Toxic Media Ecologies Symposium Critical Cultural Practices in the Age of Alternative Facts

The Intermedia Research Studio presents Toxic Media Ecologies: Critical Cultural Practices in the Age of Alternative Facts

06 April 2017

The Intermedia Research Studio presents: Toxic Media Ecologies: Critical Cultural Practices in the Age of Alternative Facts

Friday, April 7, 2017

9:00am - 9:30am

Opening remarks

9:30am - 11:00am

"Energy Imaginaries at the Impasse: Decolonizing Feminist Futures" - Sheena Wilson

"Oil, Affect, Virtuality: Biomediated Bodies and Anti-Pipeline Activism" - Robyn Lee

"From Anti-Sufferage to Gamergate: How Representations Create Backlash Against Women's Movements" - Angela Wilson

11:00am - 11:15am - Coffee Break

11:15am - 12:15pm

"Intermediations of Islamophobia: Racism, Colonial Fetishism and Crisis" - Sourayan Mookerjea

"Trumpism: A New Historic Bloc?" - Bozhin Traykov

12:15pm - 1:00pm - Lunch

1:00pm - 2:00pm

"Anthropocene Pedagogies" - Natalie S. Loveless & Students

2:00pm - 2:15pm - Coffee Break

2:15pm - 3:15pm

"The Crisis of Controlling Birthing Bodies: Using Online Reader Comments to Understand Public Discourse on Violence Experienced by Individuals During Childbirth" - Nicole Hill

"#beenrapednever reported - at 64, a hypervigilent witness: writing what matters" - Janice Williamson

5:00pm - 9:00pm

"In Toxic" - Research Creation Exhibition at Latitude 53

Keynote Address at 5:30pm

"Edible Money: On the Pharmacological Character of Early Modern Colonial Economy and Legal Discourse" - Karin Harrasser