THURSDAY MAY 9th
REGISTRATION 11:30am-5:00pm
Pre-Function Space 5th Floor
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SESSION 1
Thursday 12:15pm-1:45pm
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1A
Strategy 3
Fan Action
Chair: Nicholas P. Greco Providence University College
Shannon Cole and Mariel Concepcion Independent Scholars
An Act of Fandom: Slash Fangirls and Their Guilty Consciences
Candie Syphrit Kington SUNY- Buffalo
Con Culture: A Taxonomy of Fans and Fan Conventions
Vanessa Girouard Western University
Language Ideologies and Stylistic Choices of Fanfiction Readers and Writers
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1C
Upper Fallsview Studio A
Women, Experience, and Music
Chair: Laura Wiebe McMaster University
Tamar Faber Western University
Hip-Hop Feminism, Hip-Hop Journalism and the Black Female Experience: No one will speak for us but ourselves
Margaret Rowley Indpendent Scholar
“For a Girl, You Really Throw Down”: Women DJs in Chicago House Music
Brittany Da Silva McMaster University
“We Will Rise”: Angela Gossow and the Appropriation of the Strong Female Figure Within Metal Culture
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SESSION 2
Thursday 2:00pm-3:30pm
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2A
Strategy 2
Encounters and Subjectivities within Art and Consumer Culture
Chair: Anouk Bélanger UQAM- University of Quebec in Montreal
Virginie Riopel UQAM- University of Quebec in Montreal
Culture Beyond Categories: The Case of W Magazine’s Annual Art Issue
Jeffrey Douglas McMaster University
Domestic Waste in Neopastoral Space: A Theory of Things for the Age of Disposability
Anouk Bélanger UQAM- University of Quebec in Montreal
The Popular Life of Postering in Montreal
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2B
Strategy 3
Marketing, Advertising, and New Media
Chair: Nick Baxter-Moore, Brock University
Estee Fresco Western University
Pop is the New Tobacco: Opposition to Coca-Cola and Big Tobacco’s Sponsorship of Sporting Mega-Events
Cheryl Williams York University
Generation “Buy”: The Commercialization of Childhood Through Advergames, Immersive Mobile Apps and Branded Virtual Worlds
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2C
Strategy 5
Interrogating Documentary Cinema
Chair: Tim Kaposy Niagara College
Tim Kaposy Niagara College
The Forensic Aesthetic of Documentary Film
Michael Meneghetti Brock University
Acts and Frictions: Bodily Comportment and Meaning in Beauty Day
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2D
Strategy 7
Asian/American
Chair: Jennifer Tebbe-Grossman MCPHS University
Allan Austin Misericordia University
Exploring a “Cave of Horrors”: Batman and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II
Danielle Wong McMaster University
Race at the Buzzer: ‘Linsanity’ and the Madness of Time
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2E
Upper Fallsview Studio A
Lyrics and Literature
Chair: Thomas M. Kitts St. John’s University
Josh Augustino and Geoff Lawson Brock University
Interpreting Graphic Physicality: Popular Music Lyrics and Corporeality
Stacy Pratt SUNY-Jefferson
The Power and the Story: Heavy Metal’s Literary Canon
Sarah Abd El-Salam Université d’Ottawa
La nécessité d’une double diffusion chez Loco Locass : entre rap et poésie
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COFFEE BREAK 3:30-3:45
Pre Function Space 5th Floor
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SESSION 3
Thursday 3:45pm-5:15pm
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1B
Strategy 7
Sport: Masculinity, Drugs, Violence
Chair: Matthew Ventresca Queen’s University
Cheryl MacDonald Concordia University
Gongshow Nation? Examining Cultural Constructions of the Canadian Major Junior Ice Hockey Player
