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SlotRoomDayTimePanel TitleChairFirst NameLast NameAffiliationPresentation TitlePanel TitlePresentation Type
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P1Wednesday9.00am-10.30amGerald Pratley AwardCleo Sallis-ParchetYork UniversityTracing Feminist Networks: A Constellation of Film Festivals, Media, and Activism Emerging from the 1973 Women & Film International Festival2026 Gerald Pratley Presentation
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B1Wednesday10.45am-12.15pmNon Professional Acting in Film: Performance and ExperienceLiz CzachUniversity of AlbertaJudith Crawley Directs her Children: Non-professional Film Performances and the Gendering of Directing
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B1Wednesday10.45am-12.15pmNon Professional Acting in Film: Performance and ExperienceCatherine RussellCatherineRussellConcordia UniversityPerformance and Experience in Mille Soleils
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B1Wednesday10.45am-12.15pmNon Professional Acting in Film: Performance and ExperienceAnetteGuseWorking with Nonprofessional Actors: Authenticity and Discovery in Valeska Grisebach’s Films
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B2Wednesday10.45am-12.15pmPsychotic FormsMila ZuoMila ZuoUniversity of British ColumbiaRaciohorror in a Dying Empire
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B2Wednesday10.45am-12.15pmPsychotic FormsRizvanaBradleyUniversity of California, BerkeleyThe Worldless Image
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B2Wednesday10.45am-12.15pmPsychotic FormsWilliam BrownUniversity of British ColumbiaThe White Supremacist Cinema of Christopher Nolan
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B3Wednesday10.45am-12.15pmNewfoundland and Labrador Cinema: Looking Forward, Looking BackMeghan RomanoUniversity of Toronto“Reading the Image to its Detriment”: Suture, Hospitality, and Colonial Intimacy in Welcome to Canada (1989)
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B3Wednesday10.45am-12.15pmNewfoundland and Labrador Cinema: Looking Forward, Looking BackJohn BodnerMemorial UniversityThe Edge of Everything: Empires, Imaginings, and the Death of Varick Frissell
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B3Wednesday10.45am-12.15pmNewfoundland and Labrador Cinema: Looking Forward, Looking BackRachel JekanowskiRachelJekanowskiMemorial UniversityA Matter of Place: Theorizing Rural and Place-based Film Histories through Gros Morne National Park
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B4Wednesday10.45am-12.15pmDocumentary Cinema IJanelle BlankenshipUniversity of Western UniversityEnvironmental Precarity in Ufa Documentaries: Die Seele der Pflanze (Soul of the Plant, 1922) and Die unsichtbare Wolke (Invisible Clouds, 1931)
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B4Wednesday10.45am-12.15pmDocumentary Cinema INiusha HatefiniaSimon Fraser UniversityBeyond the Visible: Documentary Cinema and the Imaginal Realm
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B4Wednesday10.45am-12.15pmDocumentary Cinema IScott BirdwiseScottBirdwiseOCAD UniversityAnimating Schizophrenia: Neurodivergence and Minor Documentary in the Work of Christopher Gilbert Grant
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B4Wednesday10.45am-12.15pmDocumentary Cinema IDarrellVargaNSCADLooking into the Abyss that is Capitalism: Brett Story's Union and The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
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B5Wednesday10.45am-12.15pmCinema & IdeologySophia HershfieldYork UniversityAesthetics of Fascism: Ideology and Affect in Hollywood War Films
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B5Wednesday10.45am-12.15pmCinema & IdeologyKanika LawtonUniversity of TorontoBlack Matterings: On the Overkill of Black Lives
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B5Wednesday10.45am-12.15pmCinema & IdeologyHamid YariHamid YariUniversity of SaskatchewanMobile Heterotopias: Cars as Temporary Sanctuaries in Kiarostami’s Ten and Panahi’s Taxi
