June 7-8, 2013
Program
Registration
Introductory
Remarks
Allan Weiss
Author
Keynote Address
Tanya Huff
Session
I: Canadian Fantasy/Dark Fantasy
Adam Guzkowski (Trent University)
"Living Legacies: The Postcolonial Pedagogies of Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana"
Cat Ashton (York University)
"`God's Country,' Evil's Playground: Susie Moloney, Michael Rowe, Brian Horeck, and the Northern Ontario Gothic"
Derek Newman-Stille (Trent University)
"Speculating Diversity: Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring and the Use of Speculative Fiction to Disrupt Singular Interpretations of Place"
Chair: Chester N. Scoville
Adam Guzkowski (Trent University)
"Living Legacies: The Postcolonial Pedagogies of Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana"
Cat Ashton (York University)
"`God's Country,' Evil's Playground: Susie Moloney, Michael Rowe, Brian Horeck, and the Northern Ontario Gothic"
Derek Newman-Stille (Trent University)
"Speculating Diversity: Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring and the Use of Speculative Fiction to Disrupt Singular Interpretations of Place"
Chair: Chester N. Scoville
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Saturday, June 8
Registration
Scholar
Keynote Address
Robert Runté
Session II: Backgrounds
Michael Matheson
"(Re)Shaping the World: Caitlin Sweet's The Pattern Scars as an Expansion on the Accepted Structure of the Campbellian Monomyth"
Allan Weiss (York University)
"Margaret Atwood, Robert A. Heinlein, Apocalypse, and the Definition of Genre"
Chair: Cat Ashton
Coffee Break
Session III:
Canadian Science Fiction I
Victoria Lamont (University of Waterloo) and
Dianne Newell (University of British Columbia)"`Finding Her Voice and Her Ear': Judith Merril's Engagement with the CBC Radio's Documentary Series Ideas in the Early 1970s"
Michael Johnstone (University of Toronto)
"David Nickle's Eutopia and Ideology as Infection"
Clare Wall (York University)
"Here Be Monsters: Posthuman Adaptation and Subjectivity in Peter Watts's Starfish"
Chair: Amy J. Ransom
Session IV: Popular Culture and Media Expressions
in Canadian SF
Lisa Macklem (University of Western Ontario)
"From Monstrous Mommies to Hunting Heroines: The Evolution of Women on Supernatural"
Chester N. Scoville (University of Toronto)
"Scott Pilgrim vs. The Megacity"
Laura Wiebe (McMaster University)
"Post-Apocalyptic Vampires and Musicians from Mars: Voivod's Invasion of Science Fiction and Metal"
Chair: Clare Wall
Lisa Macklem (University of Western Ontario)
"From Monstrous Mommies to Hunting Heroines: The Evolution of Women on Supernatural"
Chester N. Scoville (University of Toronto)
"Scott Pilgrim vs. The Megacity"
Laura Wiebe (McMaster University)
"Post-Apocalyptic Vampires and Musicians from Mars: Voivod's Invasion of Science Fiction and Metal"
Chair: Clare Wall
Session V:
Canadian Science Fiction II
Dominick M. Grace (University of Western Ontario)
"Odd Johnson"
Galen Fogarty (University of Waterloo)
"Thinking About Imaginary Things: The Ray-gun in James Alan Gardner's `The Ray-gun: A Love Story'"
David Milman (York University)
"Cybernetic Opium Eating, The Kantian Use of Human Beings, and Neuromancing the Gothic Imagination: A Narrative Link"
Chair: Michael Johnstone
Coffee Break
Session VI:
QSF
Maude Deschȇnes-Pradet (Université de Sherbrooke)
"Writing About Invented Places: Esther Rochon's Invented Archipelago of Vrenalik"
Amy J. Ransom (Central Michigan University)
"Hockeyeurs cybernétiques & Fantoms of the Forum: Hockey in Québécois SF & F"
Isabelle Fournier (SUNY Buffalo)
"When Major Tom Speaks French"
Chair: Adam Guzkowski
Closing
Remarks
Allan Weiss