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Canadian Screens CANADIAN SCREENS 32nd Annual Two Days of Canada Conference FEATURING KEYNOTE BY JANINE marchessault conference programme November 8-9, 2019 | Brock University, St. Catharines Traditional Territory Acknowledgement: We begin this gathering by acknowledging the land on which we gather is the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples, many of whom continue to live and work here today. This territory is covered by the Upper Canada Treaties and is within the land protected by the Dish with One Spoon Wampum agreement. Today this gathering place is home to many First Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples and acknowledging reminds us that our great standard of living is directly related to the resource sand friendship of Indigenous peoples. Recognition of Support: We are happy to have received the support of Brock University’s: Centre for Canadian Studies Centre for Digital Humanities Council for Research in the Social Sciences (CRISS) Department of Communication, Pop Culture and Film Department of History We would also like to thank all the individual volunteers and collaborators whose work made this conference possible. Brock University Conference Committee: Marian Bredin, Associate Professor, Communication, Popular Culture and Film Brian de Ruiter, Instructor, Centre for Canadian Studies, Centre for Digital Humanities Anthony Kinik, Assistant Professor, Communication, Popular Culture and Film Peter Lester, Associate Professor, Communication, Popular Culture and Film Sarah Matheson, Chair and Associate Professor, Communication, Popular Culture and Film Elaine Aldridge-Low, Administrative Assistant, Centre for Canadian Studies 1 Dear conference participants, On behalf of the Conference Program Committee I would like to welcome you to Brock University and to the 32nd Annual Two Days of Canada, ‘Canadian Screens’ conference. The Two Days of Canada tradition embraces interdisciplinary perspectives on the study of Canada. Over the past 32 years the conference has been organized each year around a new theme by different faculty, drawn from just about every department and program in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Brock. Judging from this year's program, the conference clearly reflects this interdisciplinary tradition, bringing together scholars and researchers from a rich variety of academic disciplines and creative fields to consider the many dimensions of Canadian Screen texts and practices. It’s going to be a truly engaging two days of presentations, panels and speakers and we are really looking forward to being part of it. This year’s conference revisits the topics and issues of Two Days of Canada, Canadian Television held in November 2006. The context of conventional television has shifted dramatically in the intervening 13 years, and today we experience an incredible diversity of televisual texts and contexts across the multiple sites and screens of our digital media environment. Contemporary Canadian screens include television, film, web platforms, social media, digital games, mobile phones and virtual reality, among others. Papers being presented over the next two days will examine how is content being produced, consumed, interpreted, circulated and regulated across these various screen spaces. I would like to thank the other members of the Program Committee; Brian de Ruiter, Anthony Kinik, Peter Lester and Sarah Matheson, who spent many hours vetting abstracts, organizing panels, inviting keynotes, and planning the conference. Without a doubt, this conference would not have happened without the contribution of Elaine Aldridge-Low, Administrative Assistant in the Centre for Canadian Studies. Elaine provided her invaluable skills in every capacity of event organizing, poster and program design, and financial oversight, among other things. We are also very grateful to the academic units and funding agencies at Brock University that have supported this event and are acknowledged in the program. The collaborative support of our colleagues is a deeply appreciated contribution to fostering a dynamic interdisciplinary research culture at the University. Finally, thanks to each of you for contributing your research and expertise to Two Days of Canada 2019. Over the next two days we look forward to engaging in many productive debates and conversations about Canadian Screens. Regards, Marian Bredin Communication, Popular Culture and Film On behalf of the Conference Program Committee 2 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Day 1: Friday November 8, 2019 Venue: Sankey Chamber and GSB206, Brock University 8:00–8:45 Conference Registration and Coffee Location: Sankey Chamber Vestibule 8:45–8:55 Welcome Location: Sankey Chamber Welcome: Ingrid Makus, Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Brock