciplinary Roundtable (Chair) CSDH-SCHN & ACCUTE June 2, 1:30 p.m. UCLL 103
Christopher Giannakopoulos The (In)accessible Archive: Freud, Paterson, and the Mnemic Signifier ACCUTE June 3, 8:30 a.m. BUCH B309
Kyle Gerber

Chiastic Mirrors: Reverse-repetition Figures in Martyrs Mirror

A Figure Is a Figure Is a Figure: The Cognitive-computational Approach to Rhetorical Figures (co-presenter)

RhetCanada June 5, 10:30 a.m. Math 105
Danielle Griffin  A Figure Is a Figure Is a Figure: The Cognitive-computational Approach to Rhetorical Figures (co-presenter) RhetCanada June 5, 10:30 a.m Math 105
Randy Harris A Figure Is a Figure Is a Figure: The Cognitive-computational Approach to Rhetorical Figures (co-author) RhetCanada June 5, 10:30 a.m Math 105
Ashley Irwin Remembering the Future: Afrofuturism as Testimony (Co-Author: Sara Gallagher) BCSA June 3, 10:30 p.m. BUTO 321
Ashley Irwin Title: Can I Get a Witness?: The Temporal Dimensions of Testimony in The Book of Negroes CACLALS June 2, 1:30 p.m. BUCH B302
Melissa Johnson (En)Gendering Rhetorics of Illness: Linking Historical Perceptions of Hysteria to Contemporary Treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome CDSA-ACÉH June 2nd, 2:30 p.m. Room 291
Monique Kampherm Social Media’s Suasion on Political Rhetoric: A Case Study of the 2015 Maclean’s Leaders’ Debate #macdebate RhetCanada June 6, 1:30 p.m. Math 102
Asma Khaliq Mythic Design of The Waste Land ACCUTE
 
June 4, 8:30 a.m. BUCH B208
Jason Lajoie Interdisciplinary Roundtable CSDH-SCHN & ACCUTE June 2, 1:30 p.m UCLL 103
Kayley Marner "Most Painted Word": A Quantitative Linguistic Analysis of Shakespeare's Manipulators CSRS June 1, 3:00 p.m. BUCH D222
Devon Moriarty A New Reddit: Reviving Hope through Rhetorical Citizenship RhetCanada June 6, 1:30 p.m. Math 102
Devon Moriarty Teaching Expertise: How the Acquisition of Expertise Influences Pedagogical Praxis CASDW June 2, 1:30 p.m. ORCH 4058
Aimée Morrison Interdisciplinary Roundtable CSDH-SCHN & ACCUTE June 2, 1:30 p.m. UCLL 103
Marcel O'Gorman Tech For Good? When Media Theory Intervenes In The Tech Sector CCA June 3, 10:45 a.m. IBLC 158
Robyn Peers Serializing Blackness: The Creation of Ethical Witnesses in The Book of Emma and Angélique ACCUTE June 1, 1:30 p.m. BUCH B218
Jennifer Rickert Cheating & Modding Video Games: A place of social liminality CGSA June 7, 1:30 p.m. Room 1
Saeed Sabzian The Road to Seeing: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Visual Rhetoric RhetCanada June 6, 10:30 a.m. Math 105
Winfried Siemerling Call and Response-ability: Black Canadian Art and the Question of Audience | Appel et capacité de réponse: les créations artistiques noires au Canada et la question du public (panel co-organizer and co-chair) ACQL June 1
8:30 a.m.
BUCH D214
Winfried Siemerling Call and Response-ability: Black Art and the Politics of Relation (panel co-organizer and co-chair) ACCUTE June 1, 10:30 a.m. BUCH B211
Maša Torbica The Flesh Speaks by Bleeding: Pain and Protest in J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians CACLALS June 1, 8:30 a.m. BUCH B306
Maša Torbica Persuasion in Motion: the Rhetorical Role of Youth-led Long Marches within the Idle No More Movement RhetCanada June 5, 10:30 a.m. Math 104
Katherine Tu

Rhetorical Figures as Cognitive: A Case Study of Isocolon

A Figure Is a Figure Is a Figure: The Cognitive-computational Approach to Rhetorical Figures (co-presenter)

