Date & time
Friday, March 8, 2024 –
Saturday, March 9, 2024 (all day)
Saturday, March 9, 2024 (all day)
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2024 SAGE Graduate Student Colloquium
Speaker(s)
Keynote speakers: Dayna MacLeod, Plenary lecture: John Guillory (see colloquium program for presentation speakers)
Cost
This event is free
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Where
J.W. McConnell Building
1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
Room LB-322, LB-205, LB-207
Wheel chair accessible
Yes
The Student Association of Graduates in English (SAGE) at Concordia University invites you to our 2024 English Graduate Colloquium, Dividing Lines: Inbetweeness, Intersection, Transgression, taking place March 8th and 9th in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, Quebec.
Dividing Lines invites us to reflect on the boundaries that hem us in, whether they are geographical borders drawn by colonial states, epistemological barriers established by Western thought, or personal limits we choose to impose on ourselves and others. Dividing lines can be redrawn or traversed, and the spaces between them can be inhabited. Conversely, what boundaries remain important, and how can we maintain, negotiate, and harmonize them?
Dividing Lines encourages us to interrogate our understanding of how boundaries either embolden or restrict our critical purviews. We are aware of the dividing lines separating our disciplines and the isolation they create.
We invite both creative and academic submissions across programs and in both English and French. We celebrate the interdisciplinary, the experimental, and the collaborative.
Colloquium Program
Friday, March 8
| 11h-12h | LB-322 | Keynote speaker: Dayna McLeod |
| 13h-14h30 | LB-205 | Crossing the Threshold / Franchir le seuil Chair: Kate Sterns Presentations: Just Do It (short fiction); Colin Throness Grammar Lessons (short fiction); Nicolas Paquette Sleep Baby, Cause the Cuca’s Gonna Catch You (short fiction); Alex Affonso |
| 13h-14h30 | LB-362 | Mediations of the (Un)real / Médiations de l’(ir)réel Chair: Jason Camlot Presentations:Freezer Bag Frame Narrative: Layers of Relation in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being; Fabrizio Lacarra Ramirez Between Real World History and Imagined Mythology: the Worship of Eärendil in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth; Marithé CollardClimatic Citizenship in Singapore: Thermostatic Conscience and Apparatus Theory; Hui Wong |
| 15h-17h | EV 1.615 | John Guillory – “On Close Reading” |
Saturday, March 9
| 10h-11h30 | LB-205 | Communicating the Divide / Communiquer au travers du fossé Chair: Jason Camlot Presentations: a different network, Jessica Frase These Words, an Execution, Kavi Duvvoori (they/them) A Dialogue Between the Mother Tree Spirit and a Woman: A Creative Research Exploration into Multi-Media Dialogue, Cierra Cowan Magical Minstrelsy Podcast, Pilot Episode: Virtual Pilgrimage, Lindsay Pereira and Ella Jando-Saul – English |
| 10h-11h30 | LB-207 | Fractured Reality / Réalité fracturée Chair: Nicola Nixon Presentations: Carine in the String Bikini (short fiction), Ariella Ruby Jouir des fougères : embrasser l’entre-deux, Olivier Fabry The Ohmu Manifesto: Theorizing a Non-Anthropogenic Cyborg in Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaä, Aiza BraggFeminist Trans-Corporeality: The Dissolution of Bodily Boundaries in Mina Loy’s ‘Parturition’, Alyssa Jones (she/her) |
| 13h-14h | LB-207 | Reappropriating (or, Reconsidering) the Academy / Se réapproprier (ou reconsidérer) l’Académie Chair: Katherine McLeod Panelists: Mathieu Pipe-Rondeau, Dona-Bella Kassab, Léo Yonnis Henni, M Pipe-Rondeau, Jade Préfontaine, Alexia Vinci |
| 13h-14h | LB-205 | Queer Bodies, Queer Health / Corps queers, santé queer Chair: Danielle Bobker Presentations: A Chronicle of Numbers, Daryl Bruce Une tumeur, Ma Je, un chat trans et des arbres, Iulia Alexandra Nastase Siphonophore : relier la procréation assistée par la technologie à la poésie générative de façon posthumaniste féministe par la température, Mariane Laporte |
| 14h15-15h15 | LB-207 | Placing the Self / Situer le soi Chair: Reza Taher-Kermani Presentations: Abjection et abjectivité : le pouvoir subversif des représentations d’identités abjectes contemporaines, Cassandre Roy Diasporic Women’s Border-crossing and Border Reclamation: Amal’s Revolutionary Returns to Palestine in Susan Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin, Golnaz H. Jamshidi |
| 14h15-15h15 | LB-205 | Creativity, Liminality, and Individuality / Créativité, liminalité et individualité Chair: Danielle Bobker Presentations: Exceeding its boundaries in every direction, Federico Cuartas Aristizabal, Amir Ali Ansari “Breath-ability’ What notion of borders through a weathering? A cartography for a kinship with and through the movement of air, Jihen Ben Chikha Staying on the threshold: Liminal ontologies, ghostness and alterity in our transitional times, Léo Yonis Henni |