Friday, May 7 |
| 9:00 |
Welcome and Registration with coffee and muffins
English Department Lounge, 3 rd floor of Arts
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| 10:00 |
Keynote Address (ART 026)Carole Gerson, “ReBeginning Early Canadian Literature”
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| 11:00-12:00 |
The Eaton Sisters (SMD 125)
Mary Chapman, “Recovering Edith Eaton: Prolific Transnational Writer”
Linda Quirk, “Re(dis)covering the Eaton Sisters: Locating Sui Sin Far and Onoto Watanna in Canadian Literary History”
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| 11:00 – 12:00 |
Irish Influences (ART 509)
Angela Deziel, “The Irish Anna Jameson”
Pat Life, “The Forgotten Fenian: Recovering the Irish Confederation Poet James McCarroll”
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| 12:15 – 1:00 |
Light catered lunch in Glenn Clever Room, 3 rd floor of Arts |
| 1:00 – 2:30 |
Susanna Moodie and Anti-Slavery(SMD 125)
Michael Peterman and Molly Blyth, “Susanna Moodie and the Anti-Slavery Society”
Sandra Campbell, “Susanna Moodie’s Two Slave Narratives in Relation to Roughing It and “Richard Redpath”
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| 1:00 – 2:30 |
Textual Scholarship (ART 509)
Mary Jane Edwards, “Texts and Contexts: CEECT’s Scholarly Editions and Rediscovering Early Canadian Literature”
Eli MacLaren, “Ginx’s Baby: A Bibliography”
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| 2:45 – 4:15 |
Rediscovering Foremothers (SMD 125)
Cecily Devereux, “Keep the File Open: Rediscovering Nineteenth-Century Canadian Women Writers”
Wanda Campbell, “Des dames de temps jadis: Where are they now?”
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| 2:45 – 4:15 |
Literary Periodicals (ART 509)
Suzanne Bowness, “In their own words: Tracing Editorial Mandates through the Prefaces of 19 th-c. Canadian Magazines”
Ceilidh Hart, “Hallowed Spaces/Public Places: Women’s Literary Voices and The Acadian Recorder”
Geordan Patterson, “Promoting the Possibilities of Periodical Research: Early Canadian Periodicals in their International Context”
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| 2:45 – 4:15 |
Colonial Representation and Self-Representation (ART 318)
Albert Braz, “The Duelling Authors: Agnes Laut’s Curious Denigration of Pierre Falcon”
Phanuel Antwi, “Richardson’s Sambo: Theorizing Early Canadian Black Masculinity”
Jennifer Blair, “Reading The Memoirs of Boston King as Conversion Narrative”
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| 7:00 |
Keynote Address
Charlotte Gray, “Beating About the Bush” (ART 026)
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| 8:00 |
Wine and Cheese Reception in Arts foyer, main floor |
| Saturday,
May 8 |
| 9:00 - 10:30 |
Questions of Canonicity and Recovery (ART 509)
Jennifer Chambers, “Who’s in and Who’s Out: Recovering Minor Authors and the Pesky Question of Critical Evaluation”
Barbara Buchenau: “Canonize: Early Anthologies of Canadian Poetry and the Gendering of Public vs. National Poetry”
Heather Jones, “ Extra-canonicity: Recovery, Power, and the Resistant Text”
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| 9:00 - 10:30 |
Traditions and Contexts (SMD 125)
Peter Dixon, “ Caliban in the Heart of the Ancient Wood: Charles Roberts and 19 th-century Evolutionary Discourse in Canada”
Thomas Hodd, “Strange Beginnings: the Nation and the Supernatural in Early Canadian Literature”
Susan Warwick, “Thomas Stinson Jarvis’s Geoffrey Hampstead and Late Nineteenth-Century Popular Canadian Crime Fiction”
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| 10:45 - 11:45 |
Keynote Presentation (ART 026)
D.M.R. Bentley, “Reflections on the Situation and Study of Early Canadian Literature in the Long Confederation Period”
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| 12:00 – 1:00 |
Buffet Lunch at the University Centre |
| 1:15 – 2:45 |
The Literary Marketplace (SMD 125)
Gwendolyn Davies, “John Howe: Loyalist Printer as Literary Catalyst, a Halifax Case Study”
Jennifer Scott, “Recuperating Colonizers: Male Collaboration and Fraser’s Town and Country Magazine in Upper Canada
Ruth Bradley-St-Cyr, “A History of Ryerson Press: From Religious House to Publisher of Canadian literature.”
