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First Day – Thursday Evening – October 23rd
Media Commons Theatre Robarts Library (3rd Floor)
130 St George St, Toronto (St. George Subway Station)
18:30-19:00 Registration
19:00-19:30 Opening Remarks
19:30-20:30 Crowdsourcing Documentary Making: Social Protest, Social Media and Engagement – Greg Elmer (Ryerson University)
Special Screening: Preempting Dissent (2014, 41’)
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Second Day – Friday – October 24th
Room 119 – Emmanuel College
75 Queens Park Crescent E, Toronto (Museum Subway Station)
10:00-10:20 Registration & Coffee
10:20-12:00 Panel 1: New Narratives and Self-Interactivity
Moderator: Hudson Moura (Chair, Organizing Committee)
Florian Hadler & Daniel Irrgang (University of Arts Berlin, Germany) – Nonlinearity, Multilinearity, Simultaneity. Notes on Epistemological Structures
Tom Van Nuenen (Tilburg University, The Nederlands) – Journey as a post-literary travel tale.
Kris Fallon (UC Davis, USA) – Streams of the Self: The Instagram Feed as Narrative Autobiography
Siobhan O’Flynn (University of Toronto) – Narrative Strategies and Participatory Design: Framing New Methodologies for Narrative Studies
12:10-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:20 Panel 2: Social and Interactive Multimedia Projects
Moderator: Martin Zeilinger (OCAD University, Canada)
Heidi Rae Cooley & Duncan Buell (University of South Carolina, USA) – From Ghosts of the Horseshoe to Ward One: Critical Interactives for Inviting Social Engagement with Instances of Historical Erasure (Columbia, South Carolina)
Rafael Antunes (Universidade Lusófona, Portugal) – Blue Pencil: Experiences in Transmedia
Mariana Ciancia, Francesca Piredda & Simona Venditti (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) – Shaping and Sharing Imagination: Designers and the transformative power of stories.
Coffee Break (20’)
15:40-17:00 Panel 3: Documentary and Social Interactivity
Moderator: Robert Davidson (U. of Toronto, Canada)
Ben Lenzner (University of Waikato, New Zealand) – Emerging Forms of Citizen Video Activism: Challenges in Documentary Storytelling & Sustainability
Begoña Gonzalez Cuesta (IE University – Madrid, Spain) – I-Docs and New Narratives: Meaning Making in Highrise
Janice Xu (Holy Family University, USA) – Telling the Stories of Left-behind Children in China: From Diary Collection to Digital Filmmaking
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Third Day – Saturday – October 25th
Room 119 – Emmanuel College
75 Queens Park Crescent E, Toronto (Museum Subway Station)
10:30-12:00 Panel 4: Remediation, Art and Activism
Moderator: Marta Marín-Dòmine (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada)
Benj Gerdes (Long Island University – Post, USA) – Broken Screens (and the Publics who don’t view them)
Isabella Trindade (Ryerson University, Canada) – In-between: between the concrete and the virtual, the physical and the imaginary
Charo Lacalle (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain) – Analysing women’s web comments on television fiction
12:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:20 Panel 5: Film and Interactive Narratives
Moderator: David Sweeney (The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland)
Sandra Lim (Ryerson University, Canada) – Xapiri: at the juncture of history, experience, and technology
Kalli Paakspuu (York University, Canada) – Off the Wall with Shchedryk
Alexandre Coronato Rodrigues & Roselita Lopes de Almeida Freitas (ESPM – São Paulo, Brazil) – Collective Authorship In Real Time
Coffee Break (20’)
15:40-17:00 Panel 6: Theatre, Multimedia and New Narratives
Moderator: Sandra Lim (Ryerson University, Canada)
David Sweeney (The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland) – Crossing Boundaries: National Theatre Live, Backstage Access and Maximum Visibility
Daisy Abbott (The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland) – Old plays, New Narratives: Fan Production of New Media Texts from Broadcast Theatre
Aida Jordão (York University, Canada) – Inês de Castro on YouTube: Re-gendered Narratives
17:00-17:20 Closing Remarks
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Organizing Committee:
Hudson Moura (Chair) (Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese – University of Toronto)
Ricardo Sternberg (Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese – University of Toronto)
Regina Cunha (Ph.D. Candidate, Communication & Society Research Centre – CECS, Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
Cecília Queiroz (Director, BRAFFTV-Brazilian Film and TV Festival of Toronto)
Organizers:
Department of Spanish and Portuguese – University of Toronto
BRAFFTV-Brazilian Film and TV Festival of Toronto
Sponsors:
Department of Spanish and Portuguese – University of Toronto
Office of the Principal – Victoria College
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