The 2023 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences will be held at York University in Toronto from May 27-June 2. Here is a list of faculty and students from UWaterloo English who are participating at Congress and at other conferences this summer. Sessions not at Congress include hyperlinks in the Society/Group/Conference column. Room numbers for Congress sessions are given using standard abbreviations for York University buildings.
To see lists of Congress presentations from previous years, see our Past Congress Presentations page.
| 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 |
| 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 |
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 |