PARTNERS / PARTENAIRES Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa

Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of OttawaCentre for Public History, Carleton University

Migration and Diaspora Studies Initiative, Carleton University

SPONSORS

Migration/Representation/Stereotypes

April 28-30, 2017 University of Ottawa

Carleton University

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LOCATIONS/ LIEUXAcademic Hall. Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa. 133 Seraphin-Marion St. Ottawa

Leonard Beaulne Studio. Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa. 135 Seraphin-Marion St. OttawaClassrooms: 311, 310, 309, 303, 202. Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa. 135 Seraphin-Marion St. Ottawa

Café Nostalgica. 601 Cumberland St. Ottawa

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Connection Grant Vered Jewish Canadian Studies Program, University of Ottawa

Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Ottawa

Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa

Playwrights Guild Canada

Centre for Public History, Carleton University

Migration and Diaspora Studies Initiative, Carleton University

Faculty of Arts, University of Ottawa

Research Development Program, University of Ottawa

School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design, York University

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APRIL 27

7:00 – 10:00 PM

Academic Hall

PRE-CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Canadian Theatre Review 169: Theatre and Sports Special Issue hosted by the University of Toronto Press/ le lancement de numéro spécial organisée par la Presse de l'Université de Toronto

The launch includes a cash bar and complimentary hors d'oeuvres. The evening will be hosted by editor Peter Kuling from the University of Ottawa Theatre department and features a performance by playwright Colleen Sutton from her recently published one-woman play RiderGirl.

Le lancement comprendra un bar payant et des hors-d'œuvre gratuits. La soirée sera animée par l'éditeur Peter Kuling, professeur adjoint au département de théâtre de l'Université d'Ottawa, suivit d'une performance par Colleen Sutton de sa pièce RiderGirl, récemment publiée.

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VENDREDI, 28 AVRIL / FRIDAY, APRIL 28TH

8:30 AM Academic Hall

Registration /L’inscription

9:00 – 9:30 AM

Academic Hall

Welcoming Remarks/ Remarques D’accueilKevin Kee, Dean of Faculty of Arts, University of Ottawa. Conference Committee

9:30 – 11:00 AM

Academic Hall

Keynote Lecture / Conférencier invité Freddie Rokem (Tel-Aviv University)The Origins of Violence: Walter Benjamin's Dramaturgy of StereotypesChair/ Présidente: Yana Meerzon, University of Ottawa

11:00 –11:15 AM

Coffee Break/Pause Café

11:15AM – 12:45 PM

Academic Hall

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Concurrent Panel Sessions/ Séances SimultanéesPanel/Séance 1 – Refuge(e) Chair: Présidente: Yana Meerzon, University of Ottawa

Nedeljkovic, Vukasin (Dublin institute of Technology). Asylum Archive: an Archive of Asylum and Direct Provision in Ireland

Schult, Tanja (Stockholm University). Migration on Display in the White Cube Soltana, Sonia (Chercheuse indépendante). Entre L’installation et le Dessin, la Migration Face à la Cruauté Médiatique

Panel/ Séance 2– Neoliberal Multiculturalism in the Americas Chair: Présidente: Alvina Ruprecht, Carleton University

Batchelor, Brian (York University). Looking for New Stories: Canada, Neoliberal Subjectivities and Indigenous Migration from Chiapas

Gonzalez, Irvin (University of California). No Bailes de Caballito: An Analysis of Corporate Media Images, Mexicanness,

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and U.S. Multiculturalism Havranová, Katarína (Masaryk University). The Image of the Latina Woman in Hispanic-American Theater

Panel/ Séance 3- Sensations and Pathos of Migration Chair/Presidente: Natalia Vesselova, University of Ottawa

Terracciano, Alda (University College London). Mapping Memory Routes -a Multisensory Approach to Art, Migration and Critical Heritage Studies

Wugalter, Tatiana (Balsillie School of International Affairs). This Could Be My Child:” The Intersections of Pathos and Paternalism in Visual Representations of Child Refugees

Sotelo-Castro, Luis C (Concordia University). The Aesthetics of Intercultural Listening within a Theatrical Frame. A Case Study

