Student Conferences and Symposiums
Graduate Conference
Each year, the first year cohort of the Media Studies Masters program at Concordia University organizes a Communications and Media Studies Graduate Conference.
Situated Emergences, 2024
Situated Emergences aims to strengthen flourishing networks of knowledge production from current MA and PhD students across media-related disciplines. Drawing on Donna Haraway’s foundational philosophy of Situated Knowledges, we selected the name Situated Emergences to challenge the all-seeing-eye of abstract objectivity and emphasize the specificity of emergent phenomena as they materialize.
The conference particularly speaks to three strands of research presenting critical contributions to the media studies field. Projects exploring cultural shifts and analyses of technology underscore the dynamic nature of contemporary social change, offer lenses to understand the intricate interplay of embodied and structural oppression, and help us navigate uncertain futures. As such, this conference will highlight boundary-pushing research exploring how variously contextual presents and otherwise emergent futures are made possible.
To learn more about our conference, please feel free to check out our Carrd page https://situatedemergences2024.carrd.co/. For any further questions, feel free to email us at SituatedEmergences@protonmail.com
Organizers:
- Jenn Boulay
- Alba Clevenger
- Isabela Cossio Bedoya
- Akira Oikawa
Keynote Speaker:
- Dr. Murphy, University of Toronto
Imagined Bodies, 2023
Concerns around bodies are central to today’s politics, as debates swirl about who and what institutions have control over our bodies. The conference explored preconceptions about what a body can be and how our embodied perspectives alter how we view the world.
Organizers:
- Guillaume Jabbour
- Natalia Espinel-Quintero
- Aviva Majerczyk
Keynote Speaker:
- Sheena Wilson, PhD, University of Alberta Professor of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
Failure: Systems at their Limit, 2022
As global systems are pushed to their limits and our bodyminds are forced to grapple with the shifting world around us, we invite you to get curious about failure, its nuances and contradictions, its possibilities.
Organizers:
- Ana Bilokin
- Justin Roberts
- Cori Volfson
- Hana Woodbridge
Keynote Speaker:
- Jack Halberstam
Graduate Symposium
Each year the Masters of Media Studies program hosts a symposium for second-year students to present their research projects in process. The symposium is a chance for second-year students to share their research with the first-year students and for students to practice their presentation skills.
2024 Winter Symposium
The 2024 symposium took place on 26 January 2024 from 1pm to 4:30 pm.
1:15pm |
Natalia Espinel-Quintero |
Digital Resistance in Colombia: Tracing the Visual and Affective Reverberations of the 2021 National Strike |
1:30pm |
Hannah Jamet-Lange |
Working Title for now: “sad girlies how are we doing rn??”: Queer Youth’s Affective Engagements with ‘Sad Girl Music’ on TikTok |
1:45pm |
Aviva Majerczyk |
Hunger Hurts: An Exploration of #Femcel Discourses on TikTok |
2:00pm |
Özgem Elif Acar |
#Simstagram: Performativity of Authenticity, Gender and Influencer Identities of The Sims Players in Instagram’s Postfeminist Lifestyle Culture |
2:15pm |
Break |
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2:30pm |
Camille LaPointe |
Parenting in the age of clicks: Exploring parental mediation strategies and search engine influence in francophone Québec (working title) |
2:45pm |
Serena Lisus-Reiter |
TBD |
3:00pm |
Fiona King |
DIY Spaces in the Montreal Mile-End Music Scene |
3:15pm |
Warsame Isse |
Creating and Embodying Somali Sonic Imaginaries |
3:30pm |
Break |
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3:45pm |
Ali-Usama Zreik |
Checkpoint: Designing Apartheid |
4:00pm |
Miguel Soriano |
Queering the Analysis of Filipino-Canadian Diasporic Art: A Critique of Canadian Multiculturalism Discourse |
4:15pm |
Alexandre Prince |
Fashion of a Thousand Hills: a case study of the garments industry in Rwanda |
| 4:30pm | Guillaume Jabbour | Soundwalking as a means of building bridges and community |
The 2023 symposium took place on 27 January 2023, from 1 pm to 4:15 pm.
