June 5-6, 2015
Program
Registration
Introductory
Remarks
Allan Weiss
Author
Keynote Address
Hiromi Goto
Session
I: Postcolonialism in Canadian SF
Derek Newman-Stille (Trent University)
"Myths of Belonging: Hiromi Goto's The Kappa Child and the Queering and Birthing of Home in Diaspora"
Clare Wall (York University)
"Muddying the Primordial Waters: Challenging Liberal Humanism and Creating Feminist Space in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl"
Chair: Dominick Grace
Derek Newman-Stille (Trent University)
"Myths of Belonging: Hiromi Goto's The Kappa Child and the Queering and Birthing of Home in Diaspora"
Clare Wall (York University)
"Muddying the Primordial Waters: Challenging Liberal Humanism and Creating Feminist Space in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl"
Chair: Dominick Grace
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Saturday, June 6
Registration
Scholar
Keynote Address
Sherryl Vint (University of California
- Riverside)
Session II: The Canadian SF Graphic Novel
Dominick Grace (University of Western Ontario)
"Ed the Happy Clown as Anti-Quest"
Judith Leggatt (Lakehead University)
"Nowadays and the Free Will Zombie Apocalypse"
Chair: Allan Weiss
Coffee Break
Session III:
Canadian Science Fiction
Michael Kaler (York University)"Stinking Gods and Machine Elves: Robert Charles Wilson's Visionary Rereadings in Darwinia"
Amy J. Ransom
"A Franco-Ontarian in the Grips of the Space-Time Continuum: The Science Fiction of Jean-Louis Trudel."
Max Dickeson (Okanagan College)
"`Free People' and `Indigenous Fauna': Colonial Narratives Retold and Resisted in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber"
Chair: Cat Ashton
Session IV: Canadian Fantasy
Adam Guzkowski (Trent University)
"Weaving Threads of Their Own: The Power of Choice in Guy Gavriel Kay's The Fionavar Tapestry"
Lisa Macklem (University of Western Ontario)
"From Victim to Victor: Female Werewolves Take a Bite Out of Horror"
Cat Ashton (York University)
"The Redeeming Value of Corruption: Stargate, Passion Play, and the Beauty of Necessary Evil"
Chair: Derek Newman-Stille
Adam Guzkowski (Trent University)
"Weaving Threads of Their Own: The Power of Choice in Guy Gavriel Kay's The Fionavar Tapestry"
Lisa Macklem (University of Western Ontario)
"From Victim to Victor: Female Werewolves Take a Bite Out of Horror"
Cat Ashton (York University)
"The Redeeming Value of Corruption: Stargate, Passion Play, and the Beauty of Necessary Evil"
Chair: Derek Newman-Stille
Session V:
Nationalism and Native-Canadian Science Fiction
Michael Matheson
"Canada Welcomes the World: Canadian Spec Fic Mags as a Home for International, Diverse Content"
David Cheater
"Use and Subversion of European Dramatic Conventions in Drew Hayden Taylor's Toronto at Dreamer's Rock"
Chair: Judith Leggatt
Closing Remarks
Allan Weiss