CACS-ACÉC 2026

Mucking About Workshop

1. Mucking About: Cultivating Community in Research-Creation Across Disciplines Lisa Conway (in person), Alanna Stuart (online), Robin Love (in person)

Peer Feedback as Method Working Group Panel

1. Peer Feedback as Method Brent Ryan Bellamy (in person)

Insurgent AI Workshop

1. Insurgent AI: Speculative Narratives & Cosmologies Grayson Richards (in person), Fan Wu (in person)

Play, Horror, Dread

1. "This House is Not a Home: Fear, Loss, and Archival Memory in Layers of Fear, What Remains of Edith Finch, and Subliminal" Daria Romanoff (in person)
2. "Upheavals in Online Spaces: Fan Experiences of Destiny 2's End of Development" Jordan Etherington (in person)

Insurgent AI Workshop Continued

Activist Readings of Capital - Colleen Lye Keynote

1. Activist Readings of Capital

Collectives

1. Constructing hunger: Digital narratives about food insecurity, responsibility, and care in Hamilton food banks and community gardens Antara Dey (online), Anneka Bosse (in person)
2. Interwoven Worlds: Rethinking Environmental Relationships, Engagement, and Possibilities in Times of Upheaval Himani Dhanot (in person)
3. QTBIPOC Grassroots Communities as Collective Life: (Re)Building Through Times of Upheaval Maple Xiang (in person)
4. Scholars Strike For Liberation (SSL): A Revolutionary Virtual Platform For Freedom Beverly Bain (in person)

Indigeneity, Diaspora, Settler Colonialism Working Group Panel

1. Indigeneity, Diaspora, and Settler Colonialism: Global Connections Dawnis Kennedy (online), Aarzoo Singh (online), Ghada Sasa (online), Precious Gauthier (in person)
2. Philippine Diasporic Praxes of Self and Collective Decolonization in/within Performance Creation Dennis Gupa (online)

Publics

1. (Il)legible: conspiracy theory and the internet Mikaela Lewis (in person)
2. "Disruption, Upheaval, or Magic? AI Imaginaries and Implementations in a Conjuncture Called Silicon Valley" Markus Reisenleitner (in person)
3. "Environmentalism is the Modality in which Digital Refusal is Lived" Anne Pasek (in person)
4. Hard Feelings: The Effective Altruist Imagination Emma Watson (in person)

Counter Media And Refusals

1. Canadian Comic Book Histories as Resistant Public Pedagogy Brandon Hollingshead (in person)
2. Public Code under Upheaval: Counter-Policy, NFB Interactive Media, and Creative Agency in Canada John Bessai (online)
3. Soleils Atikamekw: Chloé Leriche's Critique of Whiteness Bruno Cornellier (online)
4. Tricksters & Tragedy: Comedic Survivance Kyra Min Poole (in person)

Critical Formations of the Field

1. Combating the Politics of Silence, Beyond the Walls of Academia Precious Gauthier (in person)
2. Upheaval as Method: Unsettling the Conditions of Knowing Kathryn Last (in person)

Basket Weaving And Other Vicissitudes

1. Academic freedom for students – is the question ‘academic’? Eve Haque (in person)
2. AI Intimacies and Academic Integrity: Crisis and Cheating in the Glitch Sara Matthews (in person)
3. On Basketweaving, the Critical Humanities, and Public Finance Tapji Garba (in person)
4. Policing the Post-Secondary Crisis Patrick Michael Teed (in person)

Disrupting the Continuum Workshop

1. Disrupting the Continuum: Art, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Non-Racism David Puvaneyshwaran (in person), Carolyn Oei (in person)

Queer Atmospheres Workshop

1. Queer Atmospheres Tarot: Attunement, Magic, and Socially-Engaged Arts of Relating Jay Pahre (in person)

No Small Acts Workshop

1. Witnessing The Glory Hole: Glory Hole Gallery, Queer Art Praxis, and 2SLGBTQ+ Micro-Gallery's as Sites of Creative Resistance and Community Building Emily Peltier (in person)

