Friday, March 12, 2010
Student Campus Centre, room SCC 115
Ryerson University
55 Gould Street

6:30 pm
Registration opens

7:00 pm
Opening remarks

Paul Couillard, Intersections 2010 conference chair

Steven Bailey, Program Director, York University
Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture

Colin Mooers, Program Director, Ryerson University
Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture


7:30 pm
Keynote address
Google You, Google Me: Encountering the Culture of Search
Ken Hillis
Professor of Media and Technology Studies
Department of Communication Studies
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Reception with a cash bar to follow.


Saturday, March 13, 2010
George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, room ENG-LG11
Ryerson University
245 Church St/corner of Gerrard

9:15 - 9:45 am
Registration and Breakfast

9:45 - 10:55 am
Panel A: Sensual Travelers
Chair: Sara Swain

Digesting Imperialism
Daphna Atias, University of Michigan

Performing Tolerance: The Politics of Self-Congratulation and the Study of "World Music"
Juliet Hess, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

Encounters in Music and Public Transportation
Samuel Thulin, Concordia University

10:55 - 11:15 am COFFEE BREAK

11:15 am - 12:05 pm
Panel B: Modeling Learning
Chair: Andrew Bieler

Museological Encounters: The Choreography of Touch at the Royal Ontario Museum
May Chew, Queen's University

Teaching to Digress: Artists' Educational Models & Reverse Pedagogy
Mark Clintberg, Concordia University

12:05 - 1:15 pm LUNCH

1:15 - 2:15 pm
Communication and Culture Peer Address
Unstable Radio, Respirations, and Reverie
Anna Friz, York and Ryerson Universities

2:25 –3:15 pm
Panel C: Imaginative Historiographies
Chair: Andrew Iliadis

The interstice of fact and fiction in Iranian cinema
Nima Maleki, European Graduate School

Encountering history: aesthetics, temporality, and relationality
Laura Thrasher, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

3:15 - 3:35 pm COFFEE BREAK

3:35- 4:25 pm
Panel D: Audiotopias
Chair: Iona Pelovska

Late 1990's, Senegal: radio waves encounter liberation and the field of development but forgot to mention it
Jeanne Dorelli, Concordia University

An Organization in Continuous Renewal: Negotiations of Canadian Space in Contemporary CBC Audio Distribution Models
Miles Weafer, York and Ryerson Universities

4:35- 5:25 pm
Panel E: Environmental Ethics
Chair: Sabine Lebel

"Silent" Alarm: The Mosquito Youth Deterrent and the Politics of Frequency
Mitchell Akiyama, McGill University

Encountering the "Ecopolis": Foucault's Epimeleia Heautou and Environmental Relations
Petra Hroch, University of Alberta


Saturday, March 13, 2010
Student Campus Centre, room SCC 115
Ryerson University
55 Gould Street

7:00 pm
Creative keynote presentation
Visceral encounters
Tagny Duff
Assistant Professor in Communication Studies
Concordia University, Montreal

8:15 pm
E-topia launch party (papers from previous conference) and reception


Sunday, March 14, 2010
George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, room ENG-LG11
Ryerson University
245 Church St/corner of Gerrard

9:15 - 9:45 am
Registration and Breakfast

9:45 - 10:55 am
Panel F: Dynamic Orientations
Chair: Christine Korte

Beyond Stasis: sensing bodies in motion through Ginette Laurin's La Chambre Blanche
Niomi Anna Cherney, Concordia University

The Cyborg Affect: Encountering Switch with Embodied Relation
Barbara Fornssler, European Graduate School

Queer Spaces and a Politics of Disorientation
Elizabeth Leinveer, University of Western Ontario

10:55 am - 11:15 pm COFFEE BREAK

11:15 am - 12:05 pm
Panel G: Re-Forming Identities
Chair: Sanja Obradovic

Working Through Post-Conflict Liminality: Rwanda and Northern Ireland
Jobb Arnold, Queen's University

Even though it was lawful and well intentioned, we're sorry.: Canadian identity and Canada's Indian Residential School apology
Jason Stabler, University of Victoria

12:05 - 1:15 pm LUNCH

1:15- 2:05 pm
Panel H: Impossible Communication
Chair: Sara Martel

Incorporeal Encounters and Affective Relationality in Krzysztof Kieslowski's film "The Double Life of Veronique"
Justin Derry, York University

An Encounter with the Dead and a Fantasy of Communication: Intersubjectivity of Elegiac Poetry
Toshiaki Komura, University of Michigan

2:15 - 3:05 pm
Panel I: Web of Power
Chair: Michael Dick

A State-Run Internet: Developing an Authoritarian Internet Ontology of Control
Andrew Hare, The New School

Technologies of Freedom? Deconstructing Online "Resistance" and "Empowerment" through The Case of Moroccan Social Movement's Use of the Internet
Mohamed Ben Moussa, Concordia University

3:05 – 3:30 pm COFFEE BREAK

3:30- 5:00 pm
Communication and Culture Roundtable
Prospects for Communication and Culture in Canada
A special roundtable discussion in recognition of the 10th anniversary of the creation of the Joint Program in Communication and Culture of York and Ryerson Universities
Chair: Matthew Flisfeder
Panelists: Roberta Buiani, Lewis Kaye, Ganaele Langlois, Tanner Mirrlees, Wade Rowland

5:00 pm
Conference Closing Remarks