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Narratives of Citizenship Programme

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FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007

Registration: 4:00 – 8:00PM
Engineering Teaching Learning Complex (ETLC) Foyer

Opening Address: 6:00 – 6:30PM ETLC Room# E1-003

GSEA President Jennifer Bell and Conference Co-Chair Nancy Van Styvendale

Keynote Address

Daniel Coleman, (English, McMaster University); CRC in Diversity in Canadian Literary Culture

Title: "Imposing subCitizenship: Canadian White Civility and the Two Row Wampum of the Six Nations"

Reception: 7:30 – 9:30PM ETLC Foyer

SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2007

Registration: 8:00AM – 3:30PM ETLC Foyer

Plenary Session

9:00 – 10:30AM ETLC Room# E1-003

Session Chair: Cody McCarroll (English and Film Studies)

Lily Cho (English, University of Western Ontario)
Title: "Affecting Citizenship and the Materiality of Melancholia"

David Chariandy, (English, Simon Fraser University)
Title: “Black Canadas: Diasporic Citizenship and the Fiction of Belonging"

Coffee Break

10:30 – 11:00AM ETLC Foyer

Session 1: 11:00 – 12:30PM
Meeting Rooms in ETLC (E1-003, E1-008, E1-0018)

1.1 Pedagogies of Multiculturalism (E1-003)

Session Chair: Terrance R. Carson (Secondary Education)

Khalida Tanvir Syed (Education, University of Alberta) "Exploring Teacher Educators' Experiences of Teaching Canadian Multiculturalism"

Laura A. Thompson (Secondary Education, University of Alberta) "Mapping the Francophone Landscape of Memory: Narratives of Citizenship and Identity in Alberta"

Jennifer Mitton (Centre for Research for Teacher Education, University of Alberta) and Yi Li (Education, University of Alberta and Hope Foundation of Alberta) "Troubling the Notion of Citizenship: Narratives of Two Teachers' Experiences of Hope"

Bios and Abstracts for Session 1.1

1.2 Migrants, Mixed Loyalties, and Adoptive Citizenship (E1-008)

Session Chair: Sourayan Mookerjea (Sociology)

Matthew Tiessen (Sociology / Art and Design Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Alberta) "Mobile Citizens / Mixed Loyalties"

Marco Katz (English and Film Studies, University of Alberta) "Whose Diaspora is this Anyway?: Japanese, Peruvians, and Dekasegi"

Jennifer Bowering Delisle (English, University of British Columbia) "A Citizen of Story: Confederation and Wayne Johnston's Newfoundland"

Bios and Abstracts for Session 1.2

1.3 Whiteness and its 'Others' (E1-0018)

Session Chair: Teresa Zackodnik (English and Film Studies)

Jon Gordon (English and Film Studies, University of Alberta) "Inbetween Citizens: Belonging and Homelessness in Obasan and Places Far From Ellesmere."

Antonia Smith (English and Film Studies, University of Alberta) "The Invisible Race: Whiteness and the Discourse of the Multicultural Canadian Citizen"

Bronwyn Dunbar (English, University of Victoria) "Internalizing Oppression in In Search of April Raintree"

Bios and Abstracts for Session 1.3

Lunch:

12:30 – 1:30PM ETLC Foyer

Session 2: 1:30 – 3:00PM Meeting Rooms in ETLC

2.1 Historicizing Nationalisms (E1-003)

Session Chair: Yasmeen Abu-Laban (Political Science)

Mehnaaz Momen (Social Sciences, Texas A&M International University) "Nationalism and Identity: The Crossroads of American Citizenship"

Diana Benschop (Anthropology, University of Alberta) "Bringing Indigenous Bolivians Back into the Centre: President Evo Morales' Indigenist Nationalism"

Geordan Patterson (English and Film Studies, University of Alberta) "From Reader to Citizen: A Study of Early Nineteenth-Century Canadian Periodicals"

Bios and Abstracts for Session 2.1

2.2 Violence and Citizenship (E1-008)

Session Chair: Lahoucine Ouzgane (English and Film Studies)

Norah Bowman (English and Film Studies, University of Alberta) "'The Effect of Daggers Is Guaranteed': Readings of Palestinian Masculinity in Sahar Khalifeh's Wild Thorns"

Vivian Zenari (English and Film Studies, University of Alberta) "Violence, Nation and Identity in Henry James's The Princess Casamassima"

Barret Weber (Sociology, University of Alberta) "Carl Schmitt and Citizenship: Re-thinking the 'Post National'"

Bios and Abstracts for Session 2.2

2.3 Outsiders and 'Forgotten' Citizens (E1-0018)

Session Chair: Cecily Devereux (English and Film Studies)

