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Unsettling Conversations Program Schedule

Friday Schedule

8:30-9:30

Registration

9:30-10:00

Invitation

10:00-11:30

Session One

Evicting Us from Ourselves: Research/Pedagogy/Conversation in places of memory, migration, and differences

Connie Blomgren, David Gibson, Erika Hasebe-Ludt, Karen Larter, Candace Lewko & Carl Leggo

University of British Columbia, University of Lethbridge

George Belliveau welcomes

11:30-12:00

Transition I

Body Affect: As it moves

Miriam Cooley & Elena Del Rio

University of Alberta

Kit Grauer welcomes

12-1:30

Lunch

1:30-3:00

Session Two

Aesthetic Representation as ‘Knowledge Mobilization’: Art for whom, over whose bodies?

Tara Fenwick & Judy Sillito

University of Alberta

Peter Gouzouasis welcomes

3:00-3:30

Break

3:30-5:00

Session Three

Starting with Stillness

Susan Walsh, Lorri Neilsen, & Allan Neilsen

Mount Saint Vincent University

Carl Leggo welcomes

5:30-7:30

Dinner with Table Hosts (all welcome)

7:30—dawn!

Evening Musical Café

Musicians Composing Narratives in A/r/t/ography

Peter Gouzouasis, Anne Marie LaMonde, Julia Nolan, Michael Toth, Chris Trinidad, & Lorna Ramsay

University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University

Rita Irwin welcomes

 

Saturday Schedule

9:00-10:30

Session Four

Engaging Sticky Moments in International and Collaborative Research Opportunities for Unsettling Conversations in the VIVA! Project (An International Arts-based Collaboration)

Deborah Barndt, Margo Charlton, Heather Hermant, Maggie Hutcheson, Laura Reinsborough, & Diane Roberts

York University

Gus Weltsek welcomes

10:30-11:00

Transition 2

“Repeated Narrations"

Alexandra Fidyk & Jason Wallin

National Louis University, University of Alberta

Kit Grauer welcomes

11:00-11:30

Coffee Break

11:30-1:00

Session Five

The Image of the Real Is the Real of the Image—Un/settling colonization through arts-based research?

Warren Linds, Joanne Episkenew, & Linda Goulet

Concordia University, First Nations University of Canada and Indigenous Peoples Health Research Centre, First Nations University of Canada

Lynn Fels welcomes

1:00-2:00

Lunch

2:00-3:30

Session Six

New Scholars Invitation

“The process of peeling away”

Marjorie Dunn, Kedrick James, Kathryn Ricketts, Vincent White, Sean Wiebe, Mia Perry, June Parnell-Parmley, & Joanna Szabo

Carmen Medina welcomes

3:30-4:30

Plenary Reflections

Carl Leggo and Celeste Snowber will lead a final unsettling conversation that we hope will be creatively collaborative and poetically inconclusive….