Reading note · CLSA / ACDS
Ontario Tech 2025 — Connection and Distraction provides a route through the scheduled scholarly conversations. Use the original dates, session titles and presenter names to locate a panel; do not treat a scheduled talk as a published research result.
Build a reading route
Select a session connected to your question. Record the title, presenters and page. For each contribution, distinguish the problem being studied from the method or evidence named in the abstract. Then look for a published paper or an institutional profile rather than assuming the conference text is the final version.
Panel worksheet
Session: __. Page: __. Research question: __. Material or method: __. Connection to your work: __. Follow-up publication to locate: __. Keep quotations tied to the presenter and source page.
Planning today
This programme records a particular meeting. For travel, registration, accommodation or access requirements, use the organising institution’s current event information.
Use parallel sessions to sharpen a research question
The Oshawa programme combines research sessions with encounters with art. Its schedule allows a reader to distinguish institutional questions from questions about research methods.
- The meeting was scheduled at Ontario Tech University, Charles Hall, on 21–22 February 2025.Source page 1
- On Friday, The Living Law of Educational Institutions? and Researching Systems, Questioning Paradigms occupied rooms CHA214 and CHA215 respectively, 8:30–10:00.Source page 2
- The cover credits Erica Rutherford’s Bluebirds (1986), a lithograph and serigraph on paper, from Station Gallery.Source page 1
- 01Question type
- 02Institution / method
- 03One panel
- 04Research to locate
The choice is based on the listed topics. Read the actual research before comparing findings; the two Friday panels were simultaneous.
Example: research accessibility or creative research practice?
- Classify your question as institutional practice or research method.
- Choose one Friday panel, then record a paper title and a question to ask of the eventual work.
- If using the cover as a reference, retain the artist, work title and medium; permission for the document is not a new artwork attribution.
Example: research accessibility or creative research practice?
| Institutional route | Nicole O’Byrne’s Rethinking Accessibility, CHA214.Source page 2 |
|---|---|
| Methods route | Natilie Richer’s presentation on artistic and creative practices in a decolonizing research proposal, CHA215.Source page 2 |
| Choice | A question about how a proposal is developed begins with the methods route. |
The choice is based on the listed topics. Read the actual research before comparing findings; the two Friday panels were simultaneous.
7 pages of text
Source-language text, including both languages where the original is bilingual. Page numbering follows the obtained document.
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Law and Society in an Age of Connection and Distraction Faculty of Social Science & Humanities Ontario Tech University, Charles Hall 61 Charles Street, Oshawa Ontario L1H 4X8 Friday February 21 - Saturday February 22nd, 2025 st Erica Rutherford, “Bluebirds”, 1986, lithograph, serigraph on paper Station Gallery, Whitby
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Day One – February 21, 2025 Charles Hall (CHA) 61 Charles Street, Oshawa Time Panel 1- CHA 214 Panel 2- CHA 215 8:00am Welcoming Remarks – Curator’s Talk: Olexander Wlasenko (Station Gallery) 8:30am Charles Hall, Main Floor Atrium (north end, near Isabella’s Café) 8:30am The Living Law of Educational Institutions? Researching Systems, Questioning Paradigms – 10:00am Moderator: Zenia Kish Moderator: Bruce Ryder Rethinking Accessibility in an Age of Distraction Beyond the Headlines: Using media misdirection to conceal Nicole O’Byrne systemic violence and silence Indigenous voices in Canada Emily Cauduro & Olga Marques A Suitable Graduate Studies Distraction: The rise (and fall?) of professional LLMs NCA-oriented Exploring Sources of Marijuana Use Among Indigenous Peoples in Vinicius da Silva and Joao Velloso Canada Liqun Cao Connection and Professional Socialization in the Architecture of