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June 1 | 1er juin

Résumé:

À la suite de Chris Milk et de Nonny de la Peña, certains des auteurs affirment que la VR est un médium efficace pour susciter l’empathie des utilisateurs, notamment grâce à ses propriétés immersives et interactives. Notre article vise donc à étudier comment les auteurs des œuvres de VR considèrent l’empathie. Revendiquent-ils l’usage de l’empathie en VR, et si oui, quels procédés mettent-ils en place ? La prennent-ils peu en compte ou bien la rejettent-ils absolument ? Dans la mesure où notre corpus d’étude est constitué d’œuvres de VR québécoises, nous nous demandons également s’il existe une spécificité québécoise de l’usage de l’empathie en VR. Après étude, nous affirmons l’idée que l’empathie en VR est un choix d’auteur, voire une posture d’auteur, à visée éthique.

Modérateur: Philippe Bédard (Carleton University)

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*Text-based English translation will be available for this talk and will run in the chat box simultaneously.

Join members of the MI working group as they present the process they undertook in the working group as well as the findings of their research this year and the survey they circulated in Winter 2021 in relation to possibly changing the name of the Association to reflect the diversity of media forms in our research and teaching . This discussion provides valuable context for the proposed motions the group will bring to the AGM on June 3.

• Co-chairs: Audrey Bélanger (Université du Québec à Montréal) & Michael Zryd (York University): “Introduction and Executive Summary”
• Janine Marchessault (York University): “Some Historical Context on Association name change”
• Sasha Crawford-Holland (University of Chicago): “FSAC Research Areas since 2010”
• Joceline Andersen (Thompson Rivers University): “Media Inclusion Working Group Survey Design and Findings”

This meeting will take place in “Break out Room: Café.” The Café exists in addition to regular meeting rooms for the panels. In Zoom you can find this room and other panels by clicking “break out rooms” in the “more” section of your Zoom interface.

1:00-1:15 PM — Break

1:15-2:45 PM — Panel A

A.1 Decolonial Approaches to Film and Media from the Middle East

Chair: Sara Saljoughi
Break Out Room: Blue

  • Zahra Khosroshahi (University of Toronto Scarborough) “Redefining the Veil in Contemporary Iranian Cinema”
  • Sara Saljoughi (University of Toronto) “Decolonial Relationalities and the Iranian New Wave”
  • Ramtin Teymouri (University of Toronto) “The Political Potential of Cinema and the Making of History in Larissa Sansour and Soren Lind’s Sci-Fi Trilogy”
  • Kay Dickinson (Concordia University) “Manifesto as Academic Praxis”

 

A. 2 Race and Representation in Hollywood and beyond

Chair: Julia Chan
Break Out Room: Green 

  • Dru Jeffries (Wilfrid Laurier University) ““Anyone Can Wear the Mask”: “616 Status” and Colorblind Racism in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”
  • Julia Chan (Carleton University) “Never have I ever”: Exposure, “Screenlife,” and Race in Unfriended and Searching”
  • Tobias Nagl (University of Western Ontario) “Confronting Settler Fantasies in Nazi Cinema – Race, Acclimatization and the “Colonial Women’s Question” in Eine Fau kommt in die Tropen (Harald Paulsen, 1938)”
  • Joceline Anderson (Thompson Rivers University) “Bad Blood: Serial Killers, True Crime and the Racial Imaginary in Shadow of a Doubt”

 

A. 3 Participatory Media, Interactive Media, and VR

Chair: Philippe Bédard
Break Out Room: Red 

  • Janelle Blankenship (Western University) “Universal Studio’s ‘U-Star™ Storybook Theatre’: 1970s Interactive Screen Pedagogy”
  • Philippe Bédard (Carleton University) “Empathy in VR: Two approaches”
  • David Han (York University) “Chronopoetics: A Trip Along a VR Möbius Strip”
  • Michaela Pnacekova (York University) “A Virtual Archive of Emotions: A Discussion”