RhetCanada June 5, 10:30 a.m. Math 104
Valerie Uher “And if you can’t memory right,” he said, “you lose”: Channeling Reader Consciousness in David Chariandy’s Brother  ACQL-ALQC June 1, 8:30 a.m. BUCH D214
Sarah Whyte The Rhetorical Functions of Narrative in Accounts of Surgical Checklists across Popular, Professional, and Epistemic Genres CASDW June 2, 8:30 a.m. ORCH 4052

2018

Name Title Society/Group Date/Time Location
Becky Anderson Figuring Affective Phenomena: The Architectures of Machine Emotion CSDH May 26, 11:00 a.m. CL 313
Becky Anderson

The Border Between Memory & History: Exploring Place in Antonine Maillet’s La Sagouine, Gérald Leblanc’s Moncton Mantra, and France Daigle’s Just Fine

ACQL May 27, 8:30 p.m. LI 143
Becky Anderson

Mapping the Reputation of Tolkien's Middle-earth in Standing Stone's Lord of the Rings Online

CGSA June 1, 8:30 a.m. TBA

Veronica Austen 

Abject Eating in Kim Fu's For Today I Am a Boy ACCUTE May 26, 1:30 p.m. LI 119
Veronica Austen  High Muck a Muck: Playing Chinese: Connective Aesthetics and Memorialization CACLALS May 27, 11:00 a.m. LI 133
Bruce Dadey Beyond Shovelware: The Developing Rhetoric of Multimodal Digital Journalism RhetCanada May 28, 1:30 p.m. CL 410
Sara Gallagher Mediating Race in Black and White: Oscar Micheaux and the Early Race Film ACCUTE May 27, 8:30 a.m. LC 207
Kyle Gerber Figures in the Mirror RhetCanada May 27, 1:30 p.m. CL 410
Ashley Irwin Inside the Outside: Race, Space, and Protest in Wayde Compton's The Outer Harbour CACLALS May 27, 1:30 p.m. LI 133
Ashley Irwin Rampage in Toronto: The Yonge Street Uprising and the Myth of Black Criminality BCSA May 29, 2:00 p.m. ED 548
Monique Kampherm

Democratic prosopopoeia: The rhetorical influence of embodying a political statement online

RhetCanada May 28, 1:30 p.m. CL 410
Jin Sol Kim

Trans Counterpublics On Tumblr: How Tumblr Affords a Digital Safe Space for Transsexual Youth

CCA June 1, 2:30 p.m. LC 208
Norm Klassen The Inner Word from Dante to David Adams Richards: Why Christians Who are Neither Fundamentalists nor Mathematicians Believe in a Connection between Word and Thing (Plenary) CLSG/ACCUTE May 27, noon TBA
Lindsay Meaning Adaptations of Empire: The Colony in Kim, Novel and Game CGSA June 1, 8:30 a.m. TBA
Philip Miletic Cibele and the Genre of Automedia Games CGSA May 31, 3:30 p.m. TBA
Devon Moriarty The March for Science: Reddit’s Role in a Movement of Rhetorical Resistance RhetCanada May 29, 9:30 a.m. CL 410
Devon Moriarty

Assessing the Epistemic Reliability of Science Experts on the Internet: A Case Study in Reddit’s r/Science

CSHPS May 27, 8:45 a.m. FN 3304
Patricia Ofili

Resisting the Rhetoric of Utopia and Dystopia

RhetCanada May 29, 10:50 a.m. CL 410
Saeed Sabzian Aural Rhetoric: How It Works RhetCanada May 27, 9:30 a.m. CL 410
Sylvia Terzian Transnational Feminist Misfits? The Possibility of Arab Transnational Feminist Engagements WGSRF May 30, 3:15 p.m. LB 132
Maša Torbica

Poetry reading at "And Now for a Creative Perspective”:  A Graduate Student Roundtable

CACLALS/ACCUTE/ACQL May 26, 6:30 p.m. Campion Commons
Paula Catalina Sanchez-Nunez de Villavicencio The Rhetoric of Quantified Social Media Rankings RhetCanada May 29, 9:30 a.m. CL 410

2017

Name Title Society/Group Date/Time Location
Becky Anderson Sound and Space: Connecting to Memory and Remembering Trauma in  Madeline Thien’s Certainty ACCUTE May 27, 1:45 p.m. Victoria 508
Becky Anderson Photographing Loss: Exploring the Ocular Record in Madeline Thien’s Certainty ACQL May 27, 8:30 a.m. Victoria 503

