Conference Programme
27 – 29 October 2011
Location: Seventh Floor, Heaslip House, Ryerson University, 297 Victoria Street
Thursday, October 27
9:00-3:30 CWRCshop
1:00-4:00 Conference Registration
4:00-5:30 Writerly Space I
Chair: Lee Skallerup Bessette, Morehead State University
Stéphanie Walsh Matthews, Ryerson University
«La sorcière et les subversions sociales»
Karen McPherson, University of Oregon
“Sharing Spaces: Louise Warren’s Poetics of Accompaniment”
Claudia Lucotti, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
“More about an e-Anthology of Women Poets in Mexican and Canadian Indigenous Languages”
5:30-7:15 Dinner Break (on your own)
7:15-8:30 Opening Plenary
Introduction: Susan Brown, University of Alberta/University of Guelph
Bethany Nowviskie
Director, Digital Research and Scholarship, University of Virginia Library
“How to Play with Maps”
8:30-9:30 Opening Reception
Location: Seventh Floor, Heaslip House, Ryerson University, 297 Victoria Street
Friday, October 28
8:00-10:00 Conference Registration
8:30-10:00 Digital Geographies
Chair: Patricia Demers, University of Alberta
Mariana Paredes Olea, University of Alberta
“Geographical Analysis of Writer Trajectories and Subject Matter Trends in Orlando”
Fiona Black and Jennifer Charney, Dalhousie University
“Feminizing a Geography of Print Culture”
Stan Ruecker, University of Alberta; Jim Allman, Best Thinking Inc.; Jason Boyd, Ryerson University; Susan Brown, University of Alberta/University of Guelph; Michael Burden, University of Alberta; Johanna Drucker, University of California, Los Angeles; Carlos Fiorentino, University of Alberta; Wayne Graham, University of Virginia; Bethany Nowviskie, University of Virginia; Geoffrey Rockwell, University of Alberta; Omar Rodriguez-Arenas, University of Alberta; Milena Radzikowska, Mount Royal University
“The Visual Representation of Time”
10:00-10:15 Refreshment Break
10:15-12:00 Digital Collaborations I
Chair: Jason Boyd, Ryerson University
Constance Crompton and Michelle Schwartz, Ryerson University
“Shaping Queer Authorship: Canadian Women at the Intersection of Art and Activism”
Erin Wunker and Travis Mason, Dalhousie University
“Archiving Canadian Poetics: Space / Place / Play”
Ravit David, University of Toronto
“Identify the ‘Work’: Digital Identifiers on the Humanities’ Wish List”
12:00-1:00 Lunch (on your own)
1:00-2:30 Writerly Space II
Chair: Carole Gerson, Simon Fraser University
Lee Skallerup Bessette, Morehead State University
“Intersecting Lives, Intersecting Archives: The Men Who Helped ‘Shape’ Anne Hébert in English”
Mireille Truong, Ryerson University
«Lieu humain/lieu personne chez deux écrivaines canado-vietnamiennes, Thuong Vuong-Riddick et Kim Thuy: localisation des métaphores»
Libe García Zarranz, University of Alberta
“Queer TransCanadian Writing in the 21st Century: Mapping a New Cross-Border Ethic”
2:30-2:45 Refreshment Break
2:45-4:15 Generic Space
Chair: Sophie Thomas, Ryerson University
Katherine McLeod, University of Guelph
“‘Gwendolyn MacEwen Introduces’: Canadian Women’s Writing on the Radio”
Christl Verduyn, Mount Allison University
“La théorie, un dimanche: Canadian/Québec Women Writers as Essayists”
Erin Wunker, Dalhousie University
“Collapsing Space and Place: Daphne Marlatt and Marie Clements and/on the
Common(s)”
4:15-4:30 Refreshment Break
4:30-6:00 Collaborative Authorship
Chair: Faye Hammill, University of Strathclyde
