June 6-7, 1997
Program
18:30-19:15
Friday, June 6
Welcome
Special Guest Speaker
Special Guest Speaker
Judith Merril
19:15-20:00
Panel Discussion: Canadian Fantastic Fictions
Phyllis Gotlieb, Sylvie Bérard, Allan Weiss, Wendy Pearson
Chair: Veronica Hollinger
Saturday, June 7
9:15-10:00
Keynote Address
Guy Gavriel Kay
10:00-11:00
Session I: Nationalism and SF
James Allard, University of Waterloo
"`The Unacknowledged Legislators of the World': Poetry and Song in Guy Gavriel Kay's A Song for Arbonne"
Allan Weiss, York University
"Beyond the Borders: Invasion Narratives in Canadian Science Fiction"
11:15-12:45
Session II: Feminist Utopian and Dystopian Worlds
John Fitzsimmons, Central Queensland University
"`No Fate but What We Make': Complicity and Termination in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale"
Sylvie Bérard, University of Toronto
"Fiction arborescente et coherence evanescente dans l'univers d'Elisabeth Vonarburg"
Sharon Taylor, McGill University
"With or Without You: Men and Women in Bersianik's Feminist Utopias"
13:30-14:30
Session III: Tribute to Phyllis Gotlieb
Dominick Grace, Algoma University College
"Valorizing the `Normal': Phyllis Gotlieb's Sunburst"
Nancy Johnston, York University
"`and nobody knows where it's going from here': Phyllis Gotlieb's Speculative Poetry"
14:30-15:30
Session IV: New Modes of Production: Slash, Fanfic, and Fluff
Wendy Pearson, Trent University
"Vampire Lesbians of Sodom and Their Siblings: Forever Knight and the Development of Vampire Slash"
Trevor Holmes, York University
"Canadian Cybervampires and Cross Border Chopping"
16:00-17:30
Session V: William Gibson
C. J. Lockett,
University
of Toronto
"Extending Our Bodies Inwards: McLuhan, Neuromancer and the Copernican Reversal"
"Extending Our Bodies Inwards: McLuhan, Neuromancer and the Copernican Reversal"
Julie C. Dueck, University of Manitoba
"Entertaining Memory: Mind Games of Love and War"
Michael Laplace-Sinatra, Oxford University
"The Matrix: The Way of the Future? Replacing Neuromancer within the Postmodern Condition"
17:30
Closing Remarks
Allan Weiss, York
University