Panel / Séance 4 – Subverting stereotypes and the spirit of seriousnessChair/ Présidente: Kelly - Anne Maddox , University of Ottawa

Hamil, Mustapha (University of Windsor). Muslim Humor in Post-9/11 America: Stereotypes and the Affirmation of Identity Esleben, Joerg (University of Ottawa). Migration and Satire: The Roles, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Hetero-Stereotypes and

Auto-Stereotypes Fatmi, Sabrina (Université d’Alger 2). Littérature post-migratoire en France :  les stéréotypes en textes

1:00 – 2:30 PM Academic

Hall

Lunch/ Déjeuner Video-Presentation and Skype Interview/ Vidéo-présentation et entretien a Skype Chokri Ben Chikha, Action Zoo Humain (Belgium)Chair: Présidente: Yana Meerzon, University of Ottawa

2:30 – 4:00 PM

309

Concurrent Panel Sessions/ Séances simultanées

Panel/ Séance 5 – Sounding Foreign? Listening to migrant voices on stage Chair/President: J. Douglas Clayton, University of Ottawa

Manole, Diana (University of Guelph). Accented Autobiographies: Tetsuro Shigematsu’s Deconstruction of Immigrant Stereotypes in Empire of the Son

Babayants, Art (University of Toronto). Stereotypes, Accents and Mainstream: Theorizing a Multilingual Actor’s

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Phonological Struggles Migliarisi, Anna (Acadian University). Acting (in) Calabrian: Tony Nardi’s 1990 Production of A Modo Suo (A Fable)

Panel/ Séance 6 –The Politics of (Mis)Representation Chair/President: Peter Kuling, University of Ottawa

Nemeth-Kilinc, Orsolya (University of Ottawa). (Mis)representation of Forced Migration: Hungary in Light of the Refugee Crisis

Bobadilla, Andrea (University of Western Ontario). Reproducing Stereotypes of Asylum Seekers through Designations in the ‘Protecting Canada’s Immigration System Act’

Gordon, Michael (McMaster University). Constructing ‘Illegality’ in Political Discourse: Borders and Irregularity and the Humanitarian-Security Nexus

Panel/ Séance 7 – Applied Theatre: Politics, Praxis, Pedagogy Chair/President: Kevin Orr, University of Ottawa

Acil, Tufan (“InterArt Studies”). Aesthetic Shifts: Transformation of the Aesthetic Values within the Turkish Community in Germany

Hughes, Shannon Elizabeth (York University). Tell it to ‘her’ Face: Conflicting the Facilitator (Applied Theatre) Georgiou, Michalis (Independent Scholar, Greece). Breaking Stereotypes: Afrika!: A Theatrical Project with Refugees in

Border German Cities Close to France

4:15 – 6:00 PM

Academic Hall

Round Table/Table ronde: Indigeneity and Migration on Turtle IslandJill Carter (University of Toronto), Daniel David Moses (Queens University), and Ric Knowles (University of Guelph)

Book Launch /Lancement du livrePerforming Indigeneity. Edited by Yvette Nolan and Ric Knowles. Playwrights Canada Press. 2016

Play Reading/ Mise-en-Lecture: The Shaman of Manitoulin Daniel David Moses (Queens University)

6:30 – 8 PM

Café Nostalgica

Conference Welcome, sponsored by the University of Ottawa, Department of TheatreAccueil des participants, commandité par le Département de théâtre de l’Université d’Ottawa

Audio-Video Installation/ Installation audio-vidéo

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52HZ Golbon Moltaji (Unievrsity of Ottawa)

8 PM Academic Hall

Praxis-Presentation/Présentation-performance:Teeth Show Natasha Davis, UK

*10 AM - 6:00 PM

Academic Hall (foyer)

Bookstore Agora On Site/ Librairie Agora sur le Site

Samedi, 29 AVRIL / Saturday, April 29th

8:00 AM Academic Hall

Registration /Registration

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

303 Movement Workshop/ Atelier de mouvement: Choreographies of Migration: Stranger Communities. An Introduction to Migration of Gesture and Stylized FormsOrganizer/Organisateur Katherine Mezur (University of California Berkeley) Participants/Participantes

