The following list was compiled by Jeremy Stolow, and edited and expanded by M. Michael Schiff. As Jeremy has noted elsewhere, there are likely SPT students and faculty members who will be presenting papers at the Learneds who are not listed here.
Visit the 1999 SPoT goes to the Learneds
M. Michael Schiff, "Closure and the University Text: Public Discourse, Private Challenge and the Carnival of Semiotics"
Society: Centre for Textual Analysis, Discourse and Culture
Session: Policing the Arts
May 27
Lorraine Code, "International Humanities Forum: Humanities Communities"
May 27, 2:00 p.m.
Chapel TBT 112
Jonathan Salem-Wiseman, "The Truth or Chaos: Nietzsche, Tragedy and the Death of Art"
Society: Association Canadienne Semiotique/Canadian Semiotic Association and the Canadian Association for Aesthetics
Session: Chaos and Rationality
May 28, 13:15
MRT 219
John Duncan, "Sartre's Nausea and the Real Beyond"
Society: Association Canadienne Semiotique/Canadian Semiotic Association and the Canadian Association for Aesthetics
Session: Chaos and Rationality
May 28, 13:15
MRT 219
Barbara Godard, Session Chair, "Revisiting Canadian Literary Feminisms" (with Daphne Marlatt, Gail Scott and Di Brandt)
Society: Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English
May 29, 1:45 p.m.
TBT 327
Avron Kulak, "Thinking the Fall: Kierkegaard and the Critique of Origin"
Society: Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies
Session: "Themes in Christian and Islamic Studies"
May 29, 1:45 p.m.
MNT 201
Darrell Varga, "Benjamin's Angel and the Diary Films of Wim Wenders"
Society: Film Studies Association of Canada
May 30, 1:45 p.m.
LRR114 Visual Arts Building
M. Michael Schiff, "Semiotic repression in identification theory: writing the subject off the map'"
Session: Communications Libre
Society: Association Canadienne Semiotique/Canadian Semiotic Association
May 30
Howard Adelman; "Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention: The Case of Zaire"
Session: Public Accountability
Society: Practical Ethics
May 30th
Chad Thompson, "Reading and Writing in the Laide Epoque: Political Theory in the wake of the political"
Session: New Theory at the End of the Millenium
Society: Canadian Political Science Association
May 31, 08:30
Mike Palamarek, "Marx and Voloshinov on Language and Labour"
Society: Canadian Political Science Association
May 31, 8.30 am
Susan Driver, "Presence or Absence/Phallus or Lack/Heteronormative or Asexual: Dichotomies of Maternal Desire in Feminist Psychoanalytic Theory"
Session: Contesting Heteronormativity
Society: Canadian Women's Studies Association
May 31, 10:15 a.m.
VNR 061
Laura Suski, "Post-Pathology: Schizophrenia, Multiple Personalities, and Social Identity"
Session: Cross-Connections: The Politics of Identity and Place
Society: Sociology and Anthropology
May 31, 10:45-12:15
SMD 427
Rob Heynen, "History that Eats Itself: Culture, Resistance and the Historical Imagination of Walter Benjamin"
Session: The Culture of Opposition
Society: Socialist Studies
May 31, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
MNT 103
Dennis Soron, "Misconstrued Opposition: Shifting Boundaries of 'Culture' and 'Economy' between the Modern and the Postmodern"
Session: The Culture of Opposition
Society: Socialist Studies
May 31, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
MNT 103
John Duncan, "Sexual Aggression When 'Yes Means No': Power and Immanent Critique."
Society: Canadian Political Science Association
May 31, 1:30 p.m.
Scott Schaffer, "Towards a Social Ethics"
Session: Constructing Community (I)
Society: Canadian Society for Sociology and Anthropology
May 31, 14h00 to 15h30
SMD 429
John McCullough, "Contract Workers and Service Courses: A Glimpse into the Future of Film and Video Studies"
Society: Film Studies Association of Canada
Session: The Future of Film Studies
May 31, 3:30 p.m.
LLR 205
Scott Forsyth, "Hollywood's Ottawa: The Beginning of the Cultural Cold War"
Session: Mass Media and Social Change
Society: Socialist Studies
May 31, 15:30
MNT 103
Barbara Godard, "Gender Politics in Translation"
Session: Women - Institutions - Translations
Society: Canadian Women's Studies Association
June 1, 8:30 a.m.
VNR 061
Adriana Benzaquen, "Arnold Gesell and Kanala of Midnapore: Dreams of a Single Childhood"
Session: Civilizing Youth: Modern Interpretations and Regulation of Juvenile Normality and Deviancy
Society: Canadian Society for Sociology and Anthropology
June 1, 10:45-12:15
Jeremy Stolow, "Transnational Politics of Identity: Notes on the Israeli Conversion Bill Crisis"
Session: The Sociology of Transnationalism: New Forms of Global Flow (chair, Laura Suski; discussant, Victoria Heftler)
Society: Sociology and Anthropology
June 1, 10:45-12:15
SMD 430
Zoe Druick, "Canadian Civil Society: Context as Text"
Session: Histories and Discourses of the Canadian Public Sphere
Society: Communications
June 1, 11:00 a.m.
LMX 220
Anne Gatensby, "Where Have All the Radicals Gone: Science Studies, Politics and Social Theory"
Session: Technology, Analysis and Critique
Society: Sociology and Anthropology
June 1, 10:45-12:15
SMD 334
David Camfield, "A Social-Historical Perspective on Foucault's Political Thought"
Session: Young Researchers
Society: Socialist Studies
June 1, 3:45 p.m.
Joe Galbo, "DTH TV: The Changing Image of Canadian TV" (with Jeff Ashe)
Session: Technology and Society
Society: Sociology and Anthropology
June 2, 10:45 a.m.
SMD 429
David Camfield, "Resistance in Harris's Ontario"
Session: "Is Neo-Liberal Restructuring Inevitable?: Forms of Social Resistance"
Society: Socialist Studies
June 2, 4:00 p.m.
John Duncan, "Preferring the Uncertain Over the Speculative: Between Existential Marxism and Foucault."
Society: Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association
June 3, 2:00 p.m.
John Duncan, "The Difference/Relation Between Nature and History in Horkheimer and Adorno."
Session: Critical Social Theory: Habermas
Society: Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association
June 3, 9:00 a.m.
SMD 334
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