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Intersections|Cross-Sections 2015 Program

Day 1, Ryerson University Friday, March 13, 2015

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Exhibition @ Ryerson Artspace at the Gladstone 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM *

Intersections Venues: EPH: Eric Palin Hall, 87 Gerrard Street East

ENG: George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, 245 Church Street MLC: 111 Gerrard Street East

SHE: Sally Horsfall Eaton Centre for Studies in Community Health, 99 Gerrard Street East *

Registration 11:00 AM – 12:45 PM MLC *

Light Lunch 12:00 – 12:45 PM MLC *

Drop-In Workshop, 12:00PM – 5:00 PM MLC *

DROP-IN WORKSHOP “A”

Techno Craft: Meshing the analogue and the technological, the new masculine and the traditional feminism.

This workshop will use traditional crafting techniques applied to and through old cables, wires, destroyed tech and machinery to investigate the gendered history of technology. We will explore the perceived differences of media and the affective experience techniques and materials offer. Re-appropriating the physical technology into crafts calls back to the origins of computing, screens, editing, and the restructuring of "women's work" that has gone on in the masculinization of digital technology. By creating new objects through weaving and macramé in the context of an academic conference, workshop participants will experience the traditional crafting circle in an entirely new context. Conference attendees will later have the opportunity to view the objects constructed during the workshop at the Cross-Sections gallery reception.

Kara Stone

Kara Stone is an art-maker interested in videogames, interactive arts and traditional crafting. She

has an MA in Communication and Culture from York and Ryerson. She previously completed a

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film Production. Her work has been featured in Vice, Wired, The Atlantic,

and NPR. It consists of feminist art with a focus on gendered perspectives of affect but is much

more fun than it sounds.

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Keynote Roundtable: Thresholds in the Humanities: Finding the Way Forward 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM EPH 207

Moderator: Dr. Kevin Dowler, Department of Communication Studies, York University

Participants: Dr. Steve Bailey, Department of Humanities, York University

Steve Bailey is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and the Department of Science and Technology Studies at York University, and former director of the Join Graduate Program in Communication and Culture on the York side of the program. He has worked with students in a number of graduate programs at York, including the Communication and Culture, Humanities, Science and Technology Studies, Sociology, and English graduate programs. He is the author of Media Audiences and Identity and the forthcoming Performance Anxiety in Media Culture: The Trauma of Appearance and the Drama of Disappearance, as well as articles and book chapters on a variety of related topics.

Dr. Dennis Denisoff, Department of English, Ryerson University

Dennis Denisoff is the Graduate Director of Literature of Modernity, Past Chair of English, and Vice President of the North American Victorian Studies Association. He is a co-editor of the interdisciplinary journal Nineteenth Century Studies and series editor of Among the Victorians and the Modernists for Ashgate Publishing. His books include Aestheticism and Sexual Parody, Sexual Visuality from Literature to Film, Queeries: An Anthology of Gay Male Prose, the essay collection The Nineteenth-Century Child and Consumer Culture, and the co-edited collection Perennial Decay: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadence. He is currently completing a monograph on Eco-Paganism and Decadence and editing a collection of short stories by the horror author Arthur Machen.

Dr. Barbara Postema, MLC Research Centre, Ryerson University

Barbara Postema is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre at Ryerson University, where she is working on a book project about silent comics. Her book Narrative Structure in Comics: Making Sense of Fragments came out in 2013, and she has published articles in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, the International Journal of Comic Art, and elsewhere. In the joint graduate program of Communication and Culture, she has taught courses on comics theory and will be teaching on wordless and silent media this coming spring semester.

Dr. Matthew Tegelberg, Department of Social Science, York University

Matthew Tegelberg is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science at York University. He has a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from Trent University (2012) and a Master’s Degree from the Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture at York University and Ryerson University (2006). He is a research associate with MediaClimate, an international network of

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scholars that has been examining global media coverage of climate change since 2008. Tegelberg’s research and teaching interests include global tourism, environmental communication, and media representations of indigenous peoples. His recent work has been published in Triple C: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, Tourist Studies, International Communication Gazette, the International Journal of Cultural Studies, and in several edited volumes. He is currently co-editing a forthcoming volume by the MediaClimate network entitled: Media and the Governance of Global Climate Politics: How Journalism Covered the IPCC’s 5th Assessment Report (Palgrave, 2015).

