and Association of CanadianCollege and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE)

JOINT SESSIONS AT CONGRESS 2012

Congress 2012 of the Humanities and Social Sciences

CROSSROADS: SCHOLARSHIP FOR AN UNCERTAIN WORLD

WilfridLaurierUniversity & University of Waterloo

Waterloo, Ontario

May 26 – June 2, 2012

For general information on Congress and to register, please see http://congress2012.ca .

For information about ARCYP and to renew your membership, please see http://arcyp.ca .

ARCYP PROGRAM

May 28 – 29, 2012

MONDAY, MAY 28, 2012

 1:30 – 2:45 p.m. / Room: J.R. Coutts 105

Project Groundings: A Transnational Approach to Art and Youth Identity Development

in conjunction with SSHRC-funded Project Groundings and Toronto’s Nia Centre for the Arts

Chair: Naila Keleta-Mae (U of Waterloo)

Emerging Artists from Nia Centre for the Arts articulate their life stories through spoken word, theatre, and photography, exploring the complex ways in which Afrodiasporic identity is textured, disrupted, and devalued by everyday occurrences of violence.  How might art address systemic violence in African Jamaican and African Canadian lives?

Open to all Congress delegates; admission free

 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. / Location: TBA

ARCYP Executive Meeting

TUESDAY, MAY 29, 2012

9:00 – 10:15 a.m. / Room: J.R. Coutts 105

Joint ACCUTE / ARCYP Session

TROUBLING NORMATIVITY IN CULTURES OF YOUNG PEOPLE

Chair: Louise Saldanha (Grande PrairieRegionalCollege)

Krys Verrall (YorkUniversity)

            “The Meaning of Difference”

Brendan Burrows (University of Ottawa)

            “ ‘Punks from South Central’: Re-situating Marginality and Hegemonic Whiteness in Larry Clark’s Wassup Rockers”

Molly McKibbin (YorkUniversity)

            “Racialization and Belonging in Rachel Harper’s Brass Ankle Blues”

10:30 a.m. – 12:00noon / Room: J.R. Coutts 105

Joint ACCUTE / ARCYP Session

YOUTH CREATORS, THINKERS, AND EXPRESSIONS OF “CHILD CONSCIOUSNESS” 

Chair: Cheryl Cowdy (YorkUniversity)

Laura Winton (University of Alberta)

            “‘I Just Like to Look’: Participant and Spectator Roles in Youth Engagement with Crossmedia Storyworlds”

Stuart Poyntz (SimonFraserUniversity),  James Rennie (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto), and Benjamin Woo (SimonFraserUniversity)

            “Scenes and Urban Youth Media Production Ecologies in Canada”

Jennifer Hardwick (Queen’s University)

            “These Are Our Stories, These Are Our Songs: Multimedia Storytelling in Another Slice”

12:15 – 1:30 p.m. / Room: J.R. Coutts 105

ARCYP Annual General Meeting (LIGHT LUNCH PROVIDED)

Chair: Peter E. Cumming (YorkUniversity)

Come have your say in the important business of ARCYP, including the election of new Executive members. 

1:45 – 3:30 p.m. / Room: J.R. Coutts 105

Joint ACCUTE / ARCYP Session

YOUTH, (IMAGINARY) BORDERS, AND THE NATION STATE

Chair: Stuart Poyntz (Simon Fraser U)

Heather Snell (University of Winnipeg)

            “Global Citizenship and YA Literatures in Canada: Unpacking Contemporary Representations of the Young (Virtual) Traveler”

Sara Dorrow and Dale Ballucci (University of New Brunswick)

            “Constructing Childhood at the Boundaries of the Nation: An Investigation of the Treatment of Children at the Canadian Border”

Helene Staveley (MemorialUniversity)

            “Border, Nation, Playground, Gamespace: The Fantastic Spaces of Children’s Books by Margaret Atwood and Welwyn Wilton Katz (and Maybe Salman Rushdie, Too)”

Geneviève Brisson (University of British Columbia)

            “Québécois Young Adult Novels in Translation in Canada”

4:00 – 5:30 p.m. / Room: J.R. Coutts 105

Joint ACCUTE / ARCYP Session

ROUNDTABLE:

THE FRIENDLY GIANT’S “EMPTY CHAIR”:

THE MISSING HISTORIES OF CANADIAN CHILDREN’S MEDIA INDUSTRIES

Chair: Natalie Coulter (WilfridLaurierUniversity)

Participants:

Kristine Moruzi (University of Alberta)

Peter Moss (Youth Media Alliance)

Leslie Regan Shade (Concordia Unuiversity)

Although Canada has a long and distinguished history of producing media texts for children (children’s television, film, music, magazines, and video games), that history is often invisible.  This roundtable of scholars and practitioners will begin to recuperate the history of Canadian children’s cultural industries.

Open to all Congress delegates; admission free

7:00 – 10:00 p.m.  Location: The Duke of Wellington Pub (in The Solarium), 33 Erb Street West, Waterloo, http://dukeofwellingtonpub.com/Home.html (Fat Elvis performs live after 9:00!)

ARCYP Annual Dinner-and-Drinks

All members, participants, and attendees are welcome to this ARCYP social event of the year!

See you there!