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June 9, 2007


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09:30-15:00

 
Registration




Volunteers
10:00-10:45


Audience
Introductory Remarks

Allan Weiss


Author Keynote Address


Peter Watts


Peter Watts

Audience
 10:45-11:00
Coffee Break


 11:00-12:30


Panel 1



Session I: Canadian SF Film

Sidney Eve Matrix, “Digital Citizenship and the Hacker Evolution in Canadian Cyberpunk Cinema: From Johnny Mnemonic to Cypher"

Allan Weiss, “`It’s Over!’: Self-Reflexivity in Don McKellar’s Last Night

Chair
:  Veronica Hollinger

Matrix

Weiss1
12:00-14:00
Lunch


 14:00-14:45
Academic Guest Speaker

Peter Fitting





Fitting
14:45-15:45



Panel 2


Session II: Canadian Fantasy

Adam Guzkowski, “Bindings, Laments and Lullabies: Rites of Change in Guy Gavriel Kay’s Tigana


Cat Ashton, “Sacred Cities: Charles de Lint's Newford Books and the Mythologizing of the North American Urban Landscape”


Chair
:  Nancy Johnston


Guzkowski

Ashton2

15:45-16:00
Coffee Break


16:00-17:00


Panel 3


Session III: Canadian Science Fiction

Judith Leggatt, “Representations of the First Nations in Dystopian Canadian Science Fiction"

Dominick M. Grace, "The Anti-Heinleinian Hero of The Last Canadian

Chair
:  Allan Weiss

Leggatt

Grace

17:00


Closing Remarks

Allan Weiss, York University

Weiss