May 12-13th, 2006
(Metro C�te-des-Neiges OR Universit� de Montr�al)
Friday May 12th
8h30
Registration
(room C-9141)
9h00
Welcome / Mot de bienvenue
(room C-9141)
9h15 � 10h35 (room C-9141)
The Wretched Earth: From Monkeywrenching to Green Consumption, Tactics and Rhetoric in the Environmental Movement.
Panel Chair: Michael Mikulak (McMaster)
� Alex Lockwood (Sussex University, UK)
Kyoto caput: The decapitation of the Kyoto Protocol in the novels of David Mitchell
� Dilia Narduzzi (McMaster University)
�The Slow Art of Revolutionary Patience�: Re-Thinking Crisis in Terry Tempest Williams� Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
� Michael Mikulak (McMaster University)
The Wretched Earth: From Monkeywrenching to Green Consumption, Tactics and Rhetoric in the Environmental Movement
10h45 - 12h05 (room C-9141)
Gender and the National Phenomenon as a Disaster
Panel Chair: Hajer Ben Gouider Trabelsi (Universit� de Montr�al)
� Kelly MacPhail (Universit� de Montr�al)
"This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius": The London Blitz and the Sapphic Saviour in H.D.'s Trilogy
� Hajer Ben Gouider Trabelsi (Universit� de Montr�al)
Taming the Other and the construction of the nation in Shakespeare�s Henry V
� Erin Wunker (University of Calgary)
Diversity Our Strength: Unmasking the Other in Dionne Brand's What We All Long For.
12h05 Lunch (rooms C-7147 & C-7149)
13h30 - 15h00 (room C-9141)
Poetry/Prose Reading - "Writing Crisis"
Organizers: Kelly MacPhail and Sophie Paindavoine (Universit� de Montr�al)
featuring:
� Arielle Corobow, Thaisa Cotton, Jason Freder, Zenas Kuate Defo, Samantha L�vy, Holly Mendel, Nadine Scott, Kevin Weinstein, Alyssa Wiseman (St-Georges� School of Montreal)
� Antony Johae (Kuwait University)
� Kelly MacPhail (Universit� de Montr�al)
� Kevin D�Abramo (Universit� de Montr�al)
15h20 � 16h40 (room C-9141)
The Postcolonial Nation and the Crisis of its ``Own`` Making
Panel Chair: Rachid Belghiti (Universit� de Montr�al)
� Anupama Mohan (University of Toronto)
Pick-pocketing Nationalism: Counter discourse in Third World Literature
� Dr. Antony Johae (Kuwait University)
Communication in Crisis: Amin Maalouf�s Les �chelles du Levant
� Joanna Cumyn (Universit� de Montr�al)
Global Sovereignty or the Crisis of the Nation
17h30 � 18h30
Keynote Address (room B-3325)
� Roy Miki (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia)
Are You Apprehensive Too? Not to Worry, So Is Rita Wong: Towards a Poetics for Restless Bodies
A Canadian poet and scholar currently teaching at Simon Fraser University, Roy Miki is very active in the Japanese-Canadian community and has fought for redress from the federal government for the internment of Japanese-Canadians during the Second World War.
19h00 Dinner
Saturday 13th, 2006
9h30 Coffee & Muffins
(room C-9141)
10h00 � 11h20 (room C-9141)
Maritime Women and National Identity: Crises in Canadian Literature
Panel Chair : Andrea Beverley (Universit� de Montr�al)
� Kirsten Anika Sandrock (University of New Brunswick)
The Cry-sis of the Unheard: Female Voices in Maritime Short Stories
� Carolyne Van Der Meer (Universit� de Montr�al)
Crisis of National Conscience: New Mediations of Definitions of Canadian Literature in West Coast Line, Open Letter and Writing
� Andrea Beverley (Universit� de Montr�al)
Crises in Early Nova Scotia: the Writings of Mary Eliza Herbert (1829-1872)
11h30 - 12h50 (room C-9141)
XIX Century
Panel Chair: Jessica Murphy (Universit� de Montr�al)
� Isaac Joslin (University of Minnesota)
Reflections of Crises: The Prose Poem, the Poet and Paris
� Dale I. Barleben (University of Toronto)
Property and Patriarchy in Wilde's Salome and An Ideal Husband
� Aaron Schneider (University of Western Ontario)
My Brother, Not Myself: The Differential Structure of the Nation
12h50 Lunch (rooms C-7147 & C-7149)
14h00 - 15h30 (room C-9141)
Exclusion
Panel Chair : Ines Mzali (Universit� de Montr�al)
� Eva Rein (University of Toronto)
Representing A National Crisis:A Comparative Study ofJoy Kogawa�s Obasan and Ene Mihkelson�s Ahasveeruse uni
� Mary Overholt (University of Alberta)
�The Succulent Pith in the Stalk of Yoruba Life�: The Depiction of Women in Wole Soyinka's Plays and Prose
� Ezra Yoo-Hyeok Lee (McMaster University)
The Planetary and the Precarious: Globalization and the Human Condition, or,Toward the Equal, Just, and Environmentally Sound Flourishing of the Human Species
15h40 � 17h00 (room C-9141)
Citizenship and/as Literary Practice
Panel Chair: Dr. Smaro Kamboureli
(Guelph University, Ontario)
� Richard Cassidy (Universit� de Montr�al)
Citizenship and/as Literary Practice?
� Leah Desjardins (Concordia University)
The Role of Space in Citizenship Theory
� Jeremy Bell (Trent University)
Culture, Globalization, and the Reception of Crisis
� Amy Kebe (Universit� de Montr�al)
"Queering the Nation", Cultural and Sexual Citizenships in Dionne Brand's In Another Place not Here, and Makeda Silvera's The Heart does not Bend
18h30 Dinner