Dr. Paul S. Moore, Department of Sociology, Ryerson University

Paul Moore is the Ryerson Director of Communication and Culture, Associate Professor of Sociology, and past President of the Film Studies Association of Canada. His histories of cinema and newspaper intermediality have appeared in the Explorations in New Cinema History, City & Community, as well as books and journal articles about local popular cultures of Newfoundland, Niagara Region, the Maritimes and New England, the Red River Valley from Fargo to Winnipeg, and most recently, Overlooking Saskatchewan.

Session 1 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM

PANEL #1, LANGUAGE AND SEMIOTICS (SHE 651)

Chair: Dr. Susan Ingram, York U

Cinematic Form and Digital Embodiment: Notes toward a Theory of Haptic Visibility. Quintin Zachary Hewlett, York U, PhD

What Mediates the Threshold? Biosemiotics, Ecosemiotics, and the Importance of Media.

Dave Hibbs, York U, MA

Language at the Thresholds of Unconscious. Andres Hidalgo, Brock U, MA

PANEL #2 NEW MEDIA AND DIGITAL SPACE (EPH 103)

Chair: Dr. Mark Hayward, York U

Authoring Social Media Presence and Absence. Jenna Jacobson, U Toronto, PhD

Empathy: Meeting in a Dynamic, Liminal Space.

Polina Kukar, OISE, U Toronto, MA

Selfies: Balancing the Threshold between Personal-Social Space and Political Space. Lianna Pisani, Ryerson U, MA

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PANEL #3 THINKING BETWEEN SPACE AND TIME: EPHEMERAL MEMORY IN ALTERED, MEDIATED, AND ABSENT SPACES (EPH 216)

Chair: Dr. Barbara Postema, Ryerson U

Super-material Culture: Thinking through a New Discourse of Ruins. Alysse Kushinski, York U, PhD

Anecdotally Queer: The Then and There of My Prairie Home.

Jonathan Petrychyn, York U, PhD

Ghostly Alterities: Spectral dimensions in the work of Do Ho Suh. Carmen Victor, York U, PhD

Coffee Break 3:35 PM – 3:50 PM MLC

* Session 2 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

PANEL #4 HUMAN RIGHTS AND CULTURAL PRACTICES (SHE 549)

Chair: Dr. Markus Reisenleitner, York U

The Demand for Cultural Rights versus Human Rights: A Critical Analysis of the Trokosi Practice in Ghana and the Role of the Civil Society.

Joseph Yaw Asomah, U Manitoba, MA

Prioritized: That Ghetto Dude from Malvern. Dargine Rajeswaran, OISE, U Toronto, MA

PANEL #5 RESEARCH, WRITING AND ARCHIVES (EPH 105)

Chair: Dr. Sophie Thomas, Ryerson U

Canadian Book Publishing - Industrial versus Cultural Policy: An Industry with a History at Odds with Itself.

Kait Kribs, Brock U, MA

The Calibration of the Visible: Critical Approaches to the Digitization of Media Archives. Zack Lischer-Katz, Rutgers U, PhD

PANEL #6 WHEN VIRTUAL WORLDS INVADE REALITY: THEORY AND LIVED EXPERIENCE IN GAME

STUDIES (ENG LG 24) Chair: Ryan Scheiding, York MA

Deadly Premonition's Primetime: Colliding Influences in an Interactive Narrative.

David Groundwater, York MA

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Watching Players Play: An Analysis of Video Game Spectatorship. Matt Iantorno, Ryerson MA

Disney Infinity: Hybrid Commodification. Andreas Koustas, Ryerson MA

The Impact of Technological Relationships: Are Our Virtual Pets and Virtual Girlfriends turning us into Cyborgs?

Amanda Wong, Ryerson MA

Cross-Sections Vernissage 7:00 PM @ Ryerson Artspace at the Gladstone *

Featured Artists

Cancer and Contours Ifeoma U. Anyaeji, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, MFA,

& Concordia U, PhD

frameflow Dan Browne, York U, PhD,

Untitled (Study for 338N) Katie Bruce, York U, MFA

THE PHOTOGRAPHIC SYMBOLON: PRESENCE ABSENCE SIMULTANEITY Michael Callaghan, San Francisco Art Institute, MFA

