Program

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The Everyday: Experiences, Concepts, Narratives Thursday, April 14   7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Opening Remarks and Welcome Senate Chamber: Ross N940 Opening Keynote: Everyday Geographies Dr. Miles Ogborn Queen Mary, University of London Friday, April 15   8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Coffee and light breakfast Registration begins at Vanier College 001 (VC 001) 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Panel 1: De-familiarizing the Aesthetics of the Everyday Moderator: Inga Untiks Vanier College 001 (VC 001) Everyday Boredoms: Breton's Dadaist Excursion to Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre Julian Jason Haladyn, PhD, Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism (University of Western Ontario) Reading Surrealist Reflections: Interpreting the Uncanny Appeal in Eugene Atget's Shop Windows Kylie Serebrin, PhD, Art History (University of Toronto) Beyond (New) Babylon: The Imaginary Everyday of the Situationist City Jessica Elaine Reilly, PhD, Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism (University of Western Ontario)  Panel 2: Everyday Experience: Knowledge, Consciousness, and Life Moderator: Ilona Molnar Vanier College 010 (VC 010) The Camel and the Needle's Eye: Arthur Eddington and Walter Benjamin on Scientific and Everyday Experience Daniela Helbig, PhD, Centre for European Studies (Harvard University) The Third Dialectic: Merleau-Ponty's Bare Life   Robert Brown, PhD, Humanities (York University) Natural Attitude and Naturalism in Edmund Husserl's Philosophy Denis Courville, PhD, Philosophie (Universite de Montréal)    10:30 - 10:45 a.m. Coffee Break 10:45 - 12:15 p.m. Panel 3: The Malleability of Everyday Objects and Narratives Moderator: Sonja Pushchak Vanier College 001 (VC 001) Gifted Menus, New Social Orders: Food, Manifestos, and Generosity Mark Clintberg, PhD, Art History (Concordia University) The Impalpable Landscapes of Visual Culture Valerie Cools, PhD, Humanities (Concordia University) Baudrillard and Zwicky: Entering the Everyday Eben Hensby, MA, Theory, Culture and Politics (Trent University) Panel 4:The Metamorphosis of the Trace: Current Debates in the Archive(s) of Deconstruction Moderator: Robert Brown Vanier College 010 (VC 010) The Culture of the Archive: Technicity, Trace, and Metaphor Josh Synenko, PhD, Humanities (York University) The Form of Deconstruction: The Brain as Archive in Catherine Malabou's Materialist Philosophy Ilona Molnar, PhD, Humanities (York University) 12:15 - 1:00 p.m. Lunch Break Vanier College 010 1:00 - 2:50 p.m. Panel 5 : Who's Watching You? Anxiety, Surveillance and Failure Moderator: Concetta Principe Vanier College 001 (VC 001) Self and Margin: Modalities of Preservation at the (bio)Political Border Dock Currie, Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism (University of Western Ontario) Securitizing the Everyday: Competing Conceptualizations of the Mexican Drug War Rhys Machold and David Isern, PhD, Balsillie School of International Affairs Attractive (Im)possibility: Success, Correction & Jonathan Franzen Katie Arthur, MA, (Concordia) Awkward comedy and performative anxiety: the self as communicative machine Alanna Goldstein, MA, Communication and Culture (Ryerson-York Universities) 2:50 - 3:05 p.m. Coffee Break   3:05 - 4:35 p.m. Panel 6: Regards troubles: Mobilier, histoire, et (re)découverte du quotidien Moderator: Brandon Moores Vanier College 001 (VC 001) Gerome et les Goncourt : elements d'une historiographie du quotidien et de ses objets Erika Wicky, PhD, Histoire de l'Art (Universite de Montreal)  L'experience de l'uncanny dans les œuvres de l'artiste Yannick Pouliot Jessica Darveau, MA, Histoire de l'Art (Universite Concordia) Walter Benjamin : La phenomenalite des objets et l'histoire pas a pas Martin Parrot, PhD, Humanities (York University) 4:35 - 4:45 p.m. Coffee Break  4:45 - 5:35 p.m. Panel 7: Artists Forum Moderator: John Morden Vanier College 001 (VC 001) -Faye Mullen. To Never Forever - a jamais. -Nathan Cyprys. Renounced Spaces - -Arun Nedra Rodrigo . Non-sequiturs, non-persons, non-places Performance by spoken-word artist Arun Nedra Rodrigo at 4:45 followed by Artists Forum 5:35 - 7:00 p.m. Free Time   7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Senate Chamber: Ross N940 Keynote Lecture: Augmented Reality and the Everyday:  Digital Humanities and the Invention of Possible Futures Dr. Caitlin Fisher York University Saturday, April 16 8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Coffee and Light Breakfast Vanier College 001 (VC 001) 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Panel 8: From Discourse to History: Questioning Spectacles Moderator: Martin Parrot Vanier College 001 (VC 001) Happy Birthday, Leonardo Da Vinci! Let's talk about Salai! Noa Yaari, MA, Humanities (York University) Science, Religion and the Everyday: Moving Beyond the Science-Religion Binary Neil George, PhD, Humanities (York University) "All These Sad Days": Constant Concerns of Illness and Care in America, 1800-1860 K.A. Woytonik, PhD, History (University of New Hampshire) 10:30 - 10:45 a.m. Coffee Break   10:45 - 12:15 p.m. Panel 9: Everyday Narrations and Subjectivity Moderator: Emilie Dionne Vanier College 001(VC 001) From Novel to Network Narrative: Literary Production, Communication Technologies, and Everyday Practices David Meurer, PhD, Communication and Culture (Ryerson-York Universities) Out-of-Sync with the Everyday: A Year in My Life of Sick Queer Time Brianna Hersey, MA, Women and Gender Studies (University of Toronto) Articulating Ontologies of the Everyday: The Feminine Self, Enlarged Interiority and Poetic Resistance in Indian Bārahmāsās Melissa Gelinas, MA, Comparative Literature (UCL, University of London) 12:15 - 1:15 p.m. Lunch Break Vanier College 010 1:15 - 3:05 p.m. Coffee Break Panel 10: Transformations and Transferences: New Media, Communication and Learning in the Everyday Moderator: Christina Foisy Vanier College 001 (VC 001) Deaf Communication and the Everyday in New Media; from ephemeral face to face to permanency of video blogs (vblogs) Ellen Hibbard, PhD, Communication and Culture (Ryerson-York University) Running Interference: The Emotional Landscapes of Teaching and Learning David Lewkowich, PhD, Education (McGill University) Afrocentric School: Reexamining the Revisionist Glorification of Blackness to the Longterm Detriment of Black Students Patrick Radebe, PhD, Educational Studies (University of British Columbia) 3:05 - 3:20 p.m. Coffee Break   3:20 - 4:50 p.m. Panel 11: Politics and the Everyday: A Global and Local Perspective Moderator: Christina Rousseau Vanier College 001 (VC 001) Going Nowhere Fast: networked activism in the empire of speed Kamilla Pietrzyk, PhD, Political Science (York University) Trans-national Experiences of 'The Everyday World as Problematic': Self-Organizing Against Precarious Work in San Salvador and Toronto Chris Vance, PhD, Political Science (York University) Doubled Sense of Resistance: The Makortoff Collection of Photographs of Doukhobor Daily Life in the 1920-1950 Natalia Lebedinskaia, MA, Art History (Concordia University)