"Narratives of (In)Dependence and Partnership: Old Europe and New World"
Organised by the Canadian Studies centres of the Universities
of Marburg, Marc Bloch and Nantes and the Research centres 2325 and CRINI
University of Marburg: Tentative programme
Friday, June 20
9.00 Welcome
9.30—10.15: Keynote
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1. Smaro Kamboureli (Guelph) |
Keynote address on humanitarianism and the cultural imagination (policy, media, and fiction) |
10.45-12.15: The Transatlantic Context
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2. André Maindron (Poitiers) |
La «Vieille Europe» pour quelques écrivains canadiens |
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3. Maureen Waters-O’Neill (Nancy) |
Reflets Transatlantiques: l’américanité au miroir de l’européanité |
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4. Natalia Vesselova (Ottawa) |
“Where everyone lives as one should”: Literary Representations of Canada as Seen from Overseas |
14.30-16.00: Global Trends and Transatlantic Relationships
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5. James Skidmore (Waterloo) |
Global Regionalism |
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6. Petra Missomelius (Marburg) |
Electronic spaces in Europe and Canada |
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7. Georgiana Banita (Constance) |
“This Is a New Country”: Atom Egoyan’s Ararat on Canadian Exile and Ethical Memory |
16.30-17.30: Transatlantic Literary Engagements: Canadians Abroad
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8. Mary Condé (Queen Mary) |
A Private Engagement with London: Catherine Bush's The Rules of Engagement and Jean McNeil's Private View |
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9. John O'Connor (Toronto) |
"Such a long way from Saskatchewan": The Place of Europe in the Life and Work of Sinclair Ross |
19.00: Keynote and Reading
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10. Ted Dyck (Alberta) |
Reading and Keynote: Canadians A-Broad: A Punnish Satire |
Saturday 21
9.00-10.30: Mythological and Historic Personalities on Both Sides of the Atlantic
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11. Anna Jakabfi (Budapest) |
A Singular Transatlantic Tie: Napoleon in Canadian Fiction |
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12. Wolfram Keller (Marburg) |
(Re-)Translating the Postcolonial Text: Canadian Classics and the translatio imperii and studii |
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13. Thorunn Lonsdale (Queen Mary) |
Olive Senior's "The Case Against the Queen" |
11.00-12.30: Europe and Canada
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14. Michelle Gadpaille (Maribor) |
Hudson’s Bay and the Transatlantic Imaginary |
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15. Natalia Vid (Maribor) |
The Eternal myth of the Canadian North in modern European literature: Stef Penney’s The Tenderness of the Wolves |
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16. Taras Lupul (Chernivtsi) |
The Shifting in the Canadian Ethnic Mosaic: The Case of the “The Fourth Wave” of the Ukrainian Immigrants in Canada (1990’s to early 2000’s) |
15.00-16.30: War, Conflict and Peace
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17. Petra Dolata-Kreutzkamp (London/Berlin) |
From Bridge to Battleground: Explaining EU-Canada Relations through Spatial Narratives of the Transatlantic |
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18. Christian Pauls (Marburg) / Christian Werthschulte (Bochum) |
World War I in British and Canadian Poetry (working title) |
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19. Heike Härting (Montreal) |
Transatlantic Interventions: Discourses of Peacekeeping and Protection in Contemporary Canadian Fiction |
17.00-18.00 : Inventing Artists
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20. Gertrud Szamosi (Pecs) |
Inventing Canada: A unique blend of cultural reproductions in the art of Emily Carr |
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21. Anca-Raluca Radu (Marburg) |
Richard B. Wright's Clara Callan: A Story of the Non-Anxiety of Influence |
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