Modern Literature & Culture Research Centre & Gallery

Pandemic Debriefs

Tuesday, 14 June 2022, 2:00 – 5:00 PM EDT

Welcome

2:00 – 2:05 PM
 

Panel I: Creativity & COVID-19

 

2:05 – 3:00 PM
 

Reframing Creativity
David Gauntlett & Valeria Duarte

COVID-19 Anxiety: Location, Refuge and Loss
Daniel Payne & Pam Patterson

The Rise of COVID-19 Diary Comics and Autotheory during the Pandemic
Griffen Horsley

Processing the Pandemic: COVID-19 and Comics
Barbara Postema

 

Panel II: Plasticity & COVID-19

 

3:05 – 4:00 PM
 

COVID-19 in the Suburbs: From Leisure Studies to Co-Presence in the City
Jeanine Webster

Fashioning the Face Mask During a Pandemic: From the Spanish Flu to COVID-19
Sephra Lamothe

E-Pimping on OnlyFans: Sex Labour during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Cassidy Rempel

Visual and Procedural Rhetoric: Immersing in Game Worlds during COVID-19
Alexander Hurezeanu

 

Keynote

 

4:10 – 5:00 PM
 

The Fight for Climate after COVID-19
Alice C. Hill

Organizers

  • Irene Gammel and Jason Wang
  • The graduate students in CC8836: Pandemic, Modernity and the Everyday
  • With the support of the Modern Literature and Culture (MLC) Research Centre

Acknowledgements

A special thank you goes to our symposium keynote speaker
Alice C. Hill, Council on Foreign Relations for her time and intellectual generosity

Thank you to the guest speakers in the course, whose ideas laid the foundation for this symposium

  • Will Straw, McGill University
  • Priscilla Wald, Duke University
  • Troy D. Glover, University of Waterloo
  • J. Michael Ryan, Nazarbayev University
  • Valerie Visanich, University of Malta
  • Tsitsi Ella Jaji, Duke University
  • Anna Triandafyllidou, Toronto Metropolitan University
  • Emmy Waldman, Bournemouth University
  • Barbara Postema, Groningen University

We thank the MLC Research Centre for support
Diamond Carvalho Rocha, Allison Kinahan, Renée LeBlanc Proctor, and Madeleine Sweenie

Program

Download or view the symposium program (PDF)

 

 

MLCRC, Toronto Metropolitan University, York University, Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture, SSHRC, Oxford University Press, Council on Foreign Relations

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The Great War in Literature and Visual Culture

MLC Themes

The Great War in Literature and Visual Culture

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Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

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Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

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Modernism in the World

MLC Themes

Modernism in the World

Recent research has departed from the Euro-centric and national view of Modernism to include approaches and methods studying Modernism across national boundaries and across different art forms to include fashion, dance, performance, technology, and visual culture.
Lucy Maud Montgomery

MLC Themes

Lucy Maud Montgomery

L.M. Montgomery is perhaps Canada's most important literary export. She was prolific writer of over 500 short stories and poems, and twenty novels, including the beloved Anne of Green Gables.
Canadian Modernism

MLC Themes

Canadian Modernism

The works of numerous Canadian authors who lived during the modernist era may well constitute the most central and experimental articulation of Canadian modernism in prose, allowing authors to stage cross-cultural, controversial, and even conflicted identities.
Modernist Biography and Life Writing

MLC Themes

Modernist Biography and Life Writing

Life writing, including autobiographical accounts, diaries, letters and testimonials written or told by women and men whose political, literary or philosophical purposes are central to their lives, has become a standard tool for communication and the dissemination of information.