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Friday, February 13, 2009
Venue: Tweedie Hall, Wallace McCain Student Centre
8:30 – 9:00 Refreshments
9:00 – 9:15 Opening Welcome
Dr. Stephen McClatchie (Mount Allison University)
9:15 – 10:30 Panel Session 1
The Project of Canadian Studies
Chair: Christl Verduyn (Mount Allison University)
Ian Angus (SFU) Here and Now: A New Rationale for Canadian Studies
Mihaela Vieru (Carleton) Doing Canadian Studies: The Conundrum of Interdisciplinarity
Jeff Ruhl (Carleton) and L. Pauline Rankin (Carleton) Contestation, Consensus, and Conversation in Post-Millennium Canadian Studies
10:30 – 11:00 Break/Refreshments
11:00 – 12:30 JCS Roundtable
Disseminating Canadian Studies
Moderator: Jane Koutas (Brock)
Robert Campbell (Mount Allison)
Don Wright (UNB)
Renée Hulan (SMU)
John Wadland (Trent)
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch
Lunchtime Speaker: Mr. Harold Foster, U.S. Consul General for Atlantic Canada
1:30 – 2:30 Concurrent Sessions
Panel Session 2
Modes and Sites of Education
Chair: Jim Struthers (Trent)
Rebecca Mancuso (BGSU) Canadian Studies in the United States: Different Needs, Different
Approaches
Munroe Eagles (U Buffalo) and Jane Koustas (Brock) A Comparative Turn in Canadian Studies
Panel Session 3
Canadian Studies in the Public and Cultural Spheres
Chair: Andrew Nurse (Mount Allison University)
Raymond Blake (U Regina) Canadian Studies as a Public Good
Jody Berland (York) Cultural Studies and Canadian Studies
2:30 – 2:45 Break
2:45- 3:45 Student Session: Undergraduate Perspectives on Canadian Studies
Christopher Ricketts
3:45 – 4:00 Break
4:00 – 5:15 Owens Art Gallery
Public Reading
Alistair MacLeod
5:30 – 7:00 Speakers’ Dinner
Venue: Cranewood
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Venue: Tweedie Hall, Wallace McCain Student Centre
8:30 – 9:00 Refreshments
9:00 – 10:15 Panel Session 4
Canadian Studies Beyond the University Classroom
Chair: John Wadland (Trent)
Mike Fox (Mount Allison University) Canadian Studies in the Secondary School System
Scott Piroth (BGSU) Innovative On-line Pedagogy in Canadian Studies
Christine Drennan (BGSU) Beyond the Classroom: Building a Coalition of Canadianists
10:15 – 10:30 Break/Refreshments
10:30 – 12:00 Student Session: Graduate Perspectives on Canadian Studies
Mihaela Vieru (Carleton)
Amy Twomey (Trent)
Peter Thompson (Carleton)
Sarah McDougall (Trent)
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 2:15 Keynote Address
The Hon. Ken Dryden
“We Are More Than This: Writing a New Canadian Story”
Introduced by David Staines (Ottawa)
Thank you: Tamara Small (Mount Allison University)
2:15 – 2:30 Break
2:30 – 3: 45 Concurrent Sessions
Panel Session 5
Canadian Studies and Cultural Expression
Chair: André Loiselle (Carleton)
Robin C. Whittaker (Toronto) Nonprofessional Theatre and its “Long Tale”: The (Undisciplined) Case of Edmonton’s Walterdale Playhouse
Alena M. Buis (Queens) Ars Longa, Vita Brevis: The Politics of the Greenshields Collection
Tammy Armstrong (UNB) An Old Animal Habit: Domanski’s Menagerie
Panel Session 6
Engaging Canada in the International Context
Chair: Geoffrey Ewen (York)
Wayne Hunt (Mount Allison) Why US Elections Matter to the Rest of the World
Erna MacLeod (CBU) Social Capital and Media Balance
3:45 – 4:00 – Break
4:00 – 5:15 Concurrent Sessions
Panel Session 7
History, Memory, and Canadian Studies
Chair: Mark Davis (Mount Allison University)
Philip Girard (Dalhousie) What does Canadian Legal History have to contribute to Canadian Studies?
Andrew Nurse (Mount Allison) Historical Materialism, Left Nationalism, and Canadian Studies
Rob Cupido (Mount Allison) Memory and Canadian Studies
Panel Session 8
Alternative Articulations
Chair: Brendan Edwards (Mount Allison)
Ted Rutland (UBC) Centrally (Dis)located:The Performativity of Economic Knowledge in the Policies of the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Barbara Godard (York) Canadian Studies in the Era of Multiculturalism
Susan Ashley (York) Museums as Alternative Sites of Canadian Studies Pedagogy
5:30 PM
Networking Canadian Studies: Next Steps and Future Directions
Moderator: David Staines (Ottawa)
Andrew Nurse (Mount Allison University)
Ian Angus (SFU)
Jim Struthers (Trent)
Peter Thompson (Carleton)
Conference Dinner
Cash bar 7:00
Service 7:30 PM
Speaker
THB Symons (Trent)
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