Conference Timetable/Horaire Du Colloque

CONFERENCE TIMETABLE/HORAIRE DU COLLOQUE

PARTNERS / partenaires

Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa

Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Ottawa

Centre for Public History, Carleton University

Migration and Diaspora Studies Initiative, Carleton University

SPONSORS

Vered Jewish Canadian Studies Program, University of Ottawa
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Ottawa
Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa
Playwrights Guild Canada
Centre for Public History, Carleton University
Migration and Diaspora Studies Initiative, Carleton University
Faculty of Arts, University of Ottawa
Research Development Program, University of Ottawa
School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design, York University

Locations/ Lieux

Academic Hall. Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa. 133 Seraphin-Marion St. Ottawa

Leonard Beaulne Studio. Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa. 135 Seraphin-Marion St. Ottawa

Classrooms: 311, 310, 309, 303, 202, Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa. 135 Seraphin-Marion St. Ottawa

Café Nostalgica; 601 Cumberland St. Ottawa

APRIL 27

6:00 PM / Café Nostalgica / PRE-CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Vendredi, 28 AVRIL / Friday, APRIL 28th

8:30 am / Registration /L’inscription
9:00 – 9:30 am / Academic Hall / Welcoming Remarks/ Remarques D’accueil
Kevin Kee, Dean of Faculty of Arts, University of Ottawa.
Conference Committee
9:30 – 11:00 am / Academic Hall / Keynote Lecture / Conférencier invité
Freddie Rokem (Tel-Aviv University)
The Origins of Violence: Walter Benjamin's Dramaturgy of Stereotypes
Chair/ Présidente Yana Meerzon (University of Ottawa).
11:00 –
11:15 am / Coffee Break/Pause Café
11:15am – 12:45 pm / Academic Hall
310
309
202 / Concurrent Panel Sessions/ Séances Simultanées
Panel/Séance 1 – Refuge(e)
Chair: Présidente Yana Meerzon, University of Ottawa
Ø  Nedeljkovic, Vukasin (Dublin institute of Technology). Asylum Archive: an Archive of Asylum and Direct Provision in Ireland
Ø  Schult, Tanja (Stockholm University). Migration on Display in the White Cube
Ø  Soltana, Sonia (Chercheuse indépendante). Entre L’installation et le Dessin, la Migration Face à la Cruauté Médiatique
Panel/ Séance 2– Neoliberal Multiculturalism in the Americas
Ø  Batchelor, Brian (York University). Looking for New Stories: Canada, Neoliberal Subjectivities and Indigenous Migration from Chiapas
Ø  Gonzalez, Irvin (University of California). No Bailes de Caballito: An Analysis of Corporate Media Images, Mexicanness, and U.S. Multiculturalism
Ø  Havranová, Katarína (Masaryk University). The Image of the Latina Woman in Hispanic-American Theater
Panel/ Séance 3- Sensations and Pathos of Migration
Chair: Natalia Vesselova, University of Ottawa
Ø  Terracciano, Alda (University College London). Mapping Memory Routes -a Multisensory Approach to Art, Migration and Critical Heritage Studies
Ø  Wugalter, Tatiana (Balsillie School of International Affairs). This Could Be My Child:” The Intersections of Pathos and Paternalism in Visual Representations of Child Refugees
Ø  Sotelo-Castro, Luis C (Concordia University). The Aesthetics of Intercultural Listening within a Theatrical Frame. A Case Study