Veronica Austen 

The Ghost of Roy Kiyooka ACQL May 27, 
1:30 p.m.
Victoria 503

Veronica Austen 
(with Masa Torbica)

The Presence of Absence: Visual Hauntings in Canadian Literature / La présence de l’absence: les hantises visuellesdans la littérature canadienne (panel org.) ACQL May 27, 8:30 a.m. Victoria 503
Betsy Brey Fact and/or Fiction?: VR Storytelling and Cognitive Narratology CGSA June 1, 10:45 a.m. TRSM
2-147
Bruce Dadey From Usability to UX: Visual Rhetoric, Comics, and Technical Communication  CSSR June 1, 1:30 p.m. OAK 218
Andrew Deman Wee Little Lotus-Eaters: The Fallacy of Academic Expiration ACCUTE May 30, 10:30 a.m. SLC 450
Evelyn Deshane Blonde Beauties and GIs: Transgender Surgery's Military Root ACCUTE May 29, 10:30 a.m. Victoria 301
Evelyn Deshane ESC Roundtable: Transitions (panelist) ACCUTE May 27, 1:45 p.m. Victoria 101
Danielle Deveau Counting Culture: A Roundtable on Methods in Media and Cultural Studies CCA May 30, 8:30 a.m. RCC 227
Fraser Easton Austen's War on Edgeworth: Economic Psychology in Emma and Ennui ACCUTE May 30, 8:45 a.m. Victoria 500
Judy Ehrentraut This is Not Your Body: The Synchronization of Affect in Virtual Reality Gaming CGSA June 1, 10:45 a.m. TRSM
2-147
Stephen Fernandez Rendering Digital Lives: Approaching Social Media Through "Critical Making" CCA May 31, noon KHS 51
Stephen Fernandez Mobilizing Access in Makerspaces: Crip Performances and Collaborative Making in the Classroom CDSA May 31, 1:00 p.m. TBA
Julie Funk Pace-taker: Getting To The Heart Of Our Digital Anxieties CCA May 31, 1:45 p.m. RCC 202
Sara Gallagher "Down Here in Paradise": Fictional Accounts of the Exoduster Movement ACCUTE May 27, 10:30 a.m. TBA
Kyle Gerber "On Earth as it is in Heaven": Transitive Action and Sacramental Participation in The Lord's Prayer CATA May 28, 3:00 p.m. Victoria 206
Kyle Gerber “On Earth as it is in Heaven”: Transitive Action in The Lord’s Prayer CSSR June 1, 8:45 a.m. OAK
218
Kyle Gerber Refusing Remembrance in Rudy Wiebe's Come Back ACQL May 28, 9:00 a.m. Victoria 110
Kenneth Graham The Language of Blessing in King Lear CSRS May 27, 1:45 p.m. Victoria 608
Randy Harris A Neurocognitive Ontology of Rhetorical Figures CSSR June 1, 8:45 a.m. OAK 218
Megan Honsberger Mindflux: Application of Micro Digital Abstinence CCA May 31, 1:45 p.m. RCC 202
Monique Kampherm "Liberals Lead:" The Rhetorical Influence of CBC's Aggregate Polling Data on Voters in the 2015 Canadian National Election CSSR May 30, 4:00 p.m. OAK 218
Norm Klassen Language and the Paradox of Nature and Grace: Spiritual Warfare in That Hideous Strength CLSG May 27, 12:15 p.m. Victoria 505
Alysia Kolentsis Shakespeare’s Grammar CSRS May 27, 1:45 p.m. Victoria 608
Jason Lajoie  Gayming On the Grid: Playing through the Ludic Technology of Grindr CGSA June 2, 1:30 p.m. TRSM
1-149
Victoria Lamont Popular Westerns: Towards a Feminist Genealogy ACCUTE May 27, 8:45 a.m. Victoria 101
Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher Data as the Commons: Rearticulating the Commons through Civic and Citizen Science [with B. Mehlenbacher] CASDW May 27, 10:00 a.m. LIB 72
Phil Miletic Tender Vibrations: The Vibrational Nexus of Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons ACCUTE May 28, 8:45 a.m. Victoria 303
Phil Miletic MREs and Affective Citizenships
[written with Keely Cronin]
BSC May 30, 4:00 p.m. KHE-Kerr East 321C
Devon Moriarty Viral Vaccines: Proposed Policy and the Rhetoric of Redditors' Response CSSR June 1, 2:00 p.m. OAK 218
Devon Moriarty Rhetorical Inoculation: Proposed Vaccine Legislation and the Rhetoric of Public Distrust CASDW May 27, 10:00 a.m. LIB 72
Patricia Ofili Apartheid Legal Screens and Nelson Mandela's Luminescence CSSR May 30, 3:00 p.m. OAK 218
Marcel O'Gorman Making Non-Users - Hands on Experiments in Digital Moderation (panel org.) CCA May 31, 1:45 p.m. RCC 202
Marcel O'Gorman Writing with a Soldering Iron CCA May 31, 1:45 p.m. RCC 202
Meghan Riley "Hear[ing] the dead" and "remember[ing] the past": Ways of Knowing in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl and Nnedi Okorafor's Who Fears Death CAAS May 27, 10:30 a.m. Victoria 204
Saeed Sabzian The Aesthetics of Disability Poetry: Interrogating the Mainstream Poetics CDSA June 1, 9:30 a.m. SHE Room D
Sylvia Terzian Reconciliation, Rebirth and Return: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Exile in Dmitri Nasrallah’s Niko ACQL May 28, 9:00 a.m. Victoria 106

