R/Evolution Conference, March 22-24, 2002, Montreal

J.A. deSeve Cinema

1400 de Maisonneuve West, LB 125, Concordia University

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Mark Saunders

Abstracts, presenter profiles and full programme can be found at:
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OPEN TO THE PUBLIC - no cost to attend

Friday, March 22nd

6:00 – 10:00 PM

Opening Event (open to the public)

Graduate Students’ Association, 2030 Mackay Street, main floor

SM(art) Vernissage, Pre-registration wine & cheese

Saturday, March 23rd

9:00-9:15 AM

Greetings and Opening Remarks

J.A. deSève Cinema, 1400 De Maisonneuve Ouest, LB 125

James Jans, Director, Humanities Doctoral Program

Claude Bedard, Dean, School of Graduate Studies

9:15-10:30

Social & Political R/Évolution

Kathy Walker, Social and Political Thought, York University

“The Political Touch”

Michel Luc Bellemare, Mass Communication, Carleton University

“Anarchism, The Spectacle of Power, and Aesthetic Guerrilla Warfare”

Josh Weale, Communication and Culture, York University/Ryerson University

“Mass Media, Mass Mensonge: Mainstream Representation and
Anti-Globalizationist Resistance”

Chair: Mark Saunders

15 min break

10:45-12:00

Representation as R/Évolution

Alana Baskind, Humanities Doctoral Program, Concordia University

“Flashback/1955/Backlash: diffracting the colour red through Nicholas Ray's
Rebel Without a Cause”

Brian Crane, Humanities Doctoral Program, Concordia University

“Martini Politics: Allegorical Procedures in the Queer Found Footage Film”

Jason Morgan, Joint Program in Communication, Concordia University

“Dying (Corpo)Realities: Necrophilia, Desire, and Disembodiment in
Contemporary Cinema”

Chair: Shawn Bailey, Assistant Professor, Studio Arts, Concordia
University

12:00-1:00 Lunch break

1:00-2:30

Technological R/Évolution

Iain McKenna, MA, Philosophy, Concordia University

"The Unnatural Growth of the Natural: An Examination of Hannah Arendt and
Digital Technology"

Meredith Browne, Humanities Doctoral Program, Concordia University

“Postwar Evolution of Clinical Photography”

*Jennifer Willet, Humanities Doctoral Program, Concordia University

“Biotechnik Corp.”

Joel McKim, MA Media Studies, Concordia University

“Hooked on Cryonics, or Why I Want to Be Buried in the Permafrost”

Chair: Ted Hiebert, PhD Humanities, Concordia University

15 min break

2:45-4:00

Rethinking R/Évolution

D.B. Yanofsky, Department of English, McGill University

“Isaac Rosenberg: The Beardless Prophet”

Jeff Noakes, History, Carleton University

“Failed Option: Manhattan and City-Centre Air Service, 1965-1972.”

Isabelle St-Amand, Special Individualized Program, Concordia University

“Carnavalesque et justice: Allen Ginsberg devant les tribunaux”.

Chair: Jason White, Communications, Concordia University

15 min break

4:15-5:15

Sounds Like R/Évolution

Owen Chapman, Communications, Concordia University

“These Revolutions Will Not be Televised: Aura made Aural”

Anna Friz, Communications, Concordia University

"Stay Detuned or How I Learned to Love Static"

Chair: Joel McKim, Communications, Concordia University

NOTE: Conference attendees are encouraged to bring their own radio to this
session!

7:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS


(J.A. deSève Cinema)

Mark Saunders, documentary filmmaker and media-activist

“DO UTOPIANS WATCH TV?”

Sunday, March 24th

10:00-11:30

Cultural R/Évolution

Alexandre Pirsch, Anthropology, Concordia University

“Culture” as a political tool for betterment. The case of the Amazigh
(Berber) cultural militancy in Morocco”

Jason White, Media Studies, Concordia University

“To what end: Revolution and Rebellion in Bolivia from 1950 to 1980”

Raluca Marie Fratiloiu, Communications, Concordia University

“Gypsies from Romania: On the Barrier between Pariahs and Citizens”

Robert Robertson, Fine Arts (film production), Concordia University

“Revolution and Evolution: The Kingdom, an Opera about the Haitian
Revolution.”

Chair: Jeff Noakes, History, Carleton University

15 min break

11:45-1:00

Re-enacting R/Évolution

Robyn Diner, Communication Studies, Concordia University

“Ironic R/evolutions: Unruly Figures in Contemporary Native Performance”

Kahente Horn-Miller, Anthropology, Concordia University

“The Warrior Flag: Kanienkehaka history and the Great Law of Peace”

Grace Woo, Law, University of Montreal

“D/Evolution of the Canadian Constitution: Forgotten British Basics & the
Haudenosaunee Cure for Despotism”

Chair: Katja MacLeod (aka Kessin), PhD Humanities, Concordia
University

1:00-2:00

Cameron Straughan,

“2001: A Waste Odyssey” 2 min., 44 sec.

Lunch break

2:00-3:30

Gender R/Évolution

Shauna Yael Lancit, English, Concordia University

“Gender In-laws: The Strained Relations of Queer Theory and Transgender
Liberation in Kate Borstein’s Gender Outlaw.”

Jean Marie McDonald, Social Anthropology, York University

“Struggle(s) for Meaning(s): Approaching the body with Cixous and Butler”

Terry Provost, PhD. Humanities Doctoral Program, Concordia University

“Stagnation in evolving discourses: Blackness, Femaleness and Animality”

Michael Kaiser

“Reinventing and Redefining Motherhood and Fatherhood in Late Modern
Society”

Chair: Robyn Diner, PhD Communications, Concordia University

15 min break

3:45-5:00

Sexual R/Évolution

Sean Thomas Gauthier, Theory, Culture & Politics, Trent University

“The Strange Case of Dr. Reich and Mr. Willy”

Isabelle Perreault, Histoire, UQAM

“Théoriser l’hétérosexualité, approches historiques contemporaines.”

Sylvain Duguay, Humanities Doctoral Program, Concordia University

“Bare With Me: The Politics of Barebacking”

Chair: Jason Morgan, PhD Communications, Concordia University

15 min break

5:15-6:30

Re/mapping R/Évolution

Kinga Araya, Special Individualized Program, Concordia University

“Grounded”

Sarah de Leeuw, Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Northern British
Columbia

“Sites of a Poetic Map: A Creative Meditation on the Geography of
Northwestern British Columbia”

Arshi Dewan, Special Individualized Program, Concordia University

“The Transformational Power of Cloth”

Katja Kessin aka MacLeod, Humanities Doctoral Program, Concordia University

“2001 Earth Odyssey”

Chair: Meredith Brown, PhD Humanities, Concordia University

9:00 “33 1/3”

Wrap-Up DJ Event @ the Salla Rosa

4848 St. Laurent

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Gulden Hacimevlut, Eastern Mediterranean University, Northern Cyprus

“Redefining the Identity of People who migrated from Turkey to North Cyprus”

*Paper available upon request