Access Points Conference
April 20 & 21, 2017 10:00AM
Seminar Room LB-362
Free Admission. First Come, First Served!
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ABOUT
Access Points is a two-day interdisciplinary conference held by Concordia University’s Media Studies graduate program. Organizers now invite academic and creative submissions for the 2018 graduate-student led conference, to be held on Friday, April 20 & Saturday, April 21 in Montreal.
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ITINERARY
Friday, April 20th 2018
9:30
10:00
10:30
11:45
13:00
14:30
14:45
16:00
Arrival and Coffee
Panel #1: Alternative Histories
Break (Lunch Served)
Fugitive Signals: Carceral Mediations at the Limits of Access
Michael Litwack
Break
Closing Remarks
Welcoming Ceremony: Vicky Boldo
Panel #2: Digital Cultures
Saturday, April 21th 2018
9:15
9:45
10:15
10:30
11:45
12:45
14:00
14:15
15:30
15:45
17:00
Arrival and Coffee
Creative Presentation
Break
Panel #3: Canadian Media
Discourses
Break (Lunch Served)
Panel #4: Educational
Approaches
Break
Panel #5: Policies and Institutions
Break
The Participatory Complex:
Mass Mobilization and the
Contradictions of Inclusivity
Cayley Sorochan
5à7 Reception with
Refreshments, Closing Remarks
Meet the Keynotes!
Michael LitwaCk
Michael Litwack joined the Department of English & Film Studies at the University of Alberta in 2016 as assistant professor of media culture and history. His current book project, tentatively titled Racial Technics: Reinventions of the Human, is a study of the vexed function of media technologies, as figurative and material resources, in both imagining and managing Black freedom struggles in U.S. modernity. Michael has previously published on topics including televisual liveness and biopolitics; masculinity and the culture
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Conference Presentation:
​Fugitive Signals: Carceral Mediations at the Limits of Access
Cayley Sorochan
Cayley Sorochan received her PhD in Communication Studies from McGill University. Her current research is concerned with the ideological function of ‘participation’ in online culture, political organization and consumer capitalism. She has published essays in TOPIA, Reviews in Cultural Theory, SEACHANGE Journal, and co-edited a special supplement on the 2012 Quebec Student Strike for Theory & Event. Her wider research interests include psychoanalytic approaches to political subjectivity, the politics of space, networked performance, spectatorship, and mobile/social networking technologies.
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Conference Presentation:
The Participatory Complex: Mass Mobilization and the Contradictions of Inclusivity
THe Panelists:
Andrei Zanescu,
Concordia University, Media Studies
Counter-Balkanism in The Witcher & Gwent: A Historical Reinvention Beyond the Balkan Paradigm
Magdalena Olszanowski Concordia University, Communication Studies
Obscenity, Sexuality, and Regulating the World Wide Web: The entanglement of s/censorship and young women’s art practices online, 1996-2001
Polina Lasenko
Concordia University, Art History
Scanning the Urban Landscape: the Mis/Use of Technology in Raymond Boisjoly’s and Scott Benesiinaabandan’s Work
Max Cotter
Ryerson University and York University, Communication and Culture
Counter-Hegemonic Models of Pedagogical Dissemination
Hannah Tollefson
McGill University, Communication Studies
Materializing Mineral Title: Online Prospecting and the Politics of Extraction in BC
Iphigénie Marcoux-Fortier Concordia University, Media Studies with Juan Rain, Ariella Orbach and Thora Herrmann
Power of the Lens in Mapuce territory: community processes of film creation
Kristina Vannan
Concordia University, Art History
Indigenous Net Art: Subverting Colonial Metaphors Through Hypertext
Maggie MacDonald
Concordia University, Media Studies
High Stakes Deepfakes: Fake Pornography and Convergence Culture
Nina Morena
Concordia University, Media Studies
“Talking Money, Need a Hearing Aid”: A Discourse Analysis of Ableist Lyrics in Hip Hop Music
Megan Gnanasihamany
University of Alberta Alumni, Fine Arts
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Creative Presentation: Social Practice Anonymous
Rachel Bergmann
McGill University, Communication Studies
“Tech For Good:” Critically Examining Silicon Valley Philanthropy
Chris Gismondi,
Concordia University, Art History
Northern Lights / Southern Views: Environment, Empire, and Depicting the Arctic Landscape
Gabrielle Montpetit
Concordia University, Art History
Inuit Art Market Online: Inuit Self-Determination Through Social Media
Shanae Blaquiere
Concordia University, Media Studies
"Late Breaking Story on the CBC": the CBC, the Tragically Hip, and the Cultivation of Canadianness
Emily Macdonald
Concordia University Alumni, Sculpture & MacEwan Alumni, Communication Studies
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Sadie Couture
Concordia University, Media Studies
Sounds of Science: Shell Canada, Marianne G. Ainley, and the Montreal Women Scientist Project
Panel #1: Alternative Histories
Panel #2: Digital Cultures
Panel #3: Canadian Media Discourses
Panel #4: Educational Approaches
Panel #5: Policies and Institutions
Creative Presentation
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VENUE
LB-362 in the Concordia Webster Library
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