THURSDAY MAY 8th
WELCOME DESK 12:00pm-5:30pm
SESSION 1 Thursday 1:00pm-2:30pm
1A
Transgressive Bodies
NIAGARA
CHAIR: Joseph Medaglia
Marsha Ellis Carleton University
Judging Female Sexual and Criminal Deviance: A Critique of the TV Series Orange is the New Black
Cecily Devereux University of Alberta
Strippers go to the movies: Hollywood’s complicated relationship with erotic dance
Nathan Wong University of Lethbridge
Love in the Retrospect: Love Dolls and the Performance of the Normative Romance
COFFEE BREAK 2:30-3:00
SESSION 2 Thursday 3:00pm-4:30pm
2A
Popular Fiction I: Spies, Thrillers, Detectives
OKANAGAN WEST
CHAIR: Christine Mains
Theo Finigan University of Alberta
“I Want to Make You a Proposition”: Espionage and Homoeroticism in John Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
Mark Leier Simon Fraser University
From Travis McGee to Jack Reacher, From Reaction to Resistance: Politics and Class in the Detective/Thriller novels of John D. Macdonald and Lee Child
2B
Fandom and Reception: Fans, Anti-fans, Fanfiction
NIAGARA
CHAIR: Jessica Bay
Jennifer Caswell University of Calgary
Exploring Welcome to Night Vale’s Unexpected Popularity: A Case Study in Audience Reception
Angie Chiang University of Calgary
Fan and anti-fan? How Walking Dead comic fans react to the AMC television series
Jessica Bay University of Lethbridge
Fifty Shades of Fanfiction: How Fanfiction is Becoming Acceptable
BREAK 4:30-5:00pm
SPECIAL SESSION 5:00pm-6:00pm
NIAGARA
Navigating the Job Market: Graduate Student Professional Development Session
MODERATOR: Malisa Kurtz
PARTICIPANTS: Scott Henderson, Chris Richardson, Danielle Deveau
CONFERENCE OPENING RECEPTION 7:00-9:00pm
BALLROOM
FRIDAY MAY 9th
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST 8:00am-9:00am
WELCOME DESK 8:30am-12:30pm and 2:00pm-5:00pm
SESSION 3 Friday 9:00am-10:30am
3A
Discourse and Creativity in Popular Music
CHIANTI
CHAIR: Scott Henderson
Christophe Levaux Université de Liège
Minimalisme / Punk : quand la musicologie façonne le genre
Bernie Murray Ryerson University
Jazz Music as Popular Culture: Improvisation, Identity, and Creative Thinking
Scott Henderson Brock University
Sweet Child O’ Adorno’: Cover Songs, Meaning and the Musical Text
3B
War in British Culture
OKANAGAN EAST
CHAIR: Chris Richardson
Kimberly Mair University of Lethbridge
The Wolf Child and the Aerial Bomb: Evacuation Rumours in WWII Britain
Glenn R. Wilkinson University of Calgary
Fugitives, Criminals, and Coppers: War and Crime in Post-War British Film, 1945-1960
3C
Transnational Television
NIAGARA
CHAIR: Robert Cagle
Jeff Brassard University of Alberta
Nannies and Daughters and Kitchens, Oh My!: Russian Sitcoms and the Transformation From Post-Soviet Copycats to Aspiring Global Players
Ronak Ghorbani Nejad York University
Representations of the Iranian-American in Reality TV: The Case of Shahs of Sunset and the Disruptive Narrative of A$A Soltan
Robert L. Cagle University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dressed To Kill: Mapping The Melodramatic Mode of Korean Television Drama
3D
Politics, Media, Marketing
TUSCANY
CHAIR: Lisa Hanslip
Catherine Burwell University of Calgary
Stinging injustice: Pepper spray cop and the emergence of political remix literacies
Erin Murphy Carleton University
Appearing Authentic: An Exploration of the Marketing Industry’s Role in Consumer Culture
Lisa Hanslip University of Calgary
Popular Culture Says “I Do”: The Commodified Identity of Engaged Couples
3E
Celebrity, Theatre, Performance
OKANAGAN WEST
CHAIR: Richard Harrison
Charlotte Fillmore-Handlon Concordia University
One by One, the Ghosts Arrive: Celebrity Circulation and Bootleg Aesthetics in I am a Hotel
Patrick Finn University of Calgary
Performing Popular Culture: Why Theatre is More Popular than Ever
Richard Harrison Mount Royal University
Hockey as Canadian Tragic Theatre — and Slap Shot as Comedy’s Reply
COFFEE BREAK 10:30am-11:00am
SESSION 4 Friday 11:00am-12:30pm
4A
Theory and Performance
NIAGARA
CHAIR: Graham Potts
David Owen York University