 

a. 4 Film Theory Revisited

Chair: Louis-Paul Willis
Break Out Room: Yellow 

  • Félix Veilleux (University of Toronto) “Bazin et la Filmologie, ou le problème technologique du cinéma dans la France de l’après-guerre”
  • Louis-Paul Willis (Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue) “Adapting the Scopic Drive: Vision and the Gaze in the Televised Adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale”
  • Harrison Wade (University of British Columbia) “Composing Dreams: Anti-Realist CGI in Tetro and Twixt”

2:45-3:00 PM — Break

3:00-5:00 PM — Panel B

B. 1 A Virtual Archive of Emotions, Michaela Pnacekova

Break Out Room: Blue

This virtual experience will offer a mixed reality setting by incorporating all our senses and connecting them to a virtual space. Participants will be able to access this space individually at home through a VR headset or computer screen. The experience will form a world where participants will meet, and co-create by forming artifacts of their lives during Covid-19 isolation. Together, they will be able to draw, create sounds, talk, perform, record, insert, images, videos and build 3D sculptures. The intention is to create a virtual archive of Covid-19 pandemic isolation and at the same time create connection and intimacy among participants. 

 

B.2 PANEL: THE LIVING ARCHIVE: SITES, MAPS AND TERRITORIE

Chair: Janine Marchessault
Break Out Room: Green 

  • Carmen Victor (York University) “Isuma’s Iterative Living Archive”
  • Janine Marchessault (York University)  “Processing History as Place in the Films of The Madvo Collection and Home Made Visible”
  • Dorit Naaman (Queen’s University) “New Media Site-Specific Projects as Fractured Archives”
  • Susan Lord (Queen’s University) “The Archival Imaginaries and Situated Memory in Gloria Rolando’s Practice”

 

B.3 Roundtable: Production as Critical Engagement

Gregory Brophy and Steven Woodward (Chairs; Bishops University), Desirée de Jesus (University of British Columbia), Trevor Mowchun (University of Florida), Mario Trono (Mount Royal University)
Break Out Room: Red

This roundtable showcases a range of strategies (including videographic criticism, “master  copy” art, modal montage, and found footage filmmaking) that employ production to reconcile film  studies and film practice. These techniques embrace the rich potential of a massively expanded and  diversified film canon, they open access to filmmaking to all, they encourage creative praxis that  enables critical understanding, and they invite a fully dialogic mode of engagement of teachers and  learners. We contend that such concrete methods of analysis and engagement are especially vital in  this moment, when the shift to online teaching has dematerialized many of the traditional facets of  film studies courses. 

 

5:00-5:30 PM — Break

5:30-7:00 PM — Panel C

C. 1 L’expérience cinématographique : histoires, méthodes, esthétiques

Chair: Santiago Hidalgo (Director, CinéMédias Laboratory)
Break Out Room: Blue

  • Marie-Ève Hamel (University of Montreal) “Le monologue intérieur du spectateur comme fonction clé dans la compréhension d’un récit filmique”
  • Hiba Chaari (Université de Montréal) “Voyons-nous tous le même film ?”
  • Thomas Rapenne (University of Montreal) “Mektoub My Love: Canto Uno, expérience sensorielle et rythme”
  • Charlotte Dronier (University of Montreal) “Morpholab (2009) ou la densité éthérée des corps dansants sur nos écrans ”

 

c. 2 Film Philosophy

Chair: Kate Rennebohm
Break Out Room: Green

  • Joshua Harold Wiebe (University of Toronto) “The Wish to Assemble: Hegel’s Aesthetics and The Column”
  • Kate Rennebohm (Concordia University) “Who Could Want Such a World?: Get Out, Race, and (the History of) Enforced Skepticism”
  • Dan McFadden (University of Toronto) “Complex Causality in Canadian Cinema”

 

