August 27, 2003
Program
9:30-10:15
Keynote Address:
Margaret
Atwood
10:30-11:45
Session I: Writers and Readers
Dianne Newell and Jenea Tellentire, University of British Columbia
"Co-Writing a Life in Science Fiction: Judith Merril as a Theorist of Autobiography"
Kim G. Kofmel
"The Overdeveloped Bump of Curiosity: Adult Readers' Perception of Science Fiction and Fantasy"
Allan Weiss, York University
"The Question of Genre"
Chair: Dominick M. Grace
13:00-14:00
Panel Discussion: The Fantastic in Canadian Literature
Dominick M. Grace, Margaret Atwood, Jean-Louis Trudel, Allan Weiss
Chair: Veronica Hollinger
14:15-15:45
Session II: Canadian Science Fiction
Dominick Grace, Algoma University College, "GalFed: The Canadian Galactic Empire"
Jean-Louis Trudel, UQAM
"Utopias in French-Speaking Canada, from Saskatchewan to the Sahara"
Andrew M. Butler, Canterbury Christ Church University College
"Michael G. Coney"
Chair: Allan Weiss
16:00-17:15
Session III: Canadian Fantasy
Susan Hopkirk, University of Prince Edward Island
"Divine Fantasy: Gods in Tolkien and Kay"
Adam Guzkowski, University of Toronto
"Memory, Magic and Meaning: Storytelling and the Construction of Self and Community in Charles de Lint's Newford"
Chair: Andrew M. Butler
17:15-17:30
Closing Remarks
Allan
Weiss, York University