FRIDAY MARCH 4th
Registration 8:30 am- 1:00 pm TELUS Atrium
Breakfast 8:30-9:00 am TELUS Room 235 |
9:00-9:15 am Welcome from Dr. Irene Sywenky TELUS 217 |
SESSION 1: 9:15 – 11:00 am |
PANEL 1, ARTISTIC AND LITERARY DEVELOPMENTS: CROSSING INTERNATIONAL BORDERS Moderator: Sarah Shewchuk. TELUS 217
1. David Buchanan, University of Alberta, “Print and Politics: the case of Ján Kalinčiak’s Reštavrácia: Obrazy z nedávnych čias.” 2. Svitlana Krys, University of Alberta, “The French Jacques Cazotte’s and the Ukrainian Oleksa Storozhenko’s Tales About Enamoured Devils (1772 and 1861): Toward a Study of a Common Folkloric Source.” 3. Hanna Chuchvaha, University of Alberta, “Marketing and Means of Representation in the Russian Art Periodical The Golden Fleece (1906-1909).” 4. Mostafa Abedinifard, University of Alberta, “Reflections on Formal and Stylistic Aspects of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis Series.”
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11:00 -11:15 am Coffee Break TELUS 235 |
SESSION 2: 11:15 am – 1:00 pm |
PANEL 2, RETHINKING - REWRITING LANGUAGE Moderator: Lidiane Luiza da Cunha, TELUS 217
1.Fernando Moirera, University of Calgary, “Pure and Precise: Writing and Arbitrary Symbols.” 2. Nicole Nicolette, McGill University, “‘When You Sing You Laugh at the Same Time. It Must Be Because You’re Winning Too!’: Partial Translation, Affect and the Audiences of Atanarjuat.” 3. Colette Leung, University of Alberta, “‘Foreign’ Languages as Native Identities: The Case of English and Nigeria.” 4. Francisco Gomez, Athabasca University, “The Collective Memory of Latin America.”
PANEL 3, ENCOUNTERS: NON-WESTERN WOMEN Moderator: Tegan Zimmerman. TELUS 233
1. Anita Buick, University of Alberta, “Mutuality in Transnationalism: Relational Feminism and Poland in the Age of Transnationalism.” 2. Marina Ebrahimi, Brock University, “Representation of Iranian Women in North American Movies.” 3. Sarah Shewchuk, University of Alberta, “Women’s Voices, Historical Silences: Reconsidering Léo Delibes’ Opera Lakmé and Giacomo Puccini’s Opera Madame Butterfly.” 4. Wenjuan Xie, University of Alberta, “Problematizing Sex, Sexuality, and Gender: The Identity of Transgender Fox Spirits in Chinese zhiguai tales.”
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1:00-1:45 pm Lunch TELUS 233/235 |
SESSION 3: 1:45 – 3:00pm |
PANEL 4, INTERPRETING THE PHILOSOPHICAL Moderator: David Buchanan. TELUS 217
1. Kara Abdolmaleki, University of Alberta, “Particles in Love: Quantum Theory in Persian Classical Literature.” 2. Banan AlJahdali, University of Alberta, “Hayy Ibn Yaqzan: A Philosophical Work.” 3. Laura Graham, University of Alberta, “Ancient, Spiritual, and Indian: Analyzing Discourses of Authenticity in Modern Yoga.”
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3:00-3:15 pm Coffee Break 235 |
3:15 – 4:30 pm KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Dr. Zhang Hui, Peking University, “Whose World Literature? A Study from A Chinese Perspective.” Moderator: Dr. Daniel Fried. TELUS 134
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4:30 - 5:30 pm Special Viewing of the McTaggart Collection – Meet in TELUS Atrium
4:30 - 5:00 pm Group 1 Viewing
5:00 - 5:30 pm Group 2 Viewing The Mactaggart Art Collection comprises more than 700 rare and unique works of art, including textiles, paintings, handscrolls, and other artifacts from ancient and modern East Asia. |
5:45 – 7:30pm Reception Dinner – TELUS Atrium |
SATURDAY MARCH 5TH
Registration 9:00 - 10:30 am TELUS Atrium Breakfast 9:00 - 9:30 am TELUS 233/235 |
9:30-10:45 am KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Dr. Marie Carrière, University of Alberta, "Ubiquitous Medea : Myth, Poetics and Feminism." Moderator: Dr. Albert Braz. TELUS 134 |
10:45-11:00 am Coffee Break TELUS 233/235 |
SESSION 5 11:00 am – 12:45pm |
PANEL 5, JOURNEYS INTO THE CULTURAL SELF Moderator: Mostafa Abedinifard. Room TELUS 134
1. Milana Bodiroga, York University, “Andrić’s Architecture.” 2. Mai Hussein, University of Alberta, “Wajdi Mouawad’s Theatre Going Beyond Borders.” 3. Reza Ashouri Talooki, University of Alberta, “Problem of Identity; Migrancy, Dispora, and Hybridity in E. M. Forster's A Passage to India and Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven.” 4. Safaneh Neyshabouri, University of Alberta, “Representations of Touranians in Shahnameh.”
