SUBJECT TO CHANGE
Thursday April 15, 2010
H-763
1455 de Maisonneuve West, 7th Floor
10:00am Opening Remarks
tea, coffee and bagels to be served, registration table open
public poster project “Queer Cartography” Ryan Conrad
and Liam Michaud (see “offsite”)
10:30- 12:00pm Outsides
chair: Bina Freiwald
Eric Ronis (Concordia: Laughter as Resistance
Nadia Hausfather (Concordia): Resisting Love, Loving Resistance?
Megan Hyslop (Concordia): Speaking From our Hearts: the Planning Process of a Collective Garden in Verdun
12:00 – 1:30pm Lunch to be served
1:30 – 3:30pm Site, Place, Politics
chair:
Amber Landgraff (OCAD): Poetic Resistances: Francis Alys does something political
Noah Ross (UVic): Nature, Place and Resistance
Carolyne Clare (UofT): Micropolitics of Kwakwaka’wakw Dancing Bodies
Nuria Carton de Grammont (UdeM): Architecture parasitaire : pratiques de résistance dans l’espace public à la ville de Mexico
3:45 – 5:45pm Compromise, Consensus, Contradiction
chair: Dr. Gada Mahrouse (Simone de Beauvoir Institute)
Jan Gasparic (NYU): Resistance: a call to arms or the death knell of dissension?
Erik Bordeleau (McGill): Sloterdijk’s Conception of Resistance as Demobilization
7:00pm EV 1.617, 1515 Ste. Catherine West Keynote Dr. Amelia Jones
Performance: Time, Space, and Cultural “Value”
reception to follow in the FOFA Gallery
Friday, April 16 H-763
10:00 – 10:30am Registration table open
10:30 – 12:00pm Collectivity, Mobilization, Crowds
chair: Brian Fauteux (Communication Studies)
Dom Nasilowski (Concordia): A Revolution in Vision or Visions of Revolution? The Panorama as a visual mass media and collective experience in 1789-1793
David Mather (UCSD): Crowd Formations: Mass Agency in Italian Futurist Painting, 1910 to 1915
Monica Guu (UofT): Beautiful Politics: Towards an Aesthetics of Ideology in Chinese Art, 1958-1976
12:00 -1:30pm Lunch to be served
1:30-3:30pm Hidden Counter-Narratives
chair: Dr. Alice Ming Wai Jim (Art History)
James Henry, Nathalia Lebedenskaia (Concordia): Green Photographs: A Collective Pensive Image
Claudie Massicotte (UWO): Being Watched by the Invisible Subject of History
Doug Pope (Concordia): Resistance and Paranoia
Martin Watson (York): Krzhizhanovsky and the Resistance to Time
3:45 -5:45pm From Theory to Praxis
chair: David Madden (Communication Studies)
Chad Andrews (Trent): Negri and the Philosophical Foundations of Resistance
Eben Hensby (Trent): Resisting, Rancière
Tatiana Koroleva (Concordia): The Day of Simple Things: Post-communist Rituals in Russian Federation