Andrea Quinlan York University and Curtis Fogel Lakehead University
Sexual Violence and Exploitation in Hyper-Masculine Sports
Curtis Fogel Lakehead University
Bio-Medical Wars in Sport: Ongoing Issues in the Prevention of Athletic Doping
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3A
Strategy 3
Class, Crisis and Economics on Screen
Chair: Stuart Henderson, McMaster University
Michael Curran York University/Ryerson University
Eventalizing Crisis: Cinematic Narrativizations of the Global Financial Crisis
Jocelyn Gadbois Concordia University/Université de Montréal
L’histoire de l’histoire de la famille Lavigueur ou le parcours héroïque de parvenus
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3B
Strategy 5
Reading the Sci-Fi Body
Chair: Malisa Kurtz Brock University
Tess Jewell York University/Ryerson University
Seeing the Dark Side of Technology: The Blind as Harbinger in Cyberpunk Film
Cath Duchastel York University
Friendship, family and community: A crip reading of the Fay/Human world of Lost Girl
Malisa Kurtz Brock University
Postcolonial Negotiations: Becoming Animal in Lauren Beukes’s Zoo City (2010)
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3C
Strategy 7
Aesthetics of Fashion
Chair: Chris Richardson Young Harris College
Chris Richardson, Annie Laurie Hunter, Ashton Jones, Austin Thomas Young Harris College Media Research Collective
Suited for Gangsterism: Popular Fashion and Criminality in the New York Times
Sara Rodrigues York University
Palatable Pubes: A Foucaultian Reading of Vulval Aestheticization
Jennifer Martin Western University
The New Conspicuousness: Social Media’s Impact on Consumption Practices Through Fashion and Style Blogs
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3D
Upper Fallsview Studio A
Gender and Music Culture
Chair: Justine Moller, Brock University
Katarina Knezovic McMaster University
“Yesterday’s Feelings”: Emo Culture, Sentimentality, and Troubling Masculinity
Aidan Moir York University
Video Games: Music, Labour, and Identity
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5:30-6:30
GRADUATE STUDENT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SESSION
Upper Fallsview Studio A
Navigating the Job Market
A roundtable discussion with participants at various stages of their careers.
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CONFERENCE OPENING RECEPTION 7pm-11pm
w/Buffet Plus Cash Bar (All Conference Attendees will receive two complimentary drink tickets)
FEATURING LIVE MUSIC FROM
TORONTO RECORDING ARTIST
BidiniBand (onstage approx. 8pm)
Featuring Dave Bidini (ex-Rheostatics)
HARD ROCK CLUB (Sheraton on the Falls)
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FRIDAY MAY 10th
REGISTRATION 8am-5pm
Pre Function Space 5th Floor
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
7:30am-8:30am
Pre Function Space 5th Floor
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SESSION 4
Friday 8:30am-10:00am
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4A
Strategy 2
Theatre and the Popular
Chair: Brigitte Bogar Independent Scholar
Brigitte Bogar Independent Scholar
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Musical structure in The Phantom of the Opera & Love Never Dies
Christopher Innes York University
Popular Shakespeare: Musical Adaptations
Christine Korte York University/Ryerson University
Staging the Commodity in Vinge/Müller’s Borkman
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4B
Strategy 3
Theorizing In/Through Popular Culture
Chair: Anthony Synnott Concordia University
Adam Guzkowski Trent University
Teaching Texts and Generic Tendencies: Transformative Learning and Science Fiction Literature
Michael Thorn York University/Ryerson University
The Uses and Abuses of Psychoanalysis: Oedipal Conflict in Life of Pi and the Christian Ex-gay Movement?
