June 4, 2005
Program
9:00
Registration
Scholar
Keynote Address
Veronica Hollinger
9:45-11:15
Session
I: The International Context
Paul
Fayter, York University
"'There lived a race of searchers after truth': Frederick Philip Grove's 'The Legend of the Planet Mars' (1915)"
Dominick M. Grace, University of Western Ontario
“Gotlieb Upon Caliban”
Chair: Allan Weiss (York University)
"'There lived a race of searchers after truth': Frederick Philip Grove's 'The Legend of the Planet Mars' (1915)"
Dominick M. Grace, University of Western Ontario
“Gotlieb Upon Caliban”
Chair: Allan Weiss (York University)
11:30-12:30
Panel Discussion: Margaret Atwood's Place in Science Fiction
Doug Ivison, Lakehead University
Miriam Jones, University of New Brunswick at Saint John
Allan Weiss, York University
Chair: Dominick M. Grace, University of Western Ontario
12:30-13:45
Lunch
13:45-14:15
Author Keynote Address
Robert Charles Wilson
14:15-15:45
Session
II: SF and Fantasy
Veronica
Hollinger, Trent University
“Stories about the Future: Oryx and Crake and Pattern Recognition”
Adam Guzkowski, University of Toronto
“To Defy the Stars: An Exploration of Power in Dave Duncan's The Cursed”
Chair: Doug Ivison, Lakehead University
“Stories about the Future: Oryx and Crake and Pattern Recognition”
Adam Guzkowski, University of Toronto
“To Defy the Stars: An Exploration of Power in Dave Duncan's The Cursed”
Chair: Doug Ivison, Lakehead University
15:45-16:00
Coffee Break
16:00-17:30
Session
III: Post-Colonialism
and Canadian SF
Brecken Rose Hancock, University of New Brunswick at Saint John
Elena Clemente, Universidad Autonoma of Madrid
“The Historical Grotesque in Nalo Hopkinson’s The Salt Roads”
Judith Leggatt, Lakehead University
“Time Travel, Culture, and Identity in Drew Hayden Taylor’s Toronto at Dreamer’s Rock”
Chair: Nancy Johnston
Closing
Remarks
Allan Weiss, York University