18th European Graduate Seminar in Canadian studies / 18e séminaire européen pour les étudiants gradués en études canadiennes

ENCS/REEC

Faculty of Arts (Filozofska fakulteta), Maribor, September 18-19, 2009

Preliminary Programme

Thursday, September 17  

16- 18:00               Registration table open, Filozofska fakulteta, Koroška cesta 160, Maribor

19:00                      Informal dinner at the Ancora restaurant  (Jurčičeva 7, in the center of Maribor)

Friday, September 18   Room 2/12 Filozofska fakulteta

8:30-9:00               Registration, Filozofska fakulteta, Rooms 2/12 and 2/13

9:00-9:30              Conference opening Welcoming address by Professor Dr. Klaus-Dieter Ertler, President of the ICCS--International Council for Canadian Studies/CIEC--Conseil international d'études canadiennes

9:30-10:20           Keynote Address  Natalia Kaloh Vid, University of Maribor: “Lost and found behind the iron curtain: translations of Canadian literature in the Soviet Union and Modern Russia”

10:20- 11:10      Panel 1: Border Relations : Chair Professor Vassili Sokolov (Institute for US and Canadian Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences)

1.       Natalka Ostash (Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Ukraine): “The Asymmetry of Canada-U.S. Relations”

2.       Evelyn Mayer (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany):  “Beyond Border Binaries and Literary Binoculars: Canada-U.S. Borderlands Cultures”

11:10 – 11:40    Coffee Break

 

11:40- 12:30      Panel  2: Aboriginal Communities:  Chair: Professor Dr. Martin Loeschnigg, Karl-Franzens University, Graz

1.       Marta Sniegocka (Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland )  The Position of  women among Inuit and black communities in Canada: A Comparison.

2.       Laszlo Zsolt Zsager (Pázmány Peter Catholic University, Piliscaba, Hungary)  Losing and Regaining Identity in Canada’s Aboriginal Communities

 

12:30-13:20       Panel 3: Littérature québécois  Chair: Professor Dr. Klaus-Dieter Ertler, President of the ICCS

 
1.                    Ileana Neli Eiben (Université de l’Ouest/West University, Timişoara, Romania)  Voix féminines d'ailleurs dans la littérature québécoise d'aujourd'hui: Irina Egli et Felicia Mihali

 

2. Aurélie Bureau  (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)  Impact du féminisme dans le champ littéraire québécois durant le postmodernisme

    

13:20 – 15:00   Lunch

 

15:00-16:15          Panel 4: Minoritized Voices: Chair: Natalija Kaloh Vid, University of Maribor

1. Caroline De Wagter (Université Libre de Bruxelles ,Belgium) “‘I keep my memories alive’: (W)righting History in the Drama of August Wilson and Djanet Sears

2. Cristina-Georgiana Voicu (University of Iaşi, Romania) The Power of periphery and beyond: constructing identity in marlene nourbese philip’s harriet’s daughter

3. Alba De Bejar Muiňos (University of Vigo,Spain) “Sexual, Gender and Racial Identities in a Transnational and Globalized Context: Larissa Lai & Salt Fish Girl”

 

16:15-16:45     Coffee break

 

16:45-18:00          Panel 5: English-Canadian Fiction   Chair: Dr. Michelle Gadpaille, University of Maribor

1.            Sarah Galletly (University of Strathclyde, UK) ‘Like iron and whisky’: Nursing and marriage in English-Canadian fiction (1890s-1920s)

2.            Andrea Strolz (University of Innsbruck, Austria) “Conceptions of Art and the Artist  in Margaret Atwood’s Novels”

3.            Ines Schilcher  (University of Graz/University of Toronto) “River of the Brokenhearted": David Adams Richards and the Inhabitants of his Fictitious Miramichi Region

 

               19:30                     Dinner, Restaurant Pri Florjanu (Grajski Trg 6, center of Maribor)

 

 

Saturday September 19  Room 2/12, Filozofska fakulteta

 

9:00-9:15               Conference welcome, Dean Marko Jesenšek, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor

 

9: 15-10:30       Panel six: Politiques migratoires  Chair: Dr. Jason Blake, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana

1.             Kelley B. Duarte  (Université Fédérale du Rio Grande du Sud, Brazil--SEMINICAL delegate) L’autofiction chez Régine Robin : hybridation et mobilité dans l’écriture

2.             Benoit Breville (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France)      Inner City montréalais et banlieue parisienne. Politiques et stratégies de lutte contre la pauvreté urbaine. La politique de la ville à Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis, France) et à Hochelaga-Maisonneuve (Montréal, Québec). Années 1960-années 2000

3.             Hristina Petrova (Nouvelle Université/New University, Bulgaria)  Politiques migratoires à l’égard des cadres hautement qualifiés à l’UE, Etats-Unis et Canada /analyse comparée

 

10:30- 11:20         Panel seven: Cultural Adaptations  Chair: Professor Victor Kennedy, University of Maribor

 

1.            Gordana Tihomorovic (University of Zagreb, Croatia )Central Europe in Canada: CEACS Diaspora Project - Oral Histories and Interviews

2.            Kristina Leitner (University of Innsbruck,  Austria)  Mapping Cultural Territory in Alistair McLeod

 

11:20-11:50     Coffee break

 

 

11:50 -13:05     Panel Eight: New Perspectives  Chair: Dr. Janos Kenyeres, President of CEACS, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary

1.             Zuzana Janouskova (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) Bear Conservation in Canadian Literature: Woman – Bear Relationships from Eco-feminist Perspective

2.             Antje Schumacher (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)  History Twice Adapted: The Example of Black Robe

3.             Fabienne Gheysens (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium )  Les techniques poétiques dans la trilogie de Marie-Claire Blais :Soifs, Dans la foudre et la lumière, et Augustino et le chœur de la destruction

 

      

13:10                Lunch and Seminar conclusion

 

16:00    Wine Tasting

17:30    Tour of old Maribor

19:00    Dinner