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The Worlds of Carol Shields
April 27-29 2012
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Preliminary Program
| Friday, April 27th 2012 |
| 7:00 pm |
Keynote Presentations (I)
Chair: David Staines, University of Ottawa
Carol Shields in Conversation and Correspondence – Eleanor Wachtel, Toronto
Carol Shields: The Measure and Experience of Time – Anne Giardini, Vancouver & Joseph Giardini, Montreal
Reception to Follow |
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| Saturday, April 28th 2012 |
| 9:00 – 10:15 am |
A1 Short Fiction Panel 1
Chair: Robert Stacey, University of Ottawa
“Others” and Some Others: Canadian Writers Double-Voice the Short Story – Laurie Kruk (Nipissing University)
Carol Shields and Joyce Carol Oates: The Gift of a Scarf in an “Economy of Femininity” – Elizabeth Reimer (Thompson Rivers University)
A2 Short Fiction Panel 2
Chair: Jennifer Blair, University of Ottawa
“Cool Empathy”: the Management of Compassion in Carol Shields’ Short Fiction – Marilyn Rose (Brock University)
Carol Shields and the Short Story Form – Neil Besner (University of Winnipeg) |
| 10:15 – 10:30 am |
Coffee Break |
| 10:30 – 11:45 am |
B1 Panel 1
Chair: Robert Stacey, University of Ottawa
On Small Ceremonies– Elizabeth Waterston (Guelph University)
Revisiting the Sequel: Carol Shields’s Companion Novels – Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan)
B2 Panel 2
Chair: Jennifer Blair, University of Ottawa
“Departures, Arrivals”: Reassessing Canadian/American Migrations in the Fiction of Carol Shields – Alex Ramon (Kingston University, London)
Archives as Evidence of Life Process and Engagement: the late years of the Carol Shields fonds – Catherine Hobbs (Library and Archives Canada) |
| 11:45 am – 1:00 pm |
Lunch |
| 1:00 – 2:30 pm |
Keynote Presentations (II)
Chair: David Staines, University of Ottawa
All that 'below-the-surface stuff': Carol Shields's Conversational Modes – Coral Ann Howells (University of Reading)
Prepositional Domesticity – Aritha Van Herk (University of Calgary) |
| 2:30 – 2:45 pm |
Coffee Break |
| 2:45 – 4:00 pm |
C1 Swann
Chair: Janice Fiamengo, University of Ottawa
Sarah Binks, Pat Lowther, and the Satirical Gothic Turn in Mary Swann: A Mystery - Cynthia Sugars (University of Ottawa)
Absence, Authorship, and The Epitaph of Victim in Swann–Brenda Beckman-Long (McMaster University)
C2 The Stone Diaries Panel
Chair: Gerald Lynch, University of Ottawa
Assembling Identity: Late-life Agency in The Stone Angel and The Stone Diaries – Patricia Life (University of Ottawa)
The Practice of Everyday Life in Carol Shields: Creating a Lexicon of Things -Bethany Guenther (University of Ottawa)
Agential Absence: The Political Possibilities of Absence in The Stone Diaries – Martin Winquist (University of Saskatchewan) |
| 4:00 – 4:15 pm |
Coffee Break |
| 4:15 – 5:30 pm |
D1
Chair: Janice Fiamengo, University of Ottawa
On “Thirteen Hands and Other Plays” – Nora Foster Stovel (University of Alberta)
Male-Pattern Bewilderment in Larry’s Party – John Van Rys
(Redeemer University College)
D2 Republic of Love
Chair: Cynthia Sugars, University of Ottawa
The Asymmetries of Deep Water Transcendence: Uncanny Relationships in The Republic of Love – Jessi MacEachern (Concordia University)
Siren Asylum: Queering the Single in The Republic of Love – Brianne Colon (Queen’s University) |
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| Sunday April 29th, 2012 |
| 9:30 – 10:45 am |
A1 Unless (Panel 1)
Chair: David Staines, University of Ottawa
Narrative Pragmatism: Goodness in Carol Shields's Unless – Tim Heath (Ambrose University College)
“To Be Faithful to the Idea of Being Good”: The Expansion to Goodness in Carol Shields’s Unless –Margaret Steffler (Trent University)
A2 Unless (Panel 2)
Chair: Zachary Abram, University of Ottawa
Shields’ Guerrilla Gardeners: Planting Seeds of Gendered Defiance in a Middle-Class World – Shelley Boyd
(Kwantlen Polytechnic University)
“Light fiction, being closer to real life, knows better”: Class and the conventions of “chick lit” in Carol Shields’ Unless – Jennifer Baker (University of Ottawa) |
| 10:45– 11:00 am |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am– 1:00 pm |
The Achievements of Carol Shields
Chair: Eleanor Wachtel
- Wayson Choy (Author and Teacher)
- Joan Clark (Author)
- Martin Levin (Critic)
- Jane Urquhart (Author)
Closing Remarks |
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