Black Critical Theory Working Group Panel: Materiality and Abstraction After Antiblackness

1. Conflict, Consensus and Confinement: On the Ontario Science Centre's A Question of Truth Marcelle Anne Fletcher (in person)
2. Disciplinary Formations Across Black and African Studies Maandeeq Mohamed (online)
3. Symbolic narratives of rites of passage: unsuspending female circumcision Milka Njoroge (in person)
4. The Lordean Ruse Kevin Ah Sen (in person)

Making Culture

1. Digital Ethnic Media and the Construction of Cultural Trauma: The Tai Po Fire and Hong Kong Diaspora Responses in Canada James Wong (in person)
2. Labour Migration, Agency, and the Politics of Content Creation Winona Arador (online)
3. The End of Endings: Streaming Television and the Politics of Permanent Upheaval Raisa Rasheeka (in person)

Aesthetic Interventions

1. Mimetic Experience: The Performance of Citizenship in Tehching Hsieh’s work Aydan Hasanova (online)
2. Monuments Without Ground: Augmented Reality and Diasporic Practices of Remembrance Vasuki Shanmuganathan (online)
3. The Passport Project: Representing Indigeneity, diaspora, belonging, and (im)possible movement(s) in the Passport works by Abdi Osman Ellyn Walker (online)

Queer Poetics of Upheaval: Improvising Genres of Collective Life Workshop

1. Poetry Towards New Worlds Ronald Cummings
2. Queerly Gendered Poetics and Life Genres: Cities from Below Jamie Magnusson (in person)
3. Rehearsing Choreographies for Collective Upheavals Hadley Howes (in person)

Waste & Garbage

1. Capture and Drift in the Orbital Imaginary Karl Manis (in person)
2. Girlhood as Pedagogy: Mourning the Self and the Planet Through Junk Journaling in the Anthropocene Alicia Petrie (in person)
3. Microbiopolitical Scatology: Urban Wastewater Milieus and Microbial Futures Penelope Ironstone (in person)

Material Cultures

1. The Medium Is the Message: Textile Arts as a Site of Knowledge Subversion and Political Visibility Meghan Jennings (in person)
2. Fashion Economies as Cultural Upheaval: Cloth, Colonialism, and Canadian National Narratives Mark O'Connell (online)
3. Circulating Authenticity: Exploring Handmade Objects as Neoliberal Selfies Bebhinn Jennings (in person)

Wild Infrastructure: Movements Beyond Apocalypse - Deb Cowen Keynote at Peterborough Public Library

1. Wild Infrastructure: Movements Beyond Apocalypse - Deb Cowen Keynote at Peterborough Public Library Deb Cowan

Cultural Translation and Mobility Working Group Panel: Planetary Thinking at the Intersections of Cultural Translation and Mobility

1. Dreaming a Language without Separation: Queer Quantum Translation in Emilia Beatriz’s barrunto (2024) Gemma Craig-Sharples (online)
2. Extractive Economy and Planetary Change: Migration, Translation and Polyphony in Pundalik N. Naik’s The Upheaval Saikat Pradhan (online)
3. Parallel Sovereignties: A Comparative Visual Analysis of Indigenous Childhoods in Indian and Canadian Picturebooks Sridipa Dandapat (online)
4. Translating Solidarity: What Happens When the Jobs Disappear but the Workers Remain? Migrant Workers, Labour Mobility, and Community Unionism after the Del Monte Oshawa Closure Christopher Sorio (in person)

Teaching Upheaval

1. Classroom, collegium, and community: Studying the talk of teacher education Lynn Caldwell (online)
2. Sustaining Through Refusal: Queer and Trans Teachers and the Upheaval of Respectability Chase Thomson (in person)
3. The Essay Versus the Instagram Caption: Teaching Writing Since 2023 Anjalee Nadarajan (in person)

