11:00 AM 12:15 PM Panel Block A COLLABORATIONS (TEL 0013) Moderator: Natasha Myers

Building Bridges, Building Community: The Story of an Interdisciplinary Lecture Series Clara Fraser (Ryerson University) and James Watson-Gaze (York University) Changes at the Lab Bench: The Entangled Labour of Art and Hacker Culture in Synthetic Biology Britt Wray (OCAD University) Popular Music, Expertise Research, and Critical Pedagogy: What can Garage Rock Teach us about Learning? Christy E. Guthrie (OISE/U of T) Soft Power and the Global Export-ability of Traditional Chinese Culture: the Role of Chinas MMORPG Industry in Contemporary Strategies for National Development - Heather Barnick (Social Anthropology, York University)

1:30 2:45 PM Panel Block B LABOUR & MIGRATION (TEL 0013) Moderator: Malcolm Blincow
Exploring the Underutilization of Informal Skills in Immigrant Medical Doctors in Canada Cindy Sinclair (OISE/UofT) Charged Encounters: Technological Links Between the Dominican Republic and the Diaspora Karen OConnor (Social Anthropology, York University) Crude Encounters: Classifying Migration in Neoliberalized Extraction Industries Nelson Fergusson (Social Anthropology, York University

A (Canadian) Story Worth Telling Ayla Raza (OISE/UofT) and Pooja Dharamshi (OISE/UofT) Creating Networks and Strengthening Interpersonal Ties at the Level of Immigrant Communities: A Case Study of Romanian Immigrants in Toronto and the GTA Laura Visan (Communication and Culture, York University)

HEALTH & BODIES (TEL 0015) Moderator: David Lumsden

Jezebel: Exploring the Impact of Stereotypes on the Sexualities and Sexual Health of Young Black Women Ciann Wilson (Environmental Studies, York University) The Zeitgeist of Illness: HIV+ For Just One Day 1 Steve Ryder (Communication and Culture, York University) WWE: Wrestling, Wellness, and Entertainment Joseph Fargiorgio (Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph)

POST-FIELDWORK KNOTS (TEL 0014) Moderator: Daphne Winland

Tied Up at The Border: an Ethnographic Encounter with the United States of Security, Transgression, and Fair Play Alicia Grimes (Social Anthropology, York University) Tongue-tied: The Challenges of Attaining Fluency in Dutch National Discourse Rhiannon Mosher (Social Anthropology, York University) Is Time to Call Time of Death? Whats Next When Fieldwork Fails? Ferdinand Caballero, (Social Anthropology, York University) Whats the Film About? (Film) Matthew Hayes (Sociology, Simon Fraser University)

DECOLONIZING M ETHODOLOGIES (TEL 0014) Moderator: Naomi Adelson

More than Decolonizing Methodologies: An Anishinaabe Research Framework Rebecca Beaulne-Stuebing (Education, York University) The Knots of Western Critical Theory: Envisioning an Indigenous Research Paradigm in Anthropology Rachel Crawford (Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University) Indigenous Worldviews versus Philosophy: The Politics of Knowing Abigail Klassen (Environmental Studies, York University)

4:45 6:00 PM Panel Block D THE QUEER ARCHIVE (TEL 0013) Moderator: Daniel Yon
In Search of Queer Visual History; Feeling and Early Photography Steph Rogerson (Communication and Culture, Ryerson University) Finding Ourselves: LGBTQ Archives and the Small Urban Centre Joseph Wickenhauser (Social Anthropology, York University) Inheriting the Archive, Conjuring The Body Politic Michael Connors Jackman (Social Anthropology, York University)

WOMEN, AGENCY & IDENTITY (TEL 0015) Moderator: Teresa Holmes

Knotty Knitting: The Power and Activist Potential of Craft Megan Ciurysek (Political Science, York University) What a tangled web we weave: The Dropped Stitch in Freud Deborah Herman (Humanities, York University) Scholarly and Identity Politics, A Methodological Shift for Building Alliances Across Caribbean and South-Asian Studies and Among Diasporic Indo Canadian Women Preeia D. Surajbali (OISE/UofT)

