Schedule

8:30 am

REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST

Black Creek Pioneer Village, Foyer


9:00 am

INTRODUCTION

  • Shawn Brixey (Dean, York University School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design)
  • Faisal Bhabha (Osgoode Hall Law School)
  • Jennifer Fisher (Contemporary Art & Curatorial Studies, York University School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design)

Black Creek Pioneer Village, Weston Theatre


9:30 am

PANEL: BODILY PERFORMANCE & SOCIO-LEGAL/POLITICAL CHANGE

  • CHAIR: Barbara Sellers-Young (Dance, York University School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design)
  • Susan A. Reed (Women's & Gender Studies, Bucknell University), “Dance, Ethnicity and Cultural Policy in a Postcolonial State”
  • Carys Craig (Osgoode Hall Law School), “Bodies in Motion: A Relational Critique of Copyright in Choreography”
  • Daniel Blais (Sociology, York University), “Curatorial Discourse of B-Boying Performance and Competing Judging Frameworks”

Black Creek Pioneer Village, Weston Theatre


11:00 am

REFRESHMENT BREAK

Black Creek Pioneer Village, Weston Theatre


11:15 am

KEYNOTE LECTURE

  • Alan Read (Theatre, King’s College London), “Performance, Law and Ethics: Staging the Irreparable Body”

Black Creek Pioneer Village, Weston Theatre


 

12:30 pm

LUNCH

Black Creek Pioneer Village, Weston Theatre


12:45 pm

PLAY READING: NormaLeeDean

  • Written by Catherine Frid (2014/15 Artist in Residence, Osgoode Hall Law School)

Black Creek Pioneer Village, Weston Theatre


1:40 pm

DEAN'S WELCOME

  • Lorne Sossin (Dean, Osgoode Hall Law School)

Black Creek Pioneer Village, Weston Theatre


1:45 pm

PANEL: THEORISING REGULATED BODIES & EMBODIED PRACTICES

  • CHAIR: Faisal Bhabha (Osgoode Hall Law School)
  • Timothy Lubin (Religion & Law, Washington & Lee University), “Dharma’s Avatars in Daily Life”
  • Clark Freshman (U.C. Hastings College of Law), “Masculine Myths of Negotiator ‘Personality’ and ‘Mindfulness’ – and Androgynous Alternatives in ‘Buddhist’ Art and Thought”
  • Paulette Phillips (OCAD), The Directed Lie

Black Creek Pioneer Village, Weston Theatre


3:15 pm

REFRESHMENT BREAK

Black Creek Pioneer Village, Weston Theatre


3:30 pm

PANEL: EXHIBITING BODIES & ETHICS OF DISPLAY

  • CHAIR: Jennifer Fisher (Contemporary Art & Curatorial Studies, York University School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design)
  • Mara Verna (MAG Counsel), “From the Sacred to the Profane: Exhibiting Deceased Human Bodies, the Curatorial Function and the Law”
  • Catherine Sinclair (Ottawa Art Gallery) & Nichola Feldman-Kiss (Artist), “Specimens and Statistics: Presenting the Body in the Work of Nichola Feldman-Kiss”
  • Jane Nicholas (Women's Studies, Lakehead University), “Child Freak Performers, the Dionne Quints and the Display of the Spectacular Body”

Black Creek Pioneer Village, Weston Theatre

8:30 am

BREAKFAST

Black Creek Pioneer Village, Weston Theatre


9:00 am

PANEL: ADVOCACY, PERFORMANCE & MARGINALIZED BODIES

  • CHAIR: Jeannine Woodall (Osgoode Hall Law School; Advanced Certified Jivamukti Yoga Teacher)
  • Deborah J. Cantrell (University of Colorado Law School), “Buddhist Principles and Advocacy Choices of Lawyers Practising in an Adversary System”
  • Samine Tabatabaei (Art History, McGill University), “Self-Surveillance: A Participation or an Intervention”
  • Roxanne Mykitiuk (Osgoode Hall Law School), Amy Chaplick (Osgoode Hall Law School) & Carla Rice (Social & Applied Human Sciences, University of Guelph) “Beyond Normative Ethics: Ethics of Disability Arts Research”

Black Creek Pioneer Village, Weston Theatre


10:30 am

REFRESHMENT BREAK

Black Creek Pioneer Village, Weston Theatre


10:45 am

KEYNOTE LECTURE

  • Angela P. Harris (U.C. Davis Law School), “Compassion and Critique”

Black Creek Pioneer Village, Weston Theatre


12:15 pm

YOGA SESSION

  • Led by Jeannine Woodall (Osgoode Hall Law School; Advanced Certified Jivamukti Yoga Teacher)
  • Mind and currents of sensation in the body are intimately linked.  This yoga class will be an exploration of the interweaving threads of form, breathing and gentle movement.  This class is open to all levels of practitioners and will be practised in everyday clothing without the requirement of a yoga mat.

