Thursday July 16

• 5:30-6:00 Registration, Campbell Hall
• 6:30-7:00 Mi'kmaq Praying Ceremony and Welcome, Crabtree Auditorium
• 7:00-8:00 Keynote Address: Marie Battiste (Saskatchewan), Crabtree Auditorium
• "Ambitious Epistemology: Indigenous Knowledge within the Indigenous Renaissance"
• Moderator: Andrew Nurse (Mount Allison)
• 8:00-9:00 Reading: Hérménegilde Chiasson, Lieutenant Governor, N.B., & Reception, Owens Art Gallery
  Moderator: Christl Verduyn (Mount Allison)

Friday July 17

• 8:30-9:00 Registration, Campbell Hall
• 9:00-9:30 Greetings by President Robert Campbell, Mount Allison
  Crabtree Auditorium
• Opening Remarks by co-chairs: Christl Verduyn (Mount Allison) and Smaro Kamboureli (Guelph)
• 9:30-11:00 Keynote Address: François Paré (Waterloo)
  "Systems of Tradition and Pluralism in Contemporary Acadia"
  Moderator: Christl Verduyn (Mount Allison)
• 11:00-11:15 Nutrition & Coffee Break
• 11:15-12:30 Concurrent Paper Sessions A, Avard-Dixon Building

A1: Radical Variants: Pedagogy and Editing Modernism in Canada
Location AVD111

• Meghan Timney (Dalhousie), "Editing and Publishing in a Digital Age: An Experiential-Learning Approach"
• Vanessa Lent (Dalhousie), "Modernizing Modernism in the Undergraduate Classroom"
• Bart Vartour (Dalhousie), "Overdetermined Subjects: Graduate Students, Pedagogy, Scholarship"
• Moderator: Dean Irvine (Dalhousie)

A2: Interrogating Ecologies
Location AVD112

• Cheryl Lousley (Leeds/Wilfred Laurier), "Matters of Concern: Theorizing Ecology in Contemporary Canadian Literature"
• Jon Gordon (Alberta), "Fort McMurray in Flux: Ecology, Contracts, and Community"
• Moderator: Nichole Shukin (Victoria)

A3: (Trans)National Mobility
Location AVD116

• Gillian Roberts (Nottingham, UK), "Hemispheric Humour in David W. McFadden's Great Lakes Suite"
• Jody Mason (Carleton), "Vagabonds and Sojourners: The Politics of Mobility in Confederation-Era Canada"
• Astrid Fellner (Vienna, Austria), "Fronteras Americanas and Citizen Súarez: Guillermo Verdecchia's Border Texts and the Transhemispheric Paradigm"
• Moderator: Jennifer Blair (Ottawa)

A4: Reading Community, Writing Technology
Location AVD117

• Danielle Fuller (Birmingham, UK), "'Something to hold on to': Placing the Readers of 'One Book, One Community'"
• Mark McCutcheon (Western), "Neuromancer versus Oryx and Crake: Technological Transnationalism and Cultural Capital in CanLit Frankenstein"
• Sharlee Reimer and Christine Lyons (McMaster), "Assembling Atwood, Disseminating Nation: Literary Celebrity's Technologies and Trans/Nationalist Narratives from the Biography to the LongPen"
• Moderator: Kit Dobson, Dalhousie/Mount Royal)

A5: Precarious Bridges: Literary, Critical, Cultural
Location AVD118

• Michelle Gadpaille (Maribor, Slovenia), "Humanitarian Ventriloquism: The 'Despicable Tool' of the Slave Narrative"
• Christine Stewart (Alberta), "Under Mill Creek Bridge and the Practice of Reading"
• Brent Wood (Toronto), "The Rhythm of Ecology: Don McKay's Trans-Canadian Verse"
• Moderator: Eva Darias-Beautell (La Laguna, Spain)
• 12:30-2:00 Picnic Lunch at Fort Beauséjour, Fort Cumberland National Historic Site (shuttle transportation and lunch provided)
• 2:00-4:00 Roundtable One: Transformative Pedagogies and Methodologies
  Crabtree Auditorium
• Donna Palmateer Pennee (Western), "Outside the Box but Within the Budget: Transformative Pedagogies in a Time and Space of Constraint"
• James [Sakej] Youngblood Henderson (Saskatchewan) , "Transsystemia in Indigenous Law and Knowledge"
• Peter McLaren (UCLA) and Nathalia Jaramillo (Purdue), "Beyond Normative Notions of Social Justice Education"
• Moderator: Len Findlay (Saskatchewan)
• 4:00-4:15 Nutrition & Coffee Break
• 4:15-5:30 Concurrent Paper Sessions B, Avard-Dixon Building

