8:00-9:00 Registration

9:30 Lorna R. Marsden, President and Vice-Chancellor, York University
9:40 Gail Vanstone, Moderator (Stong College)
9:45 B.W. Powe Author; Conference Coordinator: Introductions
10:00 John O'Leary, President of Frontier College
10:45 Joyce Fairbairn, Senator, Special Advisor for Literacy

11:15-11:30 Break

11:30 Daniel Richler, Author; BookTV
12:15 Rubin "Hurricane" Carter- Education and Literacy: The Path to Freedom

1:00-2:00 LUNCH BREAK

2:00 Barry Sanders, Literacy Theorist; author of A is for OX -
2:45 Robert K. Logan, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Toronto, author of "The Alphabet Effect" and "The Sixth Language" -
What the Evolution of Notated Language
Can Teach Us About the Origin of Language

3:15-3:30 Break

3:30 William Irwin Thompson - The Cultural Phenomenology of Literature

5:00-6:00 BREAKOUT SESSIONS

Literacy Activists, the Word in the Streets
Jenny Horsman, author of Too Scared to Learn - Literacy in the Aftermath of Violence
The Catalyst Centre- A Popular Education Perspective

8:00-8:45 Registration

9:00 Christopher Dewdney, Philosopher and Poet - Moderator
9:15 M. NourbeSe Philip, Poet - The Anguish That is English
10:00 Geoff Pevere, Cultural Critic and Broadcaster - Image Literacies
10:30 Caitlin Fisher, - Electronic Literacies

11:00-11:15 Break

11:15 Priscilla George, - Aboriginal Literacies
11:45 Steve McCaffery, Poet and Theorist-
Oral Literacies/ Performance Poetry

12:30-2:00 LUNCH BREAK

2:00 Moses Znaimer - TVTV - The Debate Continues…

3:15-3:30 Break

3:30 Camille Paglia - The Magic of Images: Word and Picture in a Media Age

Q & A Interactive Format

5:30 Book Launch - York Bookstore, York Lanes

8:30-9:00 Registration

9:30 Maurice Elliott - Introduction
9:45 Susan Sontag - The Crisis in Literary Studies

11:05-11:15 Break

11:15 Kim Michasiw - Introduction
11:30 Gayatri Spivak, Critic, Theorist-
At Both Ends of the Spectrum

1:00-2:00 LUNCH BREAK

2:00 Kim Michasiw - Introduction
2:15 Jean Baudrillard, Philosopher, Theorist - Violence de l'image--Violence du Virtuel

3:20-3:30 Break

3:30 Maurice Elliott - Introduction
3:45 George Steiner - Grammars of Creation

5:30 End of Conference