Anthony Synnott Concordia University
Sapiens, Duplex or Lupus? Re-Thinking Human Nature
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4C
Strategy 5
Pop Culture Influences on the Masculinities of Contemporary Television
Chair: Terrance McDonald Brock University
Terrance McDonald Brock University
Mediated Bromance: The Influence of Film on Homosocial Relationships in The Big Bang Theory & It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Justin Shaw Wilfrid Laurier University
The Fall of Hegemonic Masculinity in Mad Men
Michelle Hakimyar Brock University
Exploring the Culture of Nerdom in Square Pegs and Freaks and Geeks: The Growing Popularity of Nerds in Teen-Pics
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4D
Strategy 7
Production, Meaning and the Role of the Graphic Novelist
Chair: Neil Shyminsky University of Toronto
Ryan Cadrette Concordia University
Superheroes in Peril: Crises of Legitimacy in Comic Book Production
Neil Shyminsky University of Toronto
From Palookaville to Essex County: Examining the “Nationalist Phase” in Canadian Cartooning
Natalja Chestopalova Ryerson University
Psychology of Loss and Mourning in Popular Culture: Looking at Trauma through Jeff Lemire’s Graphic Fiction
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4E
Upper Fallsview A
Race with the Devil: The Racial Politics of Heavy Metal Music and Fandom or, Who Gets To Play with Heavy Metal, Anyway?
Chair: Andy R. Brown Bath Spa University
Kevin Fellezs Columbia University
Edge of Insanity: Tony MacAlpine and Virtuosity as Transcendence
Andy R. Brown Bath Spa University
A League of Extraordinary Djentlemen? Geekdom, Virtuosity and the Relative ‘Un-marking’ of Race in On-line Progressive-metal Fandom Threads
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COFFEE BREAK 10am-10:15am
Pre Function Space 5th Floor
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SESSION 5
Friday 10:15am-11:45am
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5A
Strategy 2
Portraits, Images and Representation
Chair: N.C. Christopher Couch Trinity College
N.C. Christopher Couch Trinity College
The Visual Language of Life: Hubert Rogers’s Official Painting of the Quebec Conference and the Role of Illustration in Official Imagery
Kalli Paakspuu University of Toronto
Dialogue Without Words: George Catlin and American Indian Voice In Portraits
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5B
Strategy 3
Catching Pop Culture Fire: Analyzing The Hunger Games
Chair: Adam Carlson University of Alberta
Emily Hiltz Carleton University
Crossing Borders: The Hunger Games’ Engineered Monsters
Jasmine Elliott University of Calgary
“I Can Survive Just Fine Without Either of Them”: The Feminist Rhetoric of Katniss
Adam Carlson University of Alberta
“Playing Politics:” Negative Liberty, Recent Fiction, and other Neoliberal Revisions of the Present
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5C
Strategy 7
Performance and Identity
Chair: Laine Zisman Newman Ryerson University
Laine Zisman Newman Ryerson University
Within Queer Walls: Addressing the Ephemerality of Queer Women’s Performance Spaces
Allyson Woodrooffe York University
Flash Mobs: Community and Social Media
Janelle Joseph York University and Rinaldo Walcott Ontario Institute of Studies in Education, University of Toronto
Physical Cultures as Ephemeral Acts of Citizenship
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5D
Upper Fallsview A
Mediating Indie in Pop Music Culture
Chair: Scott Henderson Brock University
Nicole Lemieux Brock University
“We want to be pleasantly surprised, not expectedly let down”: Place, Participation, and Experimentation in Canada’s National Music Scene
Kait Kribs Brock University
Ironic Sincerity and Nostalgia for the Unknown: Metamodernity and the ‘Smart’ Audience
Matt Ventresca Queen’s University
“We the undersigned put forth his name:” Sport and Politics in John K. Samson’s “Petition”
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LUNCH
Friday 12:00pm-1:30pm
Great Room A (3rd Floor)
FEATURING KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dave Bidini
