Individual presentation information is located in the drop-down menus under the session day and time, with locations in bold. You can use the links at the top of this page to move directly to a session menu. Links for pre-registration events will be provided upon conference registration.
Co-hort group information will be shared when you check-in at the registration desk and emails will be sent for online participants on Thursday.
Courtesy shuttles will be available between the hotel and library at the times listed in red in the program below. Any other transportation needs, including to and from Contemporary Calgary on Saturday evening, are your responsibility. We encourage you to coordinate with other attendees to share rides!
Click here for the hybrid/online-only program for online attendees!
Sessions are tagged by relevant theme(s). Tags are:
[A]: Art
[CW]: Creative Writing/Poetry
[F]: Film
[LE]: Liberal Education
[P]: Pedagogy
[S]: Sound
Thursday, March 14th Schedule
Hotel-Library Shuttle Service: 4:15-4:45pm
Registration 4:00-5:00pm
Registration and welcome table open at 4:00pm in the Atrium. They will be available throughout the conference.
TK: Thursday Keynote 5:00-6:30pm
Performing the Institution [A], Ideas Lounge and Atrium
Natalie Loveless (Professor of Contemporary Art & Theory, University of Alberta)
TE: Thursday Evening 6:30-8:00pm
Opening Reception & On-site Exhibitions, Ideas Lounge and Atrium
Film exhibit, Viz Classroom
Storytelling Trans Futures: Digital Stories Collection [F]
Tobias Wiggins
Art-Hive opening, Experience Lounge
Bailey Szustak, Artist-in-residence
Nurgul Rodriguez, Artist-in-residence
Suze Berkhout & Eva-Marie Stern, Art-Hive hosts
Sound-art installation, SLS Classroom A
Recording Booth [S]
Owen Chapman and jessie beier
Hotel-Library Shuttle Service: 7:45-8:15pm
Friday, March 15th Schedule
Hotel-Library Shuttle Service: 8:15-8:45am
Refreshments: 8:00-9:00am, The Bubble
Making/Conversation time: Open During Concurrent Sessions, Experience Lab
Breaks and Quiet time: As Needed, SLS Boardroom
FO: Friday Opening, 9:00-9:50am
Led by Tay Rogers, Ideas Lounge and Atrium and Zoom
The Art-Trade activity will be introduced in this session for anyone interested in participating!
F1: Friday 10:00-11:20am, Concurrent Sessions
F1A: Trans futures and multimedia-making session, [A], Immersion Studio
Moderator: Kathleen Sitter
Digital Storytelling Methodologies for Dreaming Trans Futures
Tobias Wiggins
Glitterpunk (remix) Participatory Session
Sofie Vlaad and Steph Elms
F1B: Participatory workshop [LE], [S], SLS Classroom A & B
Enacting Entanglements: Scores for the Ensemble
Amber Rose Johnson
F1D: Hybrid feminist philosophies and affect session, Viz Classroom and Zoom
Moderator: Mario Trono
Wittgenstein’s "deep feeling,” Cavell’s “odd sense”: A Feeling-based Philosophy of Deep Critique
Miriam Ambrosino
Felt Weapons: Wielding Affect to Harm
Erica Bigelow
Towards an Ethics of Affective Attentiveness: On Letting Ourselves Feel the Environmental and Social Costs of Our Most Impressive and Most Ordinary Technologies
Lilyana Levy
F1E: Hybrid participatory session, [A], [LE], Library Boardroom and Zoom
Moderator: Ela Pryzbylo
To the undefined yet existing and formed chorus