Masa Torbica
(with Veronica Austen)

The Presence of Absence: Visual Hauntings in Canadian Literature / La présence de l’absence: les hantises visuellesdans la littérature canadienne (panel org.) ACQL May 27, 8:30 a.m. Victoria 503
Masa Torbica AlieNation: Performing Canada as “New Canadian” Poets (A creative session & poetry reading) ACQL May 27, 4:00 p.m. Victoria 210
Masa Torbica Repurposing white noise: Considering the decolonizing affordances of found poetry in Shane Rhodes’ X: Poems and Anti-Poems ACQL May 28, 9:00 a.m. Victoria 106
Caitlin Woodcock Basketcase CCA May 31, 1:45 p.m. RCC 202

2016

Name Title Society/Group Date/Time Location

Veronica Austen 

Seeing Photographically in Kim Barry Brunhuber’s Kameleon Man ACCUTE May 28, 
10:30 a.m.
SS1153
Betsy Brey

Twine, Hypertext, and Games: Ideologies and Implications

CGSA June 1,
1:00 p.m.
Craigie Hall
C309
Keely Cronin

Tweeting Barriers: Indigenous Narratives, Canada Reads, and Digital Debate

ACCUTE May 29,
8:45 a.m.
Social Sciences 423
Bruce Dadey A General Systems Approach to Rhetoric CSSR June 2,
4:00 p.m.

MacEwan Hall 280 Council Chambers

Shawn Dorey

Starting Zones: Studying a Potential Intersection of Cultural Geography and Game Studies

CGSA June 3,
11:15 a.m.
IDK
Room 3
Stephen Fernandez

The Mortal Community: Embracing Finitude in Jérôme Bel and Theater HORA's Disabled Theater

CATR May 31,
2:15 p.m.
TBA
Kyle Gerber

Rhetorical Figuration in Joseph Lowery’s “Benediction”

CSSR June 2,
2:45 p.m.
MacEwan Hall 280 Council Chambers
Kenneth Graham

Penitent Princes and Plainspeaking Priests: Pastoral Power in The Winter’s Tale

CSRS May 28,
10:30 a.m.

Professional Faculties 120

Randy Harris

Ploche, Uberscheme

CSSR June 2,
4:00 p.m.
MacEwan Hall 280 Council Chambers
Kate Lawson

Grad Caucus Panel: Professionalization within/beyond Academia

ACCUTE May 29,
10:30 a.m.
SS 541
Kate Lawson

Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley: Family History as Intertextuality

ACCUTE May 30,
1:45

SS 1153

Phil Miletic

"And now everybody will do theirs": Remediating Everybody's Autobiography as a Radio Event

ACCUTE May 29,
10:30
SS 209
Patricia Ofili

Gender Eclipse in Dominant Ideologies

CSSR June 2,
8:30 a.m.
MacEwan Hall 280 Council Chambers
Marcel O'Gorman

The Research-Creation Problem in Digital Scholarship

CCA May 30,
10:15 a.m.
Sciences Theatre 135
Sylvia Terzian

Transnational Consciousness and Literary Cosmopolitanism: Arab-Canadian Literature in the Global Moment

