Popular Culture and the Local
May 12-13, 2006, Brock University.
Conference Schedule
Friday, May 12, 2006
Popular
Culture and the Local: Day One
All sessions today in
POND INLET, except the keynote address
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8:45
– 9:00 Opening remarks and coffee Michael Owen, Associate Vice President, Research Services, Brock
University 9:00
– 10:15 Race and Local Events Chair: Barry Joe Department of Modern Languages,
Literatures and Cultures, Brock University Presenters: Entertaining Niagara Falls, Ontario:
Minstrel Shows, Theatres, and Popular Pleasures Joan Nicks and Jeannette Sloniowski (Brock University) ‘Riots’ or ‘Disturbances’?: The 1967
Detroit Riots in National and Local Perspective Matthew
Kapell (Wayne State University) 10:30
– 11:45 Radio Days Chair: Mary Jane Miller Professor Emerita of Dramatic Arts,
Brock University Presenters: Radio and Anthropology Alan O’Connor (Trent University) Local Radio Identity: Canadian Radio
Programming and Listeners in the 1930s Anne MacLennan (York University) Giving Voice to St. Catharines:
Corporate Ownership vs Local Identity in the Radio Broadcasting of CKTB,
HTZ-FM, and EZ Rock Laura Wiebe
Taylor (Brock University) 11:45-12:45 Lunch
(on your own) 12:45
– 2:20 Local Music Scenes Chair: Barry Keith Grant Department of Communications, Popular
Culture and Film, Brock University Presenters: Identity, Local Music Scenes, and
Translocal Reputation: The Bay Area as an Underground Hip Hop Mecca Anthony Kwame Harrison (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University) |
Where Street Dance Meets Club
Culture: Music, Place and Dance in Toronto’s B-Boy/B-Girl Scene, 1990-1995 Mary Fogarty (Brock University) Branding the Montreal Music Scene Jeremy Morris (McGill University) ‘So You Want to be a Rock and Roll
Star’: the Music Store as a Local Resource Nick Baxter-Moore (Brock
University) 2:30-3:45 Technology
and the Local Chair: Joanna Susan Robinson Interdisciplinary MA in Popular
Culture, Brock University Presenters:
Digital Discourses of Consumption:
Exploring Visual Techno-Culture in a Local Context Tracy L. M. Kennedy (University of
Toronto) Popular Visions of Electricity in the
Niagara Frontier Norman R. Ball (University of
Waterloo) 3:55-4:45
Sport and Local Identity Chair: Lucie Thibault Department of Sport Management, Brock
University Presenters: On the Move: Popular Sports and
Social Change in Québécois Films of the Quiet Revolution Gillian Helfield (York University) From the FA Cup to the Seagrave
Haulage League: AFC Wimbledon,
Fandom and Locality in the Era of Globalized Media Scott Henderson (Brock University) 5:00-6:00
Keynote: John Boyle Domestic Bliss * Location Charles A. Sankey Senate Chambers 6:30 – 8:30 Dinner and Concert Pond Inlet (Advance Tickets Required) |
Saturday, May 13, 2006
Popular
Culture and the Local: Day Two
All sessions today in
POND INLET
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8:45 – 9:00 Coffee and tea 9:00 -10:15 Folk Scenes Chair:
David Butz Department of Geography, Brock
University Presenters: From One Side of the Stream: Zuzana
Lapcikova and Feminine Subjectivity in Czech Folk-Pop Brian S. Locke (Dalhousie University) Local Autonomy, Global Justice: The
Politics of Production at a Community Music Festival Erin K. Sharpe (Brock University) The ‘60s Toronto Folk Scene:
Community, Space and Place Timm Zemanek (York University) 10:30-11:45 Customs and Crazes Chair:
Hans Skott-Myhre Department of Child and Youth
Studies, Brock University Presenters: Frolics
with food: The Frugal Housewife’s
Manual by ‘A.B. of Grimsby’ of 1840 Fiona
Lucas and Mary Williamson (University of Toronto, York University)
‘The Cannon Ball Booms’ – Jeweller
Thomas Jones and the Bicycle Craze in Thorold” Alun Hughes (Brock University) 11:45-12:45
Lunch (provided) |
12:45-2:20 Local Memory Chair:
John Sainsbury Associate Dean of Humanities,
Research and Graduate Studies Presenters: Focus of Memory or Urban Clutter:
Public Memory, Public Forgetting, and the Monument to Private Watson Russell Johnston and Michael
Ripmeester (Brock University) The Mazinaw Rock and Popular Culture
in the Land O' Lakes region of Ontario Stan McMullin (Carleton University) Hormigas and Bicis: Two Local Graffiti and their Place in the Struggles for Memory
in Rosario, Argentina Erin A. Kaipainen (Brock University) Global Tourism and Local Identity:
Niagara Falls Indian Village Marian
Bredin (Brock University) 2:30-3:45 Articulating Local History Chair: Lynne Prunskus Special Collections Librarian and
University Archivist, Brock University Presenters: Undoing the Alien: The Ukrainian in
Saskatchewan Detective Fiction Marilyn Rose (Brock University) Knowledge Ontario and Local
Popular Culture Andrew Porteus (Niagara Falls Public
Library) ‘Kenny-ing’: The Music and
Mentorship of Kenny Wheeler Terrance Cox (Brock University) 3:55-4:45 The Global and the Local Chair: Sarah Matheson Department of Communications, Popular
Culture and Film, Brock University Presenters: Newspapers and the Local Sense of
Place Carrie Buchanan (Carleton University) Popular Music, Media Technologies and
the Narrativisation of Place Andy Bennett (Brock University) 5:00-6:00 Closing Remarks |
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