9am - 9:30am : Registration and Breakfast

Acknowledgements

9:30am - 10:45am : Panel 1 Chair: Isidora Cortes-Monroy

Fluid Frontiers

• Virological Viewing: Metaphor, Fluidity, and the Aesthetic Transmission of Illness (Christiana Myers, University of Glasgow Canada)

• Waste, Borders, and Fluidity: Environmental and Social Challenges of Waste Management in Haiti (Pierre Richard Jean Louis, Federal University for Latin American Integration (UNILA), Brazil)

• Fluid Frontiers: Deferred Extraction and Financialized Imperial Maintenance in The Falklands/Malvinas (Samuel Fox, Columbia University, United States)

 

11am- 12:15pm : Panel 2 Chair: Rodrigo Lichtle

Queer and Feminist Cinema

• Metabolizing Abjection through Songs of Sweat and Squelch (Leslyn Stobbs, University of Toronto)

• You look like you don’t belong here: Cisgender Solipsism Through the Lens of Tilman Singer’s Cuckoo (Ellie Gonen, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada)

• Watery Bodies, Fluid Frames: Gender Fluidity in Contemporary Indian Trans Cinema (Darshana Chakrabarty, Queen’s University Canada)

• Archiving the Absent Burning Body in Ana Mendieta’s Fire-Works (Alex Hall, University of Toronto)

 

12:15pm-1:30pm: Lunch

 

1:30pm-2:45pm : Panel 3 Chair: Johann Kirchenbauer

Bodies in resistance

• Recognizing Black Queer Joy: Re-examining Paris is Burning (1990) through the works of Bell Hooks (Katlyn Melcher, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada)

• Reading and Tracing Cadavers in “Cantar Ahora” by José Luis Villatoro (Rafael Ponciano, Cornell University)

• Iconographies of Friction: The Collective Body in Contemporary Cuban Visual Art (Rubens Riol, Princeton University)

 

3pm - 4:30pm: Keynote Speaker Dr. David Tenorio

Queer Nightscapes: Sensorial Engagements and Intimacy in the Dark