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FINAL PROGRAM
The Idea of Place, May 5-7 2017
University of Alberta Tory Building and Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science
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Please Register at Tory Building, Room 1-061
FRIDAY
Pre-Conference Activities
1:00pm to 2:00pm, Walk through the In Toxic v.2 Intermedia Research Creation Exhibition at the Intermedia Research Studio (Tory Building, Room 1-063) and The Idea of Place Art Exhibition (Tory Building, Room 1-058)
Both Exhibitions will be open throughout the span of the conference
In Toxic is an intermedia research creation exhibition that was part of the Intermedia Research Studio’s 2017 symposium, Toxic Media Ecologies: Critical Cultural Practices in the Age of Alternative Facts held at the Department of Sociology, University of Alberta on April 7-8th, 2017. The research creation exhibition, In Toxic, opened at the contemporary visual culture gallery Latitude 53 on April 7th, 2017. In Toxic v.2 is a special remount for the Ideas of Place Conference of some of the intermedia research creation probes from Toxic Media Ecologies.
The Idea of Place Art Exhibition features “The Room of the Elements,” an installation by Sarah C Louise and “Green Line,” a painting by Rhonda Harder Epp. “The Room of the Elements” is a space of rest, reflection, and escape. Entering this tent-like structure and listening to a soundscape, visitors are invited to explore the forces of nature in the midst of the city context. “Green Line” explores the relationship between the arbitrariness of political divisions and their messy, heart-rending realities. The five panels of the painting focus on the severe consequences of these divisions and in what ways they impact the lives of communities and their members.
2:00pm to 4:30pm, Trip to the Marshall McLuhan House by Marco Adria (University of Alberta), Chelsea Boos (ArtsHab Edmonton), and Stuart McKay (McLuhan Family)
- 2:00pm: pick up for bus ride to McLuhan House at Tory Building, North Entrance at Saskatchewan Drive (or alternatively meet 2:30pm at McLuhan House, 11342 64 Street)
- 2:00pm to 2:30pm: Edmonton History Talk during the bus ride to McLuhan House
- 2:30pm to 4:00pm: Visit of McLuhan House, including Tetrad workshop and McLuhan history scavenger hunt
- 4:00pm: Leaving McLuhan House with drop off at Coast Edmonton Plaza Hotel, 10155 105 Street
7:00pm to 9:00pm, Opening Plenary Session and Welcome Reception at Latitude 53 – Contemporary Visual Culture (10242 106 Street)
- Welcome Reception includes a buffet with snacks and a cash bar for drinks
Welcome: Rob Shields & Mickey Vallee.
Keynote Speaker: Will Straw (McGill University), Place, Justice and the Night
After 9:00pm, Drinks with friends at various locations (Edmonton Maps)
SATURDAY
8.00am to 8.45am, Registration and Morning Welcome Coffee & Snacks, at Tory Building, Room 1-061
8.45am, Formal Welcome to Treaty 6 by Rob Shields on the lawn in front of Tory Building, North Entrance at Saskatchewan Drive
9.00am to 10.15am, SESSION 1: Sensing, Imaging, Recording
Sensing: in Tory Building, Room 1-090, chaired by Sharon Wohl
Narciss M. Sohrabi, Iranian Religious Place in Search of Public Space: between Democracy,Tradition and Modernity
Sharon Wohl, Sensing the City: Legibility in the context of mediated spatial terrains
Eric Tebby, Mapping the urban frontier
Imaging: in Tory Building, Room 1-091, chaired by Alberto Zambenedetti
Brittney Roy, Gateway to the Mighty Peace Country
Axel Pérez Trujillo Diniz, Behold a Pile of Dirt! The Pantanal Wet Plains in Manoel de Barros
Alberto Zambenedetti, Emplacing Time: Photography, Location, and The Cinematic Moment
Monica Toledo Silva, Embodied Landscapes in Audiovisual Narratives
Recording: in Tory Building, Room 1-105, chaired by İpek Oskay
- This session includes the opening of the exhibition SesOl.org: Interactive Open Archive Sound Map
- This exhibition will be open for participants to explore from 9:00am to 4:50pm on both Saturday, 6th of May, and Sunday, 7th of May
- This exhibition is located at Tory Building, Room 1-105
Bryan Pijanowski, Kristen M Bellisario and Maryam Ghadiri, The Purdue University HEMA Lab Soundscape Ecology Project
Joe Patitucci, The MIDI Sprout Project and Plants FM