Xuan Huynh
Fragmented Personal Narratives: Locating Isolation and Identity in Marginalized Experiences
Billie Waller & Lilly Tran
F1F: Feminist philosophy participatory session, Formal Boardroom and Zoom
Moderator: Petra Mikulan
From temporal privilege to temporal plurality
Jill Stauffer
The Feminist Urge Towards Non-Being : The Political Possibilities of Temporal Alienation
Hannah Bacon
Susanne Langer’s Expressive Gestures in Dance. A Critique
Edyta Kuzian
Short Break: 11:20-11:30am
FK: Friday Keynote, 11:30am-1:00pm
Mapping the Body of Philosophy [A], Ideas Lounge and Atrium
Qrescent Mali Mason (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Haverford College)
Lunch lunch generously provided by Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, 1:00-2:30pm
F2: Friday 2:30-3:50pm, Concurrent Sessions
F2A: Literary poetics hybrid session, [LE], Viz Classroom and Zoom
Moderator: Andrea Pitts
Violet’s Impossible Garden: In search of a queer vital form to hold the entangled expansiveness of life
Roewan Crowe
Literary Robots at Work
Namrata Mitra
To Give Name to the Nameless: Poetry as Revolutionary Imagination (Audre Lorde's Poetics)
Caleb Ward
F2B: Feminist affects/selfhood hybrid session, [LE], ADC Boardroom and Zoom
Moderator: Irene Shankar
Rage Between Worlds: A Defense of Destructive Anger
Diyanshu Emandi
Defensive Anger as Healing: A Response to Systemic Racism
Layla Mayorga
How to Make/Do a Self? Toward a Feminist Philosophy of Living
Inese Radzins
F2D: Hybrid Experimental Making & Doing workshop, [CW], [LE], ADC Flexible Learning Lab and Zoom
Hundreds-ing Our Way Through: A co-writing workshop
Maya Hey & Anna Sigrithur
F2E: Hybrid session, [LE], Library Boardroom and Zoom
Moderator: Kristin Rodier
Building Queer Communities: Creating and Sharing Spaces for Queer Survival and Flourishing
Oli McGowan
The Art of a Philosophical Education: Towards a Curriculum of Identity, Meaning, and Community
Morgan Seate
Towards an Asexual Standpoint Epistemology
Daniel Haley
F2F: Online workshop, [A], Pre-Registration Required, Zoom
Making Queered Fictive Kin
Mary Lyn Nutting
F2G: Making & Doing session, [LE], [S] Pre-Registration Required, ADC Active Learning Classroom
Podcasting for Otros Mundos & Sonic Pedagogies for World-Traveling Beyond the Ivory Tower
Emma Velez
F2H: Making & Doing session, Pre-Registration Required, ADC Meeting Room
Feminist Rituals and Tarot Readings
Christiana Eltiste
Short Break: 3:50-4:00pm
F3: Friday 4:00-5:20pm, Concurrent Sessions
F3A: Indigenous/Decolonial/Asian American Feminisms session, [LE], Ideas Lounge
Moderator: Jebunnessa Chapola
Visiting: An Intergenerational Pedagogy of Foresight Within Indigenous Resurgence
maggie castor
This Feels Like Mine: Settled Affect and the Role of Settling Place
Sarah Kizuk
Navigating, Curdling, and Weaving: A Decolonial Feminist Account of Marginalized Social Identities
Youjin Kong
F3B: Disability/sexuality feminisms hybrid session, [LE], Library Boardroom and Zoom
Moderator: Elisabeth Paquette
We Have Always Been Everywhere
Steve Muir
Stammering Friction: Three Modes of Belonging and Public Discourse
Joshua St. Pierre and Danika Jorgensen-Skakum
F3C: Experimental Making & Doing hybrid session [F], Viz Classroom and Zoom
