KEYNOTE
MOURNING, MELANCHOLIA, MOONLIGHT
JOHN PAUL RICCO
TDR MORRICE HALL
16.30-18.00
Followed by a reception
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John Paul Ricco is Professor of Comparative Literature, Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Toronto. He is the author of The Logic of the Lure and The Decision Between Us: Art and Ethics in the Time of Scenes (both published by University of Chicago Press). He has edited issues of Parallax and the Journal of Visual Culture, his essay, “The Commerce of Anonymity” was recently published in the journal Qui Parle, and other recent essays have been included in the collections: Nancy and the Political (Edinburgh); Porn Archives (Duke); and W.J.T. Mitchell’s Image Theory (Routledge). He is currently completing a monograph titled, The Intimacy of the Outside, of which his lecture at the Queer Research Colloquium is a chapter.
PROGRAM
09.30-09.40
Welcome Remarks
James Building, Room 301
(for all panel sessions)
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09.40-11.00
image, performance, identity
“The Urgent Promise of a Travesti Nosotrxs”
Giancarlo Cornejo (University of California, Berkeley)
"Hip-hop Feminism, the Music Video, and Social Pedagogy: Princess Nokia's 'Brujas' as Reclamation and Resistance"
Benjamin Nothwehr (McGill University)
“Better Worlds: Queer Alternatives in Contemporary North American Genre Television”
Lynn Kozak (McGill University)
Chair
Alanna Thain (McGill University)
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11.15-12.35
BODIES, SPACE, MOvement
“Be/longing?: Trans theory un-housed and un-selved: Undoing the self, gender, and the nation through the trans body”
Tai Jacob (McGill University)
“Moving Bodies, Shifting Terrain: Queer Community Sports and Possibilities of Disruption”
Claire Carter (University of Regina)
“’There’s No More’: Queer Women’s Geospatial Partner Seeking and Notions of Scarcity on Tinder”
Stefanie Duguay (Concordia University)
"Between Dog Love and Queer Passion"
Itzayana Gutiérrez (McGill University)
Kristina Parker (Concordia University)
Chair
Zack Marshall (McGill University)
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12.35-13.15
LUNCH
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13.15-14.35
MEdia, technology, and violence
“’Till I can get my satisfaction’: Viral Video and Online Solidarity in the Russian Federation”
Clinton Glenn (McGill University)
“The Neoliberalization of Queer Archives: Media Curation, Representation and (De)Marginalization at the Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives of Canada”
Mark Barber (Concordia University)
"Rape Culture Among Gay/Queer Individuals on Dating Apps"
Christopher Dietzel (McGill University)
Chair
Brian Lewis (McGill University)
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14.50-16.10
freedom and subjugation
“Queer Social Disruption and the Biopolitics of Orgasm”
Mary Bunch (McGill University)
“’(Deadly) Incorporation’: Trans Assimilation in Times of Section 377”
Liza Tom (McGill University)
“Screening the Tear: Black Counter-Cinema, Bad Parolees, and Spectatorships of Empathy”
Emma Flavian (McGill University)
Chair
Jenny Burman (McGill University)
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16.30-18.00
Keynote (TDR Morrice Hall)
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18.00-20.00
Reception (TDR Morrice Hall)