May 28, 2002
Program
History
9:00-9:15
Opening Remarks
Nancy Johnston, University of New Brunswick at Saint John
9:15-10:15
Opening Address
Brian Kane, Columbus College of Art and Design
"Hal Foster: Prince of Illustrators"
10:30-12:00
Session I: Fantastic Influences
Dominick Grace, Algoma University College
"Gotlieb's Golems"
Brian Swail, University of Manitoba
"Towards a Fabulous Canadian Literature: David Arnason and Thomas King"
Jean-Louis Trudel, UQAM
"The Influence of Jules Verne on French-Canadian Science Fiction"
14:00-15:00
Session II: Performing Canadian SF
Adam Guzkowski, University of Toronto
"Beyond Bodies and Boundaries: (Post)Modern Dance in Spider and Jeanne Robinson's Stardance"
Nancy Johnston, University of New Brunswick at Saint John
"Jim Monroe's Angry Young ESL Teacher"
15:15-16:15
Session III: Politics and Identity in Canadian SF
Douglas Ivison, Memorial University/University of Western Ontario
"'Toronto, the world within a city(tm): Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring as Postcolonial Urban Renewal"
Allan Weiss, 91راة«
"Politics and Identity in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Helene Holden's After the Fact"
17:00-20:00
Reception: Celebrating Judith Merril
Dianne Newell, University of British Columbia
"Merril on Science Fiction, History, and Revolution: 1968"
Emily Pohl-Weary
"Judith Merril"