Panel / Séance 4 – Subverting stereotypes and the spirit of seriousness
Ø  Tahririha, Mahalia Golnosh (University of Ottawa). Kim’s Convenience and the Subversion of Stereotype through Sitcom
Ø  Hamil, Mustapha (University of Windsor). Muslim Humor in Post-9/11 America: Stereotypes and the Affirmation of Identity
Ø  Esleben, Joerg (University of Ottawa). Migration and Satire: The Roles, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Hetero-Stereotypes and Auto-Stereotypes
1:00 – 2:30 pm / Academic Hall / Lunch/ Déjeuner
Video-Presentation and Skype Interview/ Vidéo-présentation et entretien a Skype
Chokri Ben Chikha, Action Zoo Humain (Belgium)
Chair: Présidente Yana Meerzon, University of Ottawa
2:30 – 4:00 pm / 309
310
202 / Concurrent Panel Sessions/ Séances simultanées
Panel/ Séance 5 – Sounding Foreign? Listening to migrant voices on stage
Ø  Ashperger, Cynthia (Ryerson University). Get Rid of Eksent? Stereotype, Language and Identity in Tongue Play
Ø  Babayants, Art (University of Toronto). Stereotypes, Accents and Mainstream: Theorizing a Multilingual Actor’s Phonological Struggles
Ø  Migliarisi, Anna (Acadian University). Acting (in) Calabrian: Tony Nardi’s 1990 Production of A Modo Suo (A Fable)
Panel/ Séance 6 –The Politics of (Mis)Representation
Ø  Nemeth-Kilinc, Orsolya (University of Ottawa). (Mis)representation of Forced Migration: Hungary in Light of the Refugee Crisis
Ø  Bobadilla, Andrea (University of Western Ontario). Reproducing Stereotypes of Asylum Seekers through Designations in the ‘Protecting Canada’s Immigration System Act’
Ø  Gordon, Michael (McMaster University). Constructing ‘Illegality’ in Political Discourse: Borders and Irregularity and the Humanitarian-Security Nexus
Panel/ Séance 7 – Applied Theatre: Politics, Praxis, Pedagogy
Ø  Campbell, Shelley (University of Gloucestershire). Art and Politics: Instrument of Change
Ø  Hughes, Shannon Elizabeth (York University). Tell it to ‘her’ Face: Conflicting the Facilitator (Applied Theatre)
Ø  Georgiou, Michalis (Independent Scholar, Greece). Breaking Stereotypes: Afrika!: A Theatrical Project with Refugees in Border German Cities Close to France
4:15 – 6:00 pM / Academic Hall / Round Table/Table ronde: Indigeneity and Migration on Turtle Island
Jill Carter (University of Toronto), Daniel David Moses (Queens University), and Ric Knowles (University of Guelph)
Book Launch /Lancement du livre
Performing Indigeneity. Edited byYvette Nolan andRic Knowles. Playwrights Canada Press. 2016
Play Reading/ Mise-en-Lecture: The Shaman of Manitoulin
Daniel David Moses (Queens University)
6:30 – 8 PM / Café Nostalgica / Conference Welcome, sponsored by the University of Ottawa, Department of Theatre
Accueil des participants, commandité par le Département de théâtre de l’Université d’Ottawa
Audio-Video Installation/ Installation audio-vidéo
52HZ Golbon Moltaji (Unievrsity of Ottawa)
8 PM / Academic Hall / Praxis-Presentation/Présentation-spectacle
Teeth Show
Natasha Davis
Created, written and performed by Natasha Davis in collaboration with: Lucy Cash (movement), Bob Karper (sound), Marty Langthorne (lights) and workshop participants Ximena Alarcon, Isabelle Matthews, Mitsuo Nakamura, Qing Ren and Terence Walton.London, UK.
*10 am - 6:00 pm / Academic Hall (foyer) / Bookstore Agora On Site/ Librairie Agora sur le Site