Black Creek Pioneer Village, Victoria Room


12:30 pm

LUNCH

Black Creek Pioneer Village, Weston Theatre


1:30 pm

PANEL: BIOPOLITICS, AESTHETICS & REGULATION

  • CHAIR: Jennifer Orange (University of Toronto Faculty of Law)
  • Dayna Scott (Osgoode Hall Law School), “A Stench in the Air | Feminist Epistemologies and Transcorporeality ‘Downwind’ of the Tar Sands”
  • Bita Amani (Queen’s University Faculty of Law), “Biopatenting and Industrial Policy Discourse: Decoding the Message of Biomedia on the Limits of Agents and Audiences”
  • Marcia Brennan (Art History & Religion, Rice University), “Seeing Only Beauty When There’s Nothing Left to See: Applied Aesthetics and (End of) Life Experience”

Black Creek Pioneer Village, Weston Theatre


3:00 pm

REFRESHMENT BREAK

Black Creek Pioneer Village, Weston Theatre


3:15 pm

PANEL: RITUAL DISCIPLINES & PUBLIC HEALTH

  • CHAIR: Jim Drobnick (OCAD)
  • Shira Schwartz (Theatre & Performance Studies, York University), “Performing Jewish Sexuality: Mikveh Bodies in Orthodox Jewish Publics”
  • Amelie Barras (Law & Society, York University) & Dia Dabby (McGill University Faculty of Law), “Disciplining the Secular Narrative in (Un)usual Places: From Circumcision to Yoga”
  • Jacques Verduin (Insight-Out), “On Leaving Prison Before You Get Out”
  • Charles L. Briggs (Anthropology, U.C. Berkeley), “Biomediatized Bodies: Co-producing Difference through Medical-Media Entanglements”

Black Creek Pioneer Village, Weston Theatre


5:00 pm

REFRESHMENT BREAK

Black Creek Pioneer Village, Weston Theatre


5:15 pm

SCHOLAR'S ROUNDTABLE

  • CO-CHAIRS: Faisal Bhabha (Osgoode Hall Law School) & Jennifer Fisher (Contemporary Art & Curatorial Studies, York University School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design)
  • Alexandra Flynn (Osgoode Hall Law School), “Cycling and the City: Challenging Local Decision-Making”
  • Fatemah Alzubairi (Osgoode Hall Law School), “Creating a Safer World between Law and the Human Mind”
  • Paula John (Theatre & Performance Studies, York University), “(Re)enactment in Performance Art: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Intellectual Property”
  • Andrea Medovarski (English & Humanities, York University), “’I Want You to Live by the Justice Code’: Prisonization and Carceral Regimes in the Films of Clement Virgo”
  • Melanie Wilmink (Art History & Visual Culture, York University), “Space Rites: Curating Communion in the Public Art Situations of New Orleans Airlift”

Black Creek Pioneer Village, Weston Theatre


7:30 pm

CONFERENCE DINNER (Additional Registration Required)

  • Instrumental music performed by Suzanne Jarvie (LSUC) & Chris Brown

Black Creek Pioneer Village, Victoria Room

9:00 am

Chrysanne Stathacos (Artist), creating The Rose Mandala Reflections: A Meditation
(Ongoing, all day)

The Law Society of Upper Canada, Upper Barristers' Lounge


9:00 am

WORKSHOP: LAWYER SELF-CARE, MINDFULNESS AND ETHICS

  • Led by Elizabeth A. Griffin (University of Essex Human Rights Center; Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria; Yoga Alliance). This workshop will feature a short yoga session adapted to be performed in regular clothing. It will also include a presentation on “Embodying Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam: Shaking Up the Body and Mind of the Lawyer”.

The Law Society of Upper Canada, Lower Barristers' Lounge


10:00 am

REFRESHMENT BREAK

The Law Society of Upper Canada, Lower Barristers' Lounge


10:15 am

ARTIST'S TALK: Photography Series – "Cuba: Fundamentals of Resilience"

  • Elena Dumitru (Amnesty International) & E.F. Zamfirescu (Artist)

The Law Society of Upper Canada, Lower Barristers' Lounge


10:45 am

WORKSHOP: LAW AND THE EXQUISITE CORPSE

  • Cindy Blazevic (Visual Artist)

The Law Society of Upper Canada, Lower Barristers' Lounge


11:15 am

WORKSHOP: CURATING THE DISABLED BODY - HISTORIES, LEGACIES & FUTURITIES

  • Carla Rice (Social & Applied Human Sciences, University of Guelph)
  • Eliza Chandler (Disability Studies, Ryerson University)
  • Kirsty Liddiard (Education, University of Sheffield, UK)
  • Roxanne Mykitiuk (Osgoode Hall Law School)
  • Ingrid Mundel (Project Re*Vision)
  • Jen Rinaldi (Legal Studies, University of Ontario Institute of Technology)
  • Nadine Changfoot (Political Studies, Trent University)

The Law Society of Upper Canada, Lower Barristers' Lounge


12:30 pm

LUNCH

The Law Society of Upper Canada, Lower Barristers' Lounge


1:30 pm

WORKSHOP: GYROTONIC - SPINAL AWARENESS

  • Helgi Maki (Partner, Bennett Jones LLP), Apprentice Gyrontonic trainer

The Law Society of Upper Canada, Lower Barristers' Lounge


2:15 pm

REFRESHMENT BREAK

The Law Society of Upper Canada, Lower Barristers' Lounge


2:30 pm

PANEL: THE CURIOUS CASE OF ASSOCIATE CHIEF JUSTICE LORI DOUGLAS

  • Karen Busby (University of Manitoba Faculty of Law), “Unimaginable Ostracism and Lurid Examination: Lori Douglas and the CJC”
  • Sonia Lawrence (Osgoode Hall Law School), “The Word Made Flesh: Policing Judicial Images in the Digital Age”
  • Susan G. Drummond (Osgoode Hall Law School), “Curating the Gaze: Who Looked, and How, in the Douglas Inquiry?”

The Law Society of Upper Canada, Lower Barristers' Lounge


3:45 pm

Chrysanne Stathacos (Artist), meditation on The Rose Mandala Reflections: A Meditation

The Law Society of Upper Canada, Upper Barristers' Lounge


4:00 pm

CLOSING

The Law Society of Upper Canada, Lower Barristers' Lounge