B1: Pedagogies in Collaboration: The TransCanada/TransQuebec PhD Workgroup
Location AVD111

• Amy Kebe (Montreal/St. Anne's) & Rob Zacharias (Guelph), "Mennonite Literature, Dionne Brand, and Surprises of Open-Ended Collaboration"
• Richard Cassidy (Montreal), "Process and Deferral: Slow Reading the Poetics of Collaboration"
• Benjamin Authers (Guelph) & Andrea Beverly (Montreal), "The Erotics and Metaphorics of Collaboration"
• Moderator: Sarah Henzi (Montreal)

B2: Methodology and Pedagogy: Indigeneity and the Nation
Location AVD112

• Aparna Mishra Tarc (Western), "Pedagogy and Literary Testimony"
• Danielle Deveau (SFU), "Pedagogy of a Bird Course: Thinking About Pop Culture in a Suburban Commuter School"
• Angela Facundo (York), "Indigenizing Deconstruction: Dominant Diaspora"s Institutional Transformations through the Deployment of Aboriginal Methodologies"
• Moderator: Bart Vautour, Dalhousie

B3: Reading the Culture of Redress
Location AVD116

• Jennifer Henderson (Carleton), "The Camp, the School and the Child: Discursive Exchanges and (Neo)liberal Axioms in the Culture of Redress"
• Lily Cho (Western), "Redress Revisited: Citizenship and the Chinese Canadian Head Tax"
• Pauline Wakeham (Western), "Reconciliation, Post 9/11: Indigenous Resistance at the Discursive Limits of Rapprochement and Terror"
• Moderator: Renée Hulan (SMU)

B4: Transcultural Americas
Location AVD117

• Afef Benessaieh (York), "Understanding Transculturality"
• Patrick Imbert (Ottawa), "Transculturality and the Americas"
• Winfried Siemerling (Sherbrooke) & Sarah Phillips Casteel (Carleton), "Canada and Its Americas: Transnational Navigations of the Literary"
• Moderator: Heike Härting (Montreal)

B5: White Ethnicities I
Location AVD118

• John Corr (Guelph), "The Fenian Invasion: Clash of Civilizations or Infestation?"
• Katrin Urschel (NUI, Galway, Ireland), "Irish Civility and CanLit: Why the Institutionalization of the 'Anglo-Celt' might be Counterproductive"
• Moderator: Eugenia Sojka (Silesia, Poland)

B6: Europe/Canada: Translating Canadian Literature
Location AVD120

• Natalia Vid (Maribor, Slovenia), "Lost in Translation: Canadian Literature in the Soviet Union and Modern Russia"
• Pilar Somacarrera (Autónoma U, Spain), "English-Canadian Writing in Spain: Power, Translation, and Cultural Transfer"
• Klara Kolinska (Masaryk ,U. Czech Republic), "'Oppositional Betrayals': Translating English Canadian Literature in Central Europe"
• Moderator: Mark McCutcheon (Western)
• 5:30-6:30 Free Time / Show Time at Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison. An opportunity to visit the TC3-related special exhibitions (video, multimedia, site specific works, and an exhibition based on the Gallery's permanent collection)
• 7:00-8:00 Reading: George Elliott Clarke, Tweedie Hall Moderator: Ashok Mathur (Thompson Rivers)
• 8:30- Maritime Dinner & Entertainment at a local institution, "George's Fantastic Roadhouse" (see options in Registration Form) or Dinner on Your Own.