Casilli, Ida (East London) Chou, Szu-Nuo (University of Ottawa) Perrier, Andre (University of Ottawa) Vesselova, Natalia (University of Ottawa) Schult, Tanja (Stockholm University) Terracciano, Alda (University College London). Hughes, Shannon Elizabeth (York University). Parimala, Doss (University of Delhi) Larcher, Anne (Université Laval) Schahrazed, Necib (Université Kasdi Merbah Ouargla Algérie) Subhi, Hana (Paris-Sorbonne Abu Dhabi)

8:45 –10: 15 AM

Concurrent Panel Sessions/ Séances simultanées

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Panel/ Séance 8 – Performing Canadian Multiculturalism On/Off Stage Chair/President : Rick Duthie, Carleton University

Knowles, Ric (University of Guelph). Cahoots Ashperger, Cynthia (Ryerson University). Get Rid of Eksent? Stereotype, Language and Identity in Tongue Play Faize, Zohra (University of Ottawa). Migration Experiences of Asylum Seekers in Canada: Racism, Marginalization

and Criminalization

Panel/ Séance 9 – Migration and the Body (Politic) Chair/ Président: Daniel McNeil, Carleton University

Good Gingrich, Luann (York University). Stereotyping for Social Archetyping in Marketized Social Welfare O’Thomas, Mark (Newcastle University). There’ll Always Be An England – Butlins, Brexit and the Performance of

Heterotopic Sovereignty Kuling, Peter (University of Ottawa). Performance Patterns and Athletic Migration during the RIO 2016 Summer

Olympic Games

Panel/ Séance 10 – Performing FranceChair/ Président: Sylvain Schryburt, University of Ottawa

Baytas, Claire (University of Illinois). (Mis)Representations of the Paris Protests of October 17, 1961 Rauer, Selim (University of Minnesota). La migration des Corps dans le Temp et L’espace de la Postcolonie Pehlivan, Veli (l’EHESS Paris). Se témoigner devant des institutions et des associations humanitaires : le cas de

journalistes exilés à Paris

10:15 – 10:30 AM

Coffee Break/ Pause Café

10:30 – 12:00 PM

309

Concurrent Panel Sessions/ Séances simultanées:

Panel / Séance 11 – Meanings of Mobility: Oil, Exotic Animals and Abortion ServicesChair/Présidente: Christabelle Sethna, University of Ottawa

Conway, Kyle (University of Ottawa). Home and Migration in Petromodernity Jaclin, David (University of Ottawa). Wildlife Trafficking and Migrations of Animal Parts around the Globe/Le trafic

d’animaux sauvages et ses routes migratoires autour du monde Sethna, Christabelle (University of Ottawa). Incredible Journeys: Accessibility, Travel and Abortion Services

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Panel / Séance 12 – Disjunctured Representations of the Canadian Francophonie: Mechanisms of Inclusion and Exclusion in the Lives of French-Speaking Immigrants and Refugees (bilingual panel)Chair/Présidente: Luisa Veronis, University of Ottawa

Luisa Veronis (University of Ottawa) and Suzanne Huot (University of Western Ontario). Introduction: L’immigration Francophone en contexte minoritaire au Canada

Joyce Akl (University of Ottawa). Francophone Immigrants’ Experiences of Discrimination, Racialization and Othering in Spaces of Everyday Life within Minority Communities

Yvonne Kasine, (University of Western Ontario). An Intersectional Approach to French-Speaking Immigrants’ Experiences with Linguistic Discrimination and the Racialization of Differences in Spoken French within Minority Communities

Méralyne Fleurant (University of Ottawa). Représentations disjonctuelles de la francophonie minoritaire à travers les stéréotypes de l’ « autre francophone » par les communautés d’accueil et les immigrants francophones

Panel / Séance 13 - Screening Strangers: Migrants and Migrant Communities in European and American Film Cultures Chair/Presidente: Louise Frappier, University of Ottawa