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SB1Wednesday12.00pm-1.30pmKILL MAMAShabnam SukhdevYork UniversityScreen-based Event
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C1Wednesday1.30pm-3.00pmCinema, Politics, and the StateMatthew CroombsUniversity of CalgaryAlgérie année zéro (1962) and the Dialectic of Hope and Disenchantment
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C1Wednesday1.30pm-3.00pmCinema, Politics, and the StateNathan HolmesSUNY PurchaseThe Social Democratic Thriller
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C1Wednesday1.30pm-3.00pmCinema, Politics, and the StateErika BalsomErika BalsomKing’s College LondonThe Secret Mirror, or, The Disappearance of A.A.A. Offresi (1981)
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C2Wednesday1.30pm-3.00pmEverything You Never Wanted to Know about the New CanCon Point SystemCharles AclandCharlesAclandConcordia UniversityWorkshop
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C2Wednesday1.30pm-3.00pmEverything You Never Wanted to Know about the New CanCon Point SystemPeter UrquhartWilfrid Laurier UniversityWorkshop
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C2Wednesday1.30pm-3.00pmEverything You Never Wanted to Know about the New CanCon Point SystemJennifer VanderburghSaint Mary’s UniversityWorkshop
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C2Wednesday1.30pm-3.00pmEverything You Never Wanted to Know about the New CanCon Point SystemMaryArnattYork UniversityWorkshop
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C2Wednesday1.30pm-3.00pmEverything You Never Wanted to Know about the New CanCon Point SystemCharlesTeppermanUniversity of CalgaryWorkshop
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C3Wednesday1.30pm-3.00pmTracing Desire Lines: Online Worlds, Queer Embodiment, and the Politics of BelongingJulia LehmannJulia K. LehmannYork UniversitySteps Toward Elsewhere: Queer Tango as Alternative Imaginary
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C3Wednesday1.30pm-3.00pmTracing Desire Lines: Online Worlds, Queer Embodiment, and the Politics of BelongingJessie KrahnYork UniversityBye Sister: Audience Encroachment on the Production of YouTube Videos
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C4Wednesday1.30pm-3.00pmNew Media IKimNelsonUniversity of WindsorMust This be the Portal to our Destruction? Social Cinema as antidote to the Soul-Sucking Screen
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C4Wednesday1.30pm-3.00pmNew Media IJulia ChanUniversity of CalgaryMedia Collapse/Social Collapse: Livestreaming White Masculinity in the Screenlife Horror
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C4Wednesday1.30pm-3.00pmNew Media IJulia EmpeyJulia A. EmpeyUniversity College CorkWhat’s a girl to do in a digital world?: Neo-Bimboism, #TradWives, and AI Girlfriends
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C4Wednesday1.30pm-3.00pmNew Media INick HectorUniversity of WindsorBeyond the Cut - Artistic Implications of Assistive AI in Documentary Editing
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C5Wednesday1.30pm-3.00pmCanadian Cinema IPaul MoorePaulMooreToronto Metropolitan UniversityCanada on Film (NFB, 1963) and the Invention of Canadian Film History
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C5Wednesday1.30pm-3.00pmCanadian Cinema ITodd FraserUniversity of TorontoThe National Film Board's Tartanist Cinema
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C5Wednesday1.30pm-3.00pmCanadian Cinema ITamara de Szegheo Lang & Dan VenaQueen's UniversityBut It Had to End Well': Debating the Politics of Visibility in 1990s Canadian Lesbian-Driven Cinema
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C6Wednesday1.30pm-3.00pmQueer Media StudiesLilyInskip-ShesnickyCarleton UniversityQueer(ed) Blood and Homonationalism in NBC’s Hannibal
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C6Wednesday1.30pm-3.00pmQueer Media StudiesBears Rebecca FontéConcordia UniversityBefore You Know Where You Are: The Metro as a Phenomenological Contact Zone in The Crying Game
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C6Wednesday1.30pm-3.00pmQueer Media StudiesRoshaya RodnessRoshaya RodnessUniversity of TorontoIndifference at Play: Attenberg's Ludic Gestures
