The Decaying Sense of Leviathan:
A Critically Creative Conference
Schedule

All events at Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, 3150 Jean-Brillant, Montr�al, Qu�bec

Thursday, March 15
19h00   Atwater Library (1200 Atwater Ave., Metro Atwater) is hosting a free public reading by Gail Scott, Yedda Morrison and Fred Wah

Friday, March 16
12h30-13h00  Registration and refreshments (C-3149)

13h00-14h20 
Panel 1 : Gender (C-2086)
--Jason Faulkner, East Carolina University
Cold Hearted Women Killers � The Identity and the Breaking of Stereotypes of Women Killers in Films
--John Kehoe, Carleton University
Re-Gendering Discourse in Post-9/11 Narratives Or: The new Female Hero
--Colette Simonot, McGill University
The Gender of Madness: Poulenc�s Mad Scene in
Dialogues des Carm�lites

14h20-14h45 Break (C-3149)

14h45-16h00
Panel 2 : History (C-2086)
--Jessica Murphy, Universit� de Montr�al
Creating a Non-Native Space: Extinction Discourse in the Nineteenth Century
--Tina MacLean
The Battle of the Borrowers: Defining Authorship and Plagiarism through the Reception of Ian McEwan�s
Atonement
--(Chair) Kevin D'Abramo, Universit� de Montr�al
The Misrecognition of History

16h00-16h30  Break

16h30-18h30
Keynote Address by Fred Wah "propped form Hyphen ashes of content" (B-2325; Sponsored by the Visiting Speakers Series)

19h00-  
Dinner at Librairie Olivieri (5219, C�te-des-Neiges; 739-3639)

Saturday, March 17
9h30-10h50
Panel 3 : American Literatures (C-9141)
--(Chair) Winnie Omnus, Universit� de Montr�al
�That�s the Same Fire We Came From!�: Zora Neale Hurston�s
Jonah�s Gourd Vine and Flannery O�Connor�s The Violent Bear it Away as Spiritual Slave Narratives
--Fenn Stewart, UBC
�I Am a Foreigner": Evgeni Hutz and the Cultural Revolution
--Theodore Wheeler, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska
"Nick Adams as Anti-Authoritarian: Otherness and the Urge to Self-Identify in Hemingway's Short Fiction"

10h50-11h10 Break

11h10-12h10
Panel 4 : Poetics (C-9141)
--Kate Sheckler, Universit� de Montr�al
Passion and Payment: Structuring Fiction.
--(Chair) Jean-Philippe Marcoux, Universit� de Montr�al
Theoretical Constraint, Poetic Opulence: Christian B�k�s
Eunoia

12h10-13h30 Lunch on campus (C-7147)

13h30-16h30
Workshops�First Session (Gail Scott C-8076; Fred Wah C-8111; Yedda Morrison C-8123)

Sunday, March 18
13h00-15h00
Workshops�Second Session (Gail Scott C-8076; Fred Wah C-8111; Yedda Morrison C-8123)

15h00-15h30 Break (C-9141)

15h30-16h30
Oral anthology of creative work (C-9141)
Hosted by www.Geocities.ws

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