June 3-4, 2022
Tentative Program
Registration
Introductory
Remarks
Allan Weiss
Session I:
Canadian Science Fiction
Canadian Science Fiction
Jaime Babb, "`Not Death but Change': Transcendence and Ecology in the Novels of Robert Charles Wilson"
Douglas Ivison (Lakehead University), "The Shifting Politics of A. E. van Vogt"
Dominick M. Grace (Brescia University College), "`some transcendent and sadistic god': Rifters and Religion"
Chair : Allan Weiss
Coffee Break
Session II:
Environmental Themes in Canadian Fantastic Fiction
Environmental Themes in Canadian Fantastic Fiction
Michele Braun, "Healthy Lands, Healthy Bodies: Climate Change, Colonialism and Resistance in Cherie Dimaline's The Marrow Thieves"
Monica Sousa (York University), "Saviours, Sacrifice, and Survival: Violence Towards Human and Animal Bodies in Evan Winter's The Rage of Dragons and The Fires of Vengeance"
Chair : Ariel Kroon
Session III:
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood
Lisa Macklem (University of Western Ontario), "`History Does Not Repeat Itself, But It Rhymes': The Testaments Speaks to The Handmaid's Tale"
Ewelina Feldman-Kolodziejuk (University of Bialystok), "From Villainess to Gilead's Nemesis: The (Un)easy Rehabilitation of Aunt Lydia"
Chair : Monica Sousa
Coffee Break
Session IV:
Canadian Fantastic Music
Canadian Fantastic Music
Bettina Juszak (York University), "Nature, Harmony and Music: Tanya Huff's Sing the Four Quarters"
Daniel Lukes (McGill University), "Skinny Puppy: Industrial Music as Speculative Fiction"
Nicholas Serruys (McMaster University), "Mise en abyme in the Music of Voïvod"
Chair : Stephen Cain
Author Keynote Address
Drew Hayden Taylor
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Saturday, June 4
Registration
Session V:
Canadian Fantasy
Canadian Fantasy
Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun (University of Bialystok), "`But They Will Remember': Memory Dynamics in Guy Gavriel Kay's Historical Fantasy"
Huw Osborne (Royal Military College), "`Different and Extra': The Queer Wales of Jo Walton's Among Others"
Chair : Cat Ashton
Coffee Break
Session VI:
Apocalypse, Post-Apocalypse, and Dystopia in Canadian Fantastic Fiction
Stephen Cain (York University), "Post-Apocalyptic Toronto:
Some Generational Views"Apocalypse, Post-Apocalypse, and Dystopia in Canadian Fantastic Fiction
Cat Ashton, "Militaristic Millenarianism in Mississauga: Eric Walters's The Rule of Three"
Isabelle Guy (CEGEP Champlain St. Lawrence), "Sylvain Neuvel's The Test: A Survival Game"
Chair : Dominick M. Grace
Lunch
Session VII
Canadian Feminist Fantastic Fiction
Ariel Kroon, "`Condemned to Life' vs `The Lightheartedness of Utter Despair': Two Cold-War-Era Canadian Women's Science Fictions in Context"
Clare Wall, "`I believe humanity has a future': Hope and Adaptive Resilience in Kelly Robson's Science Fiction'"
Chair : Lisa Macklem
Canadian Feminist Fantastic Fiction
Ariel Kroon, "`Condemned to Life' vs `The Lightheartedness of Utter Despair': Two Cold-War-Era Canadian Women's Science Fictions in Context"
Clare Wall, "`I believe humanity has a future': Hope and Adaptive Resilience in Kelly Robson's Science Fiction'"
Chair : Lisa Macklem
Session VIII:
Games and Gaming in Canadian Fantastic Fiction
Games and Gaming in Canadian Fantastic Fiction
David Milman (York University), "Cyberpunk Game and Play"
Erika Muse (York University), "Spurnarmors and Lass Lovers: Gender and Sexuality in the Forgotten Realms"
Chair : Clare Wall
Allan Weiss