UNB's Undergraduate Arts Conference
Arts
Matters
March 22-24 2019 • University of New Brunswick
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ABOUT
Arts Matters 2019:
Leveraging Knowledge to Influence Change
The Arts Matters conference aims to provide students from around Atlantic Canada with an opportunity to come to UNB and showcase their critical thinking, research, and creative works before a regional audience of their colleagues and peers. Arts Matters is an excellent opportunity to share your learning and research as well as hone your presentation skills, a critical asset in any career.
This year we are looking for submissions that explore how knowledge can be leveraged to influence change. Have you completed research or a creative project exploring this? If so, submit an abstract to us! If you have a project that you would love to share but you don’t know if it quite fits in the topic, send us your abstract regardless as we are looking to build a highly diverse program of presentations. We will be accepting abstracts and project descriptions from all social sciences, humanities, and arts programs. We are accepting abstracts in either French or English.
Submissions
Arts Matters 2019 Abstracts:
Interested in seeing what others have presented?
*If you plan to present a creative project with a visual component (e.g. visual art project, digital art, etc), please include images of your work with your project description.
Our
Speakers
Lucas Crawford
Assistant Professor
Department of English
UNB Fredericton
Lucas Crawford is an Associate Professor of English at UNB Fredericton. Lucas’ research bridges 20/21st century British novels; queer theory; transgender studies; architecture; theories of feeling; and, discourses of fat and of food. In Fall 2018, University of Calgary Press released Lucas’ third book, The High Line Scavenger Hunt, a book of poems that analyzes the history of, and redesign of, Manhattan’s High Line Park. Lucas’ first poetry book, Sideshow Concessions (Invisible Publishing 2015), was awarded the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. Matrix magazine released a “Trans Lit” issue guest-edited by Lucas in July 2016, during which time Lucas was the 2015-6 Critic-in-Residence for CWILA.
Funké Aladejebi
Assistant Professor
Departments of History and Gender and Women’s Studies
UNB Fredericton
Funké Aladejebi is an Assistant Professor of History and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of New Brunswick. She is currently working on a manuscript titled, ‘Girl You Better Apply to Teachers’ College’: The History of Black Women Educators in Ontario, 1940s – 1980s, which explores the importance of Black Canadian women in sustaining their communities and preserving a distinct black identity within restrictive gender and racial barriers. She has published articles in Ontario History and Education Matters. Her areas of interest include: Critical Race Studies, Transnational Feminisms, Black Feminist Thought, African Canadian History, Oral History and the History of Education in Canada.
Letitia Meynell
Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy and the Gender and Women’s Studies Programme
Dalhousie University
Letitia Meynell is an associate professor of philosophy (cross-appointed with gender and women’s studies), specializing in philosophy of science, epistemology, aesthetics and feminist philosophy. Her research, which has been published in various collections and journals such as Synthese, Hypatia and International Studies in Philosophy of Science, addresses two main areas. The first is the use of pictures and thought experiments in the production of science and technology. The second area is feminist critiques of biology and increasingly the implications of feminist philosophy for the scientific study of nonhuman animals. She has two co-edited collections: Thought Experiments in Science, Philosophy, and the Arts (2012), with Mélanie Frappier and James R. Brown and Embodiment and Agency (2009), with Sue Campbell and Susan Sherwin and recently co-authored Chimpanzee Rights: The Philosophers’ Brief (2019) with twelve other philosophers.
Sponsors
Schedule
Friday
5:00
Registration and Check-in
Tilley Hall Lobby
7:00
Welcome Reception and Exhibition
Provincial Archives Exhibit Room
7:15
Reading and presentation from Lucas Crawford
Provincial Archives Exhibit Room
9:00
Optional Social Event
Saturday
8:30
Morning Meet Up with Coffee and Refreshments
Tilley Hall Lobby
Sunday
10:00
Farewell brunch reception & awards Tilley Lobby
9:00
Panel 1A Panel 1B
Tilley 124 Tilley 104
10:10
Panel 2A Panel 2B
Tilley 124 Tilley 104
11:20
Panel 3A Panel 3B
Tilley 124 Tilley 104
12:30
Lunch and Presentation from Funké Aladejebi
1:45
Panel 4A Panel 4B
Tilley 124 Tilley 104
3:00
Panel 5A Panel 5B
Tilley 124 Tilley 104
4:30
Key Note
Letitia Meynell
Tilley 102
7:00
Dinner and Drinks
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