PROGRAM
Friday, july 7
9:45-10:15
Breakfast (Room 4390 - Goldcorp Centre for the Arts)
10:15-10:30
Opening Remarks
10:30-12:00
Liquefying Canada's 150th and Other Colonial Narratives (Chair: Olivia Ingram)
Yiwen Liu (Simon Fraser University): "Towards the Other End of the Water: The Portrayal of Canada’s Distance and Proximity of the Trans- Pacific Hegemony in A Tale for the Time Being"
Leah Tench (Simon Fraser University): "Fort Langley as Palimpsest: Narrative Sublation and Counter-memories in British Columbia"
Elisia Snyder (University of Alberta): "Indigenous Relationships to Water as Depicted by Disney’s Pocahontas and Disney/Pixar’s Moana"
12:00-1:30
Lunch
1:30-3:00
A Poetic Aquatic (Chair: Clint Burnham)
Michael Wilkinson (Simon Fraser University): "Wordsworth’s Textured Landscape: Alterity, Possession and the Uncanny in Wordsworth’s 'Michael'"
Alois Sieben (Simon Fraser University): "Life and Poetry: Spanning the River in One Stride"
Nathan TeBokkel (University of British Columbia): "Irrigation Aesthetics: The Role of Beauty in Agricultural Water"
3:15-4:15
Keynote Address
Daphne Marlatt: "Water: Material and Metaphorical"
5:30
Dinner (Tuc Craft Kitchen - 60 West Cordova St.)
Saturday, July 8
9:00-9:30
Breakfast (Room 4390 - Goldcorp Centre for the Arts)
9:30-11:00
Fluid Texts: Materialities and Meanings (Chair: Ryan Fitzpatrick)
Katie Gillespie (Simon Fraser University): "‘up through the surf in the bay’: Imagining Alternative Ways of Being in Space in Arnold's The Forsaken Merman, a DH project"
Holly Vestad (Simon Fraser University): "Locating the Periphery: Clinamen as Narrative Praxis in Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves"
Olivia Ingram (Simon Fraser University): "A Howling History: Reconsidering the Book History Model Through Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems"
11:00-12:00
Dickenson and Death's Undreamed Shore (Chair: Taylor Morphett)
Abdul Zahir (Simon Fraser University): "'Til Death: The Macabre Marriage of Dickinson’s #712"
Leah Sharzer (Simon Fraser University): "Jeux de pouvoir (Power Games): Translating Dickinson’s Death-as-Life-force"
12:00-1:30
Lunch
1:30-3:00
Fluid Aesthetics, Power, and Violence (Chair: Holly Vestad)
Josh Trichilo (York University): "Kawakami Hiromi’s Twin “Kami-sama” Stories: 3.11, Iterability, and Cary Wolfe’s Two Finitudes"
Yujin Kim (Ewha Womans University): "Sublime Laughter through the Borders in Sarah Ruhl’s Comedy"
Elmira Asghari (Université de Montréal): "The Fluidity of Power in Juan de Flores’ Grisel and Mirabella"
3:00-3:45
Coffee Break/Chat with Rita Wong
3:45-5:15
Ethical Undercurrents (Chair: Alois Sieben)
Ryan Fitzpatrick (Simon Fraser University): "An Experiment Inside an Experiment: Christian Bök’s Xenotext, Rita Wong’s Undercurrent, and the Ethics of Encounter"
Dylan Bateman (University of Alberta):
"Water/Kinship/Waste/Humanity/Life/undercurrent"
7:00-9:00
Post-Conference Readings & Wine @ Paper Hound, 344 West Pender St.
Breakfast (Room 4390 - Goldcorp Centre for the Arts)
9:30-11:00
Fluid Texts: Materialities and Meanings (Chair: Ryan Fitzpatrick)
Katie Gillespie (Simon Fraser University): "‘up through the surf in the bay’: Imagining Alternative Ways of Being in Space in Arnold's The Forsaken Merman, a DH project"
Holly Vestad (Simon Fraser University): "Locating the Periphery: Clinamen as Narrative Praxis in Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves"
Olivia Ingram (Simon Fraser University): "A Howling History: Reconsidering the Book History Model Through Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems"
11:00-12:00
Dickenson and Death's Undreamed Shore (Chair: Taylor Morphett)
Abdul Zahir (Simon Fraser University): "'Til Death: The Macabre Marriage of Dickinson’s #712"
Leah Sharzer (Simon Fraser University): "Jeux de pouvoir (Power Games): Translating Dickinson’s Death-as-Life-force"
12:00-1:30
Lunch
1:30-3:00
Fluid Aesthetics, Power, and Violence (Chair: Holly Vestad)
Josh Trichilo (York University): "Kawakami Hiromi’s Twin “Kami-sama” Stories: 3.11, Iterability, and Cary Wolfe’s Two Finitudes"
Yujin Kim (Ewha Womans University): "Sublime Laughter through the Borders in Sarah Ruhl’s Comedy"
Elmira Asghari (Université de Montréal): "The Fluidity of Power in Juan de Flores’ Grisel and Mirabella"
3:00-3:45
Coffee Break/Chat with Rita Wong
3:45-5:15
Ethical Undercurrents (Chair: Alois Sieben)
Ryan Fitzpatrick (Simon Fraser University): "An Experiment Inside an Experiment: Christian Bök’s Xenotext, Rita Wong’s Undercurrent, and the Ethics of Encounter"
Dylan Bateman (University of Alberta):
"Water/Kinship/Waste/Humanity/Life/undercurrent"
7:00-9:00
Post-Conference Readings & Wine @ Paper Hound, 344 West Pender St.