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C6Wednesday1.30pm-3.00pmQueer Media StudiesKD MerrittUniversity of New Brunswick“Well, I ain’t coming to Toronto! I’m in New Brunswick!”: Ahmed’s Queer Phenomenology (2006) and Drive Back Home (2024)
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MWWednesday3:30pm-5:00pmMartin Walsh LectureGermain LacasseDriven from Eden: Canadian First Nations within the History of Magic Lantern in Québec2025 Martin Walsh Memorial Lecture
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BLElks LodgeWednesday6:00pm-10:00pmMembers' Reception & CJFS Book LaunchAnnual CJFS Book Launch & Members Reception
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D1Thursday8.30am-10.00amWho Will Watch Our Films When We Graduate?Susan LordLuke KuplowskyYork UniversityOpen Field: Technological Play and Collaboration in the 1970s at York University
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D1Thursday8.30am-10.00amWho Will Watch Our Films When We Graduate?StephenBroomerUniversity of torontoAmateur Passion and Professional Ambition in the Student Film
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D2Thursday8.30am-10.00amWho Will Watch Our Films When We Graduate?Nicholas Avedisian-CohenQueen's UniversityPreserving film school: The conundrum of student films in university-based moving image archives
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D2Thursday8.30am-10.00amPeripheral Venice: from Global Festivals to a Cinema of LocalityAlberto ZambenedettiAlberto ZambenedettiUniversity of TorontoExcavating the Fondo Francesco Pasinetti in the Archivio Carlo Montanaro
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D2Thursday8.30am-10.00amPeripheral Venice: from Global Festivals to a Cinema of LocalityDorothy BarenscottKwantlen Polytechnic UniversityWhose Art World? Unpacking Glocalization and the Experience Economy at the 21st Century Venice Biennale
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D2Thursday8.30am-10.00amPeripheral Venice: from Global Festivals to a Cinema of LocalityLucaZampariniUniversity of TorontoTrade Union Curatorship at the Venice Film Festival
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D3Thursday8.30am-10.00amViews from the Border(s): Screening the Internal and External Margins of Canada from the Pacific to Montréal Michael GottMichael GottUniversity of CincinnatiBorderline Relations: Re-imagining and Reifying the Canada/US Border in Contemporary Quebec Cinema
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D3Thursday8.30am-10.00amViews from the Border(s): Screening the Internal and External Margins of Canada from the Pacific to Montréal Ylenia OlibetMcGill UniversityDocumenting Gentrification in Montréal: New Approaches in Contemporary Québec Documentary
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D3Thursday8.30am-10.00amViews from the Border(s): Screening the Internal and External Margins of Canada from the Pacific to Montréal Zoë LaksConcordia UniversityLiving in the Intertidal Zone: The Cost of Dispossession and the Legacy of Japanese-Canadian Internment in Seagrass (2023)
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D4Thursday8.30am-10.00amExperimental Film & MediaJung-Ah KimQueen's UniversityTactile Algorithms
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D4Thursday8.30am-10.00amExperimental Film & MediaSamuel ThomsonConcordia UniversityDistraction and Attraction: Soliciting and Disciplining Attention in Early Cinema and the Avant-Garde
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D4Thursday8.30am-10.00amExperimental Film & MediaAllan ThainAlanna ThainMcGill UniversityNight’s Edge: The Revisionary Sites of Saodat Ismailova
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D4Thursday8.30am-10.00amExperimental Film & MediaClintEnnsYork UniversityJuvenile Videolas: The Videos of the Royal Art Lodge
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D5Thursday8.30am-10.00amGeographies of Cinema and MediaEmeliaSteenekampConcordia UniversityCinematic, historical, and geographical destabilisation in Radu Jude’s Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