The Paradox of Liveness: Presence and Intermediality in performance
Cameron Crookston University of Toronto
Retro Activities: Drag Performance as Utopian History
Christopher Vanden Berg University of Toronto
Object Thinking, Identity, and Purpose: Baudrillard and Adorno
4B
Popular Music and Fashion
CHIANTI
CHAIR: Aidan Moir
Grace Paizen University of Winnipeg
“Enigma Popstar is Fun, She Wear Burqa for Fashion”: The Cultural Importance of Lady Gaga’s Fashion Statements
Nicholas P. Greco Providence University College
Dance as David Bowie’s Fashion
Aidan Moir York University
Negotiating Authorship and Artistic Appropriation in Promotional Culture: The Politics Constructing Rihanna’s Status as Fashion Icon
4C
Space, Place and the Everyday
TUSCANY
CHAIR: Ondine Park
Kaela Jubas and Kimberly Lenters University of Calgary
Graffiti as Pedagogical Disruption in Everyday Life
Benjamin Prus McMaster University
Writing in the Future Tense: Utopia, the Body, and Graffiti
Ondine Park University of Alberta
Estranging Sites of Non-Place and “Non-Space” in Visual Representations of the Suburban Imaginary
4D
Fan Culture in Practice
OKANAGAN EAST
CHAIR: Mark Leier
Ofer Berenstein University of Calgary
Let’s Get Serious – Changing the rational of programming in fan conventions
Mylynn Felt University of Calgary
Fan Power: A Matter of Freedom or Free Labour?
T.A. Pattinson University of Calgary
All Work and No Play: The Affective Labour of Youtube Video Game Playthroughs Meets the Limits of Copyright
4E
Quand le vélo fait tourner le monde: mythes et réalités dans l’histoire littéraire du cyclisme / Cycling makes the world go round: myths and realities of the literary history of cycling
OKANAGAN EAST
CHAIR: Marc Benson
Jean Levasseur Bishop’s University
Vélo, liberté et émancipation au Québec, au tournant du 19e siècle
François-Xavier Eygun Mount Saint Vincent University
De la parodie au mythe : le Tour de France dans tous ses états
Marc Benson Collège militaire royal du Canada
Ulysse au grand cœur, Achille aux pieds légers et Roland le preux : champions cyclists
FRIDAY LUNCHEON 12:30pm-2:30pm
BALLROOM
Featuring Keynote Speaker
Cristina Stasia, PhD
AGM 2:30pm-3:00pm
COFFEE BREAK 3:00pm-3:30pm
SESSION 5 Friday 3:30pm-5:00pm
5A
Popular Music and Culture: Revolution, Preservation, Circulation
CHIANTI
CHAIR: Alexandra Boutros
Valérie Savard University of Alberta
Freedom-Bind or Freedom-Bound?: Finding Revolution in Janelle Monáe’s “New Other” Android Body
Melissa Avdeeff Independent Scholar
A Tribe Called Red: Aboriginal Popular Music and Social Media as a Potential Site of Cultural Exchange and Preservation
5B
Bodies, Identities, Discourse: Gendered Humour and Fattening Queer/Queering Fat
NIAGARA
CHAIR: Cecily Devereux
Èva Morin Carleton University
You’re Really Funny… For A Girl: Erasing Comedy’s Divisive Gender Boundaries
Matt Ventresca Queen’s University
Seriously Not Serious: Ironic Masculinities in Contemporary Popular Culture
Kristin Rodier University of Alberta
Drop Dead Diva and Fat Queer Femininity
Cindy Baker University of Lethbridge
The Taboo Body Visible: Contemporary Art Strategies for Increasing Visibility for Fat Bodies, Queer Bodies, and Bodies Marked as “Other”
5C
Work and Play: Representations & Practices
OKANAGAN EAST
CHAIR: Mylynn Felt
Aiden Buckland University of Calgary
Persistence through Paratext: Where the Game Goes When Players Stop Playing
AnneMarie Dorland University of Calgary
Children At Play, Geniuses At Work: TV Representations Of The Cultural Producer
5D
Popular Media & Health: Risk, Difference, Diagnosis
TUSCANY
CHAIR: Kaela Jubas
Carol-Ann Farkas MCPHS University
Tinkering with the Diagnosis: Celebrating and Exploiting Difference in Popular Television
Sarah Dorchak, Delia Dumitrica and Edna Einsiedel University of Calgary
(Bio)Risk of Experts and Mutant Viruses: Viral risks and so-called experts in Hollywood films
Kaela Jubas, Angie Chiang and Dawn Johnston University of Calgary
From Pop to Political: How Canadian Viewers Relate Grey’s Anatomy to Canadian Medicare
5E
Sports Cultures
OKANAGAN WEST
CHAIR: Jean Levasseur