SPACE, PLACE & PUBLIC DISCOURSE (TEL 0015) Moderator: Teresa Holmes
An Examination of the Relationship between Identity Politics and Class-Based Politics in Guatemala Stacey Gomez (York University) Theoretical and Practical Implications of Conducting Research on Women and Land Rights midst the Egyptian Revolution of January 25th Dina Najjar (University of Western Ontario) The Occupy Movement and its Loci of Resistance Kota Kimura, (Environmental Anthropology, University of Saskatchewan) Fuzzy Borders, Racializing the White Other: Rudolph Valentino and The Sheik Elizabeth Peden (OISE/UofT)

REFLEXIVITY & PERSONAL NARRATIVES (TEL 0014) Moderator: Ken Little

My Grandfathers House: A Personal Reflection on Loss in a Catholic Community in Rural Prince Edward Island Laura Waddell (Social Anthropology, York University) Reconciling a "Manifold Self" in the Field: Illuminating the Everyday Complexities that Emerge within the Experiences of Ethnographic Fieldwork Natalie Ellis (Anthropology, Carleton University) Insider Ethnography: Hitting Too Close to Home Harini Sivalingam (Socio-Legal Studies, York University)

2:45 3:15 PM COFFEE BREAK 3:15 4:30 PM Panel Block C IDENTITY POLITICS IN CANADA (TEL 0013) Moderator: Marc Lafleur
Race, Space, and Settler Colonialism: Indigenous Peoples and the Canadian Child Welfare System Laura Landertinger (OISE/UofT)

12:15 1:15 PM LUNCH

THANKS TO ALL OUR VOLUNTEERS!

Graduate Students
Ferdinand Caballero Heather Cruickshank Petra Molnar Diop Mary Jean Hande Alison Hill Gabor Jozsa Thibault Kervarech Mark Murphy Nicole Pariser Andrew Schuldt Joseph Wickenhauser Melissa Atkinson-Graham Heather Barnick Lynette Fischer Karen OConnor Kaila Simoneau Laura Waddell

SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE 9:00 - 9:30 Registration 9:30 10:45 Keynote Address (TEL 1005) 11:00 12:15 Panel Block A
Collaborations (TEL 0013) Decolonizing Methodologies (TEL 0014) Space, Place & Public Discourse (TEL 0015)

The Social Anthropology Graduate Association and Social Anthropology Department at York University Present:

12:25 1:15 Lunch 1:30 2:45 Panel Block B

Labour & Migration (TEL 0013) Post-Fieldwork Knots (TEL 0014) Women, Agency & Identity (TEL 0015)

2:45 3:15 Coffee Break 3:15 4:30 Panel Block C

Identity Politics in Canada (TEL 0013) Health & Bodies (TEL 0015)
Keynote Speaker: Petra Rethmann McMaster University 9:30 10:45 TEL 1005 Democracy, Otherwise: Alternativnost and Contemporary Russian Material Culture In examining the conditions and possibilities for democracy in contemporary Russia, I am especially interested in those artistic and political projects that usually fall away from more civil society and institutionbased approaches. In looking here at the various ways in which the Moscow/St. Petersburg artistic and political collective chto delat (what needs to be done) conceptualizes printed matter especially the newspaper and the pamphlet as a particular political (and comradely) agent, I explore the aesthetic and material properties of print to arrive at alternative democratic understandings.

Faculty
Naomi Adelson Malcolm Blincow Teresa Holmes Marc Lafleur Kenneth Little David Lumsden Natasha Myers Daphne Winland Daniel Yon

4:45 6:00 Panel Block D

The Queer Archive (TEL 0013) Reflexivity & Personal Narratives (TEL 0014) Undergraduate Debriefing (TEL 0015)

6:15 Closing Remarks (TEL 1005)

MARCH 3, 2012 TEL BUILDING