September 10, 2011
Program
Registration
Introductory
Remarks
Allan Weiss
Guest
Author Interview and Q&A
Charles de Lint
Session
I: The Reading of Canadian Science Fiction
Michael Matheson
"Northern World Building: Theme, the Fourth Wall in Literature, and Terraforming the Mind in Canadian Speculative Literature"
Michael Johnstone (University of Toronto)
"Peter Watts's Blindsight and Reading As the Alien"
Chair: Dominick M. Grace
Michael Matheson
"Northern World Building: Theme, the Fourth Wall in Literature, and Terraforming the Mind in Canadian Speculative Literature"
Michael Johnstone (University of Toronto)
"Peter Watts's Blindsight and Reading As the Alien"
Chair: Dominick M. Grace
Coffee Break
Session
II: Canadian Science Fiction
Sherryl Vint (Brock University)
"`The Future Is Already Here; It Is Just Unevenly Distributed': Eversion in Zero History"
Julia Gatermann (University of Hamburg)
"Recalling Identity--Cultural Heritage in Margaret Atwood's Postapocalyptic Dystopia Oryx and Crake"
Michele Braun (Mount Royal University)
"The Futuristic (Nano)visions of Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber"
Chair: Lars Schmeink
"`The Future Is Already Here; It Is Just Unevenly Distributed': Eversion in Zero History"
Julia Gatermann (University of Hamburg)
"Recalling Identity--Cultural Heritage in Margaret Atwood's Postapocalyptic Dystopia Oryx and Crake"
Michele Braun (Mount Royal University)
"The Futuristic (Nano)visions of Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber"
Chair: Lars Schmeink
Lunch
Session IIIA:
Popular Culture and Media Expressions in Canadian SF
(Room A)
George Vanderburgh (Room A)
"Introducing Mr. Chang and Mr. Rafferty by E. A. Apple"
Barry Wallace (George Brown College)
"InnerSPACE: The Political Economy of a Speculative Fiction News/Fandom Product"
Owen Coggins (University of London)
"J. R. R. Tolkien's Evil in Black Metal"
Chair: Farah Mendlesohn
Session IIIB: Canadian SF Film
(Room B/C)
Dominick M. Grace (University of Western Ontario)
"One Thing After Another"
Lars Schmeink (University of Hamburg)
"Mythopoesis and Posthumanity in Vincenzo Natali's Splice"
Neil Gerlach and Sheryl N. Hamilton (Carleton University)
"From Outbreak to Pandemic: Shifting Anxieties in the Resident Evil Films"
Chair: Adam Guzkowski
(Room B/C)
Dominick M. Grace (University of Western Ontario)
"One Thing After Another"
Lars Schmeink (University of Hamburg)
"Mythopoesis and Posthumanity in Vincenzo Natali's Splice"
Neil Gerlach and Sheryl N. Hamilton (Carleton University)
"From Outbreak to Pandemic: Shifting Anxieties in the Resident Evil Films"
Chair: Adam Guzkowski
Session IVA:
Disability and "Other"ing in Canadian SF
(Room
A)
Derek Newman-Stille (Trent University)
"`Biting by Braille': The Juxtaposition of Disability and Monstrosity in Tanya Huff's Blood Books"
Adam Guzkowski (Trent University)
"Quill and Quarantine: (Dis)Ability and the Alien in Julie E. Czerneda's In the Company of Others"
Chair: Veronica Hollinger
Session IVB:
Canadian Young Adult and Children's SF
(Room B/C)
Farah Mendlesohn, (Middlesex University)(Room B/C)
"Fantasizing from the Edge of Empire: the Canadian Contribution to the Development of English Language Children's Fantasy"
William Thompson (MacEwan College)
"Stories into Stories: The Use of Grimm's Fairy Tales in Canadian Fantasy for Children and Teens"
Chair: Michael Johnstone
Coffee Break
Session V:
Old and New in Canadian SF
David Cheater
"The Future Past: Representation of Natives in Canadian Futuristic Literature"
Jean-Louis Trudel (Université de Montréal)
"Fight the Power: Slouching towards Revolution in New Québécois SF"
Chair: Allan Weiss
Closing
Remarks
Allan Weiss
