LitMod co-hosts Research Symposium with the Association for Research in Cultures of Young People
On March 9, 2018, the Literatures of Modernity MA Program and the Association for Research in Cultures of Young People (ARCYP) co-hosted a research symposium at Ryerson University, entitled 鈥淩emix, Reconcile, Remediate, Represent: New Research Snapshots from the Field of Young People鈥檚 Cultures.鈥� Chaired by Ryerson English Professor and President of ARCYP Dr. Naomi Hamer, the symposium included presentations by leading interdisciplinary scholars in the field of young people鈥檚 cultures, and provided opportunities for graduate students to workshop and receive feedback on their research in a supportive and interactive context.
From the LitMod cohort, Jessica Young delivered her paper 鈥淎n(ne)ime and Transmedia Stories,鈥� engaging with Japanese transmedia incarnations of Anne of Green Gables. Daniela Barrera Murcia critically challenged representations of Canadian multiculturalism in contemporary picture books in her paper 鈥淒epictions of Multiculturalism in Canadian Children鈥檚 Picture Books.鈥� On the same panel, Emily Proulx presented 鈥淎daptations of Autochthonous Spaces: An Analysis of Nancy Sheppard鈥檚 Alitji in the Dreamtime and Erin Taylor鈥檚 Alice鈥檚 Wonderful Adventures in Africa,鈥� exploring two adaptations of Lewis Carroll鈥檚 Alice in Wonderland that represent Indigeneity in troubling ways.
The day included both thematic presentation panels and a work-in-progress roundtable lead by discussants Dr. Lissa Paul (Brock University) and Dr. Elizabeth Marshall (Simon Fraser University) and featuring research-in-progress by both graduate students and established scholars from Brock University, McGill University, Ryerson University, Simon Fraser University, University of Calgary, University of Lethbridge, University of Toronto, and York University. The symposium also included Dr. Catherine Ellis (History, Ryerson), Dr. Jason Boyd (English, Ryerson), and a number of students in the MA and PhD in Communication and Culture programs.