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ENDINGS

Conference Program*

*Program is subject to change (click here for .pdf version)

Thursday April 27th, 2017

Jackman Humanities Building (170 St. George Street)

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Welcome Reception (JHB100, 8:30-9:15am)

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FIRST SESSION (9:30-10:45am)

 

Panel I (JHB 100)

Apocalyptic Mentalities: World-Making at the End of the World

Chair: Professor Audrey Walton (University of Toronto)

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  1. Eryn Heidel (Memorial University of Newfoundland), “What Are We Waiting For?: Mass Destruction and Future Dread”

  2. Kyle Joudry (Queen's University), “Making All Things New: H.D.'s Hope for a New Incarnation”

  3. Evan Wisdom-Dawson (McGill University), “Queered Narrative Form in Apocalyptic Literature and Film”

 

Panel II (JHB616)

Technological Ends: Digital Aging and Techno-Society

Chair: Professor Alan Ackerman (University of Toronto)

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  1. Sunjae Jun (State University of New York at Buffalo), “Reading Catastrophe in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy”

  2. Madeleine Bondy (University of Toronto), “Being old in the Digital Age: How has technological development affected the role of the elderly in North America?”

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SECOND SESSION (11:00am-12:15pm)

 

Panel III (JHB100)

Queer(ing) Endings: Forms and Futures

Chair: Professor Katie Larson (University of Toronto)

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  1. Melanie Simoes Santos (University of Toronto), “Destroying the Rights of Time: Virginity’s Queer Forms in Marvell’s “Upon Appleton House” and Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis”

  2. Theresa Kenney (McMaster University), “Ending the Queer Capitol: The Erasure of Queers in Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games Trilogy”

  3. Anna Irving (McMaster University), “Gender within Gender: On Queer Futurity and Trans Utopianism”

 

Panel IV (JHB616)

Somatic Limits: (Dis)Embodying the End

Chair: Professor Andrea Charise (University of Toronto)

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  1. Blythe Hutchcroft (McGill University), “A “Beautiful Fusion”: On Death and Becoming Nature in Sylvia Plath’s Ariel”

  2. Jessica Bebenek (Concordia University), “‘Something That’s Dead’: Metaphor, Microbiotics, and Radicalized Empathy as Political Tools”

  3. Milo Hicks (McGill University), “Tracing the Limits of the Body in Virginia Woolf”

 

Break for Lunch (12:15-1:30pm)

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THIRD SESSION (1:30-2:45pm)

 

Panel V (JHB100)

Looking Back, Moving Forward: Memoir, Mobility, Memory

Chair: Professor Thom Dancer (University of Toronto)

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  1. Jennifer Komorowski (Western University), “Memory, the Journal, and Time in B.S. Johnson’s The Unfortunates (1969)”

  2. Nicholas Tostowaryk (Western University), “Stagnant Modernity: European Roma(nies), Mobility, and Menyhért Lakatos’ Bildungsroman”

  3. Nathaniel Harrington (University of Toronto), “‘mairidh an t-acras’: Language death and contemporary Scottish Gaelic poetics”

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Panel VI (JHB616)

“Not with a bang but a whimper:” Soundtracks for the End of the World

Chair: Professor Paul Downes (University of Toronto)

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  1. Robert Blake Fleet (University of Guelph), “Does the Apocalypse have a Soundtrack?: A Close Listening to The Two Cellos’ Music Video The Show Must Go On.”

  2. Owen Kane (University of Toronto), “Why do Wagner Operas take so long? Apocalyptic waiting and mitigating the boredom of the event to come”

  3. Evander Price (Harvard University), “Discus Aureus: Immortal Art After the End of the World"

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KEYNOTE PRESENTATION (JHB100, 3:00-4:30pm)

Professor Kate Marshall (University of Notre Dame), “After Extinction”

Chair: Professor Thom Dancer (University of Toronto)

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FOURTH SESSION (4:45-6:00pm)

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Panel VII (JHB100)

Endgames: Telos, Death, Mourning

Chair: Professor Naomi Morgenstern (University of Toronto)

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  1. Edward Bacal (University of Toronto), "Death without End(s): Teresa Margoles and the Unlimiting of the Dead Body"

  2. Eliot D’Silva (University of California, Berkeley), “‘Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there’s nothing like them’: Samuel Beckett and Teleology”

  3. Fan Wu (University of Toronto), “Maternal Channels of Melancholia: Mourning Terminable and Interminable”

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Panel VIII (JHB616)

Race and the End: Resurgence, Resistance, Revenge

Chair: Professor Smaro Kamboureli (University of Toronto)

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  1. Gage Karahkwì:io Diabo (Concordia University), “Resurgence, Apocalypse, and Beautiful Imperfection in Thomas King’s The Back of the Turtle”

  2. Houman Mehrabian (University of Waterloo), “‘Black Vengeance’ Masked Beneath Racial Prejudice”

  3. Sarah Wahab (McMaster University), “Saving her from Herself: White Supremacy, Western Feminism, and the Threat of the Mixed-Race Child in Not Without My Daughter”

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FIFTH SESSION (6:15-7:30pm)

 

Panel IX (JHB100)

End-vironments: The Spaces of Endings

Chair: Professor Stanka Radovic (University of Toronto)

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  1. Tristan Cooley (Brooklyn College), “‘no end to not living forever:’ Zero K and (The) Ecological Thought”

  2. Karl Manis (University of Toronto), “Haunted Spacetime and Utopian Desire in Stephen King’s The Shining”

  3. Mitchell J. Gauvin (York University), “The Spectre of an Ending: Anticipation and the Nuclear Event in post-9/11 Literature”

 

Panel X (JHB616)​

Final Acts, Final Affects: Anxiety, Performativity, Impasse

Chair: Professor Daniel Wright (University of Toronto)

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  1. Karl Fritze (University of Toronto), ““Love Among the Tombstones”: Anxiety and Death in James Joyce’s “Hades””

  2. Lauren Sutherland (University of Toronto), “Acting Out of Endings: Slow Death, Prescriptive Threat, and Performing Futures in Hell or High Water”

  3. Kasia van Schaik (McGill University), “Living in Impasse: Lydia Davis and the Poetics of Disappointment”

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