Section 1: Conference Schedule

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The Art of Forgetting: Memory, Loss, and Revision uOttawa English’s 14 th Annual Graduate Student Conference Section 1: Conference Schedule Friday, March 5 OPENING REMARKS Panel Theme Speakers Dr. Jennifer Panek, English Director 1:00-2:30 Moderator : Natalia Vesselova 1. Collective memory and memory as a psychic construction 1. Carly Atkinson – “The Multimodal Memory of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt” 2. Bridget Fleming – “9/11 on the American Frontier: A House in Asia’s Treatment of the Archive as a Site of Performance” 3. Katherine DeCoste – "'Long Pass'd to Dark Decay:' Ruins, Grief, and Memory in Victorian Poetry" 2:30-2:45 COFFEE BREAK 2:45-4:15 Moderator : Emily McConkey 2. Erasure 1. Lindsay Ostridge – “Breaking Down the Neoliberal Survivor: An Analysis of Four Subversive Essays” 2. Luciana Erregue – “A Place to Stand: Viewing Numa Ayrinhac’s Double Portrait of President Juan Perón and his Wife Eva Duarte at the Museo del Bicentenario in Buenos Aires” 3. Daria Smirnova – “Living Memory of the Dead / Dead Memory of the Living: Maria Stepanova’s In Memory of Memory and its take on forgetting” 4:15-5:45 Moderator : Moira Duncan 3. Untold Histories 1. Aiden Tait – “(Re)defining Reconciliation in Moshekwa Langa’s Temporal Distance (with a Criminal Intent) You Will Find Us in the Best Places” 2. Jaclyn Morgan – “Mediating the Experience of the Subaltern: The Reconstruction of Identity and the Reclamation of Female Agency in Cracking India3. William Bonfiglio – “Description, Ekphrasis, and the Other” 5:45-7:00 DINNER

Transcript of Section 1: Conference Schedule

uOttawa English’s 14th Annual Graduate Student Conference
Section 1: Conference Schedule
1:00-2:30
Witcher 3: Wild Hunt”
2. Bridget Fleming – “9/11 on the American Frontier:
A House in Asia’s Treatment of the Archive as a Site of
Performance”
Ruins, Grief, and Memory in Victorian Poetry"
2:30-2:45 COFFEE BREAK
Survivor: An Analysis of Four Subversive Essays”
2. Luciana Erregue – “A Place to Stand: Viewing Numa
Ayrinhac’s Double Portrait of President Juan Perón
and his Wife Eva Duarte at the Museo del
Bicentenario in Buenos Aires”
Dead Memory of the Living: Maria Stepanova’s In
Memory
4:15-5:45
Moshekwa Langa’s Temporal Distance (with a Criminal
Intent) You Will Find Us in the Best Places”
2. Jaclyn Morgan – “Mediating the Experience of the
Subaltern: The Reconstruction of Identity and the
Reclamation of Female Agency in Cracking India”
3. William Bonfiglio – “Description, Ekphrasis, and the
Other”
Saturday,
4. Trauma Studies 1. Md Abu Shahid Abdullah – “Linking Personal
Trauma of Sexual Violence with Collective Trauma of
the Holocaust in D.M. Thomas’s The White Hotel”
2. Shamma Alkhoori – “Pandemic Postmemory:
Trauma after Medical Disasters in Contemporary
Fiction”
Mouawad’s Scorched”
10:15-10:30 COFFEE BREAK
Anathémata and Basil Bunting’s Briggflatts”
2. Joseph LaBine – “Fiction or Memory? Forgetting
George Mackay Brown and Jorge Luis Borges”
3. Bryan Counter – “Modes of Forgetting and
Narration in Proust”
1. Amy Kwong – “‘Something that will go on and on:’
Parallels Past and Present in Julia O’Faolain’s No
Country for Young Men”
3. Jane Willsie – “Forbidden Remembering as an Act
of Disappearance in Madeleine Thien’s Dogs at the
Perimeter”
Evan Buck
7. Memory and Identity 1. Brittany Munro – “To yield to: On being beyond
self-possession in Tara June Winch’s ‘The Yield’”
2. Walter Villanueva – “The Invisible Labour of
Informal Care: Parentified Caregiving in David
Chariandy’s Soucouyant”
Remember About Your Brother”: Intersubjective
Memory in
5:30-7:00 DINNER
8. Spatialized Memory 1. Marisa Lewis – “Toppling as Place-Making? Protest
and the Politics of Place in the removal of John A.
