9:00 am

Registration

Scholars Studio/THINC Lab

9:30 am – 9:45 am

Welcome Circle

Elder Mary Lou Smoke

9:45 am – 9:55 am

Welcome

Andrew Bailey 

10:00 am – 10:55 am

Opening Keynote

Rinaldo Walcott

Break

10:55 am – 11:05 am

Coffee Break

Catered coffee and baked goods

Session 1A – Utopian Poetics

Moderator: Jey Russell

11:05 am – 11:20 am

Pandemicscapes: An iPhone Art Project

Kiera Obbard

11:20 am – 11:35 am

Becoming: Can Writing Become a Utopic Space?

Sarah Rewega

11:35 am – 11:50 am

Refugee Poetics: Between A Utopian Syria and Political Intervention

 Waed Hasan

11:50 am – 12:00 pm

Q&A

Lunch

12:05pm – 1:35pm 

PlayConnect Reading

Host: Taylor Graham

Playwright Readings From: Drew Hayden Taylor, Deanna Kruger, Sky Gilbert, Judith Thompson

Food will be provided.

Break

1:30 pm – 1:40 pm

Break

Session 1B – Utopic Voices, Ideologies and Technologies

Moderator: Waed Hassan

1:45 pm – 2:00 pm

Empires of the Everyday

Anna Lee-Popham

2:00 pm – 2:15 pm 

Autostraddle: A Preliminary Analysis of Queer Spaces

Lauren McLean

2:15 pm – 2:30 pm 

How Online Music Making Redefined the Definition of Accessibility for Aging Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Brent Rowan

2:30 pm - 2:45 pm

by Seabird: Narrating My Narrator

Véronique Darwin

2:45 pm – 2:55 pm

Q&A

Break

2:55 pm – 3:10 pm

Break

Session 1C – Unpacking Complexity: The Realities Confronting An Ideal Utopia

Moderator: Lauren McLean

3:10 pm – 3:25 pm 

Daphne, Billie & Taylor: Voice and Idealized Performances of Victimhood

Carey West

3:25 pm –  3:40 pm

Creating a Queer Utopia in the BTS Universe

Jey Russell

3:40 pm – 3:55 pm 

When Utopia Collapses

Robert Fleet

3:55 pm – 4:05 pm 

Q&A

Day 1 Closing remarks

4:05 pm - 4:15 pm 

Closing Remarks for Day 1

Conference Committee

4:15 pm – 6:00 pm 

Conference Break 

Optional Event: Walk Through the Arboretum

Evening event

6:00 pm 

MFA Creative Writing Speakeasy: Utopias Edition

Hosted by Nadia Hohn and Emily Kellogg 

Readers: Evren Sezgin, Blessing O. Nwodo, Nadia L. Hohn, Hannah Foulger, Graeme McClelland, Kate Barss, Emily Kellogg, and Jedidiah Mugarura

9:00am

Registration

Scholars Studio/THINC Lab

9:15 am – 9:25 am

Welcome Circle

Jemma Llewellyn

Elder Mary Lou Smoke

9:25 am – 9:55am

Land Reflection Sharing Circle 

Sponsored by the Community Engaged Scholarship Institute and Re•Vision: The Centre for Art and Social Justice

Host: Jess Notwell 

Speakers: Daniel Fischlin, Elder Mary Lou Smoke, Jemma Llewellyn

Session 2A – Transformation: Climate Justice, the Environment, and Sustainability

Moderator: Kiera Obbard

10:00 am – 10:15 am

Multopia: Exploring Diversity in Improvisational Strategies to Address Climate Justice

Cathy Nosaty

10:15 am – 10:30 am

“Twice the Sea Took Him and Once Gave Him Back”: The Women Left Behind in Scottish Maritime Plays

Morgan Martin

10:30 am – 10:45 am

Utopias: A Mix 

Joseph Shea-Carter

10:45 am – 10:55 am

Q&A

Break

10:55 am – 11:05am

Coffee Break

Catered coffee and baked goods

Session 2B – Creating Utopian Futures

Moderator: Morgan Martin

11:05 am – 11:20 am

Complicating the Rural Utopia

Taylor Graham

11:20 am – 11:35 am

Insubordinate Spaces: Critical Studies in Improvisation and Applied Theatre

Jemma Llewellyn

11:35 am – 11:50 am

Cards Against Utopia

Stephen Donnelly

11:50 am – 12:00 pm

Q&A

Lunch

12:05 pm – 1:05 pm 

Community Speaker

Chris Lytle

Host: Joseph Shea-Carter

Food will be provided

Sponsored by the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation

Session 2C – Exploration of Spaces, Pedagogies, and Possibilities

Moderator: Carey West

1:15 pm – 1:30 pm

The Pedagogical Implications of Integrating Circle Singing into the Music Curriculum in Canadian higher education

Erwan Noblet

1:30 pm – 1:45 pm

Mapping Black Heritage in Wellington County: An Exploration of Narrative, Settlement, and Space

Wencke Rudi

1:45 pm – 2:00 pm

The Feminist Frontier: Challenging Spaces of Liberation in Sarah Ruhl’s Late: A Cowboy Song and Sophie Treadwell’s “Machinal”

Bridget Baldwin

2:00 pm – 2:10 pm

Q&A

Session 2D – Designing Utopic Spaces

Moderator: Wencke Rudi

2:15 pm – 2:30 pm

Architectures of Belonging

Glynis McLeod

2:30 pm – 2:45 pm

The Perfect Utopian Space

Bob Wiseman

2:45 pm – 2:55 pm 

Q&A

Break

3:00 pm – 3:15 pm

Break

Session 2E – Roundtable 

Moderator: Joseph Shea-Carter

3:15 pm – 3:45 pm

Creating Conversation: Improvisation and Community-Engaged Scholarship

Presenters: David Lane, Ann Westbere, Sophie Brown, Joe Sobora, Carey West

Graphics: Lucy Bilson

3:45 pm – 4:00 pm 

Q&A

Poll and Break

4:00 pm – 4:10 pm 

Menti Poll: Crowd Favourite

Lauren McLean

4:10 pm – 4:20 pm

Break

Day 2 Closing Remarks

4:20 pm – 4:30 pm

Closing Remarks and Presentation of Best Paper/ Presentation Awards

Sponsored by the College of Arts

Conference committee