Directions & Accessibility Information

One Conference. Two Days. Two Virtual Campuses.

Time (EST):	Title:		Link
10:00 am	Opening Remarks		Ryerson Campus Link
10:15-11:30 am	Intersections Keynote: Dr. Cheryl Thompson ‘Towards a Black Futurity: Moving Beyond Aesthetics in Media’		Ryerson Campus Link
Panels:
11:45-12:45 am	Panel 1: New Media Forms and Facticity	Postjournalism and the Death of Newspapers. The Media after Trump: Manufacturing Anger and Polarization *Andrey Miroshnichenko* Aural (re)visions of Technological Pasts and their Present-day Circumstances *Jeff Donison*	Ryerson Campus Link
11:45-12:45 am	Panel 2: Tensions Between Citizenship and State	The Future is Not Bleak: Pakistani Women and the Continued Resistance Against Public Policy CW: gendered violence *Sadia Uddin* Futures without Police Violence: What the research says and what we know to be true. CW: police brutality and violence *Emily Rose Blyth*	York Campus Link
12:45-1:45	Lunch Break
1:45-2:45 pm	Panel 3: Climate Crisis and Rupture	Atmospheric Resistance in Climate Change Reform *Keah Hansen* Marxism and Class Struggle in the Anthropocene *Mauricio Collao*	Ryerson Campus Link
1:45-2:45 pm	Panel 4: Cross-sections	Juice: Re-Imagining South Asian Brown Identities through Digital Art-Based Methods *Anushray Singh* Welcome_Alien *Nikole McGregor & Carlos McGregor* Ghostling *Kalina Nedelcheva*	York Campus Link
3:00-4:00	Panel Discussion 5	Databasing the Future: the Dilemmas and Becomings of a Data-Subject *Nicholas Fazio & Anthony Glyn Burton*	Ryerson Campus Link
3:00-4:00	Panel 6: Aesthetics in Popular Culture	US Hegemonic Views Towards Things Japanese *Esther Sampson* Little Bear, Big Data: Cuteness as Camouflage within the Internet of Toys *Mathew Iantorno*	York Campus Link
4:15-5:15pm	Panel 7: Image, Presence and Aura	In the Defense of the Simple Image *Elyse Longair* Digitally Reproduced Artwork: Materiality, Affect and Context *Jackson Ainsworth* Using Arts-Based Reflection to Build Sense of Place: Artistic Practice in Outdoor Education *Ryan Kasperowitsch*	Ryerson Campus Link
4:15-5:15pm	Panel Discussion 8	Space and the Mediation of Toronto’s Urban Future *Fergus Maxwell, Sam Shaftoe & Victoria Fleming*	York Campus Link
5:30-6:30	Cross-Sections Keynote: Adrienne Matheuszik and Vanessa Godden In Conversation with Diasporic Futurisms		Ryerson Campus Link

Time (EST):	Title:		Link
10:00 am	Opening Remarks		Ryerson Campus Link
10:15-11:30 am	PhD Keynote: Lauren Dwyer Isolated Circuits: Designing Companion Robots for the Future of Loneliness		Ryerson Campus Link
Panels:
11:45-12:45 am	Panel Discussion 9	Making Headway: Past and Peripheral Envisionment Lucía Barrenetxea Lopez, Louise Warberg, Pietro Francesco Pingitore, Ray A-J, Jimi Clee & Yumi Maes	Ryerson Campus Link
11:45-12:45 am	Panel 10: New Media Temporality	Vigilance Vectors: Affectively Sculpting Futurities of Crisis and Consumerism *Quinn MacNeil* Microsoft’s Cortana: Disruption of the Antropomorphized Virtual Assistant *Enna Kim* Google Stadia’s Negative Latency: What Video Games Streaming Could mean for the Future of Predictive Analytics *Patrick Timothy Dawson*	York Campus Link
12:45-1:45	Lunch Break
1:45-2:45 pm	Panel 11: Bodies	CANCELED	Ryerson Campus Link
1:45-2:45 pm	Panel 12: Aural Imaginaries and Possible Futures	“If I had a Voice I would Sing”: Inhumanisms, Plasticity, and Pop Music *Alex Borkowski* Intersectional Ink: The Future of Fashionable Tattooing in the 21st Century Ketzia Sherman How Marvel’s Nostalgia for its Own Cinematic Universe Makes Space for its Cinematic Future *Renee LeBlanc Proctor*	York Campus Link
3:00-4:00	Panel 13: Immersion and Simulation	Hypervolition: Our Sacrifice of Choice *Jevonne Peters* The Empty Stadium, the Empty Spectacle: Technological Imaginaries in Sport During COVID-19 *Andreea Hluscu*	Ryerson Campus Link
3:00-4:00	Panel 14: Cross-sections	When Music and Art Collide: An Interdisciplinary Reimagining of the Concert Programme *Heather Macdonald* Aftermath *Chelsea McBride* (Re)worlding Creative Futures *Elyse Longair*	York Campus Link
4:15-5:15pm	Panel 15: Counter-Hegemonic Epistemologies	Interrogating Rest as an act of Black resistance *Oyindamola Esho* ‘Commoning futurity? Ontological groundings of common futures’ *Rhiannon Cobb*	Ryerson Campus Link
4:15-5:15pm	Panel 16: Cross-sections	Dogs, Gods and City Hall *Cyrus Sundar Singh*	York Campus Link

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Directions & Accessibility Information

One Conference. Two Days. Two Virtual Campuses.

Time (EST):

Title:

Link

10:00 am

10:15-11:30 am

Panels:

11:45-12:45 am

12:45-1:45

Lunch Break

1:45-2:45 pm

3:00-4:00

4:15-5:15pm

5:30-6:30