University and Peter Lester, Associate Professor, Communication, Popular Culture and Film, Brock University 9:00–10:30 Panel 1A: Film Festivals in Canada Location: Sankey Chamber Chair: Peter Lester (Brock University) Eric Lehman (Trent University) “Forgotten Screens – The Canadian Images Film Festival and the Effects of State Censorship on Historical Record” Claudia Sicondolfo (York University) “Home-Made Visible: Regent Park Film Festival Goes National” 9:00–10:30 Panel 1B: Locating the Urban in Canadian Film and Media Location: GSB206 Chair: Brian de Ruiter (Brock University) Anthony Kinik (Brock University) “Screening the City of the Future: Sixties Montreal and the Megacity Discourse in Film & Television” Scott Henderson (Trent University, Durham GTA) “‘Next Stop, Huxley Station’: Identity, Subjectivity and Location in Orphan Black” Gregory Canning (Mount Saint Vincent University) “The Phantom of the Paradise and Winnipeg” 3 10:30-10:45 Coffee/tea break Location: Sankey Chamber Vestibule 10:45-12:15 Panel 2A: Queer Communities and New Media Practices Location: Sankey Chamber Chair: Sarah Matheson (Brock University) Shana MacDonald (University of Waterloo) “Watch and Learn: Feminist and queer uses of social media in Canadian television advertising and fan paratexts” Julie Ravary-Pilon (CRIEM/McGill University) “Prized content and Multicasting in Quebec web fictions: the production and distribution of the Queer web series Féminin/Féminin (Chloé Robichaud, 2014-2018)” Sabine Lebel (UNB Fredericton) “Queer Cellphilming Practices” 10:45-12:15 Panel 2B: Frozen Justice: Screening Canadian Crime Location: GSB206 Chair: Jeannette Sloniowski (Brock University) Sonia Bookman (University of Manitoba) “Crime Film and the City: Imagining Toronto through Entanglements of Place, Culture, and Crime” Andrea Braithwaite (Ontario Tech University) “I’m my own damn weapon”: Fantasy Action Heroines in Contemporary Canadian TV” Steven Kohm (University of Winnipeg) “Policing New Frontiers in Canadian Film and Television” 12:15-1:30 Lunch (provided) Location: Sankey Chamber 1:30–3:00 Panel 3A: Regional and Transnational Tendencies in Canadian and Québécois Film and Media Production Location: Sankey Chamber Chair: Ibrahim Berrada (Laurentian University) Charles Tepperman (University of Calgary) “Canadian Film Producers: A Regional Case Study” 4 Ian Robinson (Queen’s University) “The Transnationalism of Contemporary Auteur Cinema in Quebec” Anushray Singh (University of Windsor) “Construction of Canadian-South Asian Film and Media Spaces through ‘Transnationalism’ and ‘Cultural Hybridization’” 1:30–3:00 Panel 3B: Exhibition Space and Technology in Contemporary Screen Culture Location: GSB206 Chair: Anthony Kinik (Brock University) Zach Melzer (Concordia University) “Rethinking Expanded Cinema: From Liberal Internationalism to Neoliberal Urbanism” Melanie Wilmink (York University) “The Cinema Objects of Dominique Skoltz” Justin Baillargeon (York University) “Embodying the Image: Spect-Actor and Virtual Reality” 3:00-3:15 Coffee/tea break Location: Sankey Chamber Vestibule 3:15-5:00 Panel 4A: Distribution, Broadcast and Streaming in the Digital Era Location: Sankey Chamber Chair: Marian Bredin (Brock University) Ibrahim Berrada (Laurentian University) “Promoting Canadian Media Content in the Digital Era” Stéfany Boisvert (UQAM) “The shifting terrain of linear TV in Quebec: an analysis of the transmedia redefinition of broadcast television networks in the digital era” Daniel Keyes (UBC Okanagan) “Encore+: Archival Salvation or Digital Waste Bin for Cancon in the Age of Digital Abundance?” Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte (Simon Fraser University) “VUCAVU.com: Distribution of Independent Canadian Film and Video After Digital Disruption” 5 3:15-5:00 Panel 4B: VR Exhibition Strategies in Canada Location: GSB206 Chair: Philippe Bédard (Université de Montréal) Philippe Bédard (Université de Montréal) “Paradigms of Accessibility: VR Exhibition at FNC and Phi Centre” Caroline Klimek (York University) “Let’s Discuss Accessibility and Disability with Touring VR Programmes” David Han (York University) “Imagined Heights: Developing a VR-Based Community Arts Practice” Jessie Marchessault (Concordia University) “Together/Alone: Curating for Communal Engagement in Virtual Reality” 5:30–7:15 Cash Bar Reception followed by Dinner Location: Guernsey Market Hall 7:30-8:30 Keynote Address Location: TH248 Welcome: Sarah Matheson, Chair and Associate Professor, Communication, Popular Culture and Film, Brock University Janine Marchessault Title: “Living Archives: Recent Curatorial Approaches to Mediated History” This talk will engage with the project “Archive/Counter-Archive” counterarchive.ca to discuss how artists are using audio-visual archives as a medium to disrupt traditional forms of history,
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