Decameron 2.0, an onsite exhibition
The Decameron Collective (Monique Tschofen, Jolene Armstrong, Angela Joosse, Caitlin Fisher, Kari Maaren, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhoff, Lai-Tze Fan, Siobhan O’Flynn, and Kelly Egan)
F3D: Feminist pedagogies participatory online session [LE], [P], Zoom
Moderator: Rachel Jones
A Feminist Question-Centered Pedagogy
Stephen Bloch-Schulman
You Might do it Wrong. But, Do it Anyway: Explorations in the Feminist Philosophy Classroom
Shaeeda Mensah
F3E: Hybrid experimental making & doing session, [A], Pre-Registration Encouraged, SLS Classroom A & B
A Multisensory Assemblage of our Fatness: Weaving the Affective Entanglements of Fat Politic across Distance
Carly-Ann Haney & Ramanpreet Annie Bahra:
F3F: Hybrid panel: Hope in Crisis: Sound Research for Troubling Times, [S], ADC Flexible Learning Lab and Zoom
Moderator: jessie beier
Sensing in Motion: Soundwalking on the Lachine Canal
Angus Tarnawsky
Musicking as a Radical Act of Hope: An Arts-Based Theoretical Reflection
Annabelle Brault
Hope as a Very Low Frequency Practice
Nik Forrest
Hospicing Hope in Education: Swansongs, sustainability and a pedagogical ethic of listening
Sean Groten and Stephanie Schuurman-Olson
F3G: Film viewing, followed by Q&A with participatory Making and Doing, [F] Immersion Studio
Moderator: Lauren Guilmette
NOA: A Music Film--a sonic & visual exploration of the relationship between hope and grief, featuring seven Chicago-
based artists
Tay Rogers
Short Break: 5:20-5:30pm
Hotel-Library Shuttle Service: 5:30-6:00pm
Dinner On Your Own
Saturday March 16th Schedule
Making/Conversation time: Open During Concurrent Sessions, Experience Lab
Breaks and Quiet time: As Needed, SLS Boardroom
Hotel-Library Shuttle Service: 8:15-8:45pm
SO: Saturday Opening, 8:45-10:00am
Led by Eva-Marie Stern, Ideas Lounge
S1: Saturday 10:00-11:20am, Concurrent Sessions
S1A: Online feminisms session [LE], Zoom
Moderator: Namrata Mitra
Racial Ambiguity and the Questionable Pleasures of the Racializing Gaze
Sabrina Hom
Micropleasures: Joy as Resistance
Lel Jones
Remaking a (Political) Self
Rebeccah Leiby
S1B: Experimental Making & Doing session, online [F], [LE], Pre-Registration Encouraged, Zoom
Make one, pass it on: Digital story-telling practice and creation as feminist Collaboration, and Care, with the Decameron Collective
The Decameron Collective
S1C: online queer party workshop, [A], [F], Pre-Registration Encouraged, Zoom
Counter-normative Kinship as Jouissance: Celebrating Co-Created Decolonial Space
Kelly Gawel, Sandra Stephens, and Ciclon Olivares
S1D: Making & Doing session, in-person, [A], SLS Classroom A & B
Image-Text: Feminist Experiments in Visual Processing
Lauren Guilmette
S1E: Hybrid feminisms panel, [LE], ADC Flexible Learning Lab and Zoom
Moderator: Lorraine Markotic
Witnessing as Sensing, Making & Doing*
Soudhamini
Feminist Critiques of the Metaverse: Bodyminds and Disabled Phenomenologies
Nicholas Osaka
Doing art, doing illness: Theorizing illness, embodiment, and artistic process through feminist new materialisms
Jen Sebring
*Please watch a short film before the session, available in the Conference Materials folder.
