June 2-3, 2017
Program
Registration
Introductory
Remarks
Allan Weiss
Session I:
Canadian Science Fiction
Canadian Science Fiction
Doug Ivison (Lakehead University), "A. E. van Vogt and Modernism"
Michael Kaler (University of Toronto-Mississauga), "Spider Robinson, Stephen Gaskin, and the Science Fiction Remythologization of the World"
Chair : Allan Weiss
Coffee Break
Session II:
Canadian Fantasy I
Canadian Fantasy I
Adam Guzkowski (Trent University), "Bound to Act: Magical Imperatives in Dave Duncan's The Gilded Chain"
Natalie Ingram (University of British Columbia), "Myths through a Western Window: Orientalism and Primitivism in Guy Gavriel Kay's Under Heaven"
Michael Johnstone (University of Toronto), "The Politics of World Building in Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana"
Chair : Lisa Macklem
Author Keynote Address
Madeline Ashby
Session III:
Posthumanism and the Cyborg in Canadian SF
Posthumanism and the Cyborg in Canadian SF
Clare Wall (York University), "Eating Grandma: The Mechanics of Consumption in Madeline Ashby's vN"
Edna E. Bovas (University of Toronto), "A Theology of the Non-Person: Kinship, Counter-Theologies, and Cyborg Politics"
Chair : Ben Eldridge
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Saturday, June 3
Registration
Session IV:
Apocalypse and Magic Realism in Canadian SF
Apocalypse and Magic Realism in Canadian SF
Ben Eldridge (University of Sydney), "The Rage of Achilles: Sadism, Sociopathy & Seppuku in Peter Watts's βehemoth "
Cat Ashton (York University), "Linguistic Contagion: Pontypool, Pontypool Changes Everything , and The Mysterium"
Chair : Michael Johnstone
Coffee Break
Session V:
Canadian Fantasy II
Eleonora
Rao (University of Salerno), "Re-Visioning Fairy Tales: Margaret
Atwood's `The Robber Bridegroom,' or The Desire to Kill"Canadian Fantasy II
Derek Newman-Stille (Trent University), "`Delusions about Happily Ever Afters': Emma Donoghue's `The Tale of the Shoe'"
Kristen Shaw (McMaster University), "Subverting Vampire Mythologies in Certain Dark Things and Night Wanderer "
Chair : Cat Ashton
Session VI-A:
Canadian Fantastic TV
Lisa Macklem (University of Western Ontario), "Mother May I: Empowered and Empowering Women in 12 Monkeys"
Meghan Riley (University of Waterloo), "The More They Stay the Same: Racialization, Masculinity, and Reproduction in Science Fiction Television"
Chair : Clare Wall
Canadian Fantastic TV
Lisa Macklem (University of Western Ontario), "Mother May I: Empowered and Empowering Women in 12 Monkeys"
Meghan Riley (University of Waterloo), "The More They Stay the Same: Racialization, Masculinity, and Reproduction in Science Fiction Television"
Chair : Clare Wall
Session VI-B:
Canadian Fantastic Film
Canadian Fantastic Film
David Cheater, "Magic Realism as an Aesthetic within Canadian Queer Film"
Amber Linkenheld-Struk, "Extraterrestrials and Existentialism: Examining Arrival"
Chair : Ben Eldridge
Session VII:
Race and Ethnicity in Canadian SF
Race and Ethnicity in Canadian SF
Derwin Mak, "The Perpetual Foreigner Syndrome in Chinese North American Fiction and Fantasy"
Selena Middleton (McMaster University), "Dwelling in the End: Comparative Apocalypse in Short Stories by Eden Robinson and Lee Maracle"
Chair : Meghan Riley
Session VIII:
Canadian Fantastic Comics and Music
Canadian Fantastic Comics and Music
J. Andrew Deman (University of Waterloo), "The True North Strong and Enslaved: Canadian Identity as a Narrative Conceit in We Stand on Guard"
Anna Peppard (York University), "`You all fight too much...': Reading Evolving Depictions of Canada and the Trudeau Government(s) in Marvel Comics"
Alexander Sallas (McMaster University), "Waking from Dreams of Morning: Strapping Young Lad's City as Critical Dystopia"
Chair : David Cheater
Closing Remarks
Allan Weiss