Max Karpinski (Toronto) – “Why was Kinder Morgan afraid of a poem?” Pipelines, Barricades, and Infrastructures Otherwise in Stephen Collis’s Once in Blockadia.
Julia-Rose DiPalo (Waterloo) – Rekindling Indigenous Knowledges in Climate Fiction: Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves and Hunting By Stars
Alec Follett (Guelph) – In Search of the Streghe: Where is the Environmental Knowledge in Italian-Canadian Language?
11:15 - 11:30 - Break
11:30 - 12:45 - Panel 3 (A) - Refracting Poetry
Anna-Lee Popham (Guelph) – Empires of the Everyday
Claire Goulet (Mount Saint Vincent) – 13 Ways of Looking at Machine Generated Poetry
Alexei Perry-Cox (Concordia) – To be in a state of emergence strategies: everyday apocalypse(s) with Ethel Adnan and Peter Blue Cloud
11:30 - 12:45 - Panel 4 (B) - Spaces of Modernity
Robert Zacharias (York) – On Project Bookmark Canada or Reading a Few Pages of Ondaatje on the Bloor Street Viaduct
Jessica McDonald (Saskatchewan) – Passages from Now(here): Noticing Walmart in Contemporary Literatures of Canada
Ryan Fitzpatrick – Notes on Taxi!, Work, and Secondary Relation
Klara du Plessis (Concordia) – Interlacing Texts Towards the Relational Poetry Reading: Deep Curation’s We’ve Weave
Kiera Obbard (Guelph) and Dani Spinosa (Gap Riot) – Reflections on Future Horizons research in the pandemic
Gary Barwin and Elee Kraljii Gardiner – 1 Solitude + 1 Solitude ≠ 2 Solitudes
1:45 - 3:00 - Panel 6 (B) - Public Pedagogies and Debate
Rachel Wong (York) – Coalition, Community & Co-Op Radio: Repositioning the Chinese Canadian Community through Pender Guy
CJ Bogle (York) – “It’s Not Just the Story, It’s How You Tell It:” The Reception and Aesthetics of Caribbean Canadian Narrative Poetry
3:00 - 3:15 - Break
3:15 - 4:15 - Keynote: Gregory Betts: "The Faulty Palimpsest and Canadian Literature: Messing with White Mythology"
6:15 - 9:00 - Dinner and Reading at the Bullring
Dinner at 6:15
Reading at 7:00 featuring Britta Badour, Gary Barwin, Gregory Betts, Catherine Bush, Klara du Plessis, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Liz Howard, Carrianne Leung, Alexei Perry-Cox, Julia Polyck-O’Neill, and Anna-Lee Popham
Olajide Salawu (Alberta) – A-scented Memories: The Logic of Home and Diasporic Hunger
Sanchari Sur (Wilfrid Laurier) – Interrogating Canada’s “Happy” Multiculturalism Through the Subaltern Ghost in Soraya Peerbaye’s Tell
Sophie Feng (Toronto) – Longing for ‘Not Here’: Space, Desire, and Discursive Pluralities in Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For and Marie-Claire Blaise’s Soifs
12:00 - 1:00 - Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 - Keynote: Dani Spinosa: "Fast Code, Slow Poems: Digital Poetics and Small Press Analogues."
2:00 - 2:15 - Break
2:15 - 3:30 - Panel 11 (A) - Reading Chariandy
Deborah Hernandez (Wilfrid Laurier) – A “Better Life:” The West Indian Domestic Scheme, Multiculturalism, and the “Canadian Dream” in Chariandy
Kelly Baron (Toronto) – Doing the Nation Differently: Intersections Between Indigeneity and Diaspora in Chariandy’s Brother
Will Kummer (Wilfrid Laurier) – “We heard, as if with new ears, the music of our parents:” Music in Chariandy’s Brother