Hannah McGregor, University of Guelph
“Editing without Author[ity]: ‘Troubling’ Collaboration and Authorship in the Work of ‘Martha Ostenso’”
Cristina Nicolaescu, Christian University (Bucharest)
“The Collaborative Writing of the Novel A Celibate Season”
Lauren Fournier, Simon Fraser University
“Meeting the Other: Collaborative Poetry and the Asian Canadian Avant-garde”
Location: Rossetti Room, Delta Chelsea Hotel, 33 Gerrard Street West
6:15-6:45 Wine Reception, Rossetti Room, Delta Chelsea
6:45-8:00 Plenary Address
Introduction: Ruth Panofsky, Ryerson University
Dionne Brand
Poet Laureate, City of Toronto, Professor (University of Guelph)
“Woman, City, Nation”
8:00-10:00 Banquet Dinner, Rossetti Room, Delta Chelsea
Location: Seventh Floor, Heaslip House, Ryerson University, 297 Victoria Street
Saturday, October 29
8:30-9:15 Conference Registration
9:15-10:30 Plenary Address
Introduction: Kathleen Kellett-Betsos, Ryerson University
Lori Saint-Martin
Author, Translator, Professor (Université de Québec à Montréal)
“Languages as Spaces, Translation as Play: Moving (through) Languages”
10:30-10:45 Refreshment Break
10:45-12:15 Digital Collaborations II
Chair: Travis Mason, Dalhousie University
Andrea Beverley, Université de Montréal and Benjamin Authers, University of Alberta
“Collaboration’s Metaphors and the Figuration of Shared Space”
Paul Hjartarson, Kristin Fast, Andrea Hasenbank, University of Alberta
“Modeling Collaboration in Digital Humanities Scholarship: Principles, Policies, Practices”
Stéfan Sinclair, McGill University; Teresa Dobson, University of British Columbia
Sandra Gabriele, York University; Jennifer Roberts-Smith, University of Waterloo
Stan Ruecker, University of Alberta
“Loose Media: The Play between Text and Stage in the Simulated Environment for Theatre”
12:15-1:15 Lunch (on your own)
1:15-2:45 L’espace urbain
Chair: Susan Hopkirk, Ryerson University
Patricia Demers, University of Alberta
“Place and Space: Toronto the Good in the Fiction and Life of Grace Irwin”
Kathleen Kellett-Betsos, Ryerson University
«L’espace urbain et l’écriture migrante chez Marguerite Andersen»
Heather Zwicker, Russell Cobb, Maureen Engel, Daniel LaForest, University of Alberta
“Edmonton Pipelines: Narrating Digital Urbanism”
2:45-3:00 Refreshment Break
3:00-4:45 Cultural Space
Chair: Catherine Jenkins, Ryerson University
Faye Hammill and Michelle Smith, University of Strathclyde
“Magazines, Travel, and Middlebrow Culture in Canada: Places to Start”
Carole Gerson, Simon Fraser University
“Spaces and Places of Cultural Memory: National Commemoration of Canadian Women Writers”
Janice Williamson, University of Alberta
“Oh Canada: Canadian Women Write in the Era of Omar Khadr”
4:45-5:00 Refreshment Break
5:00-6:30 Creative Space
Chair: Hyacinth Simpson, Ryerson University
Cecily Devereux, University of Alberta
“Wish You Were Here: Maud Allan, Mobility, and the Place of Postcards”
Margaret Mackey, University of Alberta
“Standing on a Rainbow: Reading in Place, Position, and Time”
Monique Tschofen, Ryerson University
“Screen Paper Scissors: Textual Ephemera and Digital Ephemerality in Caitlin Fisher’s Augmented Reality Poems”
6:30 Closing Comments
Members of the Organizing Committee in conversation with the audience
Dennis Denisoff, Kathleen Kellett-Betsos, Anne-Marie Lee-Loy, Ruth Panofsky, Ryerson University
Susan Brown, Patricia Demers, University of Alberta
Carole Gerson, Simon Fraser University