The (in)visible conference will take place over two days.

Program summary

On Friday, we meet at Café Nostalgica at 16:30 for a social event, introductory remarks, the keynote speaker's presentation, a filmmaker's testimony, and an overview of the next day's sessions.

On Saturday, we move into the Huguette Labelle Hall in Tabaret Hall from 8:30 to attend the presentations and roundtables. During the day, there will be coffee breaks and a free meal.

Our scheduled presentations are:

• Rendering contract faculty visible through film
• (In)visibility and identity: marginalization, stress and stories of perseverance
• Excavating the neoliberal university

We will also have roundtable discussions on the following topics:

• Who is the ‘part-time’ professor?
• The Québec model
• Adjunct researchers and administrators: shouldering the (mostly) unpaid burdens
• PhD students confront a challenging future

The complete program in print format can be found here. If you intend to print your own copy, select print on both sides and flip on short edge.

Keynote speaker

Our keynote speaker is Jamie Brownlee. His address will put a spotlight on how Ford’s reforms are only the latest chapter in a systematic attack upon the collegial traditions of the university and how the creation of a precarious class of contract faculty is central to this master plan.