TransCanada Two:
Literature, Institutions, Citizenship

University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario
October 11-14, 2007

Session at TransCanada 2

CanLit may play a major role in Canada's cultural economies, but it has become apparent that its study can no longer take place in isolation from the larger forces that shape the nation, global relations, and the corporatization of higher education. The task of identifying the implications of these shifts and, above all, of devising constructive ways of responding to them involves a long-term and multilateral project that can only be a shared endeavour, undertaken in interdisciplinary and collaborative terms.

Roy Miki and Rey Chow Group shot Group shot Plenary Session David Chariandy reading from his first novel, Soucouyant Smaro Kamboureli opening the conference Opening reception

Keynote Speakers

Position Paper Speakers

Featured Literary Authors


Documentation

Paper iconTransCanada Two
Poster

170 KB Paper iconTransCanada Two Program

4 MB Paper iconKeynote Address
Friday, October 12, 2007

"Whither the Social Canadian? Recasting the Social in Canadian Citizenship"

Janine Brodie
Canada Research Chair
Department of Political Science
University of Alberta
1:48:17, 20 MB (MP4) Paper iconKeynote Address
Saturday, October 13, 2007

"bush/writing: embodied deconstructions, traces of community and writing against the state in indigenous acts of literature"

Peter Kulchyski
Department of Native Studies
University of Manitoba
1:38:36, 18 MB (MP4) Paper iconThreatened Worlds, Famous Faces

Graham Huggan
Leeds Metropolitan University, UK Paper iconBeyond CanLit(e): Reading. Interdisciplinarity. Trans-Atlantically.

Danielle Fuller
Department of American & Canadian Studies, University of Birmingham, UK Paper iconThe Constellation that is Canada: Case by case arts policy and situated textuality

Lynette Hunter
Theatre and Dance
University of California, Davis, USA Paper iconIs CanLit Lost in Japanese Translation?

Yoko Fujimoto
Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan Paper iconBeing Players in the CanLit Import-Export Business

Hartmut Lutz
Greifswald University, Germany Paper iconHypertextual Frames of Cross Culturalism: Teaching CanLit in India

Dr. Jameela Begum A.
Professor & Head, Institute of English, Director, Centre for Canadian Studies, University of Kerala, India Paper iconNational Literatures in the Shadow of Neoliberalism

Jeff Derksen
Department of English
Simon Fraser University
Canada Paper iconMaking (Non)Sense of L'Affaire Hérouxville: Citizenship, Culture and Belonging in Québec

Monika Kin Gagnon
Department of Communications, Concordia Paper iconDoctoral Students Plenary Session:
Reading and Writing the Canadian Socius
Saturday, October 13, 2007

Melina Baum Singer (Western), Aparna Mishra Tarc (York), Maia Joseph (UBC), Naava Smolash (SFU)

1:23:57, 15 MB (MP4) Position Papers, Session One: Canadian Culture and Policy
Friday, October 12, 2007

Jeff Derksen (SFU), Monika Kin Gagnon (Concordia), Lynette Hunter (Davis), Discussant: Len Findlay (Mount Allison)

2:02:48, 22 MB (MP4) Paper iconThinking toward TransCanada Three (Mount Allison, 2009)
Sunday, October 14, 2007

Chair: Smaro Kamboureli (Guelph)

54:07, 10 MB (MP4)