Gürkan Mıhçı, Using Soundwalk Methodology in Place Branding Projects
İpek Oskay, On the politics of Commons: Sesol.org [Be the voice of] The Islands of Istanbul Commons Sound Map
10.15am to 10.30am, Small Break
10.30am to 11.45am, SESSION 2: Returning, Arriving, Transforming
Returning: in Tory Building, Room 1-090, chaired by Ondine Park
Ondine Park, The Ambivalent Production of Space, Time and the Body in Feeling Wrong
Jori De Coster, Enabling a Place in the Future
Christine Daigle, Our Posthuman Entanglement: Feeling/being out of Place
Matthias Wölfel & Andreas Sieß, Genius Loci in the Virtual
Arriving: in Tory Building, Room 1-091, chaired by Kristof Van Assche
Danika Jorgensen-Skakum, Raising the Dead: Invoking Queer Spirit(s) in the Late Anthropocene
Andriko Lozowy, Arriving at Displacement
Mischa Patel, A Place to Die: Location and the Anxiety of Death
Kristof Van Assche & Monica Gruzmacher, Reconfiguring Scale in Struggling Local Governance
Transforming: in Tory Building, Room 1-093, chaired by Yun-Csang Ghimn
Yun-Csang Ghimn, “Are we DP’d?” Indigenous understandings of (Dis)Placement, narrated by Textbook Revision
Rafico Ruiz, Siting Melting Ice: Greenland and the Production of Climate Data
Jeffrey Stepnisky, From Carnival to Conflict: Atmosphere and Action on Ukraine’s Maidan
Wilissa Reist, Because its 2015”: Assessing Portrayals of Voters During the 2015 Canadian Federal Election
11.45am to 2.00pm, Lunch and ‘Active Sessions’
Choose and register for one of the following active sessions
- Grab a quick lunch prior to the active sessions at The New Deli food truck, located at Tory Building, North Entrance at Saskatchewan Drive and available from 11.45am to 2.00pm
- Meet your tour guide at the suggested times and locations
- Enjoy your interactive walk discovering some of Edmonton’s unique neighbourhoods and sites
ACTIVE SESSIONS
Michael Granzow, Tour of Garden Spaces and Old Strathcona Farmers Market: Exploring the Relationship between Urban Agriculture and Place
- Meet Michael Granzow at 12.00pm at Tory Building, East Entrance near the large red sculpture
- Weather and walk appropriate attire is suggested as the walk will take place outside
- This walking tour includes a stop for lunch at the Old Strathcona Farmers Market inviting participants to taste local produce
- Find out more about this event on our website: https://theideaofplace.com/active-sessions/
- Register for this event: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/tour-of-garden-spaces-and-old-strathcona-farmers-market-tickets-34305067380
Rob Shields, Walk to Rossdale Burial Site: Exploration of Edmonton’s Ambivalent Relationship to its Indigenous and Colonial Past
- Meet Rob Shields at 12.15pm at Tory Building, North Entrance at Saskatchewan Drive
- Weather and walk appropriate attire is suggested as the walk will take place outside
- Find out more about this event on our website: https://theideaofplace.com/active-sessions/
- Register for this event: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-idea-of-place-active-session-walk-to-rossdale-burial-site-tickets-34294037389
Kevin Jones & Vanessa Zembal, Whyte Ave Walk: Reconnecting Past, Present and Future through Landscape Approaches to Urban Change in Edmonton
- Meet Vanessa Zembal at 11:50am at Tory Atrium near Second Cup
- Please be on time as this event involves taking a bus from campus at 12.00pm
- Please note that there will not be much time to grab lunch during the walk – best is to eat before attending the walk
- Attendees are required to supply their own transit passes for this session ($3.50 for a one way ticket, best to have exact change prepared)
- Weather and walk appropriate attire is suggested as the walk will take place outside
- Find out more about this event on our website: https://theideaofplace.com/active-sessions/
- Register for this event: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-idea-of-place-active-session-3-whyte-ave-walk-reconnecting-past-present-and-future-through-tickets-34261507090?aff=eac2
2.00pm to 3.15pm, SESSION 3: Consuming, Sustaining, Conserving
Consuming: in Tory Building, Room 1-090, chaired by Adriana Boffa
Adriana Boffa, Engaging Place Differently: Affective Becomings of a Mall Parking Lot
Ian Fitzgerald, From Mall Multiplexes to Suburban Megaplexes: The “Rural” Megaplex Experience