C. 3 Gender, Celebrity, and Figural Tropes

Chair: Kass Banning (University of Toronto)
Break Out Room: Red

  • Denise Mok (University of Toronto) ““Making Plain” as Performance Strategy: Women Stars and (Self)Transformation for Performance and Prestige”
  • Patrick Woodstock (University of Toronto) “Hollywood Forever? Decadence, Modernity, and Abject Stardom in Grande Dame Guignol Cinema”
  • Saira Chhibber (Queen’s University) “Poison Damsels: Sexuality, Desire and the Weaponization of Women’s Bodies in Hindi Popular Media”
  • Mehnaz Tabassum (University of British Columbia) ““I Love How Brown You Are!”: Hasan Minhaj, Tan France, and the Visibility of South Asian Muslim Men on Contemporary Screen Cultures”

 

C.4 Roundtable: Strategies and Struggles in On-Line Teaching During the Pandemic*

Darell Varga (NSCAD), Hayley Crooks (University of Ottawa), Wendy Donnan (York University), Aaron Taylor (University of Lethbridge), Graham Rumi (University of Lethbridge), Jessica Whitehead (University of Toronto), Cyrus Sundar Singh (Ryerson University), Brenda Austin-Smith (University of Manitoba).
Break Out Room: Yellow

This roundtable brings together multiple perspectives in order to identify concerns, share methods for curriculum adaptation and delivery, and offer strategies for resistance. This resistance can take various forms, including lobbying for changes to the way media materials are accessible in the classroom whether online or in-person (under fair dealing provisions of Canadian copyright law), and may also include the structuring of materials in a way that disrupts the tendency of online platforms to situate the student as a consumer of product.

*This roundtable runs 2 hrs (5:30-7:30 ET)


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June 2 | 2 juin

This year’s Martin Walsh Lecture will be deferred on request of our scheduled 2021 keynote speaker, Sylvia D. Hamilton who will instead present in 2022. In its place, we will host a dialogue event that spotlights the critical, scholarly, and creative work of a panel of emerging Black filmmakers, curators, critics, and scholars.  The event will include an introduction by Sylvia D. Hamilton and a moderated Q&A.

Cette année, la conférence Martin Walsh a été reportée à 2022, à la demande de la conférencière Sylvia D. Hamilton. Nous proposons en remplacement un événement de dialogue qui mettra en lumière le travail critique, académique et créatif d’un panel de réalisateurs, curateurs, critiques et savants noirs. L’événement inclut une introduction par Sylvia D. Hamilton, ainsi qu’une période de questions.

Featured Speakers / panélistes :

Dr. Ayanna Dozier (Fordham University and Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art)

Courtney Small (Founder of Cinema Axis blog, host Changing Reels podcast, and co-host of the Frameline radio show)

Sarah-Tai Black (Artistic Director of Saskatoon’s PAVED Arts, co-host of Netflix Film Club’s online video seriesBlack Film School)

Moderator / modératirce: May Chew (Concordia University)

 

To register for this webinar/ Pour inscrivez-vous à ce webinaire: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_J6MnzCmPRn6N2EMem7cG6Q 

11:30-11:45 am — Break

11:45-1:15 PM — Panel D

D. 1 Neoliberalism, Citizenship, Nation

Chair: Shelia Petty
Break Out Room: Blue

  • Aaron Tucker (York University) “The Biopolitics of Recognition within Facial Recognition Technologies”
  • Wendy Donnan (York University) “Not Very Canadian Nationalist”: Take One (1966-1979) and the Exclusionary Politics of Cultural Nationalism”
  • Sheila Petty (University of Regina) “Grand Illusion: Cinematic Narratives of Migration, Immigration and Exclusionism in Contemporary France”
  • Andrew Kirby (University of British Columbia) “A Cinema of Extreme Wealth: Parallax Empathy in Neoliberal Cinema”

 