S1F: Hybrid critical disability feminisms panel, [LE], Viz Classroom and Zoom
Moderator: Tay Rogers
“The Atmosphere We Breathe”: Temporalities of Ableism
Ryan C. Parrey
Learning to Notice Inaccessibility, Transforming Ableist Habits
Corinne Lajoie
Needing as Doing, Needs as Made
Jules Wong
S1G: Participatory in-person workshop, [LE], [S], Pre-Registration Required, Education Classroom/Sound Studio
Messaging the Future: Lathe-Cut Records as Time Travelling Device
Owen Chapman & jessie beier
S1H: Participatory in-person workshop, [LE], [P], Education Lab/Classroom
Improvisation and Feminist Pedagogy: Cultivating Curiosity in the Classroom
Audrey Lane Ellis
S1I: Making & Doing sound-art session, [S], ADC Active Learning Classroom
Sound Art and Feminist Philosophy
Stephanie Koziej
Short Break: 11:20-11:30am
S2: Saturday 11:30am-12:50pm, Concurrent Sessions
S2A: Feminisms and sound studies session, [S], Education Classroom/Sound Studio
Moderator: Kristin Rodier
Serres’ Acoustic Topology and Its Relevance to Musical Instruments
Mickey Vallee Kimmapipiitsisinni- (Blackfoot for Compassion)
Making, Doing and Sensing at the Sonic Brink
jessie beier
S2B: Feminist aesthetics session & workshop, [LE], Viz CLassroom
Moderator: Lauren Guilmette
Prison abolition as collective poetry - transfeminismos populares in Latin America Political and Social Movements
Leyla Savloff
A feminist defense of the erotic imagination against library book bans and de-sexing the public
Jana McAuliffe
S2C: Hybrid epistemic violence/rethinking whiteness session, [LE], Library Boardroom
Moderator: Mark Migotti
“White Fraternities”: A Tale of Two Smotherings
William Moix
Self-Care and Anonymity: Seloua Luste Boulbina on Decolonization
Brendan Moran
All Pedagogy is Storytelling: Disrupting Settler Grammar of White Sentimentality
Petra Mikulan
S2D: Experimental Making & Doing session, [F], Pre-Registration Required, ADC Active Learning Classroom
Feminist Film Frontiers: An Exploratory Workshop Intertwining Medicine, Art, and the Patient Experience through Collaborative Filmmaking
Olivia (Autumn) Rennie
S2E: Hybrid participatory workshop, [A], Pre-Registration Required, Formal Boardroom and Zoom
Cultivating Queerly Ace and Aro Ways of Knowing, Looking, and Feeling
Ela Przybyło
S2F: Experimental Making Session online, [CW], [LE], Pre-Registration Required, Zoom
Experiments in Form—Lyric Poetry & Lyric Essays for Writing Not Philosophy
Ali Beheler
S2G: Hybrid Experimental Making & Doing Session, [A], [LE], Pre-Registration Required, ADC Flexible Learning Lab and Zoom
Waulking Together – Understanding Selfhood Through the Craft Object
Anna Mudde & Edith Skeard
Lunch 1:00-2:30pm
Come As You Are: Drop-In Hybrid Yoga Session, 2:00-2:30
Led by Emily Kotow, Viz Classroom
Join me for a break to breathe and stretch your conference muscles. This gentle and slow “yoga class” does not require any equipment, or even a change of clothes. 30-minutes of breathing and stretching– that will incorporate desks and chairs– is the perfect way to feel revived during a weekend of heady discourse.
S3: Saturday 2:30-3:50pm, Concurrent Sessions
S3A: Feminisms and sound studies hybrid session, [S], ADC Flexible Learning Lab and Zoom
Moderator: Mickey Vallee Kimmapipiitsisinni
Pointing in a Crooked Line: Corporeality and Gender Performativity in Musical Experience
Abram Capone
Decolonial Formations of Sound and Space
Sherry Ostapovitch
The John Brown Suite
Ryan Johnson
S3B: Hybrid feminisms session, [LE], Viz Classroom and Zoom
Moderator: Elisabeth Paquette
Bad Mathematics and Black Feminist Poetics of Gesture
Amber Rose Johnson
Schizophrenic Consciousness: To be Black and non-binary
Anwar Uhuru
Am I Playful? Lugones and the Decolonial Feminist Imaginary
Shannon Hayes
S3C: Hybrid trans feminisms session, [LE], Library Boardroom and Zoom
Moderator: Andrea Pitts
The Comedian’s Crisis and the Trans Heckler
Amy Marvin
Indexing the Unindexable: Creating the Transgender Media Portal
Kit Chokly, Jada Gannon-Day, Evie Johnny Ruddy
S3D: Participatory workshop, in-person, Pre-Registration Required, SLS Classroom A & B
Philosophical Bedtime Stories
Cressida J. Heyes, Emily R. Douglas, Kim Q. Hall
S3E: Experimental making & doing, in-person, [S], Pre-Registration Encouraged, Education Classroom/Sound Studio
Somatic Co-Attunement: A Workshop on Collectively Listening to the Body
Kristen Lewis
S3F: Hybrid session: Critical Canon Studies: What is “the Problem” of Philosophy’s “Early Modern Canon”?, [LE],
Formal Boardroom and Zoom
Moderator: Jamie Lindsay
Counter Pedagogies and the Early Modern Philosophy Course
Alice Sowaal
Philosophical Labour and the Making of the Canon
Rebekah Spera & David Peña-Guzmán
Philosophy as “World”-making: Inheriting the Canon as “World”-travel
Maria Mejia
Wynterian Reflections on the Modern Canon
Iziah C Topete
Hotel-Library Shuttle Service: 4:00-4:30pm
Break 3:50-6:30pm
Everyone heads to Contemporary Calgary!
