Congratulations to A/CA members who are presenting their research at this year's Film Studies Association of Canada (FSAC) Conference on May 12-15, 2022. Consider checking out these exciting presentations!  
 
More information can be found here.

Full A/CA panels:

May 13
1:00 - 2:30PM EST. Panel D.3: Counter-Archives as Living Archives: Entanglement, Stewardship and Restoration

Chair: Janine Marchessault (York University)

• Janine Marchessault (York University) “Touch as Redemption: Tactility as Methodology”
• Debbie Ebanks Schlums (York University) “Embodied Counter-Archiving in the Jamaican Diaspora”
• Ryan Conrad (York University) “Accidental Archives: Thirty Years of HIV/AIDS Cultural Activism & Stewardship at Canada’s Artist-Run Media Arts Organizations” 
• Rebecca Gordon (Toronto Metropolitan University, formerly Ryerson University) “Documenting the Restoration Process: The Documentaries of Sara Gómez at the Vulnerable Media Lab”

May 14
1:00 - 2:30 PM EST. Panel G.1: Material Cultures of Canadian Television

Chair: Andrew Burke (University of Winnipeg)

• Andrew Burke (University of Winnipeg) “The Times They Are A-Changing: Television Listings, Everyday Life, and the CBC Times in the 1960s”
• Axelle Demus (York University and Toronto Metropolitan University, formerly Ryerson University) “‘To Tell the Gay Story Like It Is’: Reconstructing Local Televisual Histories of Gay and Lesbian Liberation in Canada“
• Jennifer VanderBurgh (Saint Mary’s University) “Between Record and Rhetoric: Theorizing Contributions of CBC Annual Reports”

Participation from A/CA members:

May 12 
3:00 - 4:30 PM EST. Panel B.2: 16mm Canadian Film 

Chair: Haidee Wasson (Concordia University)

3:00 - 4:30 PM EST. Panel B.3: A+++ Workshop on Alternative Grading

Chair: Malini Guha (Carleton University) 

5:00 - 6:30 PM EST. Panel C.3: Canadian Film & Media, Pasts and Futures

• Caroline Klimek (York University) “Trinity Square Video’s Investment in VR: How Canadian Artist-Run Centres are Making Tech Accessible”

May 13
1:00 - 2:30PM EST. Roundtable D.1: Rethinking Film Festivals in Pandemic Time and After

Chair: Antoine Damiens (York University) with panelist Alanna Thain (McGill University)

1:00 - 2:30PM EST. Roundtable D.4: Fair Pay, Fair Play: Streaming Canadian Media Arts

Chair: Claudia Sicondolfo (York University) with panelists Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte (Simon Fraser University) and Mary-Elizabeth Luka (University of Toronto)
 
3:00 - 4:30 PM EST. Panel E.2: Outside(r) Experimental Cinema

Chair: Michael Zryd (York University)

3:00 - 4:30 PM EST. Panel E.4: Canada's Audiovisual Infrastructure for Resource Extraction

Chair: Charles R. Acland (Concordia University)

• Charles R. Acland (Concordia University) “Crawley Films, Aluminum Industry, and the Infrastructure of Resource Extraction”

 
5:00 - 6:30 PM EST. Panel F.2: Cinematic Ecosystems

Chair: Malini Guha (Carleton University)

• Helen Lee (Toronto Metropolitan University, formerly Ryerson University) “Memoirs of an Archival Ecosystem: Preserving Experimental Film in Canada/Turtle Island”
• Malini Guha (Carleton University) “Precarious Images for the Future: Moving Images as Sites of Habitation”
• Mary Hegedus (York University) “Planet A and the Unreachable Earth”

May 14
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST. Special Event. Dialogues Sylvia D. Hamilton Dialogues

A collaborative discussion between Desirée de Jesus (A/CA Faculty Member, York University), Esery Mondesir, and Nicolas Renaud.

3:00 - 4:30 PM EST. Panel H.2: European Diasporic Film in Canada

Chair: Paul Moore (Toronto Metropolitan University, formerly Ryerson University)

• Laurel Day (Film Preservationist) “Projections of Polonia: Polish-Canadian Diaspora Programming and Distribution Models”
• Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, (Toronto Metropolitan University, formerly Ryerson University) “Cinema in the Diaspora: An Alternative History of
  Polish Cinema”