March 24-26, 2006

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Intersections 2006
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Friday March, 24
Saturday March, 25
Sunday March, 26

7:00 pm	Opening Remarks: Studio A Peter Ryan, Conference Chairperson R. Bruce Elder and Fred Fletcher, Program Directors The Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture
7:30 pm	Alumnus Keynote Address Dr. Wade Rowland, The First Communication and Culture Programme Doctoral Graduate
8:00 pm	Media and Culture Stream Keynote Address Dr. Marcel Danesi, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto
8:30 pm	Wine and Cheese Reception: Studio A
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8:30 am	Registration /Breakfast: Atrium
9:00 am	Opening RemarksOpening Remarks
9:15 am	Off the Map: Portraits of Contested Toronto Panel Chairperson: Dr. Bob Hanke
	1.	Narcotography: Mapping the Social Geography of Addiction in Toronto Chris Smith, Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture, York and Ryerson Universities
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	2.	Submerged Environments:Taking Notice of Ecologies of Abjection Neil Balan, Division of Humanities, York University
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	3.	Erasure Through Aesthetics: Gentrification and the Remaking of Space Ryan Bigge, Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture, York and Ryerson Universities
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10:25 am	Panel Break
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10:30 am	Lost in Transition: Borders, Surfaces and Translation Panel Chairperson: Dr. Michael Prokopow
	1.	Maps of the Smart Border Aaron Gordon, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University
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	2.	The Depth of Skin: A Study of Surface-play in Contemporary Architecture S. Yahya Islami, Department of Arts, Culture and Environment, University of Edinburgh
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	3.	Unfolding of Language: The Productive Tension of Translation Natalia A. Mikhailova, Department of Comparative Literature, SUNY-Buffalo
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12:00 pm	Lunch: Ryerson Student Union Building
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ADJUNCT WORKSHOP: ‘POLITICS, POLICY, COMMUNICATION & CULTURE’ By the Toronto Universities Policy Discussion Group (TUPDiG)
1:00 pm	Welcome from TUPDiG Representatives
1:05 pm	Politics and Policy Stream Keynote Address Dr. Patricia Mazepa, Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture, York and Ryerson Universities
1:30 pm	Internationalization Panel Chairperson: TBA
	1.	The Operationalization of Civil Society: The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and the Associational Terrain of Democracy Roy Bendor, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University
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	2.	U.S. Cultural Policy as/and U.S. Foreign Policy Tanner Mirrlees, Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture, York and Ryerson Universities
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	3.	Framing the Public Mind: Strategic Language, Framing and the Invasion of Iraq David Clifton, Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture, York and Ryerson Universities
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2:40 pm	Panel Break
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2:45 pm	Identity Politics and Policies Panel Chairperson: Dr. Amin Alhassan
	1.	Outlining the Need for an Interdisciplinary Discourse Analysis of Poverty Coverage in Canada Joanna Redden, Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture, York and Ryerson Universities
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	2.	The Network as a Resolution to the Refugee Problem: Towards a Theory of an Alternative Understanding of the Refugee Stephanie Silverman, Political Science, York University
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	3.	Go Directly Online, Do not Pass ‘Emerg’: Seeing the Social Construction of Health Information Websites Through Policy Karen Smith, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University
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3:55 pm	Panel Break
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4:00 pm	Advocacy and Criticism Panel Chairperson: Dr. Colin Mooers
	1.	Why did Canadian Private-Sector Cultural Policy Advocacy Fail?: The Canadian Arts Council and the Federal Government (1945-58) Gregory Klages, Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture, York and Ryerson Universities
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	2.	From Communicated Boundaries to Inclusivity and Intergenerational Solidarity: The Discourse of Adult Perceptions of Youth Amy Brandon, Faculty of Education, York University
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	3.	In Search of the Knockout: The Media’s Fixation with Competitive Communication in Canadian Federal Election Debates J.P. Lewis, Department of Political Science, Carleton University
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5:15 pm	Saturday Closing Remarks
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9:00 am		Registration / Breakfast: Atrium
9:30 am	Spatial Orbits: Ever (R)evolving Personal Spaces and their Outer Effects Panel Chairperson: Dr. Jennifer Vanderbergh
	1.	From Affectation to Affect: Thinking Corporeal Susceptibilities in the Cultural Surround John Hunting, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University
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	2.	MySpace.com: Exploring Online Music Spaces Jeremy Morris, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University
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	3.	Reclaiming the Past: Transforming the Scapes of Schizophrenia Susanne Cardwell, Department of Communication, University of Calgary
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10:40 am		Panel Break
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10:45 am	Streetscapes: Negotiating the Urban Environment Panel Chairperson: Dr. Michael Murphy
	1.	Faith in the Street Charlotte Scott, Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture, York and Ryerson Universities
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	2.	The ‘Car(e)less Driving’ Incident: Elementary Exercises in Auto-Intervention Chris Smith, Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture, York and Ryerson Universities
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	3.	Between Exploitation and Play: Skateboarding and the Negotiation of Resistance Jason Phillips, Department of English and Film Studies, Wilfred Laurier University
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12:00 pm	Lunch: Ryerson Student Union Building
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1:00 pm	You’re So Spacey: Technology in Practice Stream Keyholes Dr. Richard Fung, Faculty of Art, Ontario College of Art and Design AND Dr. John Greyson, Department of Film, York University
1:45 pm	Where do you want to go Today?: Tourism, Technology and Transformation Panel Chairperson: Dr. Ed Slopek
	1.	Destination Place Identity and Tourism Advertising Imagery: Place Images in Caribbean Destination Advertisements Susan Dupej, Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture, York and Ryerson Universities
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	2.	Surfing under Palm Trees: The Internet and Everyday Life in Barbados Samantha Moonsammy, Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture, York and Ryerson Universities
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	3.	Intersection of Social Classes and Gender Relations: A Case Study on the Socio-Cultural Domestication of Mobile Phone in Port-au-Prince Margareth Cormier, Department of Communication, University of Ottawa
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2:55 pm	Panel Break
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3:00 pm	tranSfOrMAtions Panel Chairperson: Dr. Janine Marchessault
	1.	Seeing and Experiencing Chouinard: The Body Language of the Spectator Kate Cornell, Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture, York and Ryerson Universities
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	2.	Reworking the Desirous Gaze: Self Constructed Eros in Cinema Shana MacDonald, Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture, York and Ryerson Universities
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	3.	The Twists, Turns and Torsions of (Re)volt Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture, York and Ryerson Universities
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	4.	What Light Through Yonder Filmstrip Breaks? Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach to the Semiotics of Cinema: A Case Study of Stan Brakhage’s Black Ice Kelly Egan, Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture, York and Ryerson Universities
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4:10 pm	Panel Break
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4:15 pm	Consuming Territories: Ecologies and Economies of Popular Culture Panel Chairperson: TBA
	1.	The Circuit of Labour and Leisure in the Age of Biopolitical Production Scott Stoneman & Max Haiven, Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University
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	2.	Consuming Currency: Gold Farming, Alienation, and the Consumption of Virtual Goods Between Online and Offline Environments Jennifer Martin, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario
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	3.	Girls Gone Wild/Raunch: The Patriarchal and Consumeristic Relations of an Adolescent Sub-Culture Naomi Nichols, Graduate Program in Education, York University
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5:25 pm	Conference Closing Remarks
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