Enunciating the End

Thursday, March 1

Registration/Meet and Greet—6:30pm

Graduate Lounge – LB 681

Evening Reception—8:00pm

Irish Embassy Pub and Grill – 1234 Rue Bishop

Friday, March 2

Registration and Breakfast                                                                                                                                   

8:30-9:30am

Graduate Lounge – LB 681

All panels held in Room LB 646

Panel 1—9:30-10:45am

Apocalypse City: Building the discourse of 19^th century urban and domestic landscapes

Chair: Zara Ahmed

Adrian Versteegh (NYU)

Revelation without Hope: Apocalyptic Temporality and Topography in James Thomson’s City of Dreadful Night

James Baltrum (Northern Illinois)

New York Domesti-City: Rethinking Gender Roles and the Home as Industrial Space

Lise Gaston (Concordia)

Natural and Unnatural Endings in Matineau’s Illustrations of Political Economy

Panel 2—11:00-12:15pm                                   

Alternative Revelations: Ephemeral re-framings of hetero-normative histories

Chair: Michael Belcher

Kirsten Shute (Brock)

Aftershocks of Surrealism:Leonora Carrington’s Hearing Trumpet as Apocalyptic Collage

Jessi MacEachern (Independent)

Framed Excursus: Some Parts Larger and Some Parts Smaller

Fazeela Jiwa (Concordia)

Strategic Interventions: Fictocriticism as Feminist Writing Beyond Autoethnography

Catered Lunch—12:15-1:00pm                                                                                                                                                               

Faculty Lounge – LB 671.05

Panel 3—1:00-2:15pm

Topaic Tropes: Mobilizing the language of liminality

Chair: Shannon Tien

Lauren Davine (Ryerson)

Teenage Dystopia: Apocalypse and Fantasy in Donnie Darko and Daydream Nation

Simon Orpana (McMaster)

The Zombie Imaginary: Risk Management, Neoliberalism and Utopia in The Walking Dead and Disaster Discourse

Andrew Wenaus (Western)

The Twilight of Information Illiteracy: Kenji Siratori’s Blood Electric and Asemic Cyberpunk

Panel 4—2:30-3:45pm

Signs of Ends to Come: Rethinking the post-apocalyptic narrative

Chair: Sarah Livesey

Virginia Konchan (UIC)

What Apocalypse: End-Time Narratives and the Structure of the Sign

Dock Currie (Western)

Liquid Materiality: Water and Apocalypse in Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle

Chanda Phelan (Ohio State)

Transforming the End

Keynote Address—4:15-5:30pm – H 435                                                                                                                                  

Chair: Dr. Jonathan Sachs

Dr. Christopher Keep (Western)

H.G. Wells and the End of the Body

Wine and Cheese Reception—5:30-7:30pm

GSA Lounge – 2030 Rue Mackay

Saturday, March 3

Registration and Breakfast—9:00-10:00am

Graduate Lounge – LB 681

All Saturday panels held in Room LB 646

Panel 5—10:00-11:30am

Immaterial Book Ends: Transformative media and the future of print

Chair: Lise Gaston

Aaron Donachuk (Toronto)

Fate or Fantasy?: Re-Reading “The End of Books”

Jeff Miller (Concordia)

“Printed in Canada on Canadian Paper by mindless acid freaks”: Rochdale College, Coach House Press, and the Early 1970s Utopianism of The Canada Whole Earth Almanac

Shannon Tien (Concordia)

Residual Platforms: The Role of Paper in Contemporary News Culture

Alex Christie (Loyola)

Humanities at the End: Apocalypse and the Digital Archive

Panel 6—11:45-1:00pm

Re-playing the End Game: Reconstructing the future through ruptures in the past

Chair: Fazeela Jiwa

Matthew Fledderjohann (DePaul)

Countering Counter-Apocalypse with Post-Apocalypse: Reconciling Endgame’s End

David B. Huebert (Independent)

Trying Not to Understand Endgame: Art and the Holocaust in Adorno’s Reading of Beckett

Dragos Moraru (Laval)

Histopias: “Ruptures” and Time’s Boomerang in Julian Barnes’s A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters and David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas

Catered Lunch—1:00-2:00pm

Faculty Lounge – LB 671.05

Panel 7—2:00-3:15pm

Drawing Out the End: Postmodern Representations of Violence

Chair: Kathryn Pobjoy

Mark Diachyshyn (Dalhousie)

“Amongst Horrors Must I Dwell”: Tales of the Black Freighter, Eschatological Reverberations and the Structure of Moore and Gibbons’ Watchmen

Whitney Porter (Macaulay at CUNY Baruch)

The (Postmodern) World’s Not Black and White: the Downfall of Retributive Justice in V for Vendetta

Anna Peppard (York)

Loosing Bets: Marvel Comics’ Deadpool and Impossible Dream of Death

Roundtable—3:45-5:00pm – H 407

Chair: Dr. Brooke Cameron

Comparative Apocalypses: A Discussion with Drs. Marcus Boon (Cornell), Michael Van Dussen (McGill), and Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia)

Sixth Annual Year-End Graduate Reading—8:00pm

Café l’Artère – 7000 Avenue du Parc (Parc Metro)

Readings by Concordia Creative Writing Graduate Students

Hosted by Jon Paul Fiorentino