Saturday July 18

• 9:30-11:00 Keynote Address: Roy Miki (SFU)
  "Belief = Methodology = Form: Doing Justice to CanLit Studies"
  Crabtree Auditorium
• Moderator: Daniel Coleman (McMaster)
• 11:00-11:15 Nutrition & Coffee Break
• 11:15-12:30 Plenary Session, Doctoral Student Presentations
  Crabtree Auditorium
• Moderator: John Corr
• Phanuel Antwi (McMaster), "(Ad)dressing Upper Canada: Cotton as Domestic Accessory and Racial Envoy In and Around The Canadian Settlers Guide"
• Alyson McCready (McMaster), "Neoliberal Pedagogy and the Nation: the Yellow Ribbon Campaign as Case Study"
• Allison Hargreaves (Western), "Indigenous Women's Activism and Annie Mae's Movement"
• 12:30-1:30 Lunch at Tweedie Hall
• 1:30-3:30 Roundtable Two: Hemispheric Studies / Transcultural Geographies
  Crabtree Auditorium
• Patrick Imbert (U d'Ottawa), "Transculturality and the Americas"
• Jack Butler (multidisciplinary artist, Toronto)&Ruby Arngna'naaq (Nunavut/ Ottawa, cultural practitioner / printmaker), "Translating Capital Value and Art Value Across Geographies"
• Shauna McCabe (Mount Allison), "Local/Local: Mapping Transcultural Geographies"
  Moderator: Jade Ferguson (Guelph)
• 3:30-4:45 Concurrent Paper Sessions C, Avard-Dixon Building

C1: Trans-Body
Location AVD111

• Erin Wunker (Calgary), "Uncanny Shudder: Bodies of Difference"
• Sandra Regina Goulart Almeida (UFMG, Brazil), "Written on the Body: The Experience of Diaspora in Hiromi Goto's Novels"
• Alessandra Capperdoni (SFU), "Trans Like Who? Trans-Poetics as Re-Articulatory Poetics"
• Moderator: Robert Zacharias (Guelph)

C2: Affective Geographies I
Location AVD112

• Jennifer Blair (Ottawa), "Canada's Unlikely Comfort Zone: Nation-Space and the Banff Springs Hotel"
• Nicole Shukin (Victoria), "Earthly Bondage: Ecological Emotion in an Era of Natural Capitalism"
• Maia Joseph (UBC), "Creative Virtue? Landscapes of Cultural Consumption and Production in Timothy Taylor's Stanley Park"
• Moderator: Cheryl Lousley (Leeds/Wilfrid Laurier)

C3: Transformative Testimonies and Mediations
Location AVD116

• Heike Härting (Montreal), "Global Ecologies of Political Justice: Canada's Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act and North American Narratives of Post-Genocide War Crimes Trials"
• Lianne Moyes (Montreal) and Catherine Lerclerc (McGill), "Federal Mediations in the Relations Between Acadian and Québécois Letters"
• Shurli Makmillen (UBC), "Finding 'Equal Footing' in Aboriginal Oral Testimony"
• Moderator: Kirsten Emiko McAllister (SFU)

C4: Canada and the Americas
Location AVD117

• Maureen Moynagh (SFX), "Constituting Canada from within Hemispheric Studies, or Where is Here, Now?"
• Jon Smith (SFU), "The Genders of Invasion: Canada, the U.S. South, and Hemispheric American Studies"
• Moderator: Daniel Coleman (McMaster)

C5: Urban Ecologies
Location AVD118

• Eva Darias-Beautell (De La Laguna, Spain), "The Eco-Urban: Recycled Plastic, Edible Soaps and the Culture of the Organic in Zsuzsi Gartner's 'City of My Dreams'"
• Elisabeth Tutschek (Vienna, Austria), "'Nathalie et Nathanaël': Hybridity and Flâneries in Urban Space"
• Brandon McFarlane (Toronto), "The Whiskheads Have Been Around for a Long Time—Towards an Aesthetic of Urban Space"
• Moderator: Glen Lowry (Emily Carr)