D.2 Industry Writ Large

Chair: Paul S. Moore
Break Out Room: Green

  • Antoine Damiens (McGill University) “Subtitles as Re-Voicing: Film Festivals and the Globalization of Film”
  • Paul S. Moore (Ryerson University) “CanCom, SimSub, and Detroit as a Canadian Media Metropolis”
  • Ecem Yildirim (Concordia University) “Film Production Culture in Turkey: The Increasing Role of the Producer in Contemporary Turkish Art Cinema since the 2000s”
  • Kathryn Armstrong (University of Toronto) “Get Them Here, Or Don’t: International Terms and the TIFF Showcase”

 

D. 3 Eco Theory Panel

Chair: Mario Trono
Break Out Room: Red

  • James Leo Cahill (University of Toronto) “Belly to the Ground, Looking at Insects: Notes on the Entomological School of Cinema”
  • Germain Lacasse (University of Montreal) “La lanterne magique dans le commerce des fourrures en Nouvelle France (1690-1760): Une approche écohistorique”
  • Andrew Lee (University of Toronto) “Apocalypse Again and Again, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Global Warming”
  • Mario Trono (Mount Royal University) “All Cinema is Ecocinema: Consciousness, Film, Place”

 

Film screening and Q&A

Queer Coolie-tudes is a queer ethnography which utilizes twin concepts of opacity and queer coolie-tudes to construct its decolonial aesthetics and mode of storytelling that involves testimony and an oblique queer creole narration. Mirroring, Francophone Caribbean philosopher Édouard Glissant’s concept of opacity, to reclaim the slur of Coolie and compellingly visualize the  intergenerational lives, histories, creole identities, familial relations and sexualities of a diverse range of subjects (artists, academics, and activists)  from the queer Indo-Caribbean and Black Caribbean diasporas in Canada. The film is a nuanced poetics of queer Indo-Caribbean diasporic creole identities;  weaving mixtures of Black and Indian, Portuguese and Indo-Caribbean, Indo Chinese-Caribbean, genderqueer, disabled and elder body, and drag gender identity performance.

 

Q&A with Michelle Mohabeer (York University) to follow, moderated by Malini Guha (Carleton University)

 

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3:15-3:30 Pm — Break

Event co-sponsored by the Canadian Games Studies Association of Canada /  Co-organisé avec l’association canadienne d’études vidéoludiques.

In this talk I use the notion of continua to frame a discussion of the relations of colonialism and racial capitalism that structure Canadian society and institutional life within the Canadian university. I will discuss, and then shift from notions of institutional historical foundations and architectures, to focus on identifying the various elements and cycles through which coloniality continues to function within and as academia. I conclude by highlighting the potential for radical interventions from Black Studies, Indigenous Studies, and of interdisciplinary anticolonial solidarities among activist scholars.

rosalind hampton works as an Assistant Professor of Black Studies in the Department of Social Justice Education at the University of Toronto. Her areas of teaching, research and supervision include Black radical thought; Black artists and critical-creative practice; Black women’s life writing; social relations in higher education; student activism; solidarity and coalition building; and critical ethnographic and arts-informed methods of inquiry. Her recent book, Black Racialization and Resistance at an Elite University (UTP, 2020) examines racialized social relations in Canadian higher education through a study grounded in Black people’s experiences at McGill University since the late 1950s.

 

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This event invites racialized scholars to participate in a discussion led by Matthias Domingo Mushinski, chair of FSAC’s AR-D Working Group. Our conversation will review recent directives that FSAC has implemented in response to a notice of motion at the 2020 AGM “to rethink and broaden terms of diversity with reference to the by-law to address questions of Black, Indigenous, People of Colour (BIPOC) participation or lack thereof,” including the formation of the AR-D Working Group, the withdrawal from Congress 2021 in solidarity with the Black Canadian Studies Association, and a series of motions that will be presented at the 2021 AGM. Correspondingly, this meeting is not to suggest that racialized scholars need FSAC when, in fact, the opposite is true: FSAC needs the participation of racialized scholars. We will freely discuss how FSAC can strengthen its divestment in the project of whiteness going forward, along with actionable commitments that the association must make in order to earn the trust and contribution of racialized community members.

