June 8-9, 2024
Program
Registration
Introductory
Remarks
Allan Weiss
Session I:
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood
Palak Arora (Amity University), 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 M. Grace, "Margaret's Martian Mushrooms"
Chair : Clare Wall
Coffee Break
Session II:
Canadian Science Fiction I
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
Author Keynote Address
Larissa Lai
Session III:
Canadian Science Fiction II
Canadian Science Fiction II
Clare Wall (York University), "Fishy Women of the Anthropocene: Queer Reproduction and Oddkin Rerlations in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl and The Tiger Flu"
Cat Ashton, "Data Entry Is a Superpower, and Other Lessons from Natalie Zina Walschot's Hench"
Mik Tampold (McMaster University), "Abandoning Station Eleven: Object Attachment versus Anticoloniality in the Post-Apocalypse"
Chair : Chester Scoville
Coffee Break
Session IV:
Canadian Fantasy
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"
Chair : Dominick M. Grace
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Sunday, June 9
Registration
Session V:
Canadian Fantastic Media
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
Lunch
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"The Indigenous Fantastic in Canada
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"
Chair : George Kaldis
Coffee Break
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 House'"
Liz Poliakova (York University), "Self-Publishing Science Fiction and Fantasy: Reaching Niche Readers and Diversifying the Market"
Chair : Nathaniel Harrington
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 House'"
Liz Poliakova (York University), "Self-Publishing Science Fiction and Fantasy: Reaching Niche Readers and Diversifying the Market"
Chair : Nathaniel Harrington
Session VIII:
Margaret Atwood II
Margaret Atwood II
Annie Luong (York University), "World-Building: Amplifying the Tension between Utopia and Dystopia"
Mabiana Camargo (University of Saskatchewan), "Gender Oppression through Confinement in Margaret Atwood's The Heart Goes Last"
Chair : Monica Sousa
Allan Weiss