6 - 6:45 pm Registration - Science Building Foyer (Bricker & King St)
6:45 pm Session 1 Plenary Reading - Science Building, N1001
Chair: Welcome and Opening Remarks, Christl VERDUYN, Wilfrid Laurier University
Greetings: Robert CAMPBELL, Dean of Arts, Wilfrid Laurier University
7:00 pm Readings: Roy MIKI and Larissa LAI
8:30 pm Refreshments / Cocktails
8:30- 9:30 Registration, coffee and muffins - Paul Martin Centre
9:30 - 10:45am Friday, April 29, 2005 - Session 2 Paul Martin Centre
Chair:
Christl VERDUYN, Wilfrid Laurier University
Greetings: Sue HORTON, Vice-President Academic, Wilfrid Laurier University
Professor Smaro KAMBOURELI, Guelph University: "Epistolarity as Autoethnography: Roy K. Kiyooka's Pacific Rim Letters"
11:15-12:45 pm Friday, April 29, 2005 - Session 3.1 Mourning and Ethnic Loss- Rm 1C16
Chair: Margery FEE, University of British Columbia
Heidi DARROCH, University of Toronto, "Incomplete Mourning, Survivor Testimony, and the Armenian Diaspora in Canada: Atom Egoyan's Ararat"
Marie CARRIERE, University of New Brunswick, "Mourning Nations: Transculturalism and the Poetry of Dionne Brand and Nadine Ltaif"
Sandra SINGER, University of Guelph, "Fictional Worlds: J.J. Steinfeld and Jewish Holocaust Writing"
11:15-12:45 pm Session 3.2 Asian Canadian Women Beyond Autoethnographic Boundaries - Room 1C17
Chair: Roy MIKI, Simon Fraser University
Bennett FU, Concordia University, " Dytopic Here, Utopic There: Spatial Dialectics in SKY Lee's Disappearing Moon Café"
Christine KIM, York University, "The Politics of Reading Beyond Autoethnography:
Larissa Lai's When Fox Is a Thousand and Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night"
Tara LEE, Simon Fraser University, "Reowning the Body: Immaculate Conception in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl and Hiromi Goto's Hopeful Monsters"
11:15-12:45 pm Session 3.3 The Politics of Exclusion - Room 1C18
Chair: Manina Jones, University of Western Ontario
Domenic BENEVENTI, Université de Montréal, "Consecrated Ground: Spatial Exclusiona and the Black Urban Body in Canadian Literature"
Faize HIRJI, Carleton University, "Hybridity, Cosmopolitanism in Recent Canadian Ethnic Writing"
Alessandra CAPPERDONI, Simon Fraser University "Alien-Nation: Cleft Tongue and the Spectre of Race."
1 - 2 pm Lunch Friday - Paul Martin Centre
2:15-3:45 pm Friday, April 29, 2005 - Session 4.1 Re-Writing History - Room 1C18
Chair: Bennett FU, Concordia University
Larissa LAI, University of Calgary, "Strategizing the Body of History: Anxious Writing, Absent Subjects, and Marketing the Nation"
Sylvia TERZIAN, Wilfrid Laurier University, "Subversive Laughter in Lee Maracle's Daughters Are Forever"
Eva KARPINSKI, York University, "'Do not exploit me again and again': Suniti Namjoshi's Goja: An Autobiographical Myth"
2:15-3:45 pm Session 4.2 Collaborations / Work on Aboriginal Subjects - Room 1C17
Chair: Paul TIESSEN, Wilfrid Laurier University
Manina JONES, University of Western Ontariio, "Citizenship Papers: Collaboration and Resistance in No Foreign Land and Occupied Canada"
Wendy THOMPSON, Simon Fraser University, "It seems to me what you just said is the real problem": Globalization and the Problems and Possibilities of Translocal Activism in Jeannette Armstrong's Whispering in Shadows"
Margery FEE, University of British Columbia, "Autoethnography for the Educated Anglo-Celtic Canadian"
2:15-3:45 Session 4.3 Manifestations of Ethnicity - Room 1C16
Chair: Marie CARRIERE, University of New Brunswick
Michelle LA FLAMME, University of British Columbia, "Living in my Skin: Racial Hybridity as Embodied Epistemology"
Rhona RICHMAN KENNEALLY, Concordia University, "Trucking Along in Cyberspace: The Irishness of Grosse Ile"
4-5:30 pm Friday, April 29, 2005 - Session 5.1 Transcultural Interventions - Room 1C18
Chair: Hildi Froese TIESSEN, University of Waterloo
Mita BANERJEE , Universität Mainz, Germany, "Autoethnography as Cultural Autopsy: Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost"