 

To register for this webinar/ Pour vous inscrire à ce webinaire: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nvGMnnCgQoCidqAhFKkdsA

5:30-7:00 PM — Panel F

F. 1 Archive Panel

Chair: Daniel Keyes
Break Out Room: Blue

  • Liz Czach (University of Alberta) “To Instruct as Well as Entertain: Expeditionary Films and Travel Lectures at the National Geographic Society”
  • Catalina Briceño (Université du Québec à Montréal) “New Approaches to Digital Management of Francophone Audiovisual Heritage ”
  • Daniel Keyes (UBC Okanagan) “Fading Databases: Anglo Canadian Film and Television Heritage”
  • Andrew Burke (University of Winnipeg) “Modern Campuses and Techno-Utopian Promises: Canadian University Promotional Films 1968-72”

 

F. 2 Post-Colonialism

Chair: Philippe Mather 
Break Out Room: Green

  • Stephen Monteiro (Concordia University) “Channeling Colonialism: Livestreaming Walt Disney World and the Visualization of Western Conquest”
  • Amanda Greer (University of Toronto) “”The Order That Is to Come”: Civility, Politeness, and the Aesthetics of Colonial Order in The Harvey Girls (1946)”
  • Philippe Mather (Campion College, University of Regina) “Shanghaied in Singapore: Orientalism and Genre in Film”
  • Kester Dyer (Carleton University) “(Post)colonial/(Post)national Zombies: Otherness and Robin Aubert’s Les affamés”

 

F. 3 Documentary

Chair: May Chew
Break Out Room: Red

  • Fallen Matthews (Dalhousie University) “The Time Element: Romantic Agrarianism in a Contemporary Context”
  • May Chew (Concordia University) “Spectral Moves: Haunting in Diasporic Documentary”
  • Erin Nunoda (University of Toronto) “One Day Pina Asked… Queer Documentary and Other Non-Disclosures”

 

F. 4 Canadian Media

Chair: Michael Zryd
Break Out Room: Yellow

  • Brett Robinson (Brock University) “Bret Hart, A “True” Canadian Hero: Celebrity, Masculinity, and Irony in NFB’s Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows”
  • Stéfany Boisvert & Anouk Bélanger (Université du Québec à Montréal) “Popular hosts and new transmedia strategies in Canadian online television”
  • Michael Zryd (York University) “Historiographic Issues and ‘Northern Relations’ in Histories of Experimental Film and Media in Canada”

 

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June 3 | 3 juin

Abstract: 

In the post-Confederation era, the government of Newfoundland and Labrador sought the services of sportsman, bush pilot, conservationist, and filmmaker Lee Wulff to produce a number of 16mm travel films to promote the province as a tourist destination. As  provincially-sponsored films, they offer an example of what Haidee Wasson and Charles Acland call “useful cinema,” insofar as they promote Newfoundland and Labrador as an escape from modernity and as a place that is itself modernizing. This presentation demonstrates how Wulff’s films reflect a tension between synchronization and syncopation with Western modernity that circulated in Newfoundland and Labrador at the mid-century, while maintaining a critical eye on its (neo)colonial registers. By highlighting provincial-sponsored film as an underexplored area in Canadian film history, this presentation will show how Wulff’s films offer us a history of the present, as the tensions it explicates still have bearing on recent provincial tourist films, which promote the province as a place that has fully embraced its syncopation

Moderator: Shana MacDonald (University of Waterloo)

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*Une traduction en français basée sur du texte sera disponible pour cette conférence et fonctionnera simultanément dans la boîte de discussion.

