2024-2025
Centre for Research in Cultural Studies (CRiCS) & Centre for Research in Young Peoples Texts and Cultures (CRYTC)
Research Week Events
Wednesday, November 13, 2024 in the Knowledge Mobilization Lab (3C25)
10:00am-4:00pm: Research Exhibition
Dr. Sam Popowich, Digital Infrastructure Librarian: “A Marxist Critique of Libraries"
Dr. Dennis Gupa, Assistant Professor, Theatre and Film: “Archipelago of Belongingness: Flawed Method /
Relational Inquiry”
Dr. Aarzoo Singh, Assistant Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies: “Object Stories: Tracing South Asian
Colonial Histories of Displacement through Affective Archives”
Ben Davis, visual artist, and Dr. Kevin Walby, Professor, Criminal Justice: “Bringing Together Critical
Inquiry and Art in Counter-Visual Analysis”
Dr. Angela Failler, Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, Canada Research Chair, and Director of
CRiCS: “Culture and Public Memory”
Dr. Mavis Reimer, Professor, English and Director of CRYTC, Dr. Doris Wolf, Associate Professor, English,
and Dr. Roland Bohr, Associate Professor, History: “The Research Behind the Texts: Creating Picturebooks
and Apps with Rocky Cree Communities”
12:20-1:30pm: Lightning Talks
Dr. Kerry Sinanan, Assistant Professor, English: “Narratives of Slavery and the Black Radical Tradition in the
Caribbean”
Dr. Melanie Braith, Senior Research Associate for The Six Seasons of the Asiniskaw Īthiniwak and CRYTC:
“Formula Fiction? Approaching the Workings of Large Language Models through Genre Theory”
Dr. Christina Fawcett, Instructor, English: “The Appeal of The Cozy: Gaming and the Comfortable
Subversive”
Dr. Peter Ives, Professor, Political Science: “Rethinking Free Speech”
Dr. Jenny Heijun Wills, Professor, English: “your capacity to love, despite everything”
Dr. Jane Barter, Professor, Religion and Culture: “Theopolitics and the Era of the Witness”
Dr. Jason Hannan, Professor, Rhetoric, Writing, and Communications: “"Grass-Fed Lies: The Mythology of
Regenerative Animal Farming"
Dr. Andrew McGillivray, Associate Professor, Rhetoric, Writing, and Communications: “‘The Creative Power
of the West Fjords’: A Research Project on Art and Space
Ben Davis, visual artist, and Dr. Kevin Walby, Professor, Criminal Justice: “Bounded Displacement and
Paradox Territory: Reflections on Uranium City”
Dr. Bruno Cornellier, Professor, English: “The Intercultural Screen: Excavating Race, Whiteness, and
Colonialism in Contemporary Quebec Cinema”
