Program

Thursday, June 23

4:30-5:30
Registration

SFU at Harbour Centre (515 West Hastings St.): Main Foyer

5:30-6:30
Keynote Address

SFU at Harbour Centre (515 West Hastings St.): Fletcher Challenge Theatre - 1900
Diana Brydon (UWO): "Metamorphosis of a Discipline: Rethinking the Canadian Literary Institution"
Respondent: Rinaldo Walcott (OISE)
Moderator: Sophie McCall (SFU)

6:30-7:30
Literary Readings

SFU at Harbour Centre (515 West Hastings St.): Fletcher Challenge Theatre - 1900
Richard Van Camp
Lee Maracle
Larissa Lai
introduced by Daphne Marlatt

Friday, June 24

9:00-9:30
Registration

Wosk Centre For Dialogue (580 West Hastings St.): Main Foyer

9:30-9:40
Traditional Welcome

Wosk Centre For Dialogue (580 West Hastings St.): Asia Pacific Hall
Elder Harriet Cook, Musqueam Nation

9:40-10:30
Opening Remarks & Organizational Matters

Wosk Centre For Dialogue (580 West Hastings St.): Asia Pacific Hall
Smaro Kamboureli (Guelph) & Roy Miki (SFU)

10:30-12:30
The Ends of CanLit (Position Papers)

Wosk Centre For Dialogue (580 West Hastings St.): Asia Pacific Hall
Ashok Mathur (Thompson Rivers): "Transubracination: How Writers of Colour Became CanLit"
Winfried Siemerling (Sherbrooke): "Trans-Scan: Globalization, Literary Hemispheric Studies, Citizenship as Project"
Lee Maracle (Toronto): "Some Words on Study As a Process of Discovery"
Discussant: Donna Pennee (Guelph)
Reporter: Kristina Fagan (Saskatchewan)

12:30-1:30
Catered lunch

SFU at Harbour Centre (515 West Hastings St.): Segal Centre Conference Rooms - 1400/1410

1:30-3:30
Institutions (Position Papers)

Wosk Centre For Dialogue (580 West Hastings St.): Asia Pacific Hall
Stephen Slemon (Alberta): "TransCanada, Literature: No Direction Home"
Richard Cavell (UBC): "World Famous Across Canada, or TransNational Globalities"
Julia Emberley (UWO): "Genealogies of Difference: Fundamentalisms, Families, and Fantasies"
Discussant: Christl Verduyn (WLU)
Reporter: Christine Kim (York)

Coffee break

4:00 -5:30
The Politics of Practice: Artists and Institutions (Position Papers)

Wosk Centre For Dialogue (580 West Hastings St.): Asia Pacific Hall
Jayce Salloum
Jamelie Hassan
introduced by Pauline Butling (Alberta College of Art & Design)
Moderator: Jeff Derksen (SFU)
Reporter: Karina Vernon (Victoria)

7:00-10:00
Dinner

Wild Ginger - International Village, 2nd floor (88 West Pender St.)
Literary Readings
Fred Wah
Louis Cabri
introduced by Ashok Mathur (Thompson Rivers)

Saturday, June 25

9:30-10:30
Plenary Session: Report on Position Papers

Wosk Centre For Dialogue (580 West Hastings St.): Asia Pacific Hall
Kristina Fagan (Saskatchewan), Christine Kim (York), Karina Vernon (Victoria)
Moderator: Kathy Mezei (SFU)

10:30-12:30
The Return of the Citizen (Position Papers)

Wosk Centre For Dialogue (580 West Hastings St.): Asia Pacific Hall
Len Findlay (Saskatchewan): "TransCanada Collectives: Social Imagination, the Cunning of Production, and the Multilateral Sublime"
Lianne Moyes (Montréal): "Questioning Cosmopolitanisms"
Lily Cho (UWO): "Diasporic Citizenship: Contradictions and Possibilities for Canadian Literature"
Discussant: David Chariandy
Reporter: Candida Rifkind (Winnipeg)

