The 2025 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences will be held at George Brown College in Toronto from May 30-June 6. Here is a list of faculty and students from UݮƵ English who are presenting at meetings of various scholarly associations and at other conferences this summer.
If you'd like to include a new conference presentation, please fill in the Conference Information Form. To update any presentation information that is already listed here, please email Bruce Dadey. Additions and updates will be posted as they come in.
To see lists of conference presentations from previous years, see our Past Congress Presentations page.
| Presenter | Presentation | Association or Conference | Date and Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lamees Al Ethari | Narrating the Diasporic Subject in Canadian Life Writing | 䱫շ | June 1, 8:30 a.m. | SJA-418A |
| Maab Al-Rashdan | Breaking the Beat: Counterstories as Off-Kilter Strategies in an Off-Kilter World | CCLA | June 8, 3:00 p.m. | Online |
| Maab Al-Rashdan | Breaking Silence: Resistance from Within Structures of Control in Kamala Das’s An Introduction | ACCUTE | June 2, 8:30 a.m. | SJA-315A |
| Maab Al-Rashdan | Revealing Racism in Higher Education: A Counterstory of a Discriminating Diversity | CAPS | June 1, 10:30 a.m | Online |
| Veronica Austen | Out of Line: Superscripts, Footnotes, and the Journey of the Split i in Lubrin’s The Dyzgraph*st | ACLALS (triennial) | TBA (July 1-5) | University of Nairobi (Kenya) |
| Veronica Austen | “A Fleeting Glimpse from the Corner of my Eyes”: Absence and Presence in Kiyooka’s “letters purporting to be abt tom thomson” | ACCUTE | June 1, 1:30 p.m. | SJA-418A |
| Veronica Austen | The Present and Presencing: Word/Image Relations in Olive Senior’s Pandemic Poems | CAPS | June 2, 3:30 p.m. | TMU (ILC-International Room) |
| Sarah Casey | Driving Distrust: Assessment and Damage Control in the Rhetoric of Self-Driving Cars | RhetCan | June 5, 2:15 p.m. | SJA-390F |
| Sarah Casey | Belonging in Crisis: Non-Compliance, Rhetorical Bridging and Social Cohesion in Canada's COVID-19 vaccine roll-out | CPSA | June 3, 1:45 p.m. | |
| Bruce Dadey | The Rhetoric of Deradicalization | RhetCan | June 5, 3:25 p.m. | SJA-390F |
| Haley Down | Indulgent Restraint: The language of food and sex in _Julie & Julia_ | ACCUTE | June 1, 3:30 p.m. | SJA-482C |
| Kavi Duvvoori | Using Rhetorical Figures to Test Large Language Models’ Grasp of Forms and Meanings | RhetCan | June 6, 10:30 a.m. | SJA-390F |
| Carolyn Eckert | Punctuated Ethos: Addressing Trust, Credibility and Expertise in Times of Crisis | ACCUTE | May 31,8:30 a.m. | St. James Campus, George Brown College |
| Carolyn Eckert | Rhetorics of Trust: Pandemic Communication, Protest, and Public Compliance in Canada | RhetCan | June 5, 2:15 p.m. | SJA-390F |
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Lara El Mekaui (with Valerie Uher) |
WORKSHOP: Renewing and Re-jigging?: Exploring Movement Activities in the Writing Classroom in the Age of AI | ACCUTE | June 1, 8:30 a.m. | SJA-410A |
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Samantha Fowler (with Melissa Potwarka andRobin Metcalfe) |
Perspectives from Critical Theories: Diving into the complexities that impact our collective approach to health promoting campuses | International Health Promoting Campuses Conference | June 18, 10:15 a.m. (IST) | University of Limerick, Ireland |
| Aleksander Franiczek | Mixed-Methods Retro Game Analysis for Preserving Development Histories | ReAnimate | June 13, 10:00 a.m. | Montreal, Quebec |
| Thomas Hanson | The Freedom of Rhetorical Energy | ISHR | TBD, July 22-25 | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Thomas Hanson | Energy Rhetoric & Social Metabolism | Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics | July 11, 1:15 p.m. | Montreal |
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Randy Harris (with Alicia Bremer and Terry Stewart) |
Modeling Rhetorical Figures in Multidimensional Space with Symbolic Vector Algebra | Rhetoric in Society 9 | June 19-21 (unfinalized) | Zagreb (unfinalized) |
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Randy Harris (with Rency Luan) |
The Rhetoricon: Collocation of Rhetorical figures | Rhetoric in Society 9 | June 19-21 (unfinalized) | Zagreb (unfinalized. |
| Randy Harris | The Iconicity of Schemes of Repetition: A New Model | RhetCan | June 4, 10:35 a.m. | SJA-390F |
| Norm Klassen | "Love Was Our Lord's Meaning": The rhetoric of love and reason and the redemption of a cultural trope | On the Future of the Una Sancta | May 29–June 1 (TBA) | Ermoupoli, Greece |
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Anna Mcwebb (with Brianna I. Wiens) |
The Politics and Aesthetics of #TradWife: Disentangling the Curation of Digital Femininity | CCA | June 2, 9:30 a.m. | George Brown College - Waterfront Campus |
| Elias Mehdawi | Behind the Curtain: Unpacking Racism in Casting Practices | CSA | June 2, 2:00 p.m. | WFL-701 |
| John Savarese | Ghostly Interaction, Fairy Abduction, and Popular Creeds of Mind and Body | NASSR | Athabasca, AB | |
| John Savarese | Empiricism, Superstition, and Barbauld’s Principle of Credulity | Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voicing Dissent | June 27, 2:30 p.m. | York, UK |
| Humaira Shoaib | Advocacy for Black Muslims: The Need for Prefigurative Politics in the BLM Movement for a Sustained Future | CAPS | June 3, 1:30 p.m. | TMU |
| Heather Smyth | Relationality and narrative as world-making: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s A short history of the blockade | ACQL | May 25, 9-10:30 a.m. | Online |
| Heather Smyth | ‘Get ready for the next world’: Collaborative Poetry, Futurity, Reworlding | CAPS | June 2, 1:30-3 p.m. | TMU |
| Fiona Thompson | Quantum Mechanics at the Frontier and in Retrospect: Rhetorical Hidden Variables | RhetCan | June 4, 2:55 p.m. | SJA-390F |
| Paul Ugor | Litigating Climate Injustice in Postcolonial African Environmental Literatures: Mbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were as Legal Archive and Testimony | African Literature Association Conference | June 25-28 | Nairobi, Kenya |
| Paul Ugor | From the Wicked to the Philanthropic City: Affect and Activism in Femi Odugbemi’s Giddie Blues | Canadian Association of African Studies (CAAS) | June 3-6 | University of Toronto, Scarborough |
| Paul Ugor | From the Wicked to the Philanthropic City: Affect and Activism in Femi Odugbemi’s Giddie Blues | Lagos Studies Association Conference | June 17-20 | Lagos, Nigeria |
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Paul Ugor (with Rebecca Saunders et al.) |
From the Wicked to the Philanthropic City: Affect and Activism in Femi Odugbemi’s Giddie Blues | African Literature Association Conference | June 25-28 | Nairobi, Kenya |
| Blaze Welling | From Anthropocene to Symbiocene: Indigenous Ecologies and the Racial Politics of Environmental Crisis | CAPS | June 1st, 3:30 p.m. | Room 226, International Living Centre (ILC), TMU |