Musician, author and filmmaker Dave Bidini is one of the founding members of Canadian rock group the Rheostatics and currently performs with his new group, BidiniBand. He has published a number of books on music, sports and travel includingTropic of Hockey, The Best Game You Can Name, Home and Away: The Story of the 2008 Homeless World Cup and the seminal On a Cold Road: Tales of Adventure in Canadian Rock. You can learn more about him at www.davebidini.ca
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SESSION 6
Friday 1:45pm-3:15pm
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6A
Strategy 2
Screened Realities: Bodies, Gender and Class
Chair: Jennifer Tebbe-Grossman MCPHS University
Roger Saul Brock University
Making an Adolescent Self Out of Sequence: The YouTube Case of AnonyGirl1
Kristen Shaw McMaster University
“Her Pretty Woman Moment:”Intersections of Class and Gender and Class-Passing in The Bachelor
May Friedman Ryerson University
Here Comes Lots of Judgment: Exploring Maternity, Class and Fat in Honey Boo Boo
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6B
Strategy 3
The Popular Past: History and Popular Culture
Chair: Brian de Ruiter Brock University
Jacquelyn Hamm Southern Trinity College
Unions, Yearbooks, and Textbooks: From Militancy to Main Street
John Walliss Liverpool Hope University
Dying Guilty and Penitent: The ‘Lesson of the Scaffold’ in the Norfolk Chronicle, 1800 – 1867
Jessica Whitehead York University
The Myths of the Romanovs: The Convergence of Narratives Surrounding the Death of the Romanov Family
Brian de Ruiter Brock University
Tribal Traditions and Authenticity: Constructing a History for the Crystal Skulls
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6C
Strategy 7
Archives, Copyright and Cultural Policy
Chair: Marian Bredin Brock University
Amber Fundytus University of Toronto
The Larry Rivers Archive Controversy: Art, Ownership, and Archival Ethics
Lisa Macklem Western University
Canadian Copyright: Brave New World
Marian Bredin and Olivia Walker Brock University
Policy, Practice, and Content in Canadian Women’s Magazines
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6D
Upper Fallsview A
Authenticity, Place and Meaning in Popular Music Culture
Chair: Nick Baxter-Moore Brock University
Andrew Atkinson Wilfrid Laurier University
Left Religion: Macklemore, Springsteen, and Craig Finn- The Musical Recreation of American Religiosity
Linda M. Moroziuk York University
Wisdom of a Redneck: Sourcing Authenticity Behind the Scenes of New Country Music
Nick Baxter-Moore Brock University
“This is Our Country”: Class, Region, and Nation in the Music of John Mellencamp
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COFFEE BREAK 3:15pm-3:30pm
Pre Function Space 5th Floor
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SESSION 7
Friday 3:30pm-5:00pm
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7A
Strategy 2
Performance, Meaning and Popular Music
Chair: Marc Lafrance Concordia University
Tommy Mayberry University of Waterloo
(Drag) Mother (Monster) in the Mirror: Growing Up in the (Žižekian) Reflection of RuPaul and Lady Gaga
Mark Gaspar and Marc Lafrance Concordia University
Managing Subjective Crisis in Popular Music Culture: Britney Spears’s Circus and the Return of the American Dream
Kiera Obbard McMaster University
“Never seen zef so fresh”: Die Antwoord, White Zef Culture, and the Negotiation of Gender and Sexuality in Post-Apartheid South Africa
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7B
Strategy 3
Negotiating Literary Identity
Chair: Elspeth Chalmers Université de Toronto
Roshaya Rodness McMaster University
“A Tricky Matter of Identity”: Thomas King’s National Literary Celebrity and the Canonization of Native Resistance in Canada
Elspeth Chalmers Université de Toronto
La culture populaire autour de la table : Une étude de l’importance du repas dans la culture populaire et sa représentation dans L’Assommoir d’Émile Zola
Justine Moller Brock University
So Close to Southern it Should be Serious: Nicholas Sparks’ Novels as More Than Love Stories
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7C
Strategy 5
History, Nation and Representation in Cinema
Chair: Steven E. Grossman, New England Institute of Art
J Colleen Berry University of North Dakota
Kawashima Yoshiko in the Cultural Imaginations of China and Japan
Sarah Olutola McMaster University
Raising White Saviours: The Representational Politics of Intra-African Violence in Shooting Dogs
