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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:
A
pocalypse, 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