Tactics of Resistance: Limitations & Possibilities
An interdisciplinary graduate conference hosted by the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism
University of Western Ontario, Canada
October 12-13, 2007
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Tactics of Resistance: Limitations and Possibilities
2. Annual Graduate Conference hosted by the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism
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Friday, October 12
2:00 – 4:00 pm Panels
1. First Nations and Resistance of Identity
Location: SH 3345
Chair: Regna Darnell
Gerald McKinley “Trickster Discourse and the Resistance of Presence.” (Theory and Criticism, UWO).
Mandy Koolen “Multicultural Myths: The (Mis)recognition of White Mixed Race Peoples in Canada” (English, McMaster University).
Jean François Bissonnette “Colonized in the flesh: The Aboriginal Body as a Site of Resistance” (School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa).
Stacy Douglas “Re:search, Re:Surge, and Re:Sist: Re-defining the Terms of a Jurisprudence of Insurgency: A Case Study of the Water Crises in Walkerton, Ontario and Kashechewan, Ontario” (Canadian Studies and Native Studies, Trent University).
2. Tactical Media and Hyper-Surveillance
Location: UC 317
Chair: Nick Dyer-Witheford
Nicole M. Lindsay “Beyond “Public Sphere”: Towards a Critical Understanding of the Socio-Technological Dimensions of Resistance.”
Nicole M. Lindsay, Communication, Simon Fraser.
Mike Arntfield “The Ghost in the Machine: From CB Scanner to Wiki-Surveillance.” (Media Studies, UWO).
Ian Reilly, "Irony, Parody, and the Politics of Fake News." (English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph).
Henry Svec, “Becoming Machinic Virtuosos: Guitar Hero, Rez, and Multitudinous Aesthetics.” (Media Studies, UWO).
3. Rendering the Image Legible
Location: UC 138a
Chair: Tony Purdy
Aarnoud Rommens, “'The Terror of the Uncertain Sign': Tactics of Counter-Censorship in Alberto Breccia's Buscavidas” (Theory and Criticism, UWO).
Erin Morton, “Blank Slating the Visual/Blanking out the Conservative.” (Department of Art, Queen's University).
Cynthia Foo, “Rebels Without an Ethos: Countercultural Ethics in Tactics.” (Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester).
4. Feminist Responses to Domination: Local, Secluded, Joyful?
Location: SH 2348
Chair: Linda Beth Flack
Ayse Batur, “The Unconscious as the Site of Resistance and the Possibilities of a Political Psychoanalysis.” (Theory and Criticism, UWO).
Mark Kingston, “Penelope and Plurality: Cavarero's Seclusion-Based Model of Resistance.” (Philosophy, University of New South Wales).
Sherilyn Williams, “Crafting Resistance: Fighting Mass Produced with Pins and Needles.” (Media Studies, UWO).
Diana Parry, “Women’s Leisure as a Site for Resistance to Gendered Ideologies: The Politics of Leisure.” (Assistant Professor, Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Waterloo).
4:00 – 4:30 Coffee break
4:30 – 4:45 Opening Remarks
4:45 - 6:00 Keynote Speaker: William Haver “Communist Resistance”
Location: UC 224 (Conron Hall)
Saturday, October 13
9:30 – 10:00 AM: Coffee & Snacks @ Grad Club
10:00 – 12:00 Panels
5. Digital Dissent, Satire, and Blogs: Tactics of Media Resistance after 9/11
Location: UC 224 (Conron Hall)
Chair: Paul D. Boin
Megan Boler, “Ironic Citizenship and Complicity in Spectacular Society.” (Associate Professor, Theory and Policy Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, UFT)
Catherine Burwell, “Calling on the Colbert Nation: Fan Practices and Resistance to Corporate Media Powers.” (OISE, University of Toronto).
Andréa Schmidt, “Politics for Consumption: How Bloggers Feed the War Machine.” (Independent researcher and journalist currently working with the CBC).
Location: UC 224a
Chair: Douglass St.-Christian
Nancy M. Clark, “Contested Spaces and the Generic City: Tactics for a Reflective Urbanism.” (Associate Professor, Architecture, University of Florida).
Miriam Love, “Peripatetic Unbound: Walking, Writing and Resistance.” (Theory and Criticism, UWO).
Neslihan Demirtas, “The Tactical Acts of Gecekondu Dwellers.” (Instructor, Faculty of Communication, Izmir University of Economics).
7. The Politics of Citizenship
Location: UC 225
Chair: Aarnoud Rommens
Alex Pershai, “Resisting national identity: Exploring alternatives and possibilities.” (Theory and Criticism, UWO).
Deniz Ferhatoghu, “Re-thinking Citizenship: Resistance and Hannah Arendt’s Notion of Action.” (Political Science, University of Alberta).
Jean Michel Montsion, "(Mis)Conceptualising Labour Repression In Southeast Asian Societies: Manifesting Labour Resistance Through Social Rhythms." (Political Science, McMaster University).
Emily Rosser, "Gendered" vs. "piropos": Resisting Translation and Troubling the Transnational in Canada-US-Mexico Coalition Work.” (School of Women's Studies, York University).
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch Break
1:00 – 2:15 Keynote Speakers: BAVO (Gideon Boie and Matthias Pauwels):
“The Art of Overidentification”
Location: UC 224 (Conron Hall)
2:15 – 2:30 Coffee Break
2:30 – 4:30 Panels
8. Nietzsche, Bataille: Resisting Resistance and Affirmation
Location: UC 224 (Conron Hall)
Chair: Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu
Timothy de Vries, “The Neurological Impasse.” (Ontario College of Art and Design).
Jason Dockstader, “Nietzsche’s Physiology of Resistance.” (Theory and Criticism, UWO).
Matthew Austin, “Bataille’s Mode of Contestation.” (Theory and Criticism, UWO).
Dhruv Jain, “A Scatological Examination of Excess and Resistance.” (Social and Political Thought, York University).
Kane X. Faucher, “Ekelogy as the last Viable Form of Sociopolitical Resistance?” (Theory and Criticism, UWO).
Melissa Ptacek, “Bataillean Sacrifice as Resistance: Guantánamo and the Empire of Tragedy.” (Researcher at the Center for Population Economics, the University of Chicago).
Location: UC 224a
Chair: TBA
Andrew Shmuely, “Bartleby, or the Politics of Refusal and the Search for a Space ‘Outside’” (Geography, University of Toronto).
Gregory C Flemming, “The Radical Universal: Particularity, Demand and Revolution.” (Social and Political Thought, York University).
Matthew Flisfeder, “Resistance as Fantasy: Zizek’s Theory of Ideology and the Impossible ‘Act’” (Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture, Ryerson University and York University).
Charles Wells, “Traversing the Fantasy of Resistance: An Attempt to Articulate Zizek’s Act of Revolution.” (Social and Political Thought, York University).
10. Foucault/Deleuze: Points of Encounters
Location: UC 225
Chair: Mark Jull
Matt Sang, “Where there is power, there is resistance…” (Theory and Criticism, UWO).
Jeff Pastorius, “Social Movements and Their Situated Power Relations” (International and Comparative Studies and Philosophy, Huron University College).
Christopher M. Drohan, “Some Preliminary Techniques of Symbolic Warfare.” (PhD, European Graduate School of Media and Communications).
Brenden Murphy, “Logistics or Resistance.” (Philosophy, Carleton University).