Kateryna Pashkovska, Consuming Mothers: from Women’s Agency to Firmer Social Fabric
Elena Siemens, Welcome to Dismaland: Consuming Pleasure in the Postmodern World
Sustaining: in Tory Building, Room 1-091, chaired by Andrejs Kulnieks
Eva Bogdan, Room for rivers and voices: A comparison of the Room for the River approaches in Alberta and The Netherlands
Kathryn Lennon, Public Space Activation with Youth in Vancouver’s Chinatown
Bushra Abbasi & Mohammad Reza Bemanian, Realization of sustainable human relations in Iranian traditional and contemporary urban plaza
Andrejs Kulnieks, Dan Roronhiakewen Longboat, & Kelly Young, Tramping the Imperishable: A Curriculum of Merging Orality and Literacies through Indigenous and Environmental Education
Conserving: in Tory Building, Room 1-093, chaired by Tonya Davidson
Janice Victor, Linda Goulet, Lacey Eninew, & Warren Linds, Land, life, and fish: CulturalContinuity in a First Nations community
Tonya Davidson, Retouching Monuments: The Politics of Monument Conservation, Defacement, and what is left unbuilt
Arlene Oak, Building in the future perfect: An existing structure prompts an imagined place
Kristine Kowalchuk & Eric Gormley, What Would Jane Jacobs Do?: Protecting Public Space in the Dark Age
3.15pm to 3.30pm, Small Break
3.30pm to 4.45pm, SESSION 4: Dwelling, Dreaming, Imagining
Dwelling: in Tory Building, Room 1-090, chaired by Sara Dorrow
Natalie Kononenko, Stories of the Unquiet Dead: Ukrainian Graveyards as the Locus for Negotiating Ritual Change
Sara Dorow, The Mobile and the Municipal: Oil Sands Work Camps as (part of) Place
Alexandra Florea, Rimetea- the imagined and the real village
Dreaming: in Tory Building, Room 1-091, chaired by Sourayan Mookerjea
Sourayan Mookerjea, Subaltern counter-environments and the theory and praxes of commoning
Prayas Abhinav, The Capacity of Digital Space
Zsolt Miklósvölgyi, In the Very Depth of the Night”: The Libidinous Geographies of Parallel Stories by Péter Nádas
Janine Muster, Exploring the Need for Dystopian Spaces in Tove Jansson’s Moominvalley
Imagining: in Tory Building, Room 1-093, chaired by Alexandre Emboaba Da Costa
Alexandre Emboaba Da Costa, The work of anti-racist activism in the Brazilian pluricultural state
Rasoul Aliakbari, From Perso-centrism to Trans-regionalism: A Thousand and One Nights as a Contested Space in Iran
Rebecca Cormier, Connor McDonald, Max Turner, Kai Keewatin, John Leung, & Hannah Song, First Nations Housing Proposal
4.45pm to 5.00pm, Small Break
5.00pm to 6.30pm, Keynote Speaker in Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science, Lecture Theatre 1-440
Leonie Sandercock (UBC), Film and Indigenous Connection to Place: Revitalizing Culture, Catalyzing Healing
After 6.30pm, Night Time Activities (dinner, drinks with friends, exploring Edmonton’s nightlife, etc. see Edmonton Maps)
SUNDAY
8.30am to 9.00am, Morning Welcome Coffee & Snacks, at Tory Building, Room 1-061
9.00am to 10.15am, SESSION 5: Building, Moving, Creating
Building: in Tory Building, Room 1-090, chaired by Kyle Whitfield
Adham Abulnour, Revalidating Organic Unity
Kyle Whitfiel d, Individual and community impacts on place: What are the implications for those living with a life threatening illness in a rural community
Jeongwon Gim, Postmodern Eclecticism as the Site of Liminality: Understanding Mass Housing Facades in East Asia
Moving: in Tory Building, Room 1-091, chaired by Gareth Jones
Gareth Jones, Widdershins Osaka: Assembling Inter-medial Urban Narratives through Community Walking Practices
Lara Pinchbeck, With Disabilities, Living
Patti Pente & Nikki Rotas, Altered Perspectives of Place through GPS Drawing
Karly Coleman, These are the places in your neighbourhood: Bicycling and attachment to place
Creating: in Tory Building, Room 1-093, chaired by Will Van Arragon
Mohadeseh Mahmoudi, Role of urban open spaces on immigrants’ life
Matthew Tiessen, Creating Escape Places in Toronto’s Don River Valley: pursuing flow-states,“holey spaces,” and ephemeral infrastructure in the contemporary metropolis
Fahim Hossain, Ragnhild Lund, & Tatek Abebe, Informal Play Areas: Children’s opportunities to play in the poor urban context of Dhaka city
Will Van Arragon & Shannon Stunden Bower, Contested Places on the North Saskatchewan
