The 2024 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences will be held at McGill University in Montreal from June 12-21. While a number of associations are considering alternative conference arrangements due to labour issues at McGill, here is a tentative list of faculty and students from UWaterloo English who are presenting at meetings of various scholarly associations and at other conferences this summer.
If you'd like to include a new conference presentation, please fill in the Conference Information Form. To update any presentation information that is already listed here, please email Bruce Dadey. Additions and updates will be posted as they come in.
To see lists of conference presentations from previous years, see our Past Congress Presentations page.
| Presenter | Presentation | Association or Conference | Date and Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maab Ibrahim Al-Rashdan | Revealing Racism in Higher Education: A Counterstory of a Discriminating Diversity | CAPS | June 12, 8:30 a.m. | Virtual |
| Maab Ibrahim Al-Rashdan | Iachimo: The Foolish Man Speaking Well | RhetCanada | June 8, 12:00 p.m. | Virtual |
| Veronica Austen | The Present and Presencing: Word/Image Relations in Olive Senior’s Pandemic Poems | CAPS | June 12, 10:30 a.m. | Library Building of Concordia (LB659.04) |
| Sarah Margaret Casey | Precarious Female Travel in Jane Eyre and Villette | NAVSA | September 20, 2:00 p.m. | Montréal |
| Sarah Margaret Casey | Risk as a Common Topos | RhetCan | June 12 | Burnside Hall |
| Kellie Chouinard | The Cancerland Selfies: Fragmentation to Excess | International Auto/Biography Association World Conference | June 12-15 | Reykjavik, Iceland |
| Bruce Dadey | Only Connect: The Rhetorical Implications of Belief Networks | RhetCan | June 14, 3:00 p.m. | TBD |
| Danielle Deveau | Mapping the Scene: Documenting Music Ecosystems Through Stories About Place | CCA | June 19, 3:30 p.m. | BROF 151 |
| Carolyn Eckert | Pandemic Rhetorics: Patient “Zero” and Canada’s “Unprecedented” Response to the COVID-19 Crisis | RhetCan | June 13, 1:00 p.m. | TBD |
| Carolyn Eckert | Punctuated Ethos: Addressing Trust, Credibility and Expertise in Times of Crisis | UWaterloo International Conference | June 27 | |
| Aleksander Franiczek | Sustaining Videogame Authorship: A Method for Developer-Centric Analysis | CGSA | June 15, 1:40 p.m. | RPHYS 115 |
| Kasturi Ghosh | Reburial of the Mother and the Horror of the Feminine in Southern Gothic fiction | Mothering and Motherhood: Past, Present and Future | June 21, 2:45 p.m. | Boston University and Zoom |
| Kasturi Ghosh | Trans Bodies and Queer Relationships in Poppy Z. Brite’s and Anne Rice’s Southern Gothic Novels | Gothic Trans / Iterations: The 2024 International Gothic Association Conference | 30 July – 02 August | Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, NS |
| Dorothy Hadfield | Political and Personal: The Many Faces of Charlotte Shaw | International Shaw Society | June 6, 1:30 p.m. | Dublin, Ireland |
| Thomas Hanson | Prefigurations: Metonymy and Synecdoche in Marx's 1844 Manuscripts | RhetCanada | June 12, 10:45 a.m. | TBD |
| Jinsol Kim | A Means to an End? The Importance of Ethical Methodologies for Developing Ethical Facial Recognition Training Datasets | OTESSA | June 12, 3:25 p.m. | Trottier 0060 |
| Alysia Kolentsis | Teaching and Leading as Renaissance Scholars in the Post-Pandemic Context | CSRS | June 13, 3:45 p.m. | BURN 306 |
| Shannon Lodoen | An Altered Sense of Consequence: Procedural Rhetoric in the Smartphone Society | RhetCan | June 13, 8:45 a.m. | TBD |
| Rency Luan | Recontextualization and Multimodality: The Transformation of Ieshia Evans | RSA 2024 | May 23, 5:30 p.m. | Denver, CO, United States |
| Gavin Mackay | Echoes of the Anthropocene: Ecological Ethos in Shakespeare’s The Tempest | The British Graduate Shakespeare Conference | June 14, 14:00 BST | The Shakespeare Institute - University Of Birmingham, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom |
| Brad Mehlenbacher | On praise and blame in public science | RhetCan | June 8 | |
| Patricia Ofili | Nelson Mandela as a Hypocrite's Fool: When Two Worlds Collide | RhetCan | June 8th, 10:10 am. | Montreal |
| Alexi Orchard | Critical and speculative design for the responsible anticipation of science and technology | CCA | June 20, 9:00 a.m. | BROF 045 |
| Christopher Rogers | Sensory-Rhetorical Fieldwork at Sites of Waterway Intervention | RSA 2024 | May 25, 2:00 p.m. | Denver, Colorado |
| Heather Smyth | ‘Get ready for the next world’: Collaborative Poetry, Futurity, Reworlding | CAPS | June 13, 8:30 a.m. | TBD, Montreal |
| Blaze Welling | “O'Canada”: Indigenizing and Problematizing the Rhetoric of Canadian Nationalism | RhetCan | June 14th, 11:30 a.m. | TBD |
| Blaze Welling | 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. | CAPS | TBD | TBD |
| Brianna Wiens | Platformed Visual Misogyny | ECREA: European Communication Research and Education Association | September 25, 2024 | Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| Brianna Wiens | Re-Thinking, Re-Mixing, Re-Making: Mediated Stories of Mixed-Race Embodiment and the Ethos of the ‘In-between' |
Rhetoric Society of America |
May 26, 2024, 9:30 a.m. MST | Denver, Colorado |
| Brianna Wiens | Virtually Dwelling with Mixed-Race Memes in Emerging Perspectives on Social Media in Theory and Practice panel |
FMSAC | June 15, 1:15 p.m. | TBD |
| Brianna Wiens | The Siren Song of Feminist Rhetorical Refusal in Where’s the #Joy? Digital Visual Rhetorics of Feminist Pleasure, Community, and Resistance panel | RhetCan | June 14, 2:10 p.m. | TBD |