C6: Re-defining Equity in Indigenous Cultural Praxis
Location AVD120

• Larissa Lai (UBC), "Biopoetics in (Third) Space: Life Itself Between Freezing and Boiling in Souvankham Thammavongsa's Foundand Rita Wong's Forage"
• Agnes Kramer-Hamstra (McMaster), "Recognition and Redistributive Justice Revisited: The Songs that 'Rearrange the Mystery," TransCanada circa 2009"
• Jeanette den Toonder (Groningen, Netherlands), "The Intertwining of the Particular and the Universal in First Nations Literature"
• Moderator: Pauline Wakeham (Western)
• 4:45-5:00 Nutrition & Coffee Break
• 5:00-6:30 Roundtable Three: Ecology / Mobility / Culture
  Crabtree Auditorium
• Julie Rak (Alberta), "Translocal Representations: CanLit as Problematic"
• Laurie Ricou (UBC), "Disturbance Loving Species"
• Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands (York), "Acts of Nature: Literature, Excess, and Environmental Politics"
• Moderator: Kit Dobson (Mount Royal)
• 6:30-7:30 Free Time / Show Time at Owens Art Gallery
• 7:30- Transitions Banquet (Brainstorming re: TCI future plans)
  Tweedie Hall, Wallace McCain Student Centre
• TransCanDance (Mount Allison Pub) for the Young of Heart and Body
  Campus Pub, Wallace McCain Student Centre or Animated Conversation at the Coffee Bar next door.

Sunday July 19

• 9:30-11:30 Concurrent Paper Sessions D, Avard-Dixon Building

D1: Diasporic Poetics
Location AVD111

• Kevin McNeilly (UBC), "Lorna Goodison's Diaspora Poetics"
• Winfried Siemerling (Sherbrooke), "Transcultural Improvisation, Transnational Time, and Diasporic Chance in Wayde Compton's Textual Performance"
• Richard Douglass-Chin (Windsor), "Diasporas, Transnationalism / Transculturalism"
• Moderator: Carrie Dawson (Dalhousie)

D2: Public Mournings
Location AVD112

• Amber Dean (Alberta), "Haunting the Nation: Public Mourning and the Making of Canadians"
• Rebecca Babcock (Dalhousie), "Managing Grief, Mapping Ethnicity: Literary Responses to the Air India Tragedy"
• Alia Somani (Western), "The Politics of Mourning the Air India Bombing: Srivinas Krishna's Masala and Selley Saywell's Legacy of Terror: The Bombing of Air India"
• Moderator: Ben Authers, Guelph

D3: Transnational / Transdisciplinary Cultural Studies
Location AVD116

• Glen Lowry (Emily Carr), "Siting Critical-Creative Praxis: Citing Napa North"
• Kirsten Emiko McAllister (SFU), "Moving from the National Past to the Transnational Present/Presence in Canada"
• Ayaka Yoshimizu (SFU), "The 'Poetics' of Ethnographic Life Writing: Learning from Diasporic Senryu Practices"
• Moderator: Farah Moosa (McMaster)

D4: Re-routing/Re-rooting
Location AVD118

• Jennifer Scott, Myka Tucker-Abramson, and Naava Smolash (SFU), "Settling the Diaspora: Reading the First Canadian Immigration Acts"
• Robert Zacharias (Guelph), "Mennonite Canadian Literature and Diasporic Narrative Strains"
• Jenny Kerber (Calgary), "Pulling Up Roots: Border-Crossing and Migrancy on Southern Alberta's Irrigation Frontier"
• Moderator: Lily Cho (Western)

D5: White Ethnicities II
Location AVD120

• Martin Kuester (Marburg, Germany), "Wiebes and Aboriginals, Mennonites and (Other) Minorities: A Case of Transdifference?"
• Susanne Marshall (Dalhousie), "Charting Acadian Modernity: France Daigle's Pas Pire/Just Fine"
• Eugenia Sojka (Silesia, Poland), "From White Ethnic Others to Diasporic Citizens"
• Moderator: Lianne Moyes (Montreal)

D6: Diasporic Escapism and Cultural Memory
Location Ron Joyce Student Lounge

• Lindy Ledohowski (Ottawa), "Diasporic Discomfort and Ethnic Angst: Eva and Colleen, Multigenerational Canadian Subjects"
• Lara Okihiro (Toronto), "Memory Aids in Experiences of Migration and Displacement: Gifts in Obasan and The Jade Pony"
• Ranbir Banwait (SFU), "Popular Ecologies: South Asian Canadian Literature, Bollywood Escapism and Shani Mootoo's He Drown She in the Sea"
• Moderator: Sandra Regina Goulart Almeida (UFMG, Brazil)
• 11:30-1:30 Roundtable Four (over hot lunch)
  Tweedie Hall, Wallace McCain Student Centre
• In the Future Tense: TransCanada Workshops / Summer Institute Plans / Policy&Networking / Outreach Plans
• Moderator: Smaro Kamboureli