12:00-12:15 PM — BREAK

12:15-1:45 PM — Panel G

G. 1 Remembering/Forgetting/Nostalgia

Chair: Julia Empey
Break Out Room: Blue

  • Zoë Laks (Concordia University) “A Violin That Can Recall Its Past Lives: Object Memory and the Posthuman Aesthetics of Optical Illusion in Le Violon Rouge”
  • Julia Empey (Wilfrid Laurier University) “”The Electric Things Have Their Lives, too”: Memory and Labour in The Stepford Wives and Blade Runner”
  • Ruochen Bo (University of Toronto) “History, Art and Life: Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Taiwan Trilogy”
  • Claire Gray (University of Edinburgh) “The Walkman Film and The Lure of Nostalgia”

 

G. 2 Television

Chair: Brenda Austin-Smith
Break Out Room: Green

  • Jacqueline Ristola (Concordia University) “”Walk around in Circles”: Television Animation, Portability, and Televisual Logic”
  • Makenzie Zatychies (Wilfrid Laurier University) “What About All The Doppelgängers? Deconstructing Doubles and Genre Tensions in Westworld”
  • Brenda Austin-Smith (University of Manitoba) ““She’s So Unusual”: The Autist in Stranger Things”
  • Colin Crawford (Concordia University) “Apple TV+: Data, Capital, and Platform Television”

 

G. 3 Queer Theory

Chair: Marta Boni
Break Out Room: Red

  • Steven Greenwood (McGill University) “”Don’t Be Gay in Indiana:” Queer Urban/Rural Relations in The Prom”
  • Gina Dascal (University of Manitoba) “Self-Fashioning Styles of Flesh: Playing with Gender Performance in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre”
  • Marta Boni (Montreal University) “Ugh! Le potentiel dissident du grotesque dans I May Destroy You (HBO 2020)”
  • Michael Thorn (Ryerson University) “Queerying Mental Illness in Film Adaptations of Bram Stoker’s Dracula”

 

G. 4 Indigeneity

Chairs: Cassidy Korhonen & Tyson Stewart
Break Out Room: Yellow

  • Sara Côté-Vaillant  (University of Montreal) “La Rivière sans repos: un regard féminin inuit”
  • Kyler Chittick (Queen’s University) “Resurgent Prophecies, Fugitive Fabulations: Queer Temporality and the Sovereign Erotic Body in Kent Monkman’s Film A Nation is Coming”
  • Cassidy Korhonen & Tyson Stewart (Nipissing University) “Whose Responsibility Is It?: Indigenous Reactions and Responses to Hollywood Hegemony”

 

Join Federation President Gabriel Miller and Board Member Deanna Reder to discuss their commitments to EDID in the Federation in response to the final report of the Congress Advisory Committee on EDID.

This meeting will take place in the main Zoom meeting link, in the “Café” breakout room

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Rejoignez le président de la Fédération Gabriel Miller et la membre du conseil d’administration Deanna Reder pour discuter de leur engagement en manière d’EDI dans la Fédération en réponse au rapport final du comité consultatif du Congrès sur l’EDI.

Cette rencontre aura lieu sur le même lien de rencontre Zoom utilisé tout au long du colloque, plus précisément dans la salle de discussion « Café »

Please join us for this year’s annual general meeting where we will provide executive reports, working group reports and vote on several motions put to the membership. Please ensure your membership is up to date to participate in voting. The agenda, reports, and motions will be circulated to the membership via the FSAC listserv by May 20th, 2021, for review. 

 

Vous êtes invités à vous joindre à l’assemblée générale annuelle au sein de laquelle  nous présenterons les rapports de l’exécutif, des groupes de travail, et où nous soumettrons plusieurs résolutions à un vote de la part des membres. L’ordre du jour, les rapports  ainsi que les résolutions seront acheminés aux membres via courriel d’ici le 20 mai 2021.

 

To register for the AGM | Pour vous inscrire à l’AGA:

4:15-4:30 PM — BREAK

Please join us for a virtual celebration of the conference and a showcase of books published over the last two years.

 

This event will be held in the same ‘space’ as the AGM so follow the link above to register for both.

 

Vous êtes invités à vous joindre à la clôture de la conférence qui inclura la présentation des livres publiés au cours des deux dernières années.

Cet événement se tiendra dans la même salle virtuelle que l’AGA; il suffit d’utiliser le même lien (voir ci-haut).

 


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