12:30-2:00
Catered lunch

Wosk Centre For Dialogue (580 West Hastings St.): ICBC Concourse
Keynote Address
Daniel Coleman (McMaster): "From Canadian Trance to TransCanada: White Civility and the CanLit Project"
Respondent: Peter Dickinson (SFU)
Moderator: Smaro Kamboureli (Guelph)

2:00-5:30
Research Cells

Research Cells on Literature (RCL)
Research Cells on Institutions (RCI)
Research Cells on Citizenship (RCC)

RCL1: Anthologies, Curricular, Literary Texts: The Cultural and Textual Politics of Teaching Canadian Literature
Wosk Centre For Dialogue (580 West Hastings St.): Asia Pacific Hall
Carole Gerson (SFU): "The Problem of Historicizing Canadian Literature"
Susan Gingell (Saskatchewan): "TransCanadian Voicings: Integrating the Oral into the Study of Canadian 'Literature'"
Marlene Goldman, Russell Brown, and Donna Bennett (Toronto): "The Cultural and Textual Politics of Canadian Anthologies in a Diasporic Age"
Laura Moss (UBC): "Playing the Monster Blind or Mainstreaming Multiculturalism?: The Practical Limitations of Updating the Canadian Canon."
Paul Martin (Vermont): On curricular diversification versus syllabus design in advancing Canadian literary study
Discussant: Richard Cavell (UBC)
Reporter: Robert Stacey (York)

RCL2: Canadian Literature and the Politics of Representation Today

SFU at Harbour Centre (515 West Hastings St.): Xerox Conference Room - 1500
Christopher Lee (Brown): "The Asian American Object: Aesthetic Mediation and the Ethics of Writing"
Glen Lowry (Coquitlam): "Locating cultural memory: an interdisciplinary approach to the contemporary cultural production of Vancouver"
Lydia Roupakia (Oxford): "Narrative revisions: The family as site of cultural contestation in some contemporary Canadian fiction by women"
Leslie Sanders (York): "What may be unspoken anew?"
Frances Sprout (Victoria): "Picturing Loss: Mourning and the Photograph in Canadian Elegiac Family Romances"
Discussant: Susan Rudy (Calgary)
Reporter: Heather Latimer (SFU)

RCL3: Globalization and Canadian Literature

SFU at Harbour Centre (515 West Hastings St.): Island Industries Conference Room - 1510
Eugen Banauch (Vienna): "Exile Experience in Canada: Refugee Writers from the Third Reich in Canada"
Glenn Deer (UBC): On the global imaginary and discourse strategies of Canadian writing
Susan Knutson (St. Anne): "Canadian Transculturation and Intertextuality in Canadian Literature: Making the Theoretical Case for the Textual Case Studies"
Kathryn Grafton (UBC): "Collective Subjectivities in a Global Age: An Examination of the Interplay of Local, National, and Global Imagined Communities"
Tara Lee (SFU): "Promising Transnational Births: The Womb and Cyborgs in Asian Canadian Literature"
Discussant: Sherry Simon (Concordia)
Reporter: Alison McDonald (SFU)

RCL4: Canadian Literature and Interdisciplinarity

SFU at Harbour Centre (515 West Hastings St.): Scotia McLeod Conference Room - 1525
Danielle Fuller (Birmingham): "Beyond the Book--Getting Beyond Ourselves (?): Researching Mass Reading Events and Contemporary Cultures of Reading"
Cheryl Lousley (York): "Discourse/Nature/Matter: Environmental Thought and Contemporary Literature in English in Canada"
Travis Mason (UBC): "Rethinking Canadian Nature Writing: Poetry, Science, and Ecocriticism"
Julie Rak (Alberta): "Non-Fiction and Mass Markets--an Interdisciplinary Approach"
Kristen Warder (UWO): "Fitting In: Queer[ing] Geographies in Contemporary Canadian Literature"
Discussant: Diana Brydon (UWO)
Reporter: Graham Lyons (SFU)

