Dispersions 2014

La nourriture nous relie. Cette simple phrase révèle la manière dont la nourriture que nous consommons, que nous étudions, que nous refusons de manger ou que nous jetons aux poubelles, structure nos vies quotidiennes, tant au niveau local que global. Cette table ronde – incluant des universitaires, promoteurs, militants, organisateurs et artistes – explorera comment la recherche sur la nourriture dépasse les frontières de disciplines et d'institutions et prend racine à l'extérieur du domaine et des discours académiques. Cette conversation sera l'occasion d'explorer comment la pensée académique peut être traduite à travers la recherche sur la nourriture de manière à être utile à l'extérieur des structures universitaires.

“Nostalgic Cravings: Food, Diaspora, and the Contingencies of Belonging”
Marcos Moldes, Simon Fraser University 

“Agro-Ecological Polycultures: Field, Farm, and Food System Transformations”
Ryan D. Hayhurst, University of Guelph 

“The Contradictions of Dashboard Dining”
Jacqueline Botterill, Brock University 

“Not Far from the Tree’s Fruit Flows: Sharing as ‘Social Innovation’”
Petra Hroch, University of Alberta 

“The Spread of the Prison-Asylum-Complex: The Case of Bill C-31”
Emily Field, Western University 

“On Collateralized-Distributed-Speculative War: ‘Adaptive Dispersed Operations and Unrestricted Military Violence”
Neil Balan, York University 

“Warrior City: War Commemoration and Everyday Nationalism in Ottawa”
Tonya K. Davidson, Ryerson University 

“‘A Woman Under the Influence’: Inertial Affect and Neoliberalism”
Carolyn Veldstra, McMaster University 

“Neoliberalism, Happpy Affects, and Im/mobilities: Capacitating Disability as Wheelchair”
Kelly Fritsch, York University 

“From the Outskirts of Humanness: Locating Disability in Modernity”
Chelsea Jones, Joint Ryerson/York University

"I touch myself: Dirty Hands, Promiscuous Skinscapes, and Kinaesthetic Regulation"
Sheryl N. Hamilton, McMaster University

"Contractually Immunized: Guest Workers Programs in the Global North"
Greg Bird, Wilfrid Laurier University

"Alan Moore’s Metaporn: Lost Girls within the Discourse of Pornography"
J. Andrew Deman, Wilfrid Laurier University / University of Waterloo

“The Academic Fraud-o-Sphere: The Tensions of Global/Local Academic Cultural Nroms in Relation to the Digital Mediations of Academic Fraud, Plagiarism, and Bullying”
Jeremy Hunsinger, Wilfrid Laurier University 

“From Excellence to Innovation: Culture and the University in a New Global Context”
Gregory Cameron, Wilfrid Laurier University 

“Telos in Lotusland: Art and Politics in Vancouver’s Universalities in the Mid-1980s to Early 1990s”
Gary Genosko, UoIT 

“On the Hermeneutis of Multi-, Inter-, and Trans-Culturality”
Lynne Alexandrova, University of Toronto 

“Versioning and Diversity Practices in Montréal”

Vrajesh Hanspal, Independent Researcher 

“Migration, Memory, and Music: The Music of Afghanistan’s Hazara Diaspora”
Ali Karimi, McGill University 

“Rhizomic Rap: Representation, Identity, and Hip-Hop on Moccasin Flats”
Brendan Burrows, OISE, University of Toronto 

“Indigenous Intervention Projects: Film Contestations of Nation-State Commemorations”
Janice Hladki, McMaster University 

“The Figural Child and Colonial Futurist Logics in Learning to Teach: Disrupting Intimate Publics in Response to Residential School Testimonial Texts"
Lisa K. Taylor, Bishop’s University 

“Resistance and Reinscription: Being Indigenous in a Multi-Cultural Milieu”
James C. Butler, University of Calgary 

“Contingent Emplacements: Black Queer Diaspora(s) and the 'Transnational' Turn in American (Cultural) Studies"
Christopher Smith, OISE

“Dispersions of a Queer Kind”
Dina Georgis, University of Toronto 

“Global Interconnectedness and Precarity in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being”
Eleanor Ty, Wilfrid Laurier University 

“Unruly Complicities: Race, Gender, and the Making of FetishNationalism”
Amar Wahab, York University 

The Canadian Association of Cultural Studies and the Cultural Studies Program at Wilfrid Laurier University presents a screening of Dal Puri Diaspora followed by a discussion with director Richard Fung.

