June 9, 2007
Program
Introductory
Remarks
Allan Weiss
Author Keynote Address
Allan Weiss
Author Keynote Address
Peter Watts
Coffee
Break
Session
I: Canadian SF Film
Sidney Eve Matrix, “Digital
Citizenship and the Hacker Evolution in Canadian Cyberpunk Cinema: From
Johnny Mnemonic to Cypher"
Allan Weiss, “`It’s Over!’: Self-Reflexivity in Don McKellar’s Last Night”
Chair: Veronica Hollinger
Allan Weiss, “`It’s Over!’: Self-Reflexivity in Don McKellar’s Last Night”
Chair: Veronica Hollinger
Lunch
Academic Guest Speaker
Peter Fitting
Session II: Canadian Fantasy
Adam Guzkowski, “Bindings, Laments and Lullabies: Rites of Change in Guy Gavriel Kay’s Tigana”
Cat Ashton, “Sacred Cities: Charles de Lint's Newford Books and the Mythologizing of the North American Urban Landscape”
Chair: Nancy Johnston
Adam Guzkowski, “Bindings, Laments and Lullabies: Rites of Change in Guy Gavriel Kay’s Tigana”
Cat Ashton, “Sacred Cities: Charles de Lint's Newford Books and the Mythologizing of the North American Urban Landscape”
Chair: Nancy Johnston
Session
III: Canadian Science
Fiction
Judith Leggatt, “Representations of the First Nations in Dystopian Canadian Science Fiction"
Dominick M. Grace, "The Anti-Heinleinian Hero of The Last Canadian”
Chair: Allan Weiss
Closing
Remarks
Allan Weiss, York University