Ruurd Dykstra Trent University
Finicky Friesians: The Return to a Conservative, Consensus Building National Narrative in the Friesian Films of Steven de Jong
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7D
Strategy 7
Transforming Bodies: The Contemporary Werewolf
Chair: Michele Braun Mount Royal University
Danielle Soulliere University of Windsor
Ogling Men: Sexualisation, Objectification and the Politics of Queer Baiting in MTV’s Teen Wolf
Douglas Clarke York University
Consuming Monsters, or How to Get the Perfect Werewolf Abs
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7E
Upper Fallsview A
Digital and Analog Identity
Chair: Scott Henderson Brock University
Nathan Rambukkana York University
The Power and Politics of #RaceFail: Digital Democracy, Hashtags and the 2009 “Writing the Other” Debate in the Science Fiction Blogosphere
David Perkins Concordia University
The Commodification of “Aura”: Vinyl and the Underground Culture Industry
Scott Henderson Brock University
You Are Not Here: Mapping, Immediacy and Neo-Liberalism in a Digital Age
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SESSION 8
Friday 5:15pm-6:45pm
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8A
Strategy 2
Teaching Popular Culture
Chair: Julian Hermida Algoma University
Bryan Powell Hunter College/Bergen Community College
From the Outside to the Classroom: Facilitating Popular Music Experiences in Post-Secondary Contexts
Brandon Christopher University of Winnipeg
Manga Shakespeare or Shakespeare Manga?: Adaptation and the Fight for Youth Culture
Julian Hermida Algoma University
Teaching Law Through Popular Culture
Shu-Fen Chen National Taitung University
Teaching Harry Potter in Taiwan
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8B
Strategy 3
The Paranormal and the Uncanny
Chair: Jean Levasseur Bishop’s University
Emily E. Auger Independent Scholar
The Hanged Man: A Tarot Card in the Movies
Claudie Massicotte Western University
Freud’s Ouija Board
Jean Levasseur Bishop’s University
Science et croyances : le magnétisme à travers les âges
Dominick Grace Brescia University College
Out of Our Heads: Problematic ESP in Phyllis Gotlieb
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8C
Strategy 5
Perspectives on Canadian Cinema Culture
Chair: Stuart Henderson McMaster University
Gregory Marquis University of New Brunswick, St. John
D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation: Canadian Responses
Donna de Ville Concordia University
The Microcinema Movement and Montreal (1990s-2000s)
Stuart Henderson McMaster University
“So Tired of These Abstractions”: Revisiting Prologue (1969), the Best Counterculture Film You’ve Never Seen
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8D
Strategy 7
Born This Way, Analyzed That Way: Lady Gaga
Chair: Marc Lafrance Concordia University
Courtney Constable Carleton University
Mother Monster, Social Networking, and Identity Activism: Lady Gaga’s Mobilization of New Media Platforms to Distribute Activist Images of Hegemonic Gender and Sexuality Transgression
Keri Ferencz Concordia University
Posed This Way: Lady Gaga’s Use of Self-Portraiture on Instagram
Marc Lafrance Concordia University and Lori Burns University of Ottawa
Celebrity Culture and its Discontents: A Video Analysis of Lady Gaga’s Paparazzi and Telephone
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8E
Upper Fallsview A
Queering Consumption
Chair: Laura Wiebe, McMaster University
Katerina Symes Concordia University
Eccentrically Viewing The L Word: Identification as a Conduit for Visual and Economic Consumption
Julia Obermayr Karl-Franzens University of Graz
Recycling Emotions: No “Clean Slate” Between Soap Operas and Web Series
Ashley Preston Independent Scholar
Sisters Are Doin’ It: Exploring the Tensions between Mainstream Feminist and Lesbian/Queer Interpretation and Representation in Xena: Warrior Princess
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SATURDAY MAY 11th
REGISTRATION 8am-12pm
Pre Function Space 5th Floor
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:00am-9:00am
Pre Function Space 5th Floor
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SESSION 9
Saturday 9:00am-10:30am
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9A
