Room Number: TRS 1-073
Join Meeting: https://ryerson.zoom.us/j/96572579012?pwd=OVE5blNuYU5iekZmZzZ4TklGT3UwUT09
Chair: Michael Bucknor (U Alberta)
Speakers:
Jonathan Nash (Victoria U), “An Unbound Jungle: Stories of Community and Rupturing Enclosures in ‘Camp de la lande’
Harismita Vaideswaran (U Delhi),“Fractured Familiarities, Ruptures of Recognition: Narrating Affect and Space in Nigerian Civil War Fiction”
Shuyin Yu (Calgary U), “Gartic Phones and Zoom Rooms: On Internet Games, Poetic Imagery, Laughing Again in Online Spaces an Age of Remote Teaching”
Paper Summaries:
Jonathan Nash (Victoria U), “An Unbound Jungle: Stories of Community and Rupturing Enclosures in ‘Camp de la lande’
This presentation explores how the residents of ‘Camp de la lande’ built a common through self-made communities of care and solidarity. I argue that its residents alongside volunteers ruptured the borders of the enclosure and in doing so enacted alternative ways of being together.
Harismita Vaideswaran (U Delhi),“Fractured Familiarities, Ruptures of Recognition: Narrating Affect and Space in Nigerian Civil War Fiction”
A close textual reading of Anthonia C. Kalu’s Broken Lives and Other Stories and Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche’s Half of a Yellow Sun will illustrate the ways in which affective transformations wrought by wartime are narrated in fiction, and how frames of recognition rupture, and are sustained, by individuals contemplating wartime violence.
Shuyin Yu (Calgary U), “Gartic Phones and Zoom Rooms: On Internet Games, Poetic Imagery, Laughing Again in Online Spaces an Age of Remote Teaching”
The use of games has become a core component of my pedagogy while teaching virtually. This presentation examines how the introduction of games (such as Gartic Phone) in the classroom helps to curate inviting, interactive, and fun spaces, regardless of in-person or virtual teaching.