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| 1:15 – 2:45 |
Literary Detective Work (ART 509)
Mary Lu MacDonald, “Anonymity”
Gwendolyn Guth, “The ‘Still Life’ of Criticism: Letters from Daniel Fowler to Louisa Murray, 1866-1894”
Andrea Cabajsky, “Reading Historical Novels at Four Confederation-Period Montreal Libraries”
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| 3:00 – 4:30 |
Rediscovering Catharine Parr Traill (ART 509)
Sarah Krotz, “Looking at Catharine Parr Traill’s Botanical Writings: Why Natural History Matters”
Fiona Lucas, “Reconceptualizing Catharine Parr Traill’s Female Emigrant’s Guide of 1854”
Nathalie Cooke, “Cooks and Crusaders: Reconceptualizing Catharine Parr Traill”
Angeline O’Neill, “The politics of colonial motherhood: Charlotte Barton’s A Mother’s Offering to Her Children and Catharine Parr Traill’s Canadian Crusoes” |
| 3:00 – 4:45 |
Colonial Rhetorics (SMD 125)
Brian Johnson, “A Canadian Caliban in King Arthur’s Court: Incest and Empire in William Wilfred Campbell’s Mordred”
Jennifer Henderson, “Colonial Conjugality in Susie Frances Harrison”
Cynthia Sugars, “Judging by Appearances: Thomas Chandler Haliburton and the Ontology of Early Canadian Spirits”
Laura Moss, “ Eclectic Detachment: Selling Diversity in Nineteenth-Century Emigration
Narratives”
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| 3:00 – 4:45 |
Women Playwrights Panel (ART 318)
Silent Women, Deviants, and Dead Voters”: Panel presentation by Kym Bird, Emmanuelle Fick, Naomi Moses, Sarah Phillips, Laura Shea, Rachel Van Harten, and Caley Venn
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| 6:00 |
Dinner at The Empire Grill, 47 Clarence Street, the Market |
| Sunday, May 9 |
| 11:00 – 12:30 |
Aboriginal Authors (SMD 125)
Cheryl Cundell, “Exploring Europe: George Copway’s Grand Tour”
Dean Irvine, “Aboriginal Modernity and Modernist Indigeneity in Canada”
Linda Morra, “Pauline Johnson’s ‘Spectacular Confession’: A Re-examination of “A Cry From an Indian Wife”
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| 11:00 – 12:30 |
Resurrecting Neglected Texts (ART 509)
Karyn Huenemann, “ The Path of Sara Jeannette Duncan’s Star: A Critical Reappraisal”
Paul Chafe, “What do you mean ‘only’? A Case for Anastasia English’s Only a Fisherman’s Daughter”
Christa Zeller Thomas, “Elsewhere in India: Strangeness of Topography and Identity in Sara Jeanette Duncan’s The Crow’s-Nest”
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| 12: 30 – 1:15 |
Light catered lunch in Glenn Clever Room, 3 rd floor of Arts |
| 1:15 – 2:45 |
Alternative Narratives (ART 509)
Brooke Pratt and Erica Kelly, “Teaching Early Canadian Literature: Malcolm’s Katie in the Contemporary Classroom”
Kathleen Venema, “Innocent as a loon: Alternative Narratives in Alexander Henry’s Travels and Adventures
I.S. MacLaren, “The Nationalization of Citizen Kane”
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| 1:15 – 2:45 |
Reassessing the Popular (ART 318)
Kathleen Patchell, “Rhetorical Strategies in Nellie McClung’s Sowing Seeds in Danny”
Wendy Roy, “Sentiment, Didacticism, and Childhood in Early Twentieth-Century Canadian Fiction”
Joel Baetz, “Marching Men, Marching Women: Helena Coleman’s Great War Poetry”
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| 3:00 – 4:30 |
Confederation-era Poets (ART 509)
Carrie MacMillan, “Dreaming Backward: The Life and Writing of Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald”
Tracy Ware, “Roberts, Lampman, and the Recovery of the Sonnet”
Steven Artelle, “New Lampman, Old Flame: A Case for Biography”
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| 3:00 – 4:30 |
Canadian Satire (ART 318)
Duncan McFarlane, “T.C. Haliburton and the Fate of Satirists”
Nick Milne, “A New Heaven and a New Earth: Leacock’s Apocalyptic Sequel to Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town”
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