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August 27, 2003


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 9:30-10:15
Margaret Atwood
   
Keynote Address
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Margaret Atwood



10:30-11:45

Session 1


Allan Weiss

Session I: Writers and Readers


Dianne Newell and Jenea Tellentire, University of British Columbia

"Co-Writing a Life in Science Fiction: Judith Merril as a Theorist of Autobiography"

Kim G. Kofmel

"The Overdeveloped Bump of Curiosity: Adult Readers' Perception of Science Fiction and Fantasy"
          
Allan Weiss, York University
"The Question of Genre"

Chair: Dominick M. Grace


13:00-14:00

Canadian SF Panel

Panel Discussion: The Fantastic in Canadian Literature

Dominick M. Grace, Margaret Atwood, Jean-Louis Trudel, Allan Weiss

Chair: Veronica Hollinger


14:15-15:45



Session 2


Session II: Canadian Science Fiction

Dominick Grace, Algoma University College
, "GalFed: The Canadian Galactic Empire"

Jean-Louis Trudel, UQAM
"Utopias in French-Speaking Canada, from Saskatchewan to the Sahara"

Andrew M. Butler, Canterbury Christ Church University College
"Michael G. Coney"

Chair: Allan Weiss


16:00-17:15



Session 3

Session III: Canadian Fantasy

               
Susan Hopkirk, University of Prince Edward Island
"Divine Fantasy: Gods in Tolkien and Kay"

Adam Guzkowski, University of Toronto
"Memory, Magic and Meaning: Storytelling and the Construction of Self and Community in Charles de Lint's Newford"

Chair: Andrew M. Butler


17:15-17:30


Closing Remarks

Allan Weiss, York University