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The Canadian Studies Centres of Marc Bloch University and Marburg University present

European Perspectives on Canadian Women's Writing

Université Marc Bloch,

U.F.R. des Lettres

Bâtiment Le Portique, salle 409

October 28^th  and 29^th 2005

9h - Official Opening

- Brian Wallis: Dean of the School of Modern Languages, Marc Bloch University

- Christian Civardi: Head of the Research Group 2325, Marc Bloch University

- Martin Kuester: Managing Director, Marburg Centre for Canadian Studies, University of Marburg

9h30 - Keynote address

Coral Ann Howells, (Reading University): "Complex Transactions: Reading from a Distance"

10h20 - Coffee Break

10h40 - Panel I: Art, Landscape, Discourse

Chair: Martin Kuester

- Marta Dvorak: (Université Paris III):"Rock-a-bye Baby: Tribal Similarities Revisited in Jane Urquhart's The Stone Carvers"

- Nancy Burke (Warsaw University): "Re-examining Canadian Mythologies: the Postcolonial Discourse of Jane Urquhart"

- Reingard Nischik (Konstanz University): "(Un-)Doing Gender: The Canadian Artist Story"

- Claire Omhovère (Université Nancy II): "Landscape Writing in Jane Urquhart's Away (1993)"

12h45 - Lunch independently

14h15 - Panel II: History, Nation, Representation

Chair: Reingard Nischik

- Françoise Lejeune (Université de Nantes): "Revisiting English Gentlewomen's Texts and their Contribution to Nation-making in Canada."

- Brigitte Glaser (Göttingen University): "Women and War: Representations of Histories of Violence in Contemporary Canadian Fiction"

- Fabienne Quennet (Marburg University): "Looking Backward: The Return to Europe as Literary Strategy in Contemporary Jewish Canadian Women's Writing (Lillian Nattal and Nancy Richler)"

15h50 - Coffee Break

16h10 - Panel III: Gender, Genre, Textual Strategies

Chair: Barbara Korte

- Katalin Kurtosi (Szeged University): "WOMEN PLAYING WOMEN (Blood Relations by Sharon  Pollock)"

- Anca-Raluca Radu (Marburg University): "The Novel in a Nutshell: Alice Munro's Narrative Strategies"

- Jutta Zimmermann (Jena University): "The New Sentimentalism in Recent Fiction by Anne-Marie MacDonald, Jane Urquhart and Alice Munro"

20h - Conference Dinner

9h15 - Guest writer

 Larissa Lai (Calgary): Reading and Discussion

10h - Coffee Break

10h20 - Panel IV: Filiations, Connections, Metissages

Chair: Marta Dvorak

- Mary Condé (London University): "Relations: Families, Narratives, Connections. Canadian  Women's  Fiction 1990-present"

- Doris Eibl (Innsbruck University): "Maternal Filiation and 'Métissage' in Suzanne Jacob's Novels"

- Barbara Korte (Freiburg University): "Two Women's Views of Last Men: Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and Mary Shelley's The Last Man"

12h - Lunch independently

13h30 - Panel V: Space, Process, Revision

Chair:  Larissa Lai

- Patricia Paillot (IUFM Mérignac): "Dis/Re/Location in Mavericks and No Fixed Address by

Aritha Van Herk"

- Caroline Rosenthal (Konstanz University): "Textual and Urban Spaces in Carol Shields's Unless"

- Isabel Carrera (Oviedo University): "Urban Myths for the 21st century: Canadian Women Rewrite the City"

- Wolfram Keller (Marburg University): "Imagining Abandonment: The Creative Process in Carol Shields's Various Miracles"

15h30 - Coffee Break

15h50 - Panel VI: Transcultural Negotiations, Textual Configurations

Chair: Marcienne Rocard

- Charlotte Sturgess (Université Marc Bloch): "Bridging the Gap: Transcultural Figurations in Novels by Lai, Goto and Mayr"

- Martin Kuester (Marburg University): "Civil Unrest: Larissa Lai and Rita Wong's 'sybil unrest' and the Canadian Long Poem Tradition"

- Christine Lorre (Université Paris III): "A Comparative Study of the Reception of Ying Chen’s Novels in France and in Canada"

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