June 6, 2009
Tentative Program
Registration
9:10-9:45
Introductory
Remarks
Allan Weiss
Author Keynote Address
Allan Weiss
Author Keynote Address
Karl Schroeder
Session
I: Canadian Science Fiction
Sherryl Vint (Brock University)
"Disembodied Cuisine: Eating Well in The Mad and Oryx and Crake"
Dave Milman (York University)
"Finding an Escape Passage, of Text, Out of Dystopia: Hope in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale"
Jonathan Smith (Wilfrid Laurier University)
"`Broca Murmurs': The Rifters Trilogy and the `Frankenstein Barrier'"
Sherryl Vint (Brock University)
"Disembodied Cuisine: Eating Well in The Mad and Oryx and Crake"
Dave Milman (York University)
"Finding an Escape Passage, of Text, Out of Dystopia: Hope in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale"
Jonathan Smith (Wilfrid Laurier University)
"`Broca Murmurs': The Rifters Trilogy and the `Frankenstein Barrier'"
Chair: Dominick M. Grace
Session
II: Postcolonialism in Canadian SF / SF Poetry
Judith Leggatt (Lakehead University)
"Gerry William's The Black Ship as Allegory for First Nations Residential Schools"
Cat Ashton (York University)
"The Shadow Out of History: Roger McTair's Appropriation and Transformation of H. P. Lovecraft"
Dominick M. Grace (University of Western Ontario)
“`Geffen and Ravna’: A SF Sestina"
Chair: Adam Guzkowski
"Gerry William's The Black Ship as Allegory for First Nations Residential Schools"
Cat Ashton (York University)
"The Shadow Out of History: Roger McTair's Appropriation and Transformation of H. P. Lovecraft"
Dominick M. Grace (University of Western Ontario)
“`Geffen and Ravna’: A SF Sestina"
Chair: Adam Guzkowski
Lunch
Scholar Keynote Address
Elizabeth Miller (Professor Emeritus, Memorial University)
"Up for the Count: Bram Stoker, Dracula, and Canada"
Session IIIA: Canadian Dark Fantasy and Dystopias
(Room A)
Derek Newman-Stille (Trent University)
"A Sanguine Love: Monstrosity and Intercultural Romance in Kelley Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld Series"
Adam Guzkowski (Trent University)
"Can the Witch Speak?: The Supernatural Subaltern in Kelley Armstrong's Otherworld"
William Thompson (MacEwan College)
"Climate Change for Young Readers: Dystopian Landscapes and Reconciliation in Two Novels by Monica Hughes"
Chair: Veronica Hollinger
(Room A)
Derek Newman-Stille (Trent University)
"A Sanguine Love: Monstrosity and Intercultural Romance in Kelley Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld Series"
Adam Guzkowski (Trent University)
"Can the Witch Speak?: The Supernatural Subaltern in Kelley Armstrong's Otherworld"
William Thompson (MacEwan College)
"Climate Change for Young Readers: Dystopian Landscapes and Reconciliation in Two Novels by Monica Hughes"
Chair: Veronica Hollinger
Session IIIB: Canadian Media SF
(Room B/C)
(Room B/C)
Charlotte Smith (Trent University)
"Canada Reads Speculative Fiction: Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring as Brought to You by the Letters C, B, and C"
Lisa Macklem (University of Western Ontario)
"Revisiting Old Friends: Playing with Time in Supernatural"
Chair: Allan Weiss
Session IV:
Philosophy and Canadian SF
Michael Kaler (York University)
"Robert Charles Wilson, Mysterium, and Ancient Gnosticism"
Veronica Hollinger (Trent University)
"Time, History, and Contingency in Robert Charles Wilson's Science Fiction"
Tammy Dasti (University of Bristol)
"The Word and the Flesh: Natural Law vs. Catholic Dogma in Rikki Ducornet's The Stain"
Chair: Allan Weiss
Closing
Remarks
Allan Weiss