7:00pm, January 17, 2014 at the Original Princes Cinema, 6 Princess St. W., Waterloo, ON. Free-Open to the Public

The recipe for dal puri traveled with indentured workers from India’s Gangetic plain to British and Dutch Caribbean colonies in the 19th Century. In the 1960s the wrapped roti migrated from Trinidad to North America, where it is known as West Indian roti and is popular in cities like New York and Toronto. Shot in Toronto, Trinidad and India, Dal Puri Diaspora tracks dal puri’s remarkable passage across space and time, linking colonialism, migration and the globalization of tastes.

Richard Fung is a Trinidad-born, Toronto-based artist and writers. Among other honours, Richard has received the Toronto Art Award for Media Art, the Bell Canada Award for outstanding achievement in video art, and the Rockefeller and McKnight fellowships. He teaches at OCAD University.

Special thanks to Wilfrid Laurier University’s Global Studies Department, Dr. Mariam Pirbhai, and the Dean’s Office of the Faculty of Arts for their support of this event.

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L'Association canadienne des études culturelles et le programme d'études culturelles de Wilfrid Laurier University présentent la projection du documentaire Dal Puri Diaspora, suivie d'une discussion avec le réalisateur Richard Fung.

19h, 17 janvier 2014, au Original Princess Cinema, 6 rue Princess Ouest, Waterloo, Ontario. Gratuit – ouvert au public. 

La recette du dal puri a voyagé avec les travailleurs édentés de la plaine gangétique indienne jusqu'aux colonies britanniques et hollandaises situées dans les Caraïbes au XIXe siècle. Durant les années 1960, le wrap rotî a migré de Trinidad à l'Amérique du Nord, où il est connu comme rotî de l'Inde occidentale (West Indian roti) et où il est fort populaire, particulièrement à New York et à Toronto. Tourné à Toronto, à Trinidad et en Inde, Dal Puri Diaspora retrace le passage remarquable du dal puri à travers l'espace et le temps, reliant le colonialisme, la migration et la globalisation des goûts.

Richard Fung est un artiste et écrivain né à Trinidad et basé à Toronto. Il a notamment reçu le Toronto Art Award pour les arts médiatiques, le Prix Bell Canada d'art vidéographique, et les bourses Rockefeller et McKnight. Il enseigne à l'Université de l'École d'art et de design de l'Ontario.

Nous tenons à remercier le département d'études globales de Wilfrid Laurier University, Dr. Mariam Pirbhai et le bureau du Doyen de la Faculté des Arts pour leur soutien.

"The Internet that Lesbians Built: Networked Communication in Feminist Print Culture (1970-95)"
Cait McKinney, York University

"You Are What You Reblog: The Digital Aesthetics of Self-Expression"
Angel Callander, University of Guelph

“As a Customer, I am Livid”: Consumer Culture and Feminist Blogging"
Veronika Novoselova, York University

"From #RaceFail to Reconciliation: Digital Intimacy, Hashtags and the 2009 “Writing the Other” Debate in the Science Fiction Blogosphere"
Nathan Rambukkana, Wilfrid Laurier University

“Helping Hands, Building Brands: Power and Altruism in Volunteer Tourism”
Nathaniel Laywine, McGill University 

“Whiteness, Tropicality, and the International in Colombia”
Sara Koopman, Balsillie School of International Affairs

“‘Giving Is What Fuels Us’: The Co-optation of Youth into Conspicuous Giving through Life Writing”
Margrit Talpalaru, University of Alberta 

“The Dispersion of Masculinities: Fragments of Masculinity in Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997) and Grizzly Man (2005)”
Terrance McDonald, Brock University 

“Black Boys in White-Dominated Spaces: Pushing the Diversity and Inclusion Envelope in Canada”
Funke Oba, Wilfrid Laurier University 

“The ‘Hood’ Chronotope, Remediation, and Materialist Cultural Criticism”
John McCullough, York University 

Politics and Entertainment in the Age of Social Media: The Case of the Rob Ford ‘Drug Video’ Scandal
Matthew Flisfeder, Independent Researcher 