River: Remaking Edmonton’s River Valley Communities and Mackinnon Ravine, 1960s-1980s
10.15am to 10.30am, Small Break
10.30am to 11.45am, SESSION 6: Lining, Spacing, Surrounding
Lining: in Tory Building, Room 1-090, chaired by Megan Strickfaden
Axel Pérez Trujillo Diniz & Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon, Colonizing Memes: Toward a Framework for Cyberplaces
Achinthya Bandara, Identity, habitats and linguistic re-imaging of post-war Sri Lanka
Petra Kuppinger, Marginalized Creativity in the Global City
Megan Strickfaden, Jasmien Herssens & Janice Rieger, Mappings Spatial Movements and Memories
Spacing: in Tory Building, Room 1-091, chaired by Joost Van Loon
Joost Van Loon, Companions in a Joyful Society: Encounters of the Strangeness Within
Adam Belton, Hegemonic myths in storied space and practiced place
Pradeep Sangapala, A decisive moment in Sri Lankan postcolonial spatial thinking: the making and the impact of Anuradhapura new town planning project of 1949
Surrounding: in Tory Building 1-093, chaired by Mickey Vallee
Drew Bush & Renee Sieber, Landscapes of Change: How Student Experiences in The Natural World Impact Learning of Climate Science and Policy
David Selsky, Taking Pictures of a Tidal Wave: Sedentarism, Colonialism, Hypernormalization
Titash Choudhury, Contested Nature: Energy Development and Biodiversity Conservation in Arunachal Pradesh, Himalayas
11.45am to 12.30pm, Break for Lunch
- Grab lunch either at The New Deli food truck, located at Tory Building, North Entrance at Saskatchewan Drive and available from 11.45am to 2.00pm or at the Student Union Building Food Court (SUB), 8900 114 Street
11.45am to 12.20pm, Midi Sprout & Plants Interactive Performance with Ipek Oskay, Tory Building, Room 1-105
- Enjoy witnessing this unique Interactive Performance while enjoying your lunch. See https://theideaofplace.com/midi-sprout/ for details.
12.30pm to 2.00pm, Keynote Speaker in Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science, Lecture Theatre 1-440
Xin Wei Sha (Arizona), Conditions of Place: Movement, Rhythm, & Textural Care
2.00pm to 3.15pm, SESSION 7: Writing, Sounding, Performing
Writing: in Tory Building, Room 1-090, chaired by Odile Heynders
Louise Harrington, Navigating Shady Spaces in Conflict Literature
Odile Heynders, European Scenarios: Imaginary Places and Representative Identities
Paulina Mickiewicz, The Library of 2114
Mansoureh Modarres, Women’s Writings/Women Re-writing (Social Spaces)
Sounding: in Tory Building, Room 1-091, chaired by Jim Morrow
Samuel Thulin, Accidental Sonic Geography: A Point in the Desert
Mickey Vallee, The new soundscape cartographers
Rémy Bocquillon, Soundlapse– the taking place of silence between failure and new beginning
Megan Strickfaden, Nicole Gaudet, Steven Hope & Janet Fast, Spatial Meanings through a Village of Imagery
Performing: in Tory Building, Room 1-093, chaired by Rob Shields
Michael Schillmeier, Demented Spaces (by skype)
Kerryn Drysdale, When Scenes Fade and Places Matter
Kateryna Barnes, The Canadian “North”: Manufacturing a National Identity Using Imagery from Robert Service’s Poetry
Kalea Turner-Beckman, Yarn Bombing for Social Change
3.15pm to 3.30pm, Small Break
3.30pm to 4.45pm, SESSION 8: Resisting, Becoming
Resisting: in Tory Building, Room 1-091, chaired by Jobb Arnold
Jesse Thomas, “N’Awlins Has Two Speeds- Slow and Mildew”: The City Presented as a Site of Resistance to American Cultural Hegemony
Jobb Arnold, Front Lines and Villages: Mobilizing Populist Forces on Affective Edges
Sahera R Bleibleh, Women’s Sense of Place and the Reconstruction of Resilient Social Space (by skype)
Becoming: in Tory Building, Room 1-093, chaired by Justine Lloyd
Marko Zivkovic, Botanizing the Belgrade Asphalt
Justine Lloyd, Species of Spaces: Rhetorical, Dialogic, Precarious
Ken J. Caine, Place, Power, and Indigenous Youth Environmental Knowledge
4.45pm to 5.00pm, Small Break
5:00pm to 6:30pm, Closing Keynote in Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinmidiary Science, Lecture Theatre 1-440
Rob Shields (founding editor of Space & Culture ) with Co-Editors of Space & Culture, Joost Van Loon, Justine Lloyd, Michael Schillmeier; convened by Mickey Vallee
After 6:30pm, Post-conference dinner with friends (see Edmonton Maps)