RCL5: Canadian Literature and Transnationalism

SFU at Harbour Centre (515 West Hastings St.): Faskin Martin du Moulin Seminar Room - 1535
John P. Corr (McMaster): "Mapping Diasporic Sexualities in Canadian Fiction"
Jennifer Delisle (UBC): "Newfoundland Expatriate Literature: Nationalism and Diaspora"
Heike Harting (Montréal): "Global War and the Politics of Corpses in Canadian Narratives of the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda"
Andrea Medovarski (York): "Un/Settling Migrations: Citizenship, Kinship and the Second Generation in Post-Immigrant Black Canadian and Black British Women's Texts"
Karina Vernon (Victoria): "Black History on the Prairies"
Discussant: Eva Darias Beautell (La Laguna)
Reporter: kit dobson (Toronto)

Research Cells - Institutions (RCI)

RCI 1: Canadian Literature as an Institution

SFU at Harbour Centre (515 West Hastings St.): Conference Room - 200
Gregory Betts (York): "The Destroyer: Bertram Brooker and His Literary Works"
Christian Bök (Calgary): "En Garde (For Thee)"
Lee Skallerup (Alberta): "Anne Hébert, her translators, her translations and her evolution into the 'global' canon"
Discussant: Barbara Godard (York)
Reporter: Jade Ferguson (Cornell)

RCI 2: Global Capital, the Nation State and National Literature

SFU at Harbour Centre (515 West Hastings St.): Westcoast Energy Executive Meeting Room - 2250
Louis Cabri (Pennsylvania): "The intransitive state of Canada/US poetry studies"
Jennifer Henderson (Carleton): "Institutional Shapings of Childhood"
Paul Hjartarson (Alberta): "Emigrating to the Global Village: Globalization and the Project of Canadian Literature"
Maureen Moynagh (St. Francis Xavier): "Transnational Approaches to Canadian Postslavery Literature"
Jessica Schagerl (UWO): "Empire Girls, Global Girls: International Interactions, Interventions and Imaginings by Women in English-Canada, 1899-1919"
Katja Thieme (UBC): "Language and Social Change: The Canadian Movement for Women's Suffrage"
Discussant: Daniel Coleman (McMaster)
Reporter: Jennifer Blair (McMaster)
Read the Report from RCI 2.

RCI 3: Accountability: Negotiating Personal, Pedagogical and Institutional Responsibilities

SFU at Harbour Centre (515 West Hastings St.): West Fraser Timber Conference Room - 2290
Leslie Monkman (Queen's): "Working from the Inside: Canadian Literature in the University"
Esther Sánchez-Pardo (Madrid): "Visual Literacy versus Literary Competence in Canadian Literary Studies: Border Pedagogy and Critical Practice"
Joanne Saul (WLU): "Field Work: Making it Matter"
Aparna Mishra Tarc (York): "Of history and printing presses: A postcolonial critique of English literacy"
Rita Wong (ECIAD): "Towards Decolonizasian: Integrating Pedagogies and Cultural Organizing"
Discussant: Julia Emberley (UWO)
Reporter: Pauline Wakeham (Alberta)

Research Cells - Citizenship (RCC)

RCC 1: Cultural Sovereignty in Global Times

SFU at Harbour Centre (515 West Hastings St.): Reader's Digest Conference Room - 2540
Jenny Burman (McGill): "Non-status in the city: Cultural production amid shifting urban stratifications"
Alessandra Capperdoni (SFU): "Alter/Nations: Desire and the Reconfiguration of the Discourse of the Nation in the Contemporary Canadian Long(ing) Poem"
Mark McCutcheon (Guelph): "Regulation and diversity in Toronto's rave scene: postcolonial economics, sexual politics, and Canadian popular culture"
Ellen Quigley (Alberta): "Citizenship, Insurgent National Identities, and the Politics of Contemporary Canadian Writing"
Discussant: Pauline Butling (Alberta College of Art & Design)
Reporter: Sabine Milz (McMaster)

