Wednesday, April 5th, 10:00am – 4:00pm
As in years past, we acknowledge that CAPCON takes place on the unceded and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. At this year’s conference, you’ll hear papers tackling international affairs, but you’ll also hear from many students who are wrestling with questions of land and place in so-called Vancouver and in the Pacific Northwest. This year’s CAP students have spent a lot of time thinking about community engagement: how we can link the research that we do here at UBC to questions of land use, ongoing conditions of dispossession experienced by Indigenous peoples, and patterns of colonial domination that persist in the present and affect us all. Read more…
10:00am – 10:20am: Welcome to CAPCON 2023! Opening Remarks
10:30am – 11:20am: Session 1
Panel A: "Colonialism, Multiculturalism, and Vancouver as a Contact Zone" (Room 1, IBLC 380)
Moderator: Aden Tan
* Akuol Riak - "The Blue Road: A Fable Migration Story & the history of the Black community in British Columbia" (GPS)
* Rosie Xuan - "Indigenous Knowledge Through Education" (I&S)
* Helen Sun & Joanna Lee - "Multiculturalism as a barrier to reconciliation: Canada’s treatment towards The Indigenous Peoples" (I&S)
Panel B: "Media with a Message: The Aesthetics of Community Care" (Room 2, IBLC 385)
Moderator: Viaan Wu
* Tia Boulanger - "Community Radio: Transmitting Cultures" (L&S)
* Nivita Dutta - "Is Cinema Dying?" (MS)
* Xavier Largo - "The Art of Covering Up: How Murals Stifle Critical Dialogue in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside" (PPE)
11:30am – 12:20pm: Session 2
Panel C: “Women, Work, and Migration” (Room 1, IBLC 380)
Moderator: Emma Martin-Rousselle
* Aditi Bedarkar - "Female Refugees: A Counter Narrative Built on Deviance from Norms" (GPS)
* Ava Hamid Nejad - "How the BC Human Rights Tribunal fails to protect their female migrant farmworkers" (PPE)
* Keiko Koizumi - "From Yellow Peril to the Model Minority: a Vicious Cycle of Asian American Discrimination" (PPE)
Panel D (Roundtable): “Effects of the Decriminalization of Drugs on Vancouver's Youth” (Room 2, IBLC 385)
Moderator: Kelly Chan
Prisha Budhiraja, Suhani Jain, Dhriya Popat, Naina Kalani (I&S)
Roundtable moderator: Gaurangi Oberoi
12:30pm – 1:00pm: Lunch Break
1:00pm – 1:50pm: Session 3
Panel E: “Perspectives on International Conflict” (Room 1, IBLC 380)
Moderator: Leean Wu
* Kathleen Mutoro - "French Neocolonialism in Africa" (L&S)
* Chantal Lee - "Russia’s Justification for Invasion: Role of a Compatriot Defender" (GPS)
* Ben Chinnik - "Changes in Russian and Ukrainian Relations since 1991" (GPS)
Panel F: Written on the Body: Art, Technology, Commodification (Room 2, IBLC 385)
Moderator: Lucie Richard
* Silis Hui - "Analysis of Danganronpa's Core Message in Dialogue with its Narrative, Development, and Marketing" (I&S)
* Jigyasa (Ria) Shinde - "Win-Win Capitalism: The Commodification of Digital Dysmorphia on Instagram" (PPE)
* Ash McIver - "Artistry, Activism, and Age: an Analysis of How Activism Art Speaks Differently" (I&S)
2:00pm – 2:50pm: Session 4
Panel G: "(Re)inventions of Urban Space" (Room 1, IBLC 380)
Moderator: Cedric Lin
* Peter Lu & Aidan Cheung - "Reflections on Vancouver: Alternative Looks Into Wreck Beach and Deer Lake" (MS)
* Henry Rankin - "The Fractured Metropolis: AI and Inequality in the age of Neoliberalism" (I&S)
* Kiran Bassi - "Neologisms in Science Fiction: Eden Robinson's 'Terminal Avenue'" (MS)
Panel H: “Trauma, Toxicity, and Emotional Labor” (Room 2, IBLC 385)
Moderator: Gabbi Villarica
* Soniya Tagirova-Sirotkina - "Policing Emotions: The Impacts of Trauma and Social Emotional Labour on Police Officers" (PPE)
* Amanda Woodruff - "Emotional Labor in Exploitative Amateur Athletics: An Analysis of Figure Skating & Team Tutberidze" (PPE)
* Megan Raitt - "Cleaning Up the Dirt: The Model Minority Myth, Backgrounding of Asian Labour, and Outsourced Emotion" (PPE)
3:00pm – 4:00pm: Closing Remarks, Cake, and The Capsule Call for Papers Launch