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ACCSFF '22

June 3-4, 2022

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Friday, June 3
9:30-3:00
Registration

10:00-10:05
Introductory Remarks

Allan Weiss
10:05-10:25
 Merril Collection Presentation
10:30-11:45

Session I


Session I:
Canadian Science Fiction

Jaime Babb, "`Not Death but Change': Transcendence and Ecology in the Novels of Robert Charles Wilson"

Dominick M. Grace (Brescia University College), "`some transcendent and sadistic god': Rifters and Religion"

Chair : Allan Weiss


Babb     Grace

11:45-12:00
Coffee Break
12:00-1:00
Session 2
Session II:
Environmental Themes in Canadian Fantastic Fiction

Michele Braun, "Healthy Lands, Healthy Bodies: Climate Change, Colonialism and Resistance in Cherie Dimaline's The Marrow Thieves"

Monica Sousa (York University), "Saviours, Sacrifice, and Survival: Violence Towards Human and Animal Bodies in Evan Winter's The Rage of Dragons and The Fires of Vengeance"

Chair : Ariel Kroon



   
1:00-2:30
 Lunch
2:30-3:30




Session III:
Margaret Atwood

Lisa Macklem (University of Western Ontario), "`History Does Not Repeat Itself, But It Rhymes': The Testaments Speaks to The Handmaid's Tale"

Ewelina Feldman-Kolodziejuk (University of Bialystok), "From Villainess to Gilead's Nemesis: The (Un)easy Rehabilitation of Aunt Lydia"

Chair : Monica Sousa



   
3:30-4:00
Coffee Break
4:00-5:15




Session IV:
Canadian Fantastic Music

Bettina Juszak (York University), "Nature, Harmony and Music: Tanya Huff's Sing the Four Quarters"

Daniel Lukes (McGill University), "Skinny Puppy: Industrial Music as Speculative Fiction"

Nicholas Serruys (McMaster University), "Mise en abyme in the Music of Voïvod"

Chair : Stephen Cain

    


5:15-7:00
 Supper
7:00-8:15
Author Keynote Address

Drew Hayden Taylor












Saturday, June 4
9:00-12:00
Registration
9:05-9:15
 Welcome from Merril Collection
9:15-10:15
Scholar Keynote Address
Graham J. Murphy (Seneca College)
Graham J. Murphy

10:15-11:15
Session V:
Canadian Fantasy

Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun (University of Bialystok), "`But They Will Remember': Memory Dynamics in Guy Gavriel Kay's Historical Fantasy"

Huw Osborne (Royal Military College), "`Different and Extra': The Queer Wales of Jo Walton's Among Others"

Chair : Cat Ashton






11:15-11:45
Coffee Break
11:45-1:00

  
Session Vi
Session VI:
Apocalypse, Post-Apocalypse, and Dystopia in Canadian Fantastic Fiction
  
Stephen Cain (York University), "Post-Apocalyptic Toronto: Some Generational Views"

Cat Ashton, "Militaristic Millenarianism in Mississauga: Eric Walters's The Rule of Three"

Isabelle Guy (CEGEP Champlain St. Lawrence), "Sylvain Neuvel's The Test: A Survival Game"

Chair : Dominick M. Grace 		   



1:00-2:15
Lunch
2:15-3:15

Session VII

Session VII
Canadian Feminist Fantastic Fiction

Ariel Kroon, "`Condemned to Life' vs `The Lightheartedness of Utter Despair': Two Cold-War-Era Canadian Women's Science Fictions in Context"

Clare Wall, "`I believe humanity has a future': Hope and Adaptive Resilience in Kelly Robson's Science Fiction'"

Chair : Lisa Macklem



   
3:15-3:45
 Coffee Break
3:45-4:45





Session VIII:
Games and Gaming in Canadian Fantastic Fiction

David Milman (York University), "Cyberpunk Game and Play"

Chair : Clare Wall




4:45-5:00
 Closing Remarks

Allan Weiss