Moneyball, Nate Silver and the New Heroics of Number
Justin Sully, Universität Bonn (Germany)

Trouble and Strife? The Cultural Politics of Division within Cultural Studies under Thatcherism
Herbert Pimlott, Wilfrid Laurier University 

Rites of Dispersion: Wes Anderson, Neoliberalism, and the Ontology of Whim
Andrew Pendakis, Brock University 

“Lenny Bruce, In Substance: The Circulation and Arrest of an Obscene Comic”
Anna Candido, McGill University 

“Affect, Performance, and Ethnography in Queer Bathroom Monologues”
Sheila L. Cavanagh, York University 

“Transatlantic Journeys of the Button-down Shirt: Fashion, Nation, and Subculture”
Nathaniel Weiner, York University 

“Wild Side: Exploring the Autobiographical Map with Mötley Crüe”
Hélène Laurin, University of Ottawa 

“Impairment Dispersions within Cultural Studies”
Tanya Titchkosky, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) 

“Deleuzian Stuttering and the Black Bile of Cultural Studies”
Daniel Martin, Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford Campus

“Immobilization and Agency: Reflections on Chronic Pain in Catherine Bush’s novel, Claire’s Head”
Sabrina Reed, Mount Royal University 

“Reactionary Futures: Petrofiction and after Oil”
Brent Bellamy, University of Alberta 

“Petrofictional Belongings: Dispersions of Politics in Canadian Oil Imaginaries”
Adam Carlson, University of Alberta 

“Subjects of Oil? Energopolitics, Materials, and Agency”
Imre Szeman, University of Alberta

“Frontiers in Our Present: Dispersing with the Past to Re-Settle the Inner City”
Amber Dean, McMaster University

“National Parks and the Land Claim: Dispersing Settler Responsibilities through Wilderness Myths and the Emparkment of Nature”
Shaun Stevenson, Carleton University

“A Revitalization of Aboriginal Culture: Television as Secondary Orality”
Hannah Tough, Joint Ryerson/York Program 

“Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For: The First Vietnamese Canadian Novel?”
Donald Goellnicht, McMaster University 

"Between Resentment and Gratitude: ‘Post’-Refugee Affective Life”
Vinh Nguyen, McMaster University 

“Vietnamese Photos and the Reframing of Family”
Thy Phu, Western University 

“Deportation Diaspora”
Y-Dang Troeung, City University of Hong Kong

“The Correlation of Canadian Newspaper Coverage of Nanotechnology and Regional Development”
Ewa Dabrowska Miciula, Wilfrid Laurier University

“Constructing the Suicide: Narrative, Identity, and Suicide in Contemporary Media”
Gerald McKinley, Western University

“Representing China through Material Culture: Confucious Institutes and the Political Potential of Cultural Things”
Heather Schmidt, University of Alberta

“Culture as a Strategic Good in the Waterloo Region”
Danielle J. Deveau, Wilfrid Laurier University 

“Machines, Cinema, and Canadian Cultural Institutions”
Mark Hayward, York University 

“The Forensic Aesthetic of Economic Abandonment”
Tim Kaposy, Niagara College

Mimi Thi Nuguyen: Associate Professor, Asian American Studies, Gender and Women Studies, Conrad Humanities Professorial Scholar, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne

Damage Control elaborates upon liberalism as a practice and a principle for the rationalization of government, which claims at its heart freedom as the reference for its politics, as power’s problem. Indeed, an attachment to freedom is foundational to liberalism’s claim to a heightened attention to its presence or lapse, an attention that thereby continually commits free peoples to sustain or manufacture its presence in all directions, across the globe. Within a complex economy in which freedom and its others (such as bondage) or its fellows (such as security) are thus presumed transferable or exchangeable, examination, evaluation, calculation and choice unfold as liberal forms for organizing, assessing, and manufacturing freedom’s ideal presence and thereby correcting its absence. These forms configure persons, actions, and qualities such as freedom as objective, comparable and also governable. In other words, once the objects and subjects of liberal powers are standardized–for instance, freedom as rights, which can be exchanged in trade or political negotiations–they create possibilities for control and interference. Beginning with the gift of freedom and the wars that follow, Damage Control considers some of the forms then that are liberal violence’s moderating principle and uncanny justification.

