9:00am

MAIS Symposium 2013: Opening remarks

• Raphael Foshay
• Veronica Thompson

9:15am

Session One – Equity and Inclusion

• Karen M. Nielsen, Anne-Marie Dewhurst
“Program Experiences of Men Completing the ‘Reaching for a Good Life’ Program”

• Emma Pivato
“Equity, Opportunity and Inclusion for all - including those with multiple disabilities”

• Josh Evans
“The ‘Embedded Mobility’ of Policy: The Translation of Policies to End Homelessness in Alberta, Canada”

10:30am

Morning Coffee Break - onsite

10:45am

Session Two – Frankenstein, Fingerprints and the Apocalypse

• Mark McCutcheon
“The ‘mad scientist’ of media: McLuhan’s Frankensteinian discourse of technology in 1960s counter-culture and media”

• Vina Tirven-Gadum
“Stylistic differences (or similarities) in the novels of the Russian born French author Andreï Makine /Gabriel Osmonde”

• James Gifford
"Elizabeth Smart and Canadian Apocalyptic Modernisms"

Noon

Lunch - provided – onsite

Three minute mini-lectures

“Integrative Learning and Interdisciplinary Studies – opportunities and challenges”
• Wendell Kisner • James Gifford • Mark McCutcheon • Jane Arscott • Derek Briton • Josipa Petrunic

1:00pm

Round Table on Curriculum and Pedagogy

• Josipa Petrunic
“Interdisciplinary Research Methods: analyzing the revamped syllabus for MAIS 602 and addressing interdisciplinary research outcomes among graduate students”

• Jane Arscott and Marti Cleveland Innis
“Is there a fit for Human Services in MAIS?”

• Derek Briton
“Failure, Fantasy, and Fear: implications for Learning”

• Reinekke Lengelle
“Career writing – creative, expressive, and reflective narratives in career learning”

2:30pm

Afternoon Coffee Break - onsite

2:45pm

Session Three: Knowledge systems, representation and power

• Leslie Main Johnson
“Working Across Boundaries: Negotiating Research Focus, Triangulation, and Translating Between Knowledge Systems”

• Wendell Kisner
“The Middle Voice of Autopoietic Life: A Hegelian approach to biology and ecological ethics”

• Paul Kellogg
“Vorkuta and the emergence of the contemporary Russian working class”

• Raphael Foshay
“Mimēsis in Plato and Aristotle in light of Eric Gans’ Generative Anthropology and Heidegger’s Reading of Plato”

4:25pm

Closing Remarks