Marilou St-Pierre Université Concordia
Journalisme sportif et sport-spectacle: culture masculine et réactivation des normes de genre
Chaseten Remillard University of Calgary
Hockey Hieroglyphs: Hockey Art, Orality, and Canadian Visual Culture
Wade Nelson University of Winnipeg and Diane Dechief University of Toronto
Kicking Ass and Taking Names: Alias Construction in Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby
SATURDAY MAY 10th
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST 8:00am-9:00am
WELCOME DESK: 8:30am-1:00pm
SESSION 6 Saturday 9:00am-10:30am
6A
Popular Fiction II: Fears, Hauntings, Pathologies
OKANAGAN WEST
CHAIR: Dawn Bryan
D. Marcel DeCoste University of Regina
Craster and the Pathological Reproduction of Houses in Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire
Julia Pasieka Mount Royal University
Mortality and the Power of Fear: A Hobbesian Analysis of the Harry Potter Novels
Dawn Bryan University of Calgary
Haunting Houses: the Masculine and the Domestic in Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto and Stephen King’s The Shining
6B
Film and Television: Exclusion, Subversion, Exploitation
NIAGARA
CHAIR: Malisa Kurtz
Madison Trusolino Simon Fraser University
Landscapes of Exclusion: Racial Melancholia in the cinema de banlieue Film La Haine
Susan Johnston University of Regina
Serendipity, Subversion, and Sexploitation: Reading HBO’s Game of Thrones as Adaptation
6C
Comics and Graphic Novels I: Power, Pleasure and Trauma
OKANAGAN EAST
CHAIR: Robin McDonald
Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze MIT
The Uses of Pleasure and V for Vendetta
Alex Link Alberta College of Art and Design
Love, Lust and Lucre in Leela Corman’s Unterzakhn
Jocelyn Froes McMaster University
Here and Now: the Temporality of Desire in Alison Bechdel’s Funhome and Lee Edelman’s No Future
6D
Museums: Exhibiting Popular Culture
CHIANTI
CHAIR: Hélène Laurin
Olivier Champagne-Poirier, Jason Luckerhoff et Marie-Claude Lapointe UQTR
Culture populaire et culture légitime : Manifestation d’une double réticence dans le cadre d’une étude des non-publics du Musée québécois de culture populaire
Hélène Laurin University of Ottawa
Narrative-making and a museum exhibition: the case of Europunk
6E
Online and Social Media
TUSCANY
CHAIR: Delia Dumitrica and Georgia Gaden
Chris Richardson, Erin Grable, Taylor Loveless, Andrea Simmonds – Young Harris College Media Studies Research Collective Young Harris College
Scroogled? Finding Race, Gender, and Sexuality In The World’s Most Popular Search Engine
Alois Sieben Simon Fraser University
Your Account Has Been Suspended: Genre Control in the Message Board Medium
Delia Dumitrica and Georgia Gaden University of Calgary
The ‘real deal’: strategic authenticity, politics and social media
COFFEE BREAK 10:30am-11:00am
SESSION 7 Saturday 11:00am-12:30pm
7A
Canadian Cinema
NIAGARA
CHAIR: Andrew Nelson
George Melnyk University of Calgary
Retro-Biopics: The Multiple Selves of Guy Maddin’s Autobiograflics
Andrew Nelson Montana State University
The Searchers… in Manitoba: Alien Thunder and the Canadian Western
7B
Women, Feminism and Representation
CHIANTI
CHAIR: Cristina Stasia
Jasmine Elliott University of Calgary
“Genderism” and Joss Whedon: Post-Feminism in Popular Culture
Lucinda M. Rasmussen University of Alberta
Mad About the Genre: The Crisis of Postfeminism and Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Cristina Stasia University of Alberta
Gun Shy: Feminism, Media Coverage and the Firearms Debate
7C
History and the Historical in Popular Culture
OKANAGAN WEST
CHAIR: Derek Foster
Jonathon Iverson Oxford
Out of the Queen’s Closet: The Private, the Public and the Popular in Seventeenth-Century Cookery Books
Shirley McDonald University of British Columbia
Imaginary Cowboys and “Indians” – Myths And History in Guy Vanderhaeghe’s The Englishman’s Boy and Bert Sheppard’s Memoir Spitzee Days
Dere Foster Brock University
Walking into history with Laura Secord: Performing national and local popular culture
7D
Video Games and Cultures