Strategy 2
Bodies on the Borderlands: Nina Arsenault, Oscar Pistorius, Gamers, and the Construction of “Other” in Popular Consciousness
Chair: Stephanie J. Cork University of Maryland
Dan Vena Queen’s University
Creature of The Ambivalence: Donna Haraway’s Cyborg Identity as Manifested by Nina Arsenault
Stephanie J. Cork University of Maryland
Roboreality: Oscar Pistorius and the Sci-fi Imaginary
Valérie Savard University of Alberta
Tracing Technological and Social Disparity: From Cyborg to Avatar in Twentieth Century Culture
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9B
Strategy 3
Age, Gender and Advertising
Chair: Kim de Laat University of Toronto
Carolyn Goard Brock University
The Last Woman Standing: A Semiotic Critique of the Patriarchal Representation of Women in a Recent Mark’s Advertisement
Casey J. Scheibling Concordia University
Commodified Manhood: Advertising Masculinities in Consumer Society
Shyon Baumann and Kim de Laat University of Toronto
Aspiration vs. Consolation: Portrayals of Older Adults in Television Advertising
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9C
Strategy 5
Real and Spectacular? Interrogating Cinematic Representations
Chair: Steven E. Grossman, New England Institute of Art
Justin J. Morris Independent Scholar
A Continually Metamorphosing Dream: Seriality, Surreality, and Houdini, the Ungraspable Escape Artist
Christine Horton University of Waterloo
A Question of Torture?: Zero Dark 30 and the Rhetoric of Culture
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9D
Strategy 7
Symbolism and Cultural Meaning in Popular Literary Forms
Chair: Elspeth Chalmers Université de Toronto
Nacira Achi Université Mouloud Mammeri
Le conte et le proverbe :discours narratif et représentations culturelles
Zahia Teraha Université de Tizi-Ouzou /Algérie
Récits d’origine des narcisses et de laurier rose en Algérie « Kabylie » et ailleurs, approche ethnologique
François-Xavier Eygun Mount Saint Vincent University
llustration du cochon dans l’imaginaire contemporain
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9E
Upper Fallsview A
Legacy and Influence in Popular Music
Chair: Thomas M. Kitts St. John’s University
Kimberly Strong-Knight Brock University
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: Relevance of the Message and the Multiple Platforms of Delivery
Phil Rose York University
Unplugging With the Beatles: Work, Rest, and Their Legacy as an Enduring Boomer Icon
Thomas M. Kitts St. John’s University
John Fogerty: His Emergence as a Rock-and-Roll Jeremiah
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COFFEE BREAK 10:30am-10:45am
Pre Function Space 5th Floor
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SESSION 10
Saturday 10:45am-12:15pm
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10A
Strategy 2
The Posthuman and the Virtual in Cinema and Gaming
Chair: David Owen York University
Amanda Piché Ryerson University
Deciding the Fate of the Galaxy: Utilizing Ludology and Narratology to Examine the Success of Narrative-Rich Video Games – A Case Study of the Mass Effect Series
Dan Browne York University/Ryerson University
“Are we still in the game?”: Virtual bodies in David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ
David Owen York University
Cyber Narrative and the Gaming Cyborg
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10B
Strategy 3
Graphic Representations: Imagery and Identity in Graphic Novels
Chair: Kenneth Paradis Wilfrid Laurier University
Patrick Hamilton Misericordia University
Steps Back: The Persistence of Stereotypes in the Ethnic Superheroines of the 1970s
Mimi Okabe Brock University
It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Re-presentation of the Female Superhero in Joss Whedon’s Fray
Kenneth Paradis Wilfrid Laurier University
Faith, the Fantastic, and Graphic Representation: Imaging the Rapture in the Left Behind and Therefore Repent! Graphic Novels.
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10C
Strategy 5
Celebrity Capital
Chair: Danielle J. Deveau Pop Culture Lab
Jocelyn Smith McMaster University
Starring James Van Der Beek as Himself: Celebrity, Camp and the “Meta-Role of a Lifetime”
Danielle J. Deveau Pop Culture Lab
Canadian Comedians as Celebrity Exports (Expats?)