Ménard, Claire (Cornell University). L’insoutenable flexibilité de l’être–errance et nomadisme dans le cinéma contemporain de Nicolas Klotz, Claire Denis et des frères Dardenne

Abanto, Luis (University of Ottawa). The Latino Migrant: a Discussion on Stereotyping the South Fitzpatrick, Lisa (Ulster University). The Question of Honour in British Filmic Representations of Migrant

Communities

12:00 – 1:00 PM

Academic Hall

Lunch/ Déjeuner

1:00 – 2:30 PM

Academic Hall

Keynote Lecture / Conférencier invité

Grégoire Holtz (University of Toronto) L’autre de L’autre. Représentations du regard inverse dans la littérature de voyagesChair/ Président: Sylvain Schryburt, University of Ottawa

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2:30 – 2:45 PM

Break/ Pause

2:45 – 4:15 PM

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310

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Concurrent Panel Sessions/ Séances simultanées:Panel/ Séance 14 – Performing Italian Diaspora Chair/Présidente: Cristina   Perissinotto, University of Ottawa

Casilli, Ida (East London). Could Heritage Based Participatory Theatre Challenge Community Stereotypisation and Educate Audience and Participants to a thorough Understanding of Migration Patterns? The Example of 'Moving Dreams' and the Italian Community of Peterborough (UK).

Nannavecchia, Tiziana (University of Ottawa). The Melancholic Migrant: Examining the Literary Trope of Nostalgia in Narratives by Italians in Canada.

Nardy, Tony (University of Toronto). The Silence within the Silence: Italian-Canadian Theatre.

Panel/ Séance 15 – Migration, Citizenship and Governmentality Chair/Présidente: Delphine Nakache, University of Ottawa

Alibhai, Zaheeda (University of Ottawa). Read Her Lips: The Ban Against Wearing the Niqab and Burqa at the Canadian Citizenship Ceremony 2011-2015

Losier, Jessica (University of Ottawa). Vulnérabilité et isolement des travailleurs agricoles étrangers temporaires Ndiaye, Gana (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). Mobility and Cultural Citizenship: the Making of a

Senegalese Diaspora in Multiethnic Brazil

Panel / Séance 16 – Performing Bodies of Migration

Purcell-Gates, Laura (Bath Spa University). Spectacular Bodies, Unsettling Objects: Material Performance as Intervention in Stereotypes of Refugees

Nahm, Kee-Yoon (Illinois State University). Theatrical Border Crossings: Stereotypes against Realism in the Plays of Young Jean Lee

Meerzon, Yana (University of Ottawa). Precarious Body: Staging Levinas’ Other in the Theatre of Migration.

4:15 – 4:30 PM

Coffee Break/ Pause Café

4:30 – 6:00 PM

Academic Hall

Praxis-Presentation/Présentation-performance:Contemporary NomadsHenry Daniel (Simon Fraser University)

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8: 00 PM

Academic Hall

STAGED READING / MISE-EN-LECTURETraversée Présenteé par Voyageurs Immobiles, MontréalMise en scène : Milena BuziakTexte : Estelle SavastaComédiennes : Hodan Youssouf, Florence Blain Mbaye

*11 AM-4:00 PM

Bookstore Agora On Site/ Librairie Agora sur le Site

Dimanche, 30 avril /Sunday, April 30th

8 :30 AM Academic Hall

Registration /Registration

9:00 – 10:15 AM

Academic Hall

Keynote Lecture / Conférencier invité Magda Stroińska (McMaster University)Stereotypes: Failed Attempts at CategorizationChair/ Président: David Dean (Carleton University)

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10:15 – 10:30AM

Coffee Break/ Pause Café

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Leonard Beaulne Studio

Workshop/AtelierExodus: Movement, Culture, People Part of a collaborative project with high school students in the National Capital Region to examine the connections between migration, diaspora and Canadian diversity as refracted through the power of arts and culture.

