Conference Schedule

Thursday. September 15.

9:00 - 9:30 - Registration

9:30 - 10:00 - Opening Remarks

10:00 - 11:15 - Panel 1 (A) - Longing for Elsewhere

Alice Hinchliffe (Guelph) – “Race is a Story”: Decolonizing Narrative Spaces and Places in Maria Campbell’s Halfbreed and Tessa McWatt’s Shame on Me.

Kostyn Petrunick (Brock) – Lessons on Tidalectical Self-Critique in the so-called Anthropocene from Dionne Brand’s The Blue Clerk.

10:00 - 11:15 - Panel 2 (B) - Environmental Poetics

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

12:45 - 1:45 - Lunch

1:45 - 3:00 - Panel 5 (A) - Poetic Transformations

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

Friday September 16

9:15 - 10:30 - Panel 7 (A) - Revisioning the Avant-Garde

Jessi MacEachern (Bishop’s) – The Flailing Ante- or Anti-Epic: Feminist Re-Visions of Nation and Genre

Joseph Shea-Carter (Guelph) – Jordan Abel’s Avant-Garde and Liberatory The Place of Scraps

Julia Polyck-O’Neill (York) – “The Archive is a Stimulus Between Myself and Myself:” The Sound Subject in the Literary

9:15 - 10:30 - Panel 8 (B) - Writing Diaspora, Writing the Self

Kavi Duvvoori (Waterloo) – Writing Diasporic Canadian Literature to Slip Away, “as dreams frequently do”

Eleanor Ty (Wilfrid Laurier) – Babies Crossing Borders: Transracial Adoptees and Life Writing

Rachel Fernandes (Queen’s) – Cultivating Identity in a Third Space in Elamin Abdelmahmoud’s “Son of Elsewhere”

10:30 - 10:45 - Break

10:45 - 12:00 - Panel 9 (A) - Future Horizons of CanLit?

Katherine McLeod (Concordia) – Affecting Voices: What does shifting the ground of CanLit sound like?

Lorraine York (McMaster) – Trusting the Trouble: Embracing a Scandalous History of CanLit

Paul Barrett (Guelph) – Settler Realism and the Place of Canadian Literature

10:45 - 12:00 - Panel 10 (B) - Palimpsests of Diaspora & Nation

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

2:15 - 3:30 - Panel 12 (B) - Remapping National Spaces

Manina Jones (Western) – Regionalism in Transit: Thien’s “Alice Munro Country” and “Menesteung”

Taylor Graham (Guelph) – Performing Munro in Huron County

Wencke Rudi (Guelph) – Remapping the Queen’s Bush Settlement