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D5Thursday8.30am-10.00amGeographies of Cinema and MediaSneha KumarConcordia UniversityState Fantasies, Platform Operations: Paatal Lok and Regulating Amazon Prime Video in India
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D5Thursday8.30am-10.00amGeographies of Cinema and MediaSarah Jihae KayeQueen's UniversityData Farms: Infrastructural Mediation, AI Futurism, and Settler-Farmer Subjectivities in Screen-based Agri-technology
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D5Thursday8.30am-10.00amGeographies of Cinema and MediaBrenda LongfellowBrendaLongfellowYork UniversityHarlequino’s Folly
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D6Thursday8.30am-10.00am
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E1Thursday10.15am-11.45amCrawley Films and Post-War Networks of Useful MediaHaideeWassonConcordia UniversityWorkshop
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E1Thursday10.15am-11.45amCrawley Films and Post-War Networks of Useful MediaCharles AclandCharlesAclandConcordia UniversityWorkshop
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E1Thursday10.15am-11.45amCrawley Films and Post-War Networks of Useful MediaRachelJekanowskiMemorial UniversityWorkshop
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E1Thursday10.15am-11.45amCrawley Films and Post-War Networks of Useful MediaPaulMooreToronto Metropolitan UniversityWorkshop
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E1Thursday10.15am-11.45amCrawley Films and Post-War Networks of Useful MediaConorr NorquayConcordia UniversityWorkshop
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E2Thursday10.15am-11.45amIn the Cut: Film Theory and Videographic Technique | Faire la Coupe : théorie du cinéma et essai
vidéographique		Shawn MalleyBishop's UniversitySlicing up Eyeballs: The Supercut as XCU
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E2Thursday10.15am-11.45amIn the Cut: Film Theory and Videographic Technique | Faire la Coupe : théorie du cinéma et essai
vidéographique		Gregory BrophyGregoryBrophyBishop's UniversitySlicing up Eyeballs: The Supercut as XCUvidéographique
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E2Thursday10.15am-11.45amIn the Cut: Film Theory and Videographic Technique | Faire la Coupe : théorie du cinéma et essai
vidéographique		JulieRavery-PilonUniversité LavalSurimpression et métissage culturel: Un essai vidéo sur Une langue universelle
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E3Thursday10.15am-11.45amTelevision & Game StudiesAndyLeeUniversity of TorontoThe Future, Yesterday: How Military Simulation Predicts Warfare
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E3Thursday10.15am-11.45amTelevision & Game StudiesAndrewBaileyConcordia UniversityFrom Mods to Memories: Teaching Game History and Culture through the Paratextual Archive
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E3Thursday10.15am-11.45amTelevision & Game StudiesSarah MathesonSarah MathesonBrock University"It's a Drama Competition for Everyone!": Representing the City in City-TV's Toronto Trilogy
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E3Thursday10.15am-11.45amTelevision & Game StudiesMynt MarsellusUniversity of TorontoWhen Words Are Called For: Cavell and Reality Television
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E4Thursday10.15am-11.45amGenre Studies ILouis-Paul WillisLouis-PaulWillisL'Université du Québec à Montréal“On the Threshold of Science Fiction: Minimal Speculation and Residual Dystopian Logics in The Handmaid’s Tale”
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E4Thursday10.15am-11.45amGenre Studies IJustin MaisonneuveMcGill UniversityDecluttering In-House Excess: Sonic Excess in Obayashi’s House
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E4Thursday10.15am-11.45amGenre Studies IKyleWhetmanYork UniversityBirth after Death: Maternal Bodies and Reproduction in 28 Years Later (2025)
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E4Thursday10.15am-11.45amGenre Studies IEva TheodoridouQueen's UniversityBeing-Toward-Life: The Monster’s Hand as an Existential Gesture
