CAPCON 2022 Schedule

PANEL A: “The Kids Aren’t Alright: Terrains of Struggle in Youth Culture” (Room 1, IBLC 380)

Moderators: Shreya Shomoyeeta & Avery Grainger 

• Viaan Wu – “Car Conversations Podcast” (MS)
• Cedric Lin – “Governmental Action for the 2010 Olympics and its Long-Term Impact on Vancouver’s Homeless Youth” (PPE)
• Noah Abanjian – “The Interplay between Intrasexual Competition and Indirect Aggression and its Effects on Women” (PPE)

PANEL B (Roundtable): “The Intersectionalities of Asian Hate Between Asian Ethnic Groups During the COVID-19 Pandemic” (Room 2, IBLC 385)  

Moderators: Lea An & Violet Smith

Emily Handley, Lea An, Grace Lee, Aden Tan, & Kelly Chan (L&S)

PANEL C: “Decolonizing Eurocentric Ways of Knowing” (Room 1, IBLC 380)   

Moderators: Tova Gaster & Stephanie Liu

• Roua Aldash – “Indigenous Literature as a Trauma Narrative: Theorizing Intergenerational Colonial Subjection of Indigenous Peoples in Turtle Island Through the Lens of Trauma Theory in Five Little Indians, In Cold Blood, and There There”  (L&S)
• Lilian Philipp-Tajcnar – “Spirituality and Posthumanism's influence on Sci-Fi: Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring” (I&S)
• Riannon Wesley – “Political and Environmental Impacts on First Nation's Communities” (GPS) 

PANEL D (Roundtable): “Displacement, Fragmentation, and Community: Regenerating Our Interconnected Narratives” (Room 2, IBLC 385)   

Moderator: Dr. Erin Goheen-Glanville 

Felicity Gutierrez, Kiran Dhanda, Sofia Wind, Sally Ka, Lara Albahadeli, & Isabelle Whittall (GPS)  

Showcase Presentations 

• Manyi CHEN, “To protect or to harm?” (MS)   
• Emma He, Michelle Xu, Emma Nash, Adrienne Tang, “The misrepresentation of East Asians in Western Media & Entertainment” (L&S)   
• Brianne Jackson, “Songs of the Cold War” (PPE)   
• Vivian Liu, "Permanent Insecurity?" (L&S)
• Alwyn Mui, “Removal of Interpretations” (MS)  
• Nyla Nguy, “Contemporary Rape Culture: Restaurant Workers, Emotional Labour, and Sexual Harassment” (PPE)  

PANEL E: “Power, Sovereignty, and Propaganda” (Room 1, IBLC 380)   

Moderators: Jasmine Sandhu & Maya John

• Bernice Wong, “Ethnic Conflict and Rebel Governance: The Contested Sovereignty of the Central African Republic” (PPE) 
• Quang Mai, “Towards Post-Socialist Nostalgia: The Ethics of Reminiscence and the Vietnamese Communist Party” (PPE) 
• Emma Martin-Rousselle, “International News Coverage of China, International Relations and Media Objectivity” (GPS)   

PANEL F (Roundtable): “Clean Water, Broken Promises: The Decades Long Water Crisis in First Nations Communities Across Canada” (Room 2, IBLC 385) 

Moderators: Sophie Salas & Leean Wu

Roua Aldash, Jacob Sablan, Keirra Rosser, & Sarah Rohleder (L&S)   

PANEL G: “Precarious Labour(s)” (Room 1, IBLC 380)  

Moderators: Matthew Cheesman & Elise Hodges

• Moyowa Ometoruwa, “The Fusion of Luxury and Hip Hop: The Creation of a Culture” (PPE)
• Lynn Shibata, “Shedding the Khaki Uniform” (I&S)
• Giorgia Monro, “The Intersection of Emotional Labour and Gigwork; an Actor’s Dilemma” (PPE)    

PANEL H (Roundtable): “Imagining the Future of Sea Level Rise in False Creek” (Room 2, IBLC 385)  

Moderator: Dr. Anne Stewart  

Leo Lee, Jahnavi Bali, SangYi Park, Hammad Jabr, & Muskan Dave (I&S) 

Respondent: Angela Danyluk, MSc., RPBio, Senior Sustainability Specialist, Planning, Urban Design & Sustainability, City of Vancouver