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June 6-7, 1997

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18:30-19:15


Judith Merril


Friday, June 6


Welcome
Special Guest Speaker

Judith Merril



19:15-20:00


Panel

Panel Discussion: Canadian Fantastic Fictions


Phyllis Gotlieb, Sylvie Bérard, Allan Weiss, Wendy Pearson

Chair: Veronica Hollinger



Saturday, June 7


 9:15-10:00

Keynote Address

Guy Gavriel Kay
Guy Gavriel Kay

10:00-11:00


Session 1

Session I: Nationalism and SF


James Allard, University of Waterloo
"`The Unacknowledged Legislators of the World': Poetry and Song in Guy Gavriel Kay's A Song for Arbonne"

Allan Weiss, York University
"Beyond the Borders: Invasion Narratives in Canadian Science Fiction"



James Allard


Allan Weiss

11:15-12:45


Session 2




Session II: Feminist Utopian and Dystopian Worlds


John Fitzsimmons, Central Queensland University
"`No Fate but What We Make': Complicity and Termination in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale"

Sylvie Bérard, University of Toronto
"F
iction arborescente et coherence evanescente dans l'univers d'Elisabeth Vonarburg"

Sharon Taylor, McGill University
"With or Without You: Men and Women in Bersianik's Feminist Utopias"





Sharon Taylor

13:30-14:30




Phyllis Gotlieb



Session III: Tribute to Phyllis Gotlieb


Dominick Grace, Algoma University College
"Valorizing the `Normal': Phyllis Gotlieb's Sunburst"

Nancy Johnston, York University
"`and nobody knows where it's going from here': Phyllis Gotlieb's Speculative Poetry"




Dominick Grace


Nancy Johnston

14:30-15:30


Session 4


Session IV: New Modes of Production: Slash, Fanfic, and Fluff


Wendy Pearson, Trent University
"Vampire Lesbians of Sodom and Their Siblings: Forever Knight and the Development of Vampire Slash"

Trevor Holmes, York University

"Canadian Cybervampires and Cross Border Chopping"





Wendy Pearson

Trevor Holmes

16:00-17:30




Julie C. Dueck


Session V: William Gibson

C. J. Lockett, University of Toronto
"Extending Our Bodies Inwards: McLuhan, Neuromancer and the Copernican Reversal"

Julie C. Dueck, University of Manitoba
"Entertaining Memory: Mind Games of Love and War"

Michael Laplace-Sinatra, Oxford University
"The Matrix: The Way of the Future? Replacing Neuromancer within the Postmodern Condition"





C. J. Lockett




Michael Laplace-Sinatra

17:30

Closing Remarks


Allan Weiss, York University