John Nyman McMaster University
“No One Man Should Have All That Power”: Kanye West as Anti-Celebrity
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10D
Strategy 7
Producing Femininity: Images of Women in Popular Culture
Chair: Michele Braun Mount Royal University
Olesya Venger University of Georgia
Slutwalk against Glorification of the Criminal in the Popular Culture
Tonya Davidson Ryerson University
Cupcakes, Kitsch, and the Rise of Retrosexism
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10E
Upper Fallsview A
Masculinity, Gender and Identity in Music
Chair: Melissa Avdeeff Independent Scholar
Ola Mohammed York University
“Imma ‘bout to Drive in the Ocean, Imma Try to Swim from Something Bigger than Me”:
Challenging the Limits of Black [Mask]ulinity in Frank Ocean’s Nostalgia/Ultra and Channel Orange
Melissa Avdeeff Independent Scholar
Justin Bieber: A Case Study in Social Media, Sexuality and the Destruction of the Fan/Audience Delineation
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SESSION 11
Saturday 1:15pm-2:45pm
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11A
Strategy 5
Film, Diaspora and Cultural Identity
Chair: Bohdan Nebesio Brock University
Brian Saludes Bantugan Independent Scholar
Mainstream Care Work Drama Films and Filipino Superstars: Experiences and Meanings Facilitating their Production and Consumption
Chandrima Chakraborty McMaster University
Bollywood Calling
Bohdan Nebesio Brock University
Folk Culture as Popular Culture: Vasile Avramenko’s Contribution to Canadian Mosaic
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11B
Strategy 7
Screening Gender
Chair: Victoria Kannen University of Toronto
Katie Rankin Brock University
Entering Girl World: Fluidity of Female Identity and the Subversion of Teen Genre Conventions in Mean Girls
Jennnifer Lackey Brock University
Genre and Gender in 21st Century Visions of Sherlock Holmes
Victoria Kannen University of Toronto
Awwww, Silly Feminism! Teaching Whiteness, Gender, Sexuality, and Age Through Humour in The Golden Girls
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11C
Upper Fallsview A
Playing the Game: Play, Identity and Gaming Cultures
Chair: David Murphy York University/Ryerson University
David Murphy York University/Ryerson University
Neoliberal Play: Unlocking the Politics of Popular Games
Skot Deeming York University/Ryerson University
Gotta Hack ‘Em All: Pokemon, Piracy and Fan Remix Cultures
Jessi Ring and Burcu Danisment Carleton University
Champs versus Tramps: [Re]Claiming Feminist Gaming Identities
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COFFEE BREAK 2:45pm-3:00pm
Pre Function Space 5th Floor
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SESSION 12
Saturday 3:00pm-4:30pm
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12A
Strategy 5
Public Cultures and Local Identities: Promotion, Place, and the Popular
Chair: Russell Johnston Brock University
Ashlee Joyce McMaster University
Reclaiming the Dérive: The Tourist, the Souvenir, and the Search for the Utopic Everyday
Michael Ripmeester and Russell Johnston Brock University
Residents’ Attitudes Regarding Local Wine Marketing in the Niagara Region
Lindsay Moore York University
Touring Toronto: Experiential Narratives of City History, Culture and Identity
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12B
Strategy 7
Imagining Place in Speculative Fiction
Chair: Nicholas P. Greco Providence University College
Zak Edwards McMaster University
Tools of The “En-Eh-Me”:Grant Morrison’s Utopia and the Means to End There
Laura Wiebe McMaster University
Posthuman Entanglements and “Abnormal Ethics” in Sanctuary
Nicholas P. Greco Providence University College
“Just want to get home is all. That’s all I ever wanted”: Idiorrhythmy in Firefly
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12C
Upper Fallsview A
Race and Place in Music
Chair: Nick Baxter-Moore, Brock University
Emeric Viani Independent Scholar
Locating the Lost Borough: Understanding Space and Place in Rochester Hip-Hop
Eileen Simonow Heinrich-Heine-University
Constructing Liminality and Searching for “the Sacred”: Aspects of Ritualization in US-American Rap Music Videos
Michael MacKenzie York University
A Televised Revolution: Jazz, Race Politics, and Negotiating Art and Commerce on 1960s US Public Television
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