Macdonald Memorials in Canada”
Remembrance”
Remembrance of Place in Simon Tay’s City of Small
Blessings and Patrick Chamoiseau’s Texaco”
Sunday, March 7 Panel Theme Speakers
9:00-10:00
Meditation on Space, History
the memory were raking
over him and leaving
A Visit from the Goon Squad”
2. M. Djamel Eddine
3. Andrew William Lee – ““An
Open-Source, 21st Century
Belonging”
Role of Cultural Productions
and Virtual Technology to
1. M. NourbeSe Philip - Friday, March 5, 2021 (7:00-9:00pm EST)
Born in Tobago, M. NOURBESE PHILIP is an unembedded poet, essayist, novelist, playwright and independent scholar who lives in the space-time of the City of Toronto where she practised law for seven years before becoming a poet and writer. Among her published works are the seminal She Tries Her Tongue; Her Silence Softly Breaks; the speculative prose poem Looking for Livingston: An Odyssey of Silence; the young adult novel, Harriet’s Daughter; the play, Coups and Calypsos, and four collections of essays including her most recent collection, BlanK. Her book-length poem, Zong!, is a conceptually innovative, genre-breaking epic, which explodes the legal archive as it relates to slavery. Among her awards are numerous Canada Council and Ontario Arts Council grants, including the prestigious Chalmers Award (Ontario Arts Council), the Canada Council’s Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award (Outstanding mid-career artist), as well as the Pushcart Prize (USA), the Casa de
las Americas Prize (Cuba), the Lawrence Foundation Prize (USA), the Arts Foundation of Toronto Writing and Publishing Award (Toronto), and Dora Award finalist (drama). Her fellowships include Guggenheim, McDowell, and Rockefeller (Bellagio). She is an awardee of both the YWCA Woman of Distinction (Arts) and the Elizabeth Fry Rebels for a Cause awards. She has been Writer-in-Residence at several universities and a guest at writers' retreats. M. NourbeSe Philip is the 2020 recipient of PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature
2. Guy Beiner - Saturday, March 6, 2021 (12:00-1:30pm EST) Guy Beiner is professor of modern history in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel and has held research fellowships in the United States and Europe. He specializes in the study of historical remembrance and forgetting in the late-modern era, with a particular interest in Ireland. Beiner’s books Remembering the Year of the French: Irish Folk History and Social Memory (University of Wisconsin Press) and Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting and Vernacular Historiography of a Rebellion in Ulster (Oxford University Press) won multiple prizes. He has recently edited a
volume of collected essays titled ‘Pandemic Re-Awakenings: The Forgotten and Unforgotten Flu of 1918-1919’ to be published by Oxford University press.
Section 3: Roundtable - Sunday March 7, 2021
Memory Entanglements: Dialogues on Memory, Community, and Remembrance in Local/Transnational Contexts
Description: Drawing from subject-specific expertise, this interdisciplinary roundtable will feature early-career and established scholars of memory studies affiliated with the Memory Studies research stream at the Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis (CTCA) at Carleton University. Facilitated by coordinators of the CTCA’s Memory Studies stream, each panelist will give a short presentation of their research specialization, followed by a roundtable discussion and a Q&A period. Intersecting across each presentation are questions centred on the entanglement of memory from comparative frameworks to the entwining of individual and collective memory through the remembering, sharing, and re-telling of histories and experiences. Panelist expertise is rooted in locally and temporally specific contexts, but their research offers us perspectives on memory, remembrance, and absence that can transcend time and create transnational connections. Topics range from looking at absence and remembrance of the Uruguayan dictatorship of the 1970s; inauthenticity as a curatorial strategy for exhibiting traumatic memories related to the Indian Residential School system; memory work by contemporary Indigenous and diasporic artists in Ottawa who juxtapose traditional craftwork with digital mediums; and the importance of telling and re-telling by Holocaust survivors and the ways these stories shift over time to bridge connections between past, present, and future.