Otherwise, Catastrophe

1. New Worlds Through Radical Queer Ontology Kiefer Snider (in person)
2. Sola Simulacrum: Living Through the End of the World Caliesha Harris (in person)
3. The Heat Death of the Internal Universe Sterling MacDonald (in person)

Demos

1. Digital Graveyards & Death Selfies: Relics of the 2026 Iranian Massacre Saghar Ghezel (in person)
2. Platforming #Ozoemena: Memory and Affective Resistance on X Silas Udenze (in person)
3. The Living Archive: Ekşi Sözlük and the Gezici Master Frame Can Kutay (online)
4. WHERE FROM, WHERE TO? Returning to ambivalent nostalgia in the past-present-future of the Jewish diaspora Zoë Catterall (in person)

Forms of Life And Death

1. Vocabulary for the Genocide Economy: A Compendium from Kjipuktuk Neil Balan (online)
2. Achille Mbembe’s Computational and Racial Dispositifs Greg Bird (in person)
3. From Ecological to Planetary Necropolitics in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide (2004) and Gun Island (2019) Sayantani Choudhury (in person)
4. Violent Labour, Management, and the Mundane in the Irish Republican Army Michael Epp (in person)

Soundscapes

1. Soundscapes, Biosonification, Ruby Singh Max Karpinski (in person)
2. The Sexual Agency of Women in the 1st Wave of UK Punk: Siouxsie Sioux’s Use of Nazi Imagery & Clockwork Orange Make-Up as a Means of Feminist Power and Agency Through the Lens of Hauntology Lindsay Blake (in person)
3. The Soundscape of Withdrawal: Noise-Cancelling Technologies and the Privatisation of Listening Pouria Torkamaneh (online)

AGM

Methodologies Under Scrutiny

1. Generative AI and Material Culture: The Case of Canadian Costume Jewelry Sheenagh Pietrobruno (in person)
2. The Kitchen as Site for Radical Learning and Alternative Knowledge Production Laura Kozak (online), Amanda White (in person)
3. Upsurges Nevan Hinks (in person), Jenn Cole (in person)

(Counter)Atomization in amiskwacîwâskahikan

1. ArtBus: Re-localization Through Cultural Events Carolyn Jervis (in person)
2. Tactical Compassion: Rapid Artistic Prototypes for Vulnerable Populations in an Age of Institutional Failure Dan Zimmerman (in person)
3. "When you’re in poverty you can’t control the noise around you”: Precariously-Housed Youth and Orphic Media Annaliese Pope (online)

Polycrisis

1. A Logging Road to the Cosmos: Confronting the Polycrisis Through Ecopoetry Aaron Kreuter (in person)
2. Culture/Civil/Class/Constant War: Video Games and the Far-Right Emma Vossen (online)
3. Sonorities of the Dark Enlightenment Andrew Herman (in person)

Extractivism

1. Ideational De-Risking and the Hegemony of “National” Critical Minerals: On “Major Projects” in Canada Zachary Gan (in person)
2. Lodging Transition: Planning, Housing, and (Anti-)Social Reproduction at the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry Jordan B. Kinder (in person)
3. The Colonizing of OOB and Pop Culture Trends Nina Adawag (online)

Rhetorics of the Right

1. Domesticated Dynamite: Dreams of Artificial General Intelligence and Techno-feudalism Joshua Potter (online)
2. Marketing Climate Obstructionism: Fossil Capital, Conservative Discourse Coalitions, and Social Media Advertising Robert Neubauer (online)
3. Soaking in Common Sense: How LDS Tradwife Influencers Make Patriarchy Feel Natural, Beautiful, and Chosen Etta Potter (online)
4. The Reactionary Mind and Mimetic Inversion: Making Sense of the Monstrous Double Jason Hannan (online)

TOPIA Planning

1. Strengthening ties between CACS-ACÉC and TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies Nalini Mohabir (in person), Ronald Cummings

Conference Wrap Session