PANEL 6, DIALOGUES OF DIFFERENCE. Moderator: Gabrielle Kristjanson. TELUS 236
1. Wei Xu, University of Alberta, “Problematizing the Subjectivity through Deviance in Evelyn Lau’s Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid.” 2. Yared Mehzenta, University of Alberta, “Beyond the Racial Stereotype: Tracing a Relief-Theory of Humor in the Comedy of Russell Peters.” 3. Sergiy Yakovenko, University of Alberta, “Milan Kundera’s Concept of Die Weltliteratur.” 4. Chuckie Patel, University of Alberta, “Walking in another Man’s Moccasins: Cultural Stereotypes Disseminated in 200 years of Popular Culture.” |
12:45 – 1:30 pm Lunch Sponsored by the China Institute TELUS 233/235 |
SESSION 6 1:30 – 3:15 pm |
PANEL 7, THE BODY IN DISCOURSE Moderator: Sergiy Yakovenko. TELUS 236
1. Darcy Gauthier, University of Toronto, “Between Bodies: The Theatre of Abe Kobo Studio.” 2. Catherine Melnyk, University of Alberta, “Madness examined in Lu Xun’s A Madman’s Diary and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper.” 3. Suzan Masoud, University of Alberta, “Ghosting Others and the Compass Within: Psychological Divides in Five Mirrors.” 4. Nicole Go, University of British Columbia, “Chinese Coolies, (Auto-)Ethnography and (Post-)Colonial Spaces: Racialized Labour in Japanese and Asian North American Literature.”
PANEL 8, TRAVELLING TEXTS Moderator: Oksana Cheypesh. TELUS 134
1. Michael Brisbois, University of Calgary, “Resources and Apocalypse: The Challenge to Globalization.” 2. Mike Perschon, University of Alberta, “Finding Nemo: Rediscovering Verne’s antihero.” 3. Dr. Cindy Chopoidalo, Lakeland College, “Hamlet and Humour.” 4. Faiza Ahsan, University of Alberta, “On Ideal Man: Resonant Voices From The East and The West." |
3:15-3:30 pm Coffee Break TELUS 233/235
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SESSION 7 3:30 – 5:00 pm |
PANEL 9, STAKING GROUND: FEMINIST VOICES Moderator: Suzan Masoud. TELUS 236
1. Bindu Bhatia, University of Alberta, “It's a Girl! : An Insight into the Empowering of Woman by Sexual Abuse.” 2. Danielle Lamb, University of Alberta, “Re-reading Sor Juana’s Response in Contemporary Chicana Poetry.” 3. Tegan Zimmerman, University of Alberta, “Negotiating Masculine Economies in Ama Ata Aidoo’s “No Sweetness Here.” 4. Leah Skinner, University of Alberta, “Def(y)ining a woman’s place: Assia Djebar and Abla Farhoud as female members of francophonie and beyond.”
PANEL 10, AUTHOR AND AUTHORITY Moderator: Chuckie Patel. TELUS 134
1. Gabrielle Kristjanson, University of Alberta, "Treacherous History and the Effect on Readers of Gary Jennings' Aztec."
2. Cristy Duce, University of Lethbridge, “Imperial Romance: Romance and Relationship as a Tool to Illustrate Larger Societal Forces.” 3. Jessica Friederichsen, University of Alberta, “The Other Author: Rumi, Barks, and cross-lingual adaptations.” 4. Myron Soloduk, University of Regina,“‘Pop Goes the World’: Pop Culture as Big Brother in Thomas Pynchon's Vineland.” |
5:00-5:10 pm Break |
5:10-5:50 pm ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION Moderator: Wenjuan Xie. TELUS 134
Comparative Literature as a Methodology and Discipline in Canada and China/Asia
Guest Speaker: Dr. Zhang Hui
Pannel: Wei Xu, Min Yang, and Rong Guo |
5:50 – 6:00 pm Closing Remarks TELUS 134
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7:00 – 9:00 pm Poetry Reading: Kath MacLean. Moderator: Anita Buick. Cafe Remedy: 8631- 109 Street |
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