| Start | End | Speaker | Title | |
| 13:00 | 13:15 | Samuel Garland | The (Inter)Planetary Future | |
| 13:15 | 13:30 | Maxime Brunet | Precarious Sounds | |
| 13:30 | 13:45 | Lucas Thow | Alternative Digital Music Platforms and Curatorial Practice (working title) |
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| 13:45 | 14:00 | Mairin Miller |
Untitled |
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| 14:00 | 14:15 | Cori Volfson | Eat the Future: Speculative Engagements with Recipe and Futurity | |
| 14:15 | 14:30 | Beatrice Sunderland | TBD | |
| 14:30 | 14:45 | Break | ||
| 14:45 | 15:00 | E. Jules Maier-Zucchino | "Lead Them or Fall" - Examining Representations of Leadership in Dragon Age: Inquisition |
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| 15:00 | 15:15 | Justin Roberts | The Trial Grounds: Home, Horror, and Queer Possibility |
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| 15:15 | 15:30 | Hannah Gold-Apel | “How does TikTok Know I Have ADHD?”: Investigating the Everyday Effects of Algorithmic Curation |
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| 15:30 | 15:45 | Q.E. Drummond | Conscious Beholding: Strategies, Methods, & Approaches Of Transgender & Gender-Nonconforming Filmmakers | |
| 15:45 | 16:00 | Hana Dawe | Kincentric Ecopoetics: Sympoietic Place-Based Ecopoetry in the Hochelaga Archipelago |
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| 16:00 | 16:15 | Anna Sigrithur | TBD! | |
| 16:15 | 16:30 | Lau Lefebvre | Transgression, failure and utopia, a research-creation project on queer/trans* independent cinema | |
| 16:30 | 16:45 | Amelle Margaron | TBD | |
| 16:45 | 17:00 | Tiarah Golliday-Murry |
Navigating White Academia |
Past Symposiums
The 2023 symposium took place on 27 January 2023, from 1 pm to 4:15 pm.
| Start | End | Speaker | Title | |
| 13:00 | 13:15 | Samuel Garland | The (Inter)Planetary Future | |
| 13:15 | 13:30 | Maxime Brunet | Precarious Sounds | |
| 13:30 | 13:45 | Lucas Thow | Alternative Digital Music Platforms and Curatorial Practice (working title) |
|
| 13:45 | 14:00 | Mairin Miller |
Untitled |
|
| 14:00 | 14:15 | Cori Volfson | Eat the Future: Speculative Engagements with Recipe and Futurity | |
| 14:15 | 14:30 | Beatrice Sunderland | TBD | |
| 14:30 | 14:45 | Break | ||
| 14:45 | 15:00 | E. Jules Maier-Zucchino | "Lead Them or Fall" - Examining Representations of Leadership in Dragon Age: Inquisition |
|
| 15:00 | 15:15 | Justin Roberts | The Trial Grounds: Home, Horror, and Queer Possibility |
|
| 15:15 | 15:30 | Hannah Gold-Apel | “How does TikTok Know I Have ADHD?”: Investigating the Everyday Effects of Algorithmic Curation |
|
| 15:30 | 15:45 | Q.E. Drummond | Conscious Beholding: Strategies, Methods, & Approaches Of Transgender & Gender-Nonconforming Filmmakers | |
| 15:45 | 16:00 | Hana Dawe | Kincentric Ecopoetics: Sympoietic Place-Based Ecopoetry in the Hochelaga Archipelago |
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| 16:00 | 16:15 | Anna Sigrithur | TBD! | |
| 16:15 | 16:30 | Lau Lefebvre | Transgression, failure and utopia, a research-creation project on queer/trans* independent cinema | |
| 16:30 | 16:45 | Amelle Margaron | TBD | |
| 16:45 | 17:00 | Tiarah Golliday-Murry |
Navigating White Academia |