Samedi, 29 AVRIL / Saturday, April 29th

8:00 am / Registration /Registration
9:00 am - 12:00 pm / 303 / Movement Workshop/ Atelier de mouvement:
Choreographies of Migration: Stranger Communities. An Introduction to Migration of Gesture and Stylized Forms
Organizer/Organisateur Katherine Mezur (University of California Berkeley)
Participants/Participantes
·  Casilli, Ida (East London)
·  Chou, Szu-Nuo (University of Ottawa)
·  Tahririha, Mahalia Golnosh (University of Ottawa)
·  Schult, Tanja (Stockholm University)
·  Terracciano, Alda (University College London).
·  Hughes, Shannon Elizabeth (York University).
·  Parimala, Doss (University of Delhi)
·  Larcher, Anne (Université Laval)
·  Schahrazed, Necib (Université Kasdi Merbah Ouargla Algérie)
8:45 –
10: 15 am / 309
310
Academic
Hall / Concurrent Panel Sessions/ Séances simultanées
Panel/ Séance 8 – Staging Canadian Multiculturalism
Ø  Knowles, Ric (University of Guelph). Cahoots
Ø  Lachance, Lindsay (University of British Columbia). Celebrating 150 years of Canada and 140 years of The Indian Act
Ø  Manole, Diana (University of Guelph). Accented Autobiographies: Tetsuro Shigematsu’s Deconstruction of Immigrant Stereotypes in Empire of the Son
Panel/ Séance 9 – Migration and the Body (Politic)
Chair/President – Daniel McNeil (Carleton University)
Ø  Gingrich, Luann (York University). Stereotyping for Social Archetyping in Marketized Social Welfare
Ø  O’Thomas, Mark (Newcastle University). There’ll Always Be An England – Butlins, Brexit and the Performance of Heterotopic Sovereignty
Ø  Kuling, Peter (University of Ottawa). Performance Patterns and Athletic Migration during the RIO 2016 Summer Olympic Games
Panel/ Séance 10 – Performing France
Chair: Sylvain Schryburt, University of Ottawa
Ø  Baytas, Claire (University of Illinois). (Mis)Representations of the Paris Protests of October 17, 1961
Ø  Rauer, Selim (University of Minnesota). La migration des Corps dans le Temp et L’espace de la Postcolonie
Ø  Pehlivan, Veli (l’EHESS Paris). Se témoigner devant des institutions et des associations humanitaires : le cas de journalistes exilés à Paris
10:15 – 10:30 am / Coffee Break/ Pause Café
10:30 – 12:00 pm / 309
310
202 / Concurrent Panel Sessions/ Séances simultanées:
Panel / Séance 11 – Meanings of Mobility: Oil, Exotic Animals and Abortion Services
Ø  Conway, Kyle (University of Ottawa). Home and Migration in Petromodernity
Ø  Jaclin, David (University of Ottawa). Wildlife Trafficking and Migrations of Animal Parts around the Globe/Le trafic d’animaux sauvages et ses routes migratoires autour du monde
Ø  Sethna, Christabelle (University of Ottawa). Incredible Journeys: Accessibility, Travel and Abortion Services
Panel / Séance 12 – Disjunctured Representations of the Canadian Francophonie: Mechanisms of Inclusion and Exclusion in the Lives of French-Speaking Immigrants and Refugees
Chair/Présidente: Luisa Veronis (University of Ottawa)
Ø  Suzanne Huot (University of Western Ontario)
Ø  Joyce Akl (University of Ottawa)
Ø  Méralyne Fleurant (University of Ottawa)
Ø  Yvonne Kasine, (Western University)
Panel / Séance 13 - Screening Strangers: Migrants and migrant communities in European and American film cultures
Ø  Ménard, Claire (Cornell University). L’insoutenable flexibilité de l’être–errance et nomadisme dans le cinéma contemporain de Nicolas Klotz, Claire Denis et des frères Dardenne
Ø  Abanto, Luis (University of Ottawa). The Latino Migrant: a Discussion on Stereotyping the South
Ø  Fitzpatrick, Lisa (Ulster University). The Question of Honour in British Filmic Representations of Migrant Communities
12:00 – 1:00 pm / Academic Hall / Lunch/ Déjeuner
1:00 – 2:30 pm / Academic Hall / Keynote Lecture / Conférencier invité
Grégoire Holtz (University of Toronto)
L’autre de L’autre. Représentations du Regard inverse dans la littérature de voyages
Chair/ Président: Sylvain Schryburt (University of Ottawa)
2:30 – 2:45 pm / Break/ Pause
2:45 – 4:15 pm / 309
310
202 / Concurrent Panel Sessions/ Séances simultanées:
Panel/ Séance 14 – Performing Italian Diaspora
Ø  Casilli, Ida (East London). Could Heritage Based Participatory Theatre Challenge Community Stereotypisation and Educate Audience and Participants to a thorough Understanding of Migration Patterns? The Example of 'Moving Dreams' and the Italian Community of Peterborough (UK).
Ø  Nannavecchia, Tiziana (University of Ottawa). The Melancholic Migrant: Examining the Literary Trope of Nostalgia in Narratives by Italians in Canada.
Ø  Nardy, Tony (University of Toronto). The Silence within the Silence: Italian-Canadian Theatre.
Panel/ Séance 15 – Migration, Citizenship and Governmentality
Ø  Alibhai, Zaheeda (University of Ottawa). Read Her Lips: The Ban Against Wearing the Niqab and Burqa at the Canadian Citizenship Ceremony 2011-2015
Ø  Chatziprokopiou, Marios (Aberystwyth University). We are the Easiest Victims of the Jihadists': Performing Shia Minorities in Contemporary Athens
Ø  Ndiaye, Gana (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). Mobility and Cultural Citizenship: the Making of a Senegalese Diaspora in Multiethnic Brazil
Panel / Séance 16 – Performing Bodies of Migration
Ø  Purcell-Gates, Laura (Bath Spa University). Spectacular Bodies, Unsettling Objects: Material Performance as Intervention in Stereotypes of Refugees
Ø  Nahm, Kee-Yoon (Illinois State University). Theatrical Border Crossings: Stereotypes against Realism in the Plays of Young Jean Lee
Ø  Acil, Tufan (“InterArt Studies”). Aesthetic Shifts: Transformation of the Aesthetic Values within the Turkish Community in Germany
4:15 – 4:30 pm / Coffee Break/ Pause Café
4:30 – 6:00 pM / Academic Hall / Praxis-Presentation/Présentation-performance:
Contemporary Nomads
Henry Daniel (Simon Fraser University)
8: 00 pm / Academic Hall / STAGED READING / MISE-EN-LECTURE
Traversée
Présenteé par Voyageurs Immobiles, Montréal
Mise en scène: Milena Buziak
Texte: Estelle Savasta
Comédiennes: Hodan Youssouf, Florence Blain Mbaye
*11 am-4:00 pm / Bookstore Agora On Site/ Librairie Agora sur le Site