Dinner is at the gallery, doors open at 6:00pm!
(10 min drive from Mount Royal University Library)
SP: Sonic Party, 6:30-9:00pm
Sound Art and Sonic Dance Party, [S], Contemporay Calgary's Grotto
Sound-art: Tay Rogers and Logan Peters
Movement-art: Guy Obrecht
Sonic arts dance party: jessie beier, as Secretary of the Future DJ
Sunday March 17th Schedule
Hotel-Library Shuttle Service: 8:15-8:45am
Breakfast and Refreshments: 8:30-9:30am, The Bubble
Su: Sunday 9:30-10:50am, Concurrent Sessions
SuA: Hybrid politics and feminisms session, [LE], Viz Classroom and Zoom
Moderator: Alice Sowaal
The Atmospheric Condition of the Border: Political Placemaking and the Migrant Subject
Daniel Estrada
“Ye Be the Clear Morag Yourself”: Postcoloniality and Weather Talk
Namita Goswami
Who Feeds the Hungry Body? Towards a Feminist Philosophy of Food
Eleanor Pinto
SuB: Hybrid literature and feminist philosophies session, [LE] ADC Flexible Learning Lab and Zoom
Moderator: Steven Engler
Reading into the lives of Invisible Women: How Penelope’s Weaving in the Odyssey allows us to examine the invisible labour of the philosopher
Emily Kotow
The novel Milkman as Making a Feminist Idiom
Lorraine Markotic
Making, Productivity, and Escape; or, Why I Don’t Write Philosophy about Quilting
Emily Lange
SuC: Hybrid session: Making With and Making Sense of Microbes, [LE], Formal Boardroom and Zoom
Cultures of cultures – indigenous fermenters and curd-making in Assam, India
Salla Sariola
Ongoing Song—making with and making sense of microbes in natural sake brewing
Maya Hey
Microbial Medi(t)ation: Multi-species Care Assembled by the Vagus Nerve
Riina Hannula
Making Ethics with Microbes: On Health, Care, Just Living and Better Dying
Tiia Sudenkaarne
SuD: Experimental Workshop, [LE] Pre-Registration Encouraged, ADC Active Learning Classroom
Rhizomatic evocations: Generating possible togethering-sensing-vibratings in an event
Joanna Szabo, Jennifer Pesigan, Genevieve Currie, and Sydney Burriss
SuE: Experimental Making & Doing workshop, in person, [F], [S], Education Classroom/Sound Studio
Singings (of all beings) that wander
Stephanie Schuurman-Olson and Michael MacDonald
SuF: Participatory Workshop in person, [S], Pre-Registration Encouraged, SLS Classroom A & B
Getting a Sound Education: Sound and Silence as Foundational and Social
Stacey Bliss and Bettina Maria
Short Break: 10:50-11:00am
SC: Sunday Closing, 11:00am-12:20pm
Debriefing, Sharing, and Closing Session, Ideas Lounge and Zoom
Led by Tay Rogers
This session will include the Art-Trade introduced in the Friday Opening session.
Hotel-Library Shuttle Service: 12:30-1:00pm