10 April 2007

Opening Comments
9:00

Janine Marchessault and Susan Lord

Panel 1: Research Traditions
Moderator: Janine Marchessault   

9:15

Michael Darroch - Anonymous History of Urban (Media) Research

9:30

Mervyn Horgan - Subject-centred Methods and Serendipity in Social Research, or "Everything I need to know about methods I learned from the Chicago School of Sociology circa 1929"

9:45
Chris Smith - "Coming Clean": Insider Ethnography, Participant-observation and the Performance Academic Objectivity, or From NARC to OCAP to JUNKY and Back Again: Insider Ethnography in Contested Urban Spaces

10:00
Discussion

10:30
Coffee Break

2: Urban Pedagogies
Moderator: Susan Lord

10:45

Warren Crichlow - The civic role of the museum in the delirious city

11:00

Laura Levin - Urban Self-Portraiture: Developing Visual Pedagogies for Interurban Encounters

11:15

Steven Bailey - Staging Hypermodern City Life: Dramaturgy and the Psychodynamics of Urban Culture

11:30

Discussion

12:00-1:00

LUNCH (catered)

3: Cinema and Media Aesthetics
Moderator: Caitlin Fisher

1:00

Sharon Hayashi - Goodbye Kitty, Hello War

1:15

John Greyson - Fig Trees

1:30

Discussion      

4: Arts and Interventions
Moderator: Michael Darroch

2:00

Saara Liinamaa - Artist Research and Urban Knowledge

2:15

Kirsty Robertson - "Try to Walk with the Sound of my Footsteps": The Surveillant Body in Contemporary Art

2:30

Nick Balaisis - Itinerant Cinema Exhibition and its Audience(s): The Case of Cuba

2:45

Discussion

3:15

Coffee Break

5: Global Cities
Moderator: Susan Ingram

3:30

Peer Zumbansen - Global Cities Project

3:45

Markus Reisenleitner - "The Company of Strangers": The Connectedness of Urban Cultural Diversity in 20th-century Popular Fiction and Cinema (Hong Kong, Darwin, London)

4:00

Janine Marchessault / Susan Lord - Translocal Subjectivities

4:15

Discussion and Wrap-up

6:00