1. Emily Putnam
Emily Putnam is an early-career curator and art history scholar whose research and practice emphasizes building relationships through ethical praxis, community collaboration, and public engagement. A PhD student in Cultural Mediations at Carleton University, Emily’s work focuses on contemporary art, critical race theory, and the archive. Her research considers how art oriented around archives, counter-archives, and the anarchive can transform the way knowledges are understood and expand the capacity with which we can interact with museum spaces. Her primary scope of theoretical interest includes activism and critical race theory, memory studies, worlding, and potential histories. In addition to her role as a coordinator for the Memory Studies research stream at the Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis (CTCA), Emily is also an Image Research Associate at the Art Canada Institute and a Research Assistant on the Worlding Public Cultures project for the Transnational and Transcultural Art and Culture Exchange (TrACE) network.
2. Dr. Rebecca Clare Dolgoy
As the Curator of Natural Resources and Industrial Technologies, Rebecca Dolgoy brings an interdisciplinary perspective to the portfolio. Her research on memory and museums explores relationships between material culture and public memory. She is committed to collaborative research and to developing creative processes of stakeholder engagement, partnership development, and public
scholarship. While originally from Edmonton, Alberta, Rebecca did her doctoral work in Oxford. She has been Ottawa-based since 2015 and is currently an Adjunct Research Professor in Carleton’s School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies.
Roundtable Panelists
1. Dr. Trina Cooper-Bolam - “Mnemonic Fakery and Other Interpretive Strategies”
Trina Cooper-Bolam recently defended her dissertation, “Claiming the Terrible Gift–A Post-TRC Investigation in Praxiological Museology” (2020), earning her PhD in Cultural Mediations (Visual Culture) at Carleton University and a Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement. Previously, Cooper-Bolam held senior positions at the Aboriginal Healing and Legacy of Hope Foundations–organizations working to transform the legacy of Indian residential schools. Her Master of Arts thesis, "Healing Heritage: New Approaches to Commemorating Canada’s Indian Residential School System" (2014), contributed to Volume 5, The Legacy, of the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission’s final report (2015). Her 2018 publication, "On the Call for a Residential Schools National Monument" in the Journal of Canadian Studies, vol 52.1, stimulated dialogue within the Department of Canadian Heritage on socially-engaged processes of monument creation and led to her current consultative role on the Residential Schools National Monument project. Equally an academic researcher and an active exhibition curator and designer, Cooper-Bolam is the recipient of academic and professional awards including the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship and a joint recipient with the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre of the Ontario Historical Society’s 2018 Indigenous History Award.
2. Marie-Catherine Allard - “Remediating Identity: Ruth Barnett’s Quest for Belonging”
Marie-Catherine Allard is a PhD candidate in Cultural Mediations at Carleton University. Her dissertation, which is entitled “Remediating Memory: Narrating the Kindertransport in Literature and Popular Culture,” focuses on the work of Karen Gershon, Ruth Barnett and Frank Meisler. In her work, she explores the ways in which the Kinder’s numerous retellings of their evacuation and remediation from one medium or
literary genre to another foster the reconfiguration of their Kindertransport experience. To support her research on the artistic representation of the Kindertransport, the rescue operation which allowed, before the outbreak of World War II, for the relocation of ten thousand children at risk of deportation from Austria, Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Danzig mainly to Great Britain, Marie-Catherine has been awarded the Andras Memorial Award.
3. Anna (Ania) Paluch - “Tactile Memory Work of Indigenous and Diasporic Artists in Ottawa, Canada” Anna (Ania) Paluch is a Polish-Canadian PhD student in Cultural Mediations at Carleton University, situated on unceded Algonquin territory in Ottawa, Canada. Her research focus is on Indigenous North American and Eastern European Futurism, spaces of cultural hybridity, and post-memory in the diaspora, specifically around diasporic and mixed identity. She is a curator, mixed-media artist, cultural educator through the Young Polish Canadian Professional Association (YPCPA), Polski Piknik and co-director of the
Indigenous+Diasporic Friendship Festival in Ottawa, connecting diasporic/immigrant communities with local Indigenous communities through art, academia and culture.
4. Jessica Marino - “Remembering the Past in the Present and Future: The Role of Cultural Productions and Virtual Technology to Commemorate the Holocaust and the Uruguayan Dictatorship”
Jessica Marino is a third year PhD student in the Cultural Mediations Program at Carleton University. Her research focuses on analyzing the representation of memory in relation to the Holocaust and the Uruguayan dictatorship of the 1970s and 1980s. She focuses on the use of different media to commemorate these two events, in particular the nuanced role of virtual reality. Jessica has an MA in Comparative Literature and a Hons. BA in German Studies and Spanish.
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