Stop by for a session or two at the CSCT Colloquium on today from 9:30 am to 2:20 pm. Check out what current students are working on! Full session details below: Cultural Studies and Critical Theory Work-in-Progress Colloquium 9:30-10:30 Session One: Interventions in Popular Culture: Affects and Effects Chair: Gena Zuroswki-Jenkins Tonya Lazdowski: “Identification, Genre and Supernatural Slash Fiction” Lakyn Barton: “Feeling About Feelings: Trauma, Repetition and the GIF” Timmy Mo: “It Gets Better as multivocal and contradictory: Non-Homonormative Potentials” 10:45-11:45 Session Two: Representing Violence: Aesthetics and Politics Chair: Peter Walmsley Kitty Toews: Empty Signifiers and Palatable Style: Aestheticized Violence in Drive and Only God Monika Semma: Examining Conceptions of Brutality and Monstrosity in Horror Films Tanja Grubnic: “The Spectre of Rape: Omission and Construction of Ethnicity in Representations of Rape During the Dissolution of Yugoslavia” 12:00-12:40 Session Three: Imagined Canadian Community: Power and Resistance Chair: Susie O’Brien Danielle Martak: “Of Punishment and Power: Interrogating the Implications of Tough-on-Crime Policies in Canada for Young People” Robyn Lew: “Communities of Resistance: The Spatial Politics of Occupy Toronto” 12:40-1:30: Lunch (provided) 1:30-2:30 Session Four: Representing and Interrogating Disability Chair: Anne Savage Jack Page: The Disabled Cyborg: Questioning Posthuman Theories of Technological Salvation Laura Grond: “Fantastic Medievalistic Bodies: (Re)presenting Disability in Game of Thrones Anna Domestico: The Production of (Dis)Ability: the Cripping Disease of Charles Burnss Black Hole
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