TUSCANY
CHAIR: Tess Jewell
Delia Dumitrica University of Calgary
Video games as subcultures: Final Fantasy between meaning- and profit-making
Joshua Noble University of Alberta
Emerging adults and the domestication of console-based video games in the home
Tess Jewell York and Ryerson Universities
“Brain-damaged like a fox”: Dis/ability in Portal 2
7E
Comics & Graphic Novels II: Correlations and Transformations
OKANAGAN EAST
CHAIR: Alex Link
Tom Miller University of Calgary
The Adventures of Wallace and Clark: Superheroic Correlations in Stevens’ ‘Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction’
Nicole Slipp and Dan Vena Queen’s University
Tying the Knot: How Superman and Wonder Woman Went From Practicing Kink to Being Vanilla
LUNCH 12:30pm-2:00pm
Meeting of the Executive Committee
SESSION 8 Saturday 2:00pm-3:30pm
8A
Popular Music in Canada
CHIANTI
CHAIR: Melissa Avdeef
Marie-Chantal Falardeau and Stéphane Perreault UQTR
Bye Bye mon cowboy! Analyses des valeurs dans les chansons francophones « numéro 1 » au Québec
Alexandra Boutros Wilfrid Laurier University
Crisis, Can Con, and Contest: Cartographies of Canadian hiphop
Afarin Mansouri Tehrani York University
A Survey through Canadian Children’s Opera
8B
Theorizing Popular Culture
OKANAGAN WEST
CHAIR: Graham Potts
L Dugan Nichols Simon Fraser University
Debating the Value of Popular Expression: John Fiske vs. Jodi Dean
Ray op’tLand University of Calgary
Reject the Hatred: Zombie Narratives as Institutionalized Misanthropy
Graham Potts Trent University, Brock University, and York University
The ‘Hunger Games’ is our Hunger Games: Some Mediations on Baudrillard and Virilio
8C
Sounds and Spaces: Popular Culture and the Environment
NIAGARA
CHAIR: Andrew Nelson
Richard Sutherland Mount Royal University
The Wilderness, the Microphone and the Kiosk: Marketing the sound of nature in Dan Gibson’s Solitudes
Mario Trono Mount Royal University
Indigenous Shooting Locations for Hell on Wheels and Transformers
8D
Queering Popular Culture
TUSCANY
CHAIR: Kristin Rodier
Robin McDonald Queen’s University
“You’re Standing on My Neck”: Queer Anti-Social Theory in MTV’s Daria
Joseph Medaglia Ryerson University
Queer Remnants; Appropriating Love
Angie Fazekas Queen’s University
Queer and Unusual Space: Queerness and Race in Slash Fanfiction
8E
Popular Fiction III: Inclusions and Absences
CHIANTI
CHAIR: Jasmine Elliott
Mark A. McCutcheon and Bob BarnetsonAthabasca University
No Future for Labour? On the Absence of Unions from Science Fiction
Olena Berezovska Picciocchi Université de Corse Pascal Paoli
Salamone corse et Solomonar roumain: la magie pastorale et la figure de Salomon
Christine Mains Mount Royal University, University of Calgary
Urban Mythologies: The Alethic Dyadic World in Charles de Lint’s Memory and Dream
COFFEE BREAK 3:30pm-4:00pm
SESSION 9 Saturday 4:00-5:30pm
9A
Popular Music: Technologies and Transformations
CHIANTI
CHAIR: Marsha Ellis
Mohammad Sadeghi Esfahlani and Kobra Elahifar University of Calgary
Technologies of Hope and the Transformation of Governmentality: A comparative case study of Iranian pop songs in context of post-2009 Presidential Elections in Iran
Mickey Vallee University of Lethbridge
From interface to automata: Cyborg ontology, incorporeal transformations, and Glenn Gould’s radical recording practices
9B
Science Fiction Film and Television
NIAGARA
CHAIR: Malisa Kurtz
Michele Braun
Corporate Clones: Taking Human Resources a Bit Too Seriously
Heidi Bickis University of Alberta
Being Human in Ultraviolet: Learning from the Televisual Vampire
Malisa Kurtz Brock University
“Affective Assemblages” Between Spectator and Screen
9C
Canadian Popular Culture
TUSCANY
CHAIR: Miles Weafer
Danielle J. Deveau Wilfrid Laurier University
Defining the Canadian Popular
Lauren Matus and Caryn E. Neumann Miami University of Ohio at Middletown
The Banana Bacon Elephant Ear: Food at Canadian Fairs and Festivals
Miles Weafer
From space-biased broadcaster to space-biased archivist: the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and podcasting