Law School Shifting Paradigms: The Role of Artistic and Creative Practices in David Sandomierski Decolonizing Research Proposal Natilie Richer Ethics Creep, Ethics Burden: Impacts of Ethics Regulation on Post-Secondary Teaching and Learning in the Social A New Constitutional Paradigm – Or Business as Usual? Sciences and Humanities The Prince Rupert Gas Transmission Project Kelly Gallagher-Mackay Natalie Oman CHA 214 CHA 215 CHA 216 10:15am – Carceral Connections Legal Studies, Social Change Graduate Publishing 11:45am Moderator: Olga Marques High School Essay Contest Roundtable: Making the Leap from Research to Publication Historicizing the Nelson Mandela Rules: Prisoner Rights, Closed Session: Law and Society Colonialism and Global Governance Research Workshop Faisal Bhabha, William Hébert, Katherine Bruce-Lockhart Daniel Quinlan Jal Dhruv, Zainab Rana, Selene Carceral Maneuvers, Carceral Distractions: Analyzing the Cababasay, Gage Koskela, Retraction and Expansion of Canada’s Power to Detain Non- Madalynn Vaughan, Alysha Citizens Aziz, Marwa Ali, Amanda
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Day One – February 21, 2025 Charles Hall (CHA) 61 Charles Street, Oshawa Time Panel 1- CHA 214 Panel 2- CHA 215 Sarah Turnbull & Kate Motluk Coffey, Kate Collins, Michael Peppler, Cam Stone, Rachel The ambivalences of carceral transparency: Structured Ariss, Sasha Baglay, Thomas intervention units in Canadian federal prisons McMorrow, Joe Young, Hollis Moore and Sana Shah Christina Joseph, Farwa Jawanshir, Jean-Paul Bevilacqua 11:45am – Lunch- Charles Hall, 2nd floor atrium 1:00pm CJLS Board Meeting CHA 216 1:00pm Social Peace or Social Justice? Interrogating the Conditions of Belonging – Moderator: Fregine Sheehy Moderator: Sarah Turnbull 2:30pm Peace, Order, and Good Governance: The Biopolitics of Disrupting the Image of Canada’s Multicultural Immigration Canada’s National Emergency Legislation Policies: An Analysis of the Temporary Residence Visa Program for Philip Boyle Palestinians Neela Hassan and Robert Fantina Populism, Corruption and Ford Government Legislative Policy Navigating Shadows: Analyzing Administrative Violence and Bruce B Ryder Statelessness in the Context of Rohingya Muslims Ameena Azeem Prospects of Social Movements for Legal Traction: The Case of the University of Toronto v. Doe et al., 2024 Under the Law of the Law: Redefining Religion and Islam in Can Turgut Canada Asma Jisri The Disconnected Ground: Political Opinion Discrimination Faisal Bhabha and Anthony Sangiuliano Criminalization as ‘Cultural Distraction’: A Decade to Canada’s Law on Forced Marriage Miriam Zucker
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Day One – February 21, 2025 Charles Hall (CHA) 61 Charles Street, Oshawa Time Panel 1- CHA 214 Panel 2- CHA 215 2:45pm After Gender and Sexual Violence? In Crisis: Political Questions, Legal Answers? – Moderator: Joao Velloso Moderator: Philip Boyle 4:15pm Transitional Gender Justice in Nigeria – Listening to Climate Change Litigation in Australia and Canada: How to Pay Survivors of Gender Violence Attention and Avoid Distraction Annie Bunting Rachel Ariss Rethinking Justice: A Victim/Survivor-Centered Approach to Engagement Capital: Modernizing Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice Wartime Sexual Violence During Long-Term Occupation of within the Context of Contemporary Climate Activism Ukrainian Territories Joseph Young Marianna Iovenko Silences of Turkey’s Proposed Climate Change Law: Exclusion, Distraction from Male Victimhood: Legal Perspectives on Distraction, and Depoliticization Sexual Violence Against Men in Conflict Kutay Kutlu Chika Maduakolam Open Skies: The Golden Age of Aviation Hijacking in Canada Greg Marquis 4:30pm Law and Society in an Age of Distraction and Connection – Keynote Panel- CHA 213 6:00pm Moderator: Tanner Mirrlees The Great Distraction: Tech Lobbying, Canadian Communications Policy, and the Attention Economy Sara Bannerman The Digital Wild Goose Chase: The Role of Distraction in Bad Digital Policymaking Natasha Tusikov 6:15pm Dinner – Charles Hall, 2nd Floor Atrium 8:00pm Legal Studies, Social Change: High School Essay Contest Award Announcement