Facilitated by Henry Daniel (Simon Fraser University), Daniel McNeil (Carleton University), and Jessica Ruano (University of Ottawa). Animé par Henry Daniel (Université Simon Fraser), Daniel McNeil (Université Carleton) et Jessica Ruano (Université d'Ottawa).

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

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Concurrent Panel Sessions/ Séances simultanées:Panel / Séance 17 – Transnational Cultural Analysis and the Diasporic CommunityChair/ Président: Joerg Esleben, University of Ottawa

KC, Hari (University of Waterloo). The “South Asian” in the Canadian Transnational History: Whither Stands the Nepalese Transnational Identity?

Ondoua, Hervé Toussaint (Université de Yaoundé). Les subalternes-migrantes peuvent-elles parler ? Contribution à l’approfondissement de la compréhension des migrants àpartir d’une analyse de Gayatri Spivak

Bhat D, Shilpa (Ahmedabad University). Shylocking Gujarati Merchants: The Conniving Indian Dukawallah in Narrative Discourses Set in East Africa

Panel / Séance 18 – Memory and Migration Chair/ Président: David Dean, Carleton University

Lech, Kasia (Canterbury Christ Church University). Rosaura and Bubble Revolution: Polish and Spanish Memories on the Post-Brexit British Stage

Bokore, Nimo (Carleton University). Migration, Memory and Testimony Chou, Szu-Nuo (University of Ottawa). After the Great Escape: Chinese Diasporic Women’s New Lives in

Taiwan

Panel / Séance 19 – Staging the Journey of Migration Chair /Présidente: Rebecca Margolis, University of Ottawa

Cofman-Simhon, Sarit (Kibbutzim College). "My homeland is a Suitcase" or: The Suitcase as a Neurotic Container in the Israeli Theatre

Vesselova, Natalia (University of Ottawa). Migrating Towards the Self: The Representation of a Haredi

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Religious Refugee in Film Afolabi, Taiwo (University of Victoria). Forgotten Corridor: Theatre as an Instrument of Domestication in

Global Displacement and Migration Narratives

12:15 – 2:00 PM

Café Nostalgica

Lunch-Banquet/ Déjeuner- Banquet

2:15 – 3:45 PM

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Concurrent Panel Sessions/ Séances simultanées:Panel / Séance 20 – Cities of Migration

Sciarra, Veronica (Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier). Italiens et Chinois entre quotidien et stéréotypes Orman, Neriman and Sinem Ulutaş (University of Cologne). Subject of (Im)-Possibility. Marquis-Bissonnette, Maude (Carleton University). How Cities and Local Communities Integrate Newcomers:

The Case Studies of Syrian Refugees Arriving in the Province of Quebec

Panel / Séance 21 – Mobility and Politics, the Case of Canada and Quebec Chair/ Présidente: Luisa Veronis, University of Ottawa

Swan, Emma (University of Ottawa) and Kevin Elliott (Global Affairs Ottawa). ‘Single Men Need Not Apply’: Exploring the interplay of gender and Islamophobia in Formulating Government Policy and Public Discourse Around Canada’s Operation Syrian Refuge

Moltaji, Golbon (University of Ottawa) Contradictions of Student Mobility in Canada Rodrigo, Annelise (Université de Toulouse). «Let Them In». Les représentations des réfugiés au Canada.

L’exemple de la presse et des bulletins associatifs pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

Panel / Séance 22 – L’ écriture migrante et la littérature post-migratoire Chair/ Président e   : Anne-Marie Ouellet, Université d’Ottawa

Subhi, Hana (Paris-Sorbonne Abu Dhabi) L’image de l’immigré, entre la campagne et la ville, dans « Une impression étrange dans ma tête » d’Orhan Pamuk

Bédard-Goulet, Sara (Université du Québec à Montréal). Du Sahara à l'impasse du Maroc: migration du stéréotype dans l'oeuvre de Jean Echenoz

Constant, Marie-Helene (Université de Montréal). Occulter malgré l’ouverture : « écriture migrante » et littérature québécoise contemporaine

4:00 PM Academic Hall

Closing Remarks/ Mot de la FinConference Organizing Committee