Dis/Connections: SAGE-UW 2024 Graduate Symposium

Saturday, October 5, 2024 (all day)
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 Symposium Theme: Dis/Connections

We seek out forms of connection in a time of profound isolation and disconnectivity. How do we connect, who do we connect with, and what does connection even mean to us today?

In light of this theme, SAGE invites you to connect with us at our Symposium. Join us for an invigorating discussion with our brilliant panellists on topics such as ecological, lingual, digital, autotheoretical, and diasporic (dis)connections.

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Please RSVP by Sunday, September 22, 2024. There is no registration fee for this event.

We hope to see you there!

Symposium Schedule

Time Event
9:00-9:30 Breakfast & sign-in  
9:30-9:50 Opening remarks by SAGE Co-President Humaira Shoaib. Introducing the Core organization committee.
10:00-10:55

Panel #1: Ecological Connections 

Chair: Jennifer Clary-Lemon

  • Freya Abbas (University of Toronto): “Religious Others as Forces of the Wilderness: Mary Rowlandson’s Appropriation of the Babylonian Exile in the Narrative of her Captivity among the Narragansetts” 
  • Remy Leigh (Wilfrid Laurier University): “The Threshold of Prosecution: Signifying Spatial Relations and Bodily Access in Urban Settler Geographies”
  • Nadia Formisano (University of Waterloo): “(Climate) Changes in English to French Translation” 
11:00-12:00

Panel #2: Lingual & Digital Connections

Chair: Alicia Latimer

  • Ben Lingley (University of Waterloo): “Tradition & the Individual Transient: Sensorial Language and Ethos in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping”
  • Caroline Sandrine Denhez (Concordia University): "Literary (Dis)Connections & the Question of Bilingualism"
  • Michael Domonchuk (University of Waterloo): “Learning in the Shadows: Post-Pandemic University Education in an Increasing Digital World” 
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00–1:55

Keynote Speaker – Dr. Brianna Wiens 

"Moments to Movements: (Dis)Connecting through Feminist Shadow Networks"
2:00-2:45

Panel #3: Autotheoretical Connections: Form

Chair: Haley Down

  • Blaze Welling (University of Waterloo): “The “imagined place made real”: Promoting a Reflexive, Sustainable Existence through Introspective Acts of Gardening and Life-Writing in Patrick Lane’s There is a Season: A Memoir.” 
  • Nathaniel Spencer-Cross (University of Windsor): “Embodied Work: Linking Writer and Word through Physicality” 
2:45-3:00 Coffee Break 
3:00-3:50

Panel #4: Continuums of Connection

Chair: Julie Veitch

  • Thomas Hanson (University of Waterloo): “The Fall of the Pendulum: Dynamic Transactions between Marxism and Physics” 
  • George Kaldis (York University): “History is the Monster of Men: Mythology, Erasure, and Reconnection in Daphne Marlatt’s Ana Historic” 
  • Colleen Foster (University of Waterloo): “This Barbie Opens a Wormhole: Connection in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Carl Sagan’s Contact”
4:00-4:50

Panel #5: Diasporic (Dis)Connections

Chair: Humaira Shoaib

  • Isabelle Zhu (University of Toronto): “Roleplaying through Other Possible Worlds in Angie Cruz’s Dominicana” 
  • Ayra Thomas & Lisa Usanova (McMaster University & University of the Arts): “Flesh Fields (Research-Creative Project)” 
  • Atticus Yus (University of Toronto): “Male Impregnation and Disconnecting Reproduction from the Patriarchy in Genshin Impact Fanfiction” 
5:00-5:30 Closing remarks
Location Information
Location Address: HH - J.G. Hagey Hall of the Humanities, Room 373
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, ON, CA  N2L 3G1
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