Eleanor TY, Wilfrid Laurier University, "Local Subversions, Global Incursions in Deepa Mehta's Bollywood / Hollywood"
Christine LORRE, Université Paris 3, Sorbonne nouvelle, "Ying Chen's 'Poetic Rebellion': Beyond Race and Ethnicity"
Friday, April 29, 2005
4-5:30 pm Session 5.2 Performing and Narrating Ethnic Identity- Room 1C17
Chair: Domenic BENEVENTI, Université de Montréal
Dave HUDSON, Spoken Word Artist, Guelph, "Race Ghostwritten"
Monique GIARD, University of British Columbia, "Creating a 'Holding Environment' and Listening to First Nations Youth Spilaxem (Personal Narrative) Hermeneutically"
Gordon PON, Toronto, "Rapping against Racism: Chinese Masculinities and Anti-Racism Education"
5:30 pm Reception and Reading - Paul Martin Centre
Chair: Carol DUNCAN, Wilfrid Laurier University
Nalo HOPKINSON
7:30-10 am Optional Excursion to St. Jacob's
10:30-12 noon Saturday, April 30, 2005 - Session 6 Plenary - Paul Martin Centre
Chair: Eleanor TY, Wilfrid Laurier University
Professor Rinaldo WALCOTT, University of Toronto/ OISE "Land To Light On?: Making Reparation in a Time of Transnationality"
12- 1 Sandwich lunch - Paul Martin Centre
1:15-3 pm Saturday, April 30, 2005 - Session 7.1 Limits and Possibilities of Asian Canadian Poetry- Room 1C18
Chair: Sook KONG, Coquitlam College
Donald GOELLNICHT, McMaster University "Asian Canadian, Eh?"
Joanne SAUL, Wilfrid Laurier University, "Poetics of Possibility: Poetry and/as Criticism in Fred Wah's Faking It"
Paul LAI, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Challenging Poetics and Re-Meaning Race in Fred Wah's Creative Critical Writing"
1:15-3 pm Session 7.2 Rethinking the (Canadian) Past - Room 1C16
Chair: Heike HARTING, Université de Montréal
Ezra LEE, McMaster University, "We are the country: Rethinking Race and Nation in Joy Kogawa's Obasan"
Miriam RAETHEL, Wilfrid Laurier University, "Carrying the Past into the Future: The Representation of History in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl"
Melina BAUM-SINGER, University of Western Ontario, "What Does It Mean to Ask, Is Richler Canadian Content?: 'Canadianness' and The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz"
1:15-3 pm Session 7.3 Re-aligning Ethnic Identities - Room 1C17
Chair: Eva KARPINSKI, York University
John Corr, McMaster University, "Mapping Diasporic Sexualities in Funny Boy and The Jade Peony"
Michael Keneally, Concordia University, "Patrick Slater's The Yellow Briar: Autobiography, Fictional Subversion and Ethnic Reconfiguration"
Paul CHAFE, Memorial University, "The people of the womb-cove": Newfoundland Literature and the Creation of the Ethnic Newfoundlander"
3-3:30 pm Break
3:30-5 pm Saturday, April 30, 2005 - Session 8.1 Aesthetics and Asian Subjects-- Room 1C18
Chair: Donald C. Goellnicht, McMaster University
Ming TIAMPO, Carleton University, "Ken Lum and the Aesthetics of Multiculturalism"
Sook KONG, Coquitlam College, "Everyday Sites, Everyday Capacities: Hiromi Goto and the Aesthetics of the Body and Sexuality"
Pilar CUDER, University of Huelva, Spain, "The Performance of Asianness in Canadian Speculative Fiction."
3:30-5 pm Session 8.2 Representing the Black Body- Room 1C16
Chair: Joanne SAUL, Wilfrid Laurier University
Jocelyn WILLIAMS, St. Francis Xavier University, "Writing and Racing Abuse: Vanessa Alleyne's There Were Times I Thought I Was Cazy: A Black Woman's Story of Incest"
Paul DANYLUK, Simon Fraser University "Performing the Pedagogical: Cultural Difference as Representation in Wayde Compton's Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature"
Heike HARTING, Université de Montréal, "'Je ne suis pas ici pour sauver des Rwandais': Global Violence and Race in Gil Courtemanche's Un Dimanche à la Piscine à Kigali and Roméo Dallaire's Shake Hands With the Devil"
5:15-6:15 pm Saturday, April 30, 2005 - Session 9 Performance/ Readings- Paul Martin Centre
Chair: Smaro KAMBOURELI, Guelph University
Stavros Stavrou KARAYANNI, Cyprus College, "'In the Blood': Exploring Erotic Spaces in Autoethnography"
7:30 Performance at Lucinda House: Faith NOLAN, Singer, African Canadian Feminist Activist