9:00-10:15am (Panel Set 1)

Indigeneity and Decolonisation, Chair: Professor Smaro Kamboureli

1. Brittany Buscio (in-person), "Moving Beyond the Margins: Listening to Indigenous Literatures in a Canadian Settler-Colonial Society"

2. Brooke Bastie (in-person), "The Liminal Existence of Spaces In-Between: Guåhan"

3. E. Rose Grant (in-person): “'Thy lands and all things that thou dost call thine/Worth seizure do we seize into our hands': Land, Title, and Storytelling in Cliff Cardinal’s The Land Acknowledgment, or As You Like It, and William Shakespeare’s As You Like It"

4. Shae Adamson (virtual): "Academic Co-Presence: Resisting Individualism through the Blending of Theory and Story"

Terrains, Chair: Professor Tania Aguila-Way

1. Karno Dasgupta (virtual): "Choreographies of Misplacement: Inhabitance for the Time-Being"

2. Amy LeBlanc and Leah Van Dyk (virtual): "Intrusive Ecologies: Inhabiting the Eco-Gothic in Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle"

3. Ningning Huang (virtual): "The Invitation of a Liminal Lover: The Humanimal Trapped between Labs and Wastelands"

4. Saundarya (virtual): "Inhabitancy and/through Resistance: A Critical Analysis of Ajay Navaria’s  Unclaimed Terrain"


10:30-11:45am (Panel Set 2)

Performance and Production, Chair: Robert Steele

1. Amelia Ada (person): "Gertrude Stein in the Meantime"

2. Luca Messarra (virtual): "Inhabited Books: Bibliography in the Age of Globalized Production"

3. Douglas Basford (person): "Inhabiting Pollution: Staging Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People in the Anthropocene"

4. Luca Stojanovic (virtual): "Inhabiting Crip Time"

Forming Race, Racializing Forms, Chair: Jasleen Singh

1. Mathuri Sivanesan (virtual): "Excavating the Black Self: Examining Dysgraphia as Grammar in Canisia Lubrin’s The Dyzgraphxst"

2. Anmol Sahni (virtual): "Diasporic Spacetime and the Blogosphere: Salon as a Novel Chronotope in Chimamanda N. Adichie’s Americanah"

3. Reese Arbini (person): "The Sur-reality of Atemporal Inhabitation from Cane to Everything Everywhere All At Once"

4. Mayra Cano (virtual): "Flesh & Skin: Remaking the Archives in the Image of the Marginalized Self"

Lunch

1:15-2:30pm (Panel Set 3)

(Un)settling Affects, Chair: Professor Dana Seitler

1. Hades Chavanne (virtual): "'Unruly, full of desire, unsettling': Turning Towards Ghosts in American Literature"

2. Durba Mandal (virtual): "Inhabiting Spaces Beyond Life: Exploring the Female Specters in Rabindranath Tagore’s Haunting Short Stories"

3. Ashni Clayton (virtual): "Reading with Feeling: The Transformative Discomfort and Queer Possibility of Marian Halcombe in Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White"

4. Tatiana Jahromi (virtual): "'Touch is the Answer': Affect and Orientation in Cockroach and Dear Current Occupant"

Embodiment, Chair: Samuel McIntyre

1. Tatum Howey (person): "The Poetics of Transmasculine Vocalization"

2. Maryssa Grayer (virtual): “'Excepted from what was a matter of course with others': Inhabiting the Disabled Male Identity in Charlotte M. Yonge’s The Heir of Redclyffe and George Eliot’s The Mill on The Floss"

3. Lizette Gerber (virtual): "Inhabiting Flesh: Re/imagining Ferret-Human Relations through K. Ibura’s 'Ferret'"

4. Summer Sutton (virtual): "Last Words: Globalization, Forced Diaspora, and Animal Language in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous"

2:45-4:00pm (Panel Set 4)

Familial and Domestic Formations, Chair: Tia Glista

1. Elena Bellaart (virtual): "Dwelling Askew: Queer Orientations and Domestic Space in Elizabeth Stoddard’s The Morgesons"

2. Megi Mecolli (virtual): "Alien Inhabitants: Modes of Body Horror and Reproductive Autonomy in Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) and Prometheus (2012)"  

3. Roya Liu (virtual): "Self and Away: the (in)habition of a self-paused mother in The Lost Daughter"

4. Andy Chang (person): "Inhabiting the Imperial Memory Machine: Technologies of Remembering and Forgetting in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone"

Diaspora, Chair: Sylvanna Baugh

1. Maryam Lashkari (virtual): "Inhabiting Urban Spaces through Diaspora Geopolitics: “Woman, Life, Freedom” in Toronto"

2. Suhyang Baek (person): "How to Welcome Others Who Do Not Have a Habitation?: Inhabiting in the Threshold, Heterotopia, Passage"

3. Nidhi Surendranath (person): "The Immigrant Habitus in Divya Victor’s Diasporic Documentary Poetics"

4. Noor ul Ain (virtual): "Being ‘Home in the World’: An Invitation to Walk with Me "

4:15-5:30pm
Keynote Address: "In the Middle of a Habit," Professor Monica Huerta, Princeton University
Closing Remarks