Playing the Field

Session One (10:00 am – 11:25 am)

PANEL 1             3006 Vari Hall
Dirty Anthropologies: Messy, Sticky, and Miasmal

Moderator: Claire Dalmyn
Presenters:
Claire Dalmyn, York University
   “Pervertible practices: Playing anthropology in BDSM”
Shalanda Phillips, York University
   “Burning things in the dark: A non-innocent noctuary”
Jessica Caporusso, York University
   “In the field, on the floor, in the bedroom: Striking a harmonic discord in a dirty/clean anthropology of sound”
Karen Angus, York University
   “‘Can I be the man this time?’ Subversive play among Toronto- area ballroom dancers”
Mandi Kohli, York University
   “Getting Hot and Sticky: Intimacy with Strangers”

PANEL 2             3009 Vari Hall
Ethics and Power Relations: Traversing Difficult Terrain

Moderator: Nayrouz Abu-Hatoum
Presenters:
Rodrigo Ferrari Nunes, University of British Colombia
   “Critical inconvenience: Power, conformity and collaboration in an ethnographic fieldwork setting”
Noora Sharrab, York University
   “Questioning Academia in the Field : A Case of Palestinian Refugees”
Onur Kovanci, Carleton University
   “Interviewing women as a male researcher”

PANEL 3             3005 Vari Hall
Fieldwork Surprise! Anthropologists’ Expectations Confounded

Moderator: Megan Cotton-Kinch
Presenters:
Lynette Schick, Trent University
   “Writing women: Feminist ‘fieldwork’ as a political act?”
Marta Castilho da Silva, York University
   “Surprises and trends revealed during the fieldwork”
Christine Baillargeon, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
   “Attempting anthropological fieldwork: A personal journey”
Katie MacDonald, York University; Patricia Morris, Trent University
   “Discussing disjuncture: Conversations about protecting privilege through subversive research”

Session Two (11:35 am – 1:00 pm)

PANEL 4             3006 Vari Hall
Relationships in the Field: Getting to Know an Other

Moderator:  Michael Connors Jackman
Presenters:
Michael Connors Jackman, York University
   “Losing the Field: Where Ethnography Begins”
Laura Eramian, York University
   “Mistrusting the mistrustful: Fieldwork in a small town in Rwanda”
Juliet O’Farrell, University of Waterloo
   “The field after fieldwork”
Alanna Louise Felt, Memorial University of Newfoundland
   “Sex in the field: Examining erotic subjectivity in discourses of anthropological fieldwork”
Tasin S. Zaman, University of Waterloo
   “The Field and the Family: Negotiating Questions of Identity”

PANEL 5              3009 Vari Hall
Activism, Ethics, and Anthropology ‘At Home’

Moderator: Megan Cotton-Kinch
Presenters:
Ted Baker, York University
   “Fielding an anti-capitalist anthropology”
Jean McDonald, York University
   “Ethical Negotiations of an Activist Anthropologist”
Niki Thorne, York University
   “Anarchy & anthropology: Towards anti-authoritarian, anti-racist methodologies”

PANEL 6             3005 Vari Hall
Borders and Frontiers: Spatializing the Field

Moderator: David Lavictoire
Presenters:
Michelle Switzer, York University
   “Frontier fieldwork: Challenges and theoretical considerations when working on the border”
Lauren Elizabeth Harding, York University
   “Re-Imagining the field along the Great Divide”
John Van West
   “From apprentice to practitioner: Engaging in the science of anthropology among the commercial smelt trawlermen of Port Dover, Ontario, Canada, 1977-1978”
Robert Ferguson, York University
   “Campus Friction: A Short Ethnographic Engagement with Protest in Vari Hall”

Session Three (1:20 pm – 2:35 pm)

PANEL 7              3006 Vari Hall
Writing, Teaching and Editing: Notes on Pedagogy

Moderator:  Lauren Elizabeth Harding
Presenters:
Julian C. Sonik, Huron University College
   “Writing Process: Re-thinking the Writing Center Interview”
Jenny Lee Ferguson, University of Windsor
   “Theory and practice of composition studies: A personal essay”
Alicia Fahey, Trent University
   “Understanding the field of literary editing”

PANEL 8             3009 Vari Hall
Disability in the Field: What the Researcher Brings and Leaves Behind

Moderator: Jen Rinaldi
Presenters:
Athena Goodfellow, McMaster University
   “Paradoxical fieldwork”
Jen Rinaldi, York University
   “Disability studies fieldwork: Does the nondisabled researcher belong?”
Kaley Roosen, York University
   “Psychological health research: Can disability studies and psychology co-exist?”

Session Four (2:45 pm – 4:10 pm)

PANEL 9             3006 Vari Hall
Field of Affections: Methodologies and Studies of Emergent Materialities

Moderator:  Elysee Nouvet
Presenters:
Elysee Nouvet, York University
   “Affective power, Contagious images in El Barrio”
Melissa Atkinson-Graham, York University
   “Becoming material, becoming method: Notes on proximity and ethnography”
Susan McNaughton, York University
   “Conjugating the modern: Conceptualizing female religious agency”
Dylan Mackie, York University
   “A field of flesh: Collaborating with the “Body without Organs”
Laurie Baker Rogers, York University
   “Learning to configure the resonant body: How divine ferrets can root out the evidence of sin”

PANEL 10             3009 Vari Hall
Connectivities: Of Methods and Methodology

Moderator: Michelle Wyndham-West
Presenters:
Duncan Philpot, Acadia University
   “Tilling the digital field: Examining the issues of online fieldwork”
Tim Bisha, University of Western Ontario
   “From the archival field: Re-viewing the traditional fieldwork process”
Michelle Wyndham-West, York University
   “Studying ‘traffic’: Methodological approaches for navigating the congestion”
Candice Pike, York University
   “Doing fieldwork at the barre: A ballerina investigates gender and friendship ‘at home’ in the dance studio”

Session Five (4:20 pm – 5:35 pm)

PANEL 11             3006 Vari Hall
Deterritorializing the Field: Interdisciplinary Practice in Theory

Moderator:  Emily Simmonds
Presenters:
Matthew Hamilton, Trent University
   “The ‘fixing’ of the subject: Interrogating Ranciere’s challenge to Bourdieu”
Jesse P. Hiltz, Trent University
   “ADHD, an entity within the crisis of the field”
GaYan Kong, Trent University
   “The underside of the mask: Staking out the work of performativity in Spike Lee’s Bamboozled”
Kama Maureemootoo, Trent University
   “Locating the Ghost and the Work of Haunting in Toni Morrison’s Fiction and Non-Fiction”

PANEL 12             3009 Vari Hall
Playing the Home Field: Some Implications and Experiences of Doing Fieldwork at Home

Moderator:  Samantha Breslin
Presenters:
Samantha Breslin, Memorial University of Newfoundland
   “The sound of home”
Robert Dykstra, Memorial University of Newfoundland
   “Learning to field/work at home and away”
Laura Nelson-Hamilton, Memorial University of Newfoundland
   “Of raised beds and home communities: researching food security on common ground(s)?”
Malissa Farnham, York University
   “Going back home with the best of intentions: Hometown anthropology gets a dose of humour/humility”

GAME (1:20 pm – 4:10 pm)

Serious Play: An Activist Role-Play in Solidarity with Mine-Affected Communities

Elizabeth Farinango, University of Toronto
Megan Cotton-Kinch, York University
Indra Noyes, University of Toronto