Forms of Desire Vanessa Cornell, U of Windsor, MFA

Glass-Eyed Ragdoll Sarah Givens, Concordia, MFA

Who is this? Quintin Zachary Hewlett, York U, PhD

pod Christopher Lindsay, U Victoria, MFA

Watching the Highway Bronwyn McMillin, Emily Carr, MFA

Performance 8:00 PM: made in norte america Arturo Herrera, U of Windsor, MFA

Colours Keep me up at NightAlexandra Berceanu, Ryerson U, MA

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Intersections|Cross-Sections 2015 Draft Program

Day Two, Ryerson University Campus Saturday, March 14, 2015

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Breakfast and Registration 9:00 AM – 9:25 AM *

Session 3 9:25 AM – 10:25 AM George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, 245 Church Street

* Exhibition @ Ryerson Artspace at the Gladstone 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM

PANEL #7 TELEVISION AND CULTURE (ENG LG 12)

Chair: Quintin Zachary Hewlett, York U

Youth Engagement and the Colbert Nation: From Passive Consumer to Passively-Active Viewer.

Kris Bertram, York U, MA

Recreating a Novel: What Pride and Prejudice Has Become After the 1995 BBC Adaptation. Maria Clara Pivato Biajoli, Campinas State U, PhD

Trash TV and Hate Watching. Milena Stanoeva, York U, MA

PANEL #8 NETWORKS, SURVEILLANCE AND THE SELF (ENG LG 13)

Chair: Kaela Cadieux, Ryerson U

Self(ie)-Surveillance: Religion, Recording Instruments and the Body. Kurosh Amoui-Kalareh, York U, PhD

The Threshold(s) of Affective Freedom: Liminality, Gate-keeping, and Surveillance in the Age

of Late Capitalism. Jeremy Buesink, York U, PhD

Thresholds of Belonging: Doing Research on/with Twitter Networks.

Veronika Novoselova, York U, PhD

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PANEL #9 POLITICS AND POLICY (ENG LG 21) Chair: Dr. Anne MacLennan, York U

The Absence of Youth in the Public Sphere.

Natasha Collishaw, Ryerson U, MA

A Penny for your Cause: Philanthropic Discourse, Political Activism, and the Homo-Consumens.

Mina Rajabi Paak, York U, PhD

Spurious Allies: Right-wingers for a Guaranteed Income. Jamie Shilton, York U, MA

PANEL #10 TAKING UP SPACE: EXPANDING IDEAS ABOUT FAT BODIES AND ENFORCED

THRESHOLDS (ENG LG 24) Chair: Lianna Pisani, Ryerson U

Fat Chat: Obesity Discourses in Canadian Print Media

Samantha Abel, York U, PhD

"Anti-Diet," Pro-Healthism? Querying Health at Every Size Elisabeth Harrison York U, PhD

Fatter Fashion: Liberating Super-Sized Bodies from the Threshold

Crystal Kotow York U, PhD

Session 4 Workshops 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, 245 Church Street

WORKSHOP #1 (ENG LG 24)

Crossing the Archives’ Threshold: the Perks and Perils of Archival Research

Archival repositories can be alienating spaces due to security and descriptive pathways that are difficult to navigate, but their holdings offer unique opportunities to create new insights in communication and culture while sharpening your analytical skills. This workshop will explore the nature of archives and the factors that influence their discovery and use, and will examine original documents associated with the intersection of media and politics.

Michael Moir

Michael is Head of the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections with York University Libraries. He was formerly Director of Corporate Records Systems and City Archivist for the City of Toronto, and has instructed at the University of Toronto’s iSchool.

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WORKSHOP #2 (ENG LG 12)

Developmental Dramaturgy

This workshop will introduce and apply exercises to generate creative writing that emanates from personal experience. Participants will be expected to write and share their work with the group.

Judith Rudakoff

Judith Rudakoff has worked with many emerging and established artists. She is a past winner of the Elliott Hayes Award for Achievement in Dramaturgy for her work on Lata Pada’s multidisciplinary work Revealed by Fire. Recent dramaturgy includes Nina Arsenault’s The Silicone Diaries, I Was Barbie, and 40 Days and 40 Nights (SummerWorks Festival). Recent books include TRANS(per)FORMING Nina Arsenault: An Unreasonable Body of Work and Between the Lines: The Process of Dramaturgy (with Lynn M. Thomson). Her current book is Dramaturging Personal Narratives: Who am I and Where is Here?

WORKSHOP #3 (RCC 359b)

3-D Computer Animation This 1.5-hour workshop’s objective is to introduce basic techniques and skills, which will prepare the participant for creating their own Stereo 3D anaglyph images. A brief theoretical introduction of Stereoscopy will be followed by a hands-on workshop. The process of making anaglyphs, involving pre-production, production and post-production of stereo images, using Photoshop, will be explained and tested. Participants will be provided with all the necessary materials.