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Mimi Thi Nguyen est professeure associée d'études asiatiques-américaines et d'études féministes. Elle est une Conrad Humanities Professorial Scholar à la University of Illinois à Urbana-Champaign.

Damage Control élabore que le libéralisme, comme pratique et comme principe de rationalisation du gouvernement affirmant que la liberté est au coeur des politiques, est la problématique du pouvoir. En effet, un attachement à la liberté est fondamental à la revendication du libéralisme, à savoir une attention accrue à sa présence ou à son absence, une attention qui force les peuples libres à soutenir ou fabriquer sa présence dans toutes les directions, à travers le monde. Dans une économie complexe dans laquelle la liberté et ses contraires (comme l'esclavage) ou ses semblables (comme la sécurité) sont tous présumés transférables ou échangeables, l'examen, l'évaluation, le calcul et le choix se déploient comme des formes libérales pour l'organisation, l'évaluation et la fabrication de la présence idéale de la liberté et ainsi aider à corriger son absence. Ces formes configurent les personnes, les actions et les qualités, par exemple la liberté, comme objectives, comparables et aussi gouvernables. En d'autres mots, une fois les objets et les sujets des pouvoirs libéraux standardisés – par exemple, la liberté comme un droit, qui peut être échangée dans des négociations commerciales ou politiques –, ceux-ci créent des possibilités de contrôle et d'interférence. Prenant comme point de départ le cadeau de la liberté et les guerres qui ont suivi, Damage Control considère quelques-unes de ces formes qui constituent les principes modérateurs et les justifications inquiétantes de la violence libérale.

“Copyright Modernization: Does It Means What It Says for the ‘Users’ of Art?”
Melanie Hayes, University of Guelph 

“International and Exchange Student Flows: Negotiating Cosmopolitanism in a Globalized World”
Christine Orlowski, Wilfrid Laurier University 

“Not in My Canada: The Case of the ‘Sikh Extremist’ in Canada”
Loveleen Kaur, Wilfrid Laurier University 

“The Church of Immaculate Conception: A Space for Religious Inculturation”
Breena Langevin, University of Guelph 

“Roma Refugees in Canada: Mapping and Patrolling the Borders of Canadian Multiculturalism”
Miglena Todorova, OISE 

“‘Unseen and Unheard’: The Ethnic Minority Community Arts Worker in Australia”
Sherene Idriss, University of Western Sydney 

“La construction discursive de la catégorie identitaire latinoaméricaine au Québec”
Guadalupe Escalante-Rengifo, Université Laval 

“More than a Counterpoint: Gaming in the Middle East and North Africa”
Jason Hawreliak, University of Waterloo

“Pussy Riot: Feminist Reverberations and Dispersions"
Elizabeth Groeneveld, McGill University 

“Feminist-ing America’s War on Terror: Laura Bush’s International Feminism and Neoliberal Epideictic”
Kim Nguyen, University of Waterloo 

“Building Critical Black Canadian Feminist Praxis as a ‘Tactician of the In-Between’”
Rosalind Hampton, McGill University 

“The Incommensurable Other: Feminist Response(ability) to Animal Alterity”
Miranda Niittynen, Western University 

“Affective Economies in Canada’s Post-Colonial Archives”

Aaron Gordon, York University 

“Inscribing the Future: The ‘Layering’ of Media Cultures in Construction of the Mackenzie House Narrative”
Alevtina Naumova, Joint Ryerson/York University

“New Critical Mappings of Dominion and State: The Komagata Maru and South Asian Canadian Historiographic Practice”
Mariam Pirbhai, Wilfrid Laurier University

“Capturing the Animal: Biological Sound Recording, Playback Experiments, and the Study of Non-Human Language”
Mitchell Akiyama, McGill University 

“The Future Is Wild: Dougal Dixon and the Imaginative Politics of Ecology”
Malcolm Morton, York University

“Do You See What I See?: Using Community-Based Participatory Research and Intersectionality Bharati Sethi (Wilfrid Laurier University), Frameworks to Explore the Work-Health Association for KAAJAL Women in Grand Erie”
Bharati Sethi, Wilfrid Laurier University 

“(R)evolution of Our Yoga Spaces: Using Yoga as a Tool for Critical Thinking, Taking Yoga off Our Mat”
Sarah Mostafa-Kamel, McGill University