CACLALS May 29, 9:00 a.m. SMD 402
Sylvia Terzian

The Role of the Academic Underclass: Facing the Challenges of the Changing Professoriate

ACCUTE May 31,
10:30 a.m.
SS 109
Steve Wilcox

Designing Videogames for Knowledge Translation

CCA May 29,
1:30 p.m.
Sciences Theatre 143
Steve Wilcox Ludic Topology: Towards an Ethical Theory of Game Time CGSA June 1,
10:15 a.m.
Craigie Hall  C309

2015

Name Title Society/Group Date Location
Clare Birmingham

Help Wanted? A Keyword Analysis of How Writing Centre Communications Constitute a Relational Framework

CASDW

May 30, 11:00 a.m.

Vanier 2075

Bruce Dadey

Toward a Critical Business Communication Pedagogy

CASDW

June 1, 9:30 a.m.

Vanier 1075

Bruce Dadey

Graphic Narratives and Technical Communication

CCA

June 4, 3:15-4:15 p.m.

CBY/B012

Jay Dolmage

Capital Ideas: Disabling Studies, Disability Studied, Disability Studies (Keynote)

CDSA

June 3, 2:00 p.m.

LMX 122

Stephen Fernandez

Networking Cities: Urban Performance, Mobile Technology, and the Production of Social Capital

CATR June 2, 4:00-5:30 p.m.

Room 310, Department of Theatre

Sarah Gibbons

Neurological Diversity and Environmental (In)Justice: The Ecological Other in Popular Representations of Autism

CDSA June 3, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

LMX 215

Randy Harris The Five Master Schemes CSSR June 5, 10:00 a.m.

BSC 140

Shelley Hulan

Queer Edens in Marjorie Pickthall’s Little Hearts and Susan Frances Harrison’s The Forest of Bourg-Marie: What’s Nation Got To Do With It?

ACCUTE

May 30, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

TBA
Shelley Hulan

Polemical Economy: An Indian Context for Sara Jeannette Duncan’s The Imperialist

CACLALS

May 31, 10:45 a.m.- 12:00 p.m.

SMD 402

Sara Humphreys

The U.S. Economy in Fallen Women or Sober Up, Missus America!

ACCUTE May 30, 3:30 p.m. SMD 330
Philip Meletic

American New Sincerity and Virtual Community: Disembodiment and Community in David Foster Wallace’sInfinite Jest

ACCUTE May 30, 1:45 - 3:15 p.m. SMD 330
Marcel O'Gorman

The Art, Politics, and Philosphy of Digital Abstinence

CCA June 5, 8:30 a.m. STE/J0106
Patricia Ofili

Paradox of Barbarism and Fear in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians

CSSR June 3, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. BSC 140
Alexandra Orlando

The Cyborg Game: The Ludic Cinema of Deus Ex: Human Revolution

CGSA June 4, 9:30 - 11:00 a.m. MacDonald 121
Saeed Sabzian

The Sound of Fear in The Road, Movie and Novel

CSSR June 3, 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. BSC 140
Winfried Siemerling

Past's Future: Critical Black Canadian Memory Culture and the Documentary Films of Sylvia Hamilton

ACCUTE May 31, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. SMD 226
Heather Smyth

"We nudge language into relations of becoming”: Collaborative Writing, Community-Building, and Canadian Literature 

CACLALS May 31, 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. SMD 439
Elise Vist

Idiosyncratic Tagging and the Creation of Intimate Publics on Tumblr

CGSA/CSDH

June 3, 10:45 - 11:45 a.m.

Louis-Pasteur 285

Stephanie White

The Public Made Personal: Findings from a Study of a Service-Learning Writing Class

CASDW May 31, 9:30 a.m. Vanier 1075
Steve Wilcox

Digital Games as a Form of Cross-Cultural Knowledge Translation

CSDH June 1, 4:30 - 6:00 p.m. Lamoureux 217
Steve Wilcox

First Person Scholar: Talking to Games Academics, Enthusiasts and Professionals

CGSA June 4, 9:30 - 11:00 a.m. MacDonald 146
Chad Wriglesworth

Forms of Contingent Faith: The Necessity of Doubt in Christian Wiman's Poetry

CLSG June 1, 5:00 - 6:30 p.m.

Arts Building 350

Robert Zacharias

Canadian Literature: The Past 40 Years II

ACQL / CACLALS

June 1, 10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Simard 422