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E5Thursday10.15am-11.45amWorld Cinema IM. Mert ÖrslerUniversity of TorontoDizi’s Touristic Heterotopias
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E5Thursday10.15am-11.45amWorld Cinema IFélix VeilleuxUniversity of TorontoKarmen Geï (2001), Madame Brouette (2002), and the emergence of the new Senegalese inside globalization
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E5Thursday10.15am-11.45amWorld Cinema IYusi ChangTrent UniversityAt the Edge of Life? Rural Aging in Chinese Cinema: The Cord of Life and Gone with the Boat
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E5Thursday10.15am-11.45amWorld Cinema IOwen LyonsOwenLyonsToronto Metropolitan UniversityFrau Dr. Mabuse in the Era of Neoliberalism: Ulrike Ottinger’s Dorian Gray im
Spiegel der Boulevardpresse (1984)
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E6Thursday10.15am-11.45amNew Media IIMartin BonnardUniversité du Québec à MontréalDu programme interactif de l’ONF à l’intelligence artificielle générative : une
généalogie brisée
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E6Thursday10.15am-11.45amNew Media IIShannon BrownleeShannon BrownleeDalhousie UniversityThe ‘Body’ of Chris Landreth’s Work
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E6Thursday10.15am-11.45amNew Media IISophia De GoeyYork UniversityThe Ethics of the Slime Tutorial: Musical Theatre Bootlegs, Misogynist Barriers, and their Imprint on Online Fandom Culture
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E6Thursday10.15am-11.45amNew Media IIGeoffrey WebsterQueen's UniversityDark Carnival: Perceptive Control versus Subversive Antithesis in Racialized Zaniness
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SB2Thursday12.00pm-1.30pmRodeo Women: Behind the ScenesCelia Haig-BrownYork UniversityScreen-based Event
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CJFMSThursday12.00pm-1.30pmCJFMS/RCÉCM Information SessionMike ZrydWorkshop
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F1Thursday1.00pm-2.30pmAesthetics of Explanation in TV & Non-theatrical Media (1945-1985)Andrew BurkeUniversity of WinnipegInserts and Identifications: History, Aesthetics, and the CBC Winnipeg Slide Collection
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F1Thursday1.00pm-2.30pmAesthetics of Explanation in TV & Non-theatrical Media (1945-1985)Jennifer VanderBurghSt. Mary's UniversityEnvisioning Explanation in Margaret Perry’s Films (1945-1969)
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F1Thursday1.00pm-2.30pmAesthetics of Explanation in TV & Non-theatrical Media (1945-1985)Axelle DemusAxelle DemusMcGill University“Like an Animal in a Cage”: Capturing Gay and Lesbian Liberation on the CBC
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F2Thursday1.00pm-2.30pmPlaying with Media Borders: Critique at the Intersection of Games and FilmCaighlan SmithMemorial Universityou Will Be Updated Soon: Remediating Technohorror in Black Mirror’s 'Plaything' and Thronglets
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F2Thursday1.00pm-2.30pmPlaying with Media Borders: Critique at the Intersection of Games and FilmLiv CadwalladerMemorial UniversityThe Unreliable Auteur: Challenging Developer Intention in Game Commentaries
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F2Thursday1.00pm-2.30pmPlaying with Media Borders: Critique at the Intersection of Games and FilmBurçak AydinlikMemorial UniversitySeats of Hegemony: Manufacturing Consent in GTA V’s Diegetic Cinemas
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F2Thursday1.00pm-2.30pmPlaying with Media Borders: Critique at the Intersection of Games and FilmSarah ThorneSarah ThorneMemorial UniversityIt’s Fine' and Other Lies: Reimagining Pinocchio as an Antifascist Narrative
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F3Thursday1.00pm-2.30pmThe Interval and its Resonances: Concatenations of the In-BetweenAaditya AggarwalUniversity of TorontoDestination, Intermission: Cartographies of Grief and Desire in Eisha Marjara’s Desperately Seeking Helen