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Day Two – February 22, 2025 Charles Hall (CHA) 61 Charles Street, Oshawa Time Panel 1- CHA 214 Panel 2- CHA 215 8:30am Welcome Address – Artist’s Talk: Jessica Field (Ontario College of Art and Design) 9:00am Charles Hall, Main Floor Atrium (north end, near Isabella’s Café) 9:00am The Unseen in the Grip of Law’s Gaze Racism in the Age of Distraction – Moderator: Annie Bunting Moderator: Kelly Gallagher-Mackay 10:30am Youth, Housing Precarity and Conflict with the Criminal The Criminalization of Black Friendship, Kinship and Belonging Legal System Reakash Walters Nicolas Spallanzani-Sarrasin, Marianne Quirouette, Tyler Frederick What if we allowed different temporalities to teach us? Fregine Sheehy Naviguer à travers les écrans de fumée institutionnels: le refus de soins chez les personnes marginalisées comme Black women in Canadian legal academia stratégie de distraction Cherie Daniel Pierre Pariseau-Legault Unpacking The “Pre-Event” in By-Stander Video of Police Militarization Tactics on Un-Housed Communities Chante Barnwell Agents of Sex: A Critique of Transantagonists’ Attempts to Uphold Sex as an Institution of Power in Legal and Administrative Proceedings Sam Ghebrai 10:45am Technological Feats, Socio-legal Challenges Driven to Distraction: The Attention Economies of Artificial – Moderator: Jean-Frédéric Ménard Intelligence 12:00pm Moderator: Rachel Ariss The Cell Phone Ban in Ontario High Schools Pariss Garramone Coming Distractions: Tech, Finance, and the Unseen Economy of AI-ified Actors Justin Rawlins
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Day Two – February 22, 2025 Charles Hall (CHA) 61 Charles Street, Oshawa Time Panel 1- CHA 214 Panel 2- CHA 215 Health at a glance: Smart Watches, Health, and the Distraction Dilemma Ukraine as ‘AI War Lab’: Drone Swarms and Robot Battles at the Kyle Gordon Cayouette Precipice of Autonomous Warfare Zenia Kish Penser l'internormativité pour répondre aux enjeux entourant l'usage des technologies numériques dans la petite enfance Attending to the Work and Labour of AI in the Digital Media and Marie-Pier Jolicoeur Entertainment Industries Tanner Mirrlees 12:00pm – Lunch 1:30pm CLSA Board Meeting CHA 213 1:30pm Perspectives on Violence Visual Distractions – Moderator: Jen Rinaldi Moderator: Tyler Frederick 3:00pm In Their Own Words: Framing Violence through a Thematic Shifting our Gaze from the Spectacle to the Specter: Bearing and Discourse Analysis of Extremist Manifestos Witness to Police Violence Against Black Women Karmvir Padda Britney Andrews Policing White Supremacy and Misogyny as Terrorism: The Body-worn Cameras, Affective Intertextuality, and the Canadian State and the Law's Relation to Violence Impossibility of Seeing Racial Profiling in Ontario Courts Kris Millett and Amy Swiffen Amanda Glasbeek Police families at the intersection of violence and support Apprehending Aafia: The Imperceptibility of Justice after Adina Radosh Sverdlin Violence Safiyah Rochelle Shooting the Distressed: Exploring Gun Violence within Wellness Checks Monisha Logan
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Day Two – February 22, 2025 Charles Hall (CHA) 61 Charles Street, Oshawa Time Panel 1- CHA 214 Panel 2- CHA 215 3:15pm MAiD Law and Politics: Connection or Distraction? Technological Process, Procedural Justice? – Moderator: Nicole O’Byrne Moderator: Andrea Slane 4:30pm Between the Law and Politics: Is ‘Delaying’ MAID Based Content Moderation and Due Process: Users' Perspectives Solely on Mental Illness Constitutional? Fernanda Rodrigues, Luiza Correa de Magalhães Dutra and Paulo Karine Millaire Rená Santarém Which Chronotope for the Inclusion of the Adolescent The Dematerialization of Justice: The Case of Disciplinary Law Perspective in the Legal Framework of Medical Aid in in Quebec Dying? Javiera Araya-Moreno and Évelyne Jean-Bouchard Jean-Frédéric Ménard Friend and Foe: How Digital Evidence Creates Invisibility and The Power of Symbols and Symbols of Power on Law’s Visibility in Police Investigation of Sex Trafficking Road to Assisted Dying in Canada Dale Ballucci Thomas McMorrow 5:00pm Graduate Student Social – Bond St Event Centre 7:00pm 44 Bond Street East, Oshawa L1G 1B1