Irina Lyubchenko

Irina Lyubchenko is a PhD candidate at Ryerson Joint with York Communication and Culture Program with a focus on the conflation between media, culture and technology. More specifically, she investigates the intersections between theories of the historical avant-garde and contemporary digital culture. As a practicing artist, Lyubchenko specializes in media arts with a particular interest in digital stereo 3D film.

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Cross-Sections Programming, 10:30 AM – 5:00 PM

Ryerson Image Arts Building, 122 Bond Street

ARTIST TALKS (IMA 307) 10:30am-11:45am

At the edge of the (far-)End there is a canyon, its name: Silence.

Livia Daza-Paris

The Generic Spectacle: Totalizing Themed Spaces and the Las Vegas Strip. Kurt Kraler, University of Waterloo

Folding Backwards: Thresholds of Time and Space”.

Jessica Thalmann, ICP-Bard College

INSTALLATIONS (IMA 310) 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The Self the Other

Maria Clara Casafranco, York U, MA

Morphology | Materiality | Manifesto Natalja Chestopalova, York U, PhD & Nicole Beno, York U

Digital Gaze

Carl Jones, Ryerson, MA

Steps Flow Katherine Louise Moores, Ryerson MA

PERFORMANCE (IMA 307)

11:50 PM – 12:20 PM

Self-Portrait (string performance) Dorothea Hines, Trent University MA

FILM SCREENINGS (IMA 307)

3:30PM - 5:00PM

Calender Girls Lisa Birke, U of Waterloo, MFA

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Terre blanche (White earth) Michel Boulanger, U du Québec, MFA

GERIATRICA Peter Dudar

two simultaneous recordings of four simultaneous images Emily Geen, U of Victoria, MFA

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Bryn Ludlow, York U, PhD

Arcane Veritas

Irina Lyubchenko, Ryerson PhD

The Spectacle of the Spectacle Peter Unwin York U PhD

Session 5 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, 245 Church

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PANEL #11 THEORY, PHILOSOPHY AND AESTHETICS (ENG LG 13) Chair: Dr. Dale Smith, Ryerson U

Reflections on Immediatism and Aesthetics.

Victor Cirone, York U, PhD

“A Book of Doors”, a Fragmented World: Thinking of Graphic Thresholds in Autobiographical Comics.

Walter Lai, York U, PhD

Dis-located Bodies: Phenomenology of Embodied Value. Angie Wong, York U, PhD

The Conditions for Digital Metaphysics.

D. D. Young, York U, PhD

PANEL #12 RESEARCHING THRESHOLDS IN COMMUNICATIONS: MEDIA, CULTURE, AND COMMUNICATIONS (ENG LG 21)

Chair: Dr. Laura Fisher, Ryerson U

Narrative Identity Synthesis in the Ferguson Media Spectacle. Matthew Giles, New York U, MA

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Hip Hop Identities.

Alex Edelstein, New York U, MA

Hard of Hearing as a Unique Identity. Patricia Flores, New York U, MA

#Racial Justice.

Rachel Kuo, New York U, MA *

Lunch and Social 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM

KEYNOTE ADDRESS, 1:00 PM – 2:25 PM (ENG LG 11)

Image Control in the Age of Terror.

Louie Palu

Louie Palu will present examples of his work from covering the war in Kandahar, Afghanistan from 2006-2010, Mexican drug war from 2011-2013 and the detention center at Guantanamo Bay for multiple years. This lecture will focus on how image control in the post 9/11 age of terror shapes our perception of the news, war, government, violence and trauma. Louie Palu is an award winning photojournalist who is known for his work on human rights, conflict, poverty and social political issues. His photographs have been published and exhibited worldwide. He is currently completing a feature length documentary on the war in Afghanistan.

Session 6 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, 245 Church Street

PANEL #13 PERFORMANCE, FILM AND CULTURE (ENG LG 12)

Chair: Lai-Tze Fan, York U

Where Have the Good Old Naughty Days Gone? Curating an Exhibition of Moving-Image Pornography.

Troy Bordun, Trent U, PhD

Arcane Veritas: Understanding Madness Through the Poetry of Experimental Film Irina Lyubchenko, York U, PhD

Corpse Bride: At the Monstrous Threshold between the Living and the Dead.