Dimanche, 30 avril /Sunday, April 30th

8 :30 am / Registration /Registration
9:00 –
10:15 am / Academic
Hall / Keynote Lecture / Conférencier invité
Magda Stroińska (McMaster University)
Stereotypes: Failed Attempts at Categorization
Chair/ Président: David Dean (Carleton University)
10:15 – 10:30AM / Coffee Break/ Pause Café
10:30 am – 12:00 pm / Leonard Beaulne Studio / Workshop/Atelier
Exodus: Movement, Culture, People
Facilitated by Henry Daniel (Simon Fraser University), Daniel McNeil (Carleton University), and Jessica Ruano (University of Ottawa). Part of a collaborative project with high school students in the National Capital Region to examine the connections between migration, diaspora and Canadian diversity as refracted through the power of arts and culture
Animé par Henry Daniel (Université Simon Fraser), Daniel McNeil (Université Carleton) et Jessica Ruano (Université d'Ottawa); avec les presentations des élèves du l’ecoles secondaire.
10:30 am – 12:00 pm / 309
310
202 / Concurrent Panel Sessions/ Séances simultanées:
Panel / Séance 17 – Transnational Cultural Analysis and the Diasporic Community
Chair/ Président: Joerg Esleben, University of Ottawa
Ø  KC, Hari (University of Waterloo). The “South Asian” in the Canadian Transnational History: Whither Stands the Nepalese Transnational Identity?
Ø  Ondoua, Hervé Toussaint (Université de Yaoundé). Les subalternes-migrantes peuvent-elles parler ? Contribution à l’approfondissement de la compréhension des migrants àpartir d’une analyse de Gayatri Spivak
Ø  Bhat D, Shilpa (Ahmedabad University). Shylocking Gujarati Merchants: The Conniving Indian Dukawallah in Narrative Discourses Set in East Africa
Panel / Séance 18 – Memory and Migration
Ø  Lech, Kasia (Canterbury Christ Church University). Rosaura and Bubble Revolution: Polish and Spanish Memories on the Post-Brexit British Stage
Ø  Bokore, Nimo (Carleton University). Migration, Memory and Testimony
Ø  Chou, Szu-Nuo (University of Ottawa). After the Great Escape: Chinese Diasporic Women’s New Lives in Taiwan
Panel / Séance 19 – Staging the Journey of Migration
Chair: Rebecca Margolis, University of Ottawa
Ø  Cofman-Simhon, Sarit (Kibbutzim College). "My homeland is a Suitcase" or: The Suitcase as a Neurotic Container in the Israeli Theatre
Ø  Vesselova, Natalia (University of Ottawa). Migrating Towards the Self: The Representation of a Haredi Religious Refugee in Film
Ø  Afolabi, Taiwo (University of Victoria). Forgotten Corridor: Theatre as an Instrument of Domestication in Global Displacement and Migration Narratives
12:15 – 2:00 pm / Café
Nostalgica / Lunch-Banquet/ Déjeuner- Banquet
2:00 –
4: 00pm / 309
310
202 / Concurrent Panel Sessions/ Séances simultanées:
Panel / Séance 20 – Cities of Migration
Ø  Sciarra, Veronica (Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier). Italiens et Chinois entre quotidien et stéréotypes