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ACCSFF '24

June 8-9, 2024

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Saturday, June 8
8:30-3:00
Registration

9:00-9:15
Introductory Remarks

Allan Weiss
9:15-10:15




Session I:
Margaret Atwood I

Palak Arora (Amity University, Haryana), Vinod Sharma (Amity University), and Lalita Gaur (Govt College Sec-9), "Rational Enlightenment and Posthuman Agency: Affect Study Analysis in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake"

Dominick Grace, "Margaret's Martian Mushrooms"

Chair : Clare Wall



10:15-10:45
Coffee Break
10:45-12:00
Session II:
Canadian Science Fiction I

George Kaldis (York University), "We Eat Our Own: Cannibalistic Technology and Indigenous Lessons in Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy"

Jake Casella Brookins, "In Praise of Soulless Villains: Exploring Mindlessness in Watts & Wilson"

Nicholas Serruys (McMaster University), "Revisiting Mid-Century Apocrypha from Québec: Erres boréales [Northern Wanderings] (1944) by Florent Laurin (pseud. Armand Grenier)"

Chair : Jaime Babb

12:00-1:30
 Lunch
1:30-2:30
Author Keynote Address

Larissa Lai
2:30-3:45
Session III:
Canadian Science Fiction II

Clare Wall (York University), "Fishy Women of the Anthropocene: Queer Reproduction and Oddkin Relations in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl and The Tiger Flu"

Cat Ashton, "Data Entry Is a Superpower, and Other Lessons from Natalie Zina Walschot's Hench"

Mik Tampold (McMaster University), "Abandoning Station Eleven: Object Attachment versus Anticoloniality in the Post-Apocalypse"

Chair : Chester Scoville

3:45-4:15


Coffee Break
4:15-5:15
 Session IV:
Canadian Fantasy

Bettina Juszak (York University), "Music between the Real and the Fantastic: Tanya Huff's The Wild Ways"

Nikolai Rodrigues (Queen's University), "`To Hearten Travelers and Frighten Invaders': Useful Monsters, Numinous Beasts, and Taming the Frontier in Fonda Lee's Untethered Sky"

Chair : Dominick Grace












Sunday, June 9
10:00-11:00
Scholar Keynote Address

Nicholas Ruddick (University of Regina)
11:00-12:00
 Session V:
Canadian Fantastic Media

Chester Scoville (University of Toronto), "Nelvana in Context: Anthology and Imagined Community in the Second World War"

Jared Papove (Mount Saint Vincent University), "Blood Quantum: Five Years of Taking a Decolonial Bite out of Horror"

Chair : Wendy Roy




12:00-1:15
Lunch



1:15-2:30
Session VI:
The Indigenous Fantastic in Canada

Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), "From Past to Future: Historiography in Dystopian and Apocalyptic Fiction by Wayde Compton, Thomas King, and Cherie Dimaline"

Vikki Visvis (University of Toronto), "After the Speculative Apocalypse: Hermeneutic and Affective Labour in Indigenous Kinship Relations"

Nathaniel Harrington (St. Francis Xavier University), "`Skin Stretched Taut over Bone': Monsters / Language / Monstrous Language"

Chair : George Kaldis







2:30-3:00
Coffee Break
3:00-4:00

  
Session VII:
Gender in the Canadian Fantastic
  
Monica Sousa (York University), "Over Her Dead Body: (Cloned) Female Victimhood, Masculine Violence, and (Dis)embodied Emotional Detachment in Kim Fu's `Twenty Hours'"

Liz Poliakova (York University), "Self-Publishing Science Fiction and Fantasy: Reaching Niche Readers and Diversifying the Market"

Chair : Nathaniel Harrington



4:00-4:15
Break
4:15-5:15



Session VIII
Margaret Atwood II

Annie Luong (York University), "World-Building: Amplifying the Tension between Utopia and Dystopia"

Mabiana Camargo (University of Saskatchewan), "Gender Oppression through Confinement in Margaret Atwood's The Heart Goes Last"

Chair : Monica Sousa






5:15-5:30



Closing Remarks

Allan Weiss