Michelle Smith, Queen’s U, PhD

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PANEL #14 GENDER, IDENTITY AND SEXUALITY (ENG LG 13) Chair: Dr. Irene Gammel, Ryerson U

Sexual Violence against Indigenous Women: Policies, Human Rights and the Myth of

Development. Eren Cervantes-Altamirano, Carleton U, MA

Avatars: The Queer and Trans Game. Michael Lyons, Independent Scholar

PANEL #15 POP CULTURE (ENG LG 24) Chair: Dr. Kimberly Wahl, Ryerson U

Photo Closet: Examining Fashion Gender, and Identity Through Female Self-(Re)Presentation

Practices. Vanessa Del Carpio, York U, MA

Commodified Liberation: Triumphant Narratives and Docility in Pop Performance.

Brandon Rigato, Ryerson U, MA

“Making It” in New York City: The Supremes at The Copacabana, 1965. Nicole Winger, Western U, PhD

Coffee Break 3:30 PM – 3:45 PM

* Session 7 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, 245 Church

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PANEL # 16 THE ACT OF WRITING CULTURE (ENG LG 12) Chair: Dr. Shannon Bell, York U

"it is always now": Today's Living Racism Illuminated by Beloved.

Shane Abrams, Portland State U, PhD

Representation and Resistance: Conceptualizing Motherless Daughters through Memorial Tattoo Art.

Natalie Morning, Ryerson U, MA

The Claim of Fragmented Self in Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson. Leila Talei, Ryerson U, MA

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PANEL #17 RADIO, POD AND WEBCASTS (ENG LG 13)

Chair: Dr. Monique Tschofen, Ryerson U

“Crazy B****”: Discriminatory Language, Radio Censorship, Regulation, and Enforcement Policies in Canada.

Rebecca Foley, York U, MA

Americans Try Oriental Snacks: Cultural Food Colonialism and the Commodification of the Other in BuzzFeed Videos.

Emily Gallomazzei, McMaster U, MA

Are Podcasts the New Radio? Thresholds in the Macro Environment. Josh Overbeek, York U, MA

PANEL #18 TRADITIONAL BODIES AND TRANSHUMANISM (ENG LG 21)

Chair: Dr. Art Blake, Ryerson U

Dance Your Style: Embodied Experience, Power Poses, and Powwow Dance. Jennifer Meness, York U, PhD

Species Being: Unexplored Political Terrain for Transhumanism.

James Steinhoff, Western U, PhD

The Politics of Touch(screens): Processual Body Interfaces with Digital Skin. Nick White, Ryerson U, MA

PANEL #19 COMMUNICATIVE DESIGN AND TECHNIQUE (ENG LG 24)

Chair: Dr. Esther Berry, Ryerson U

New Technologies, New Media, New Meanings for Journalism?

Marie-Espérance Cerda, Ryerson U, MA

Thresholds of Gloss and Knowing: The Typographic Techniques of Order in Encyclopedias Old and New.

Steve Jankowski, York U, PhD

Workplace 2.0: The Impact of Design on Privacy and Productivity in a Public Sector Office. Sonja Touesnard, York U, MA

Group Dinner TBC

* Closing Social Event

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Intersections | Cross-Sections Conference is an annual event organized by the graduate student

scholars, artists, and activists through the collaborative efforts of the Communication and Culture

Graduate Student Association (GSA).

Intersections 2015 Chairpersons:

Natalja Chestopalova

James Forbes

Irina Lyubchenko

Alanna McKnight

Aidan Moir

Daniela Sanzone

Emma Thompson

Jason Wang

CrossSections 2015 Chairpersons:

Alexandra DiGioseffo

Abigail Henry

Kathleen McLeod

Katrina Orlowski

Karl Petschke

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Sponsors

Many Thanks to:

Faculty and Staff of the Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture at York and Ryerson

Faculty of Graduate Studies

York University’s Graduate Students’ Association

Ryerson University’s Graduate Students’ Association

P-FACS: Student Project Funding

Ryerson’s Dean of Graduate Studies, Dr. Jennifer Mactavish

York University’s Vice-President Academic and Provost, Dr. Rhonda Lenton

Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

York University’s Graduate Program in Humanities

Ryerson’s Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre

CUPE 3903

York and Ryerson Media Services

York and Ryerson Custodial Services

Staff at the Artspace at the Gladstone

With Gratitude to:

All of the conference volunteers who have helped make this an exciting community event.