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ACCSFF '24
June 8-9, 2024
Tentative Program |
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Saturday, June 8
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9:00-3:00
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9:00-9:15
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Introductory
Remarks
Allan Weiss
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9:15-10:15
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Session I:
Margaret Atwood I
Palak Arora (Amity University, Haryana), Vinod
Sharma (Amity University), and Lalita Gaur (Govt College Sec-9), "Rational
Enlightenment and Posthuman Agency: Affect Study Analysis in Margaret
Atwood's Oryx and Crake"
Dominick Grace, "Margaret's Martian Mushrooms"
Chair : Clare Wall
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10:15-10:45 |
Coffee Break
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10:45-12:00
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Session II:
Canadian Science Fiction I
George Kaldis (York University), "We Eat Our Own: Cannibalistic
Technology and Indigenous Lessons in Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy"
Jake Casella Brookins, "In Praise of Soulless
Villains: Exploring Mindlessness in Watts & Wilson"
Nicholas Serruys (McMaster University), "Revisiting Mid-Century
Apocrypha from Québec: Erres boréales
[Northern Wanderings] (1944) by Florent Laurin (pseud. Armand Grenier)"
Chair : Jaime Babb
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12:00-1:30
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Lunch
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1:30-2:30
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Author Keynote Address
Larissa Lai
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2:30-3:45
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Session III:
Canadian Science Fiction II
Clare Wall (York University), Title TBA
Cat Ashton, "Data Entry Is a Superpower, and Other Lessons from
Natalie Zina Walschot's Hench"
Mik Tampold (McMaster University), Title TBA
Chair : Chester Scoville
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3:45-4:15
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4:15-5:15
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Session
IV:
Canadian Fantasy
Bettina Juszak (York University), "Music between
the Real and the Fantastic: Tanya Huff's The Wild Ways"
Nikolai Rodrigues (Queen's University), "`To Hearten Travelers
and Frighten Invaders': Useful Monsters, Numinous Beasts, and Taming
the Frontier in Fonda Lee's Untethered Sky"
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Sunday, June 9
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10:00-11:00
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Scholar Keynote
Address
Nicholas Ruddick (University of Regina)
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11:00-12:00
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Session V:
Canadian Fantastic Media
Chester Scoville (University of Toronto), "Nelvana
in Context: Anthology and Imagined Community in the Second World War"
Jared Papove (Mount Saint Vincent University), "Blood Quantum:
Five Years of Taking a Decolonial Bite out of Horror"
Chair : Wendy Roy
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12:00-1:15
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1:15-2:30
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Session VI:
The Indigenous Fantastic
in Canada
Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), "From
Past to Future: Historiography in Dystopian and Apocalyptic Fiction by
Wayde Compton, Thomas King, and Cherie Dimaline"
Vikki Visvis (University of Toronto), "After the Speculative
Apocalypse: Hermeneutic and Affective Labour in Indigenous Kinship Relations"
Nathaniel Harrington (St. Francis Xavier University), "`Skin Stretched
Taut over Bone': Monsters / Language / Monstrous Language"
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2:30-3:00
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Coffee Break
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3:00-4:00
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Session VII:
Gender
in the Canadian Fantastic
Monica Sousa (York University),
"Over Her Dead Body: (Cloned) Female Victimhood, Masculine Violence, and
(Dis)embodied Emotional Detachment in Kim Fu's `Twenty Hours'"
Liz Poliakova
(York University), "Self-Publishing Science Fiction and Fantasy: Reading
Niche Readers and Diversifying the Market"
Chair : Nathaniel Harrington
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4:00-4:15
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Break
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4:15-5:30
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Session VIII
Margaret Atwood II
Ariel Kroon, "`We're All Madd Here':
Deconstructing the Human with Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy"
Annie Luong (York University), "World-Building: Amplifying
the Tension between Utopia and Dystopia"
Mabiana Carmargo (University of Saskatchewan), "Gender
Oppression through Confinement in Margaret Atwood's The Heart Goes
Last"
Chair : Monica Sousa
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5:30-5:45
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Closing Remarks
Allan Weiss
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