RCC 2: Citizenship and/in Literature: Diasporic Subjects, Insurgent Identities, Postcoloniality

SFU at Harbour Centre (515 West Hastings St.): EJ Safarik Sr Conference Room - 2235
Melina Baum-Singer (UWO): "The Poetics of the Unhomely: Diaspora, TransNation, and English Canadian Literature"
Bina Freiwald (Concordia): "Citizen(ation)ship: Monitoring the Return of the Repressed/Nation"
Eve Haque (OISE): "Multiculturalism within a Bilingual Framework: 'Incorporealizing' the Multicultural Other into the Nation"
Tracy Kulba (Alberta): "New Woman, New Nation: Emily Murphy, the Famous 5 Foundation, and the Production of a Female Citizen"
Andrea Stone (Toronto): "Rule and Regulation: The Body in Early New World African Literature"
Discussant: Len Findlay (Saskatchewan)
Reporter: Dorritta Fong (SFU)

RCC 3: Aboriginality and Citizenship

SFU at Harbour Centre (515 West Hastings St.): Conference Room - 400
Warren Cariou (Manitoba): "Aboriginals and/as Corporate Citizens"
Margery Fee (UBC): "Getting out of the Fort: Citizens Minus and 'Landed' Citizenship"
Wendy Pearson (UWO): "Multiplying Belongings: Questions of Indigeneity, Citizenship and Sexuality"
Bev Curran (Aichi Shukutoku): "Linguistic Camouflage: The Translator Embedded in Canadian Fiction and International War Zones"
Discussant: Roy Miki (SFU)
Reporter: Sophie McCall (SFU)

7:00-late
Banquet

Steamworks Brewery (375 Water Street)
followed by
"Dance-Canada" dance party
DJ sets by
Wayde Compton: non-English hip hop
Mark McCutcheon: disco, retro, techno

Sunday, June 26

10:30-12:00
Emerging Scholars Plenary session

Wosk Centre For Dialogue (580 West Hastings St.): Asia Pacific Hall
Jennifer Blair (McMaster): "Paper Architectures: The Interdisciplinary Potential of Architecture"
kit dobson (Toronto): "Resist(.ca): Transnational Cultural Production and the Commodification of Dissidence in Contemporary Canada"
Jade Ferguson (Cornell): "Witnessing the Black Body: Territoriality, Citizenship, and Race in North America"
Sabine Milz (McMaster): "A Materialist Study of Canadian Literary Culture at a Time of Neoliberal Globalization"
Pauline Wakeham (Alberta): "Second Skins: Semiotic Readings in Taxidermic Reconstruction"
Discussant: Douglas Barbour (Alberta)
Reporter: Louisa Sorflaten (Guelph)

12:00-2:00
Catered Lunch

Jolly Taxpayer Hotel and Pub (828 West Hastings)

2:00-3:00
Plenary Session: Reports from Cells

Wosk Centre For Dialogue (580 West Hastings St.): Asia Pacific Hall
Robert Stacey (York), Heather Latimer (SFU), Allison McDonald (SFU), Graham Lyons (SFU), kit dobson (Toronto), Jade Ferguson (Cornell), Jennifer Blair (McMaster), Pauline Wakeham (Alberta), Sabine Milz (McMaster), Dorritta Fong (SFU), Sophie McCall (SFU)
Moderator: Leslie Monkman (Queen's)

3:00-5:00
Plenary Session: The Future

Wosk Centre For Dialogue (580 West Hastings St.): Asia Pacific Hall
Recommendations / Collaboration plans
The Sequel: U of Guelph Conference
Discussants / Moderators: Smaro Kamboureli (Guelph) and Roy Miki (SFU)


Concurrent art installation

Jamelie Hassan's billboard project Because . . . there was and there wasn't a city of Baghdad, which has not been exhibited for more than a decade, will be mounted on the outside wall of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia, 1825 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, beginning June 17, 2005. The gallery telephone number is (604) 822-2759.