PROGRAM
May 10th, 2022
11:30 am - 12:30 pm (MST)
Keynote speaker: Dr. Sara Grimes
Title: "A Call to Action on the Children's Digital Playground"
12:45 - 2:00 pm (MST)
Panel A
Creative Media for Social Change
Panel chair: Dr. Tamara Shepherd
Panel B
Public Discourse and Power
Panel chair: Dr. Maria Bakardjieva
From the classroom to the newsroom:
A critical route to introduce AI in Journalism education
Presenter: Leslie Salgado
University of Calgary
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Envisioning Better Futures Through Creative Initiatives in Guachené, Colombia
Presenter: Maira Cristina Castro Mina
Simon Fraser University
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S/KIN BERLIN
Presenter: Alexa Vachon
Ryerson University
A political-economic analysis of Calgary’s bids for the 1988 and 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (OPWG): What changed?
Presenter: Matthew Halajian
University of Calgary
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Towards a ‘Digital Ethnography’ of Student Politics: Reflections from Delhi University amid the Global Pandemic
Presenter: Soumodip Sinha
University of Delhi
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Using Education as Means to Combat the Pynamics of Power to Facilitate a Well-Functioning Polis
Presenter: Halle Bodnarchuk
University of Calgary
2:00 - 2:15 pm (MST)
Break
2:15 - 3:30 pm (MST)
Panel C
Decolonizing Media
Panel chair: Dr. Matthew Croombs
Panel D
Queer Representations
Panel chair: Dr. Arti Modgill
Listening as transformation
Presenter: Emily Collins
York University
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Indigenous Sovereignity and Neocolonialism: Corporate Extractionism, Critical Infrastructure, and the Crown
Presenter: Miklós P. Somorjai
University of Winnipeg
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Screen Confuturations: Decolonising Casting through Inclusive Design
Presenter: Kyna Morgan
University of Glasgow
Awareness and Hope through Criolo’s Project Etérea (2019)
Presenter: Gabriel M. Juliano
Simon Fraser University
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Robert Mapplethorpe’s Queer Photographs: Representing a
Fetishised Aesthetic
Presenter: Marcus B. Young
University of Calgary
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A Visual Rhetorical Analysis of Queer Visibility Strategies Active in Contemporary American Television
Presenter: Madison Daniels
University of Calgary
4 pm (MST)
"Tweets and Trucks: The Canadian “Freedom Convoy” and the Media
May 11th, 2022
11:30 am - 12:30 pm (MST)
Keynote speaker: Dr. Victoria E. Thomas
Title: “Sisterhood Not Cisterhood: Unpacking Anti-Trans Ideologies of Black Womanhood”
12:45 - 2:00 pm (MST)
Panel E
Reclaiming Identities
Panel chair: Dr. Jessalynn Keller
Panel F
Film, TV and Music Studies
Panel chair: Dr. Lee Carruthers
Cultural Conversations, Digital Community and Revisioning Identity in the Latinx Diaspora
Presenter: Alexis-Carlota Cochrane
McMaster University
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The Nation State and the Nation’s state: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Biopower as an Effect of Gendered Nationalism in Twentieth-century Canadian Public Health Information
Presenter: Maggie Auriss
University of Calgary
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Hijabi Fashion Influencers: Defining Islamic Modesty Online
Presenter: Asma Bernier
University of Calgary
Sweet Smell of Censorship: The Artistic Productivity of the Censor-Artist Relationship in Classical Hollywood
Film Noir
Presenter: Tamar Hanstke
University of British Columbia
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Agent of Change: activism, futurity and the “New World” of social media in Enlightened
Presenter: Karim Townsend
University of Cambridge
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Swoonworthy Fandom: Re-envisioning Intertextual Engagement in Netflix's
'The Swoon'
Presenter: Emily Mohabir
University of Calgary
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Grimes vs. 'The Algorithm Gods': Writing Popular Music in the Streaming Era
Presenter: Samantha K. McEwan
McMaster University
2:30 - 3:30 pm (MST)
Closing Keynote speaker: Dr. Merlyna Lim
Title: "From Algorithms of Rage to the Rhythms of Change: Notes on a Research Journey"
4:30 - 6:30 pm (MST)
Conference Social Event (in person)
Location: The Last Defence Lounge (MSC 350, 2500 University Drive NW)
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