James Gifford (English, University of Victoria) "'The sealed book of the future': Edward Taylor Fletcher's Poetic, Political, and Poly-lingual Canada, 1827-97"

Amanda Allen (English and Film Studies, University of Alberta) "The Autonomy of Unrecognized Citizenship: Theorizing Ursula Nordstrom"

Elyssa Warkentin (English and Film Studies, University of Alberta) "The Marginalized Female Citizen: Dangerous Femininity in Marie Belloc Lowndes' The Lodger"

Bios and Abstracts for Session 2.3

Coffee Break

3:00 – 3:30PM ETLC Foyer

Session 3: 3:30 – 5:00PM Meeting Rooms in ETLC

3.1 Academic Citizenship (E1-003)

Session Chair: Patricia Clements (English and Film Studies)

Paul Danyluk (English, University of Guelph) "Multiple Subjectivities: Roy Kiyooka and Academic Citizenship"

Amanda Lim (English and Film Studies, University of Alberta) "Archiving the University: Producing the Human"

Melissa Stephens (English and Film Studies, University of Alberta) "The References are Personal: Critical Writing and the 'De-referentialized' University"

Bios and Abstracts for Session 3.1

3.2 Securing the Borders of Citizenship (E1-008)

Session Chair: Anne James (English and Film Studies)

Laurel Ryan (English, University of Western Ontario) "'Courting Aphasia': The Silences Between Words and Between Worlds in 'The Management of Grief' of the Air Indian Tragedy"

Naava Smolash (English, Simon Fraser University) "Mark of Cain(ada): Race, Citizenship, and the 'Enemy Within' in Canada's National Newspapers"

Aloys Fleischmann (English and Film Studies, University of Alberta) "'Some of Course Married Them, which was Better': A Traffic of Women in Three Tsimshian-Area Missionary Narratives"

Bios and Abstracts for Session 3.2

3.3 Social Space and the Aesthetics of Authentic Citizenship (E1-0018)

Session Chair: Daphne Read (English and Film Studies)

T.L. Cowan (English and Film Studies, University of Alberta) "Is Irony the New Sincerity or Is Sincerity the New Irony? Narrating Citizenship in the Performance Poetry of Lisa B, Fortner Anderson, and Lillian Allen"

Ipek Oskay (Sociology, University of Alberta) "On the Proper Citizen and the Abject"

Paul Ugor (English and Film Studies, University of Alberta) "The Failed State and the Privatization of State Security: Narratives of Regional Politics, Ethnic Militias, and the Militarization of the Youth in Popular Nigerian Video Films."

Bios and Abstracts for Session 3.3

Artists' Gala

7:00 – 11:00PM Northern Jubilee Auditorium Banquet Room

Master of Ceremonies: Christopher Grignard

Readings by Alberta Artists Myrna Kostash, Shirley Serviss, Darrin Hagen, and Malcolm Azania (a.k.a. Minister Faust) with Q&A to follow

Music by Trevor Tchir

Performance by Grand Duke XXXI Of Edmonton LJ Steele

SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 2007

Registration: 8:00AM – 3:30PM ETLC Foyer

Session 4: 9:00 – 10:30AM Meeting Rooms in ETLC

4.1 Cyberculture and Popular Communities (E1-008)

Session Chair: Harvey Quamen (English and Humanities Computing)

Orion Ussner Kidder (English and Film Studies, University of Alberta) "The New Scum in Warren Ellis and Darrick Robertson's Transmetropolitan"

Michelle Lovegrove Thomson (English and Film Studies, University of Alberta) "'You've Come Far Enough Baby': Canadian Cyber-Citizens Protest Extensive Government Cuts to Social Programs"

Ruth Middlebrook (Communication, University of Ottawa) "The Paradox of Citizenship: An Analysis of the Narration of Canadian Citizenship through Canadian Idol"

Bios and Abstracts for Session 4.1

4.2 Diasporic Citizenship and Identity Politics (E1-0018)

Session Chair: Bert Almon (English and Film Studies)

Kristen Lozanski (Sociology, University of Alberta) "Diasporic Independent Travellers and Citizenship"

Lindy A. Ledohowski (English, University of Toronto) "'I am Enchanted': The Home Country as Lover in The Doomed Bridegroom"

Laura Schechter (English and Film Studies, University of Alberta) "'Cracked tongue. Broken tongue': The Incomplete, Resistant Translation of Language and Culture in Dictee"

Bios and Abstracts for Session 4.2

Coffee Break

10:30 – 11:00AM ETLC Foyer

Plenary Session

11:00AM – 12:30PM ETLC Room# E1-003

Session Chair: Laura Schechter (English and Film Studies)