Conference Schedule
8:30 am – Registration & Opening Remarks
9:00 am – First Panel – Process and Pedagogy: DH Tools and Methods
- Ryan Ikeda, University of California Berkeley. Teaching E-Lit: Electronic Literature as a Pedagogical Problem. (Slides)
- Megan Suttie, McMaster University. What Would Harry Say? Digital Analysis, Textual Results, Literary Criticism, and Harry Potter Fanfiction. (Slides)
- Olivia Dziwak, Ryerson and York University. The Art of the Stoplist: Data Cleaning and the Politics of Method. (Slides)
10:00 am – Break
10:15 am – Second Panel – Storying Technology: Representations in Popular Media
- Pouria Nazemi, Concordia University. Shifting Spaces for Digital Storytelling – The Case of CRISPR Cas-9. (Slides)
- Isaac Celis, McMaster University. Upgrade Complete: Technology, Identity Formation and Development in Hideaki Anno’s Neon Genesis Evangelion. (Slides)
- Yijun Sun, University of Massachusetts Amherst. The Changes of Women’s Position in Literature upon the Emergence of the Typewriter: A Reflective Reading of Kittler and Henry James at Work. (Slides)
11:15 am – Lunch
12:15 pm – Performance – Performing and Improvising Digital Presence
- Jamie Beverley, McMaster University. Smartphone Soundscapes.
- Melanie Wilmink, York University. Tempus Fugit: Letters from Another Time and the Mysterious Package Company.
12:55 pm – Lightning Round – Sovereignty, Security, and Social Networks
- Autumn Mayes, Western University. What is Ethical When Using Social Media in Research. (Slides)
- Nicolette Stuart, McMaster University. Designing Identity: The Role of Self-Tracking Technologies in Marginalizing Genderqueer People. (Slides)
- Stephen Surlin, McMaster University. Local Networks: Accessible Offline Networks By and For Marginalized Communities. (no slides)
1:30 pm – Break
1:45 pm – Fourth Panel – Power, Identity, and Labour in the Digital Age
- Rachel McLean, Trent University. Instamamas: Digital Labour in Online Mother-Publics. (Slides)
- Arjun Dhanjal, Ryerson and York University. Unsheathing Scopic Power: On the Bio- and Necropolitical Power Structures of Dick Pics in Gay Digital Cultures. (Slides)
- Ethan Jackson, Wilfrid Laurier University. In Queer(y): Reconceptualizing the Trans ‘Self’ in an Era of Biopolitics. (Slides)
2:45 pm – Break
3:00 pm – Keynote Speaker – Device Dojo
3:45 pm – Closing Remarks
4:30 pm – Post-Conference Social
Phoenix Bar and Grill, McMaster University.