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Book of Abstracts

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Conference Programme

 

You will find the updated conference programme here (pdf).

 

Thursday, July 10, 2008 

Aula am Wilhelmsplatz

 

18.15      Opening of Conference

              Brigitte Glaser / Jutta Ernst (Universität Göttingen)       

 

18.20      Welcome Address

              Vizepräsident, Dipl.-Kfm. Markus Hoppe (Universität Göttingen)

 

18.30      Keynote Lecture

              George Elliott Clarke (University of Toronto)

              Canada: The Invisible Empire

 

19.30      Conference Warming Dinner

 

 

 

Friday, July 11, 2008

Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek (SUB)

 

Großer Seminarraum (first floor)

 

9.00        H.D. Forbes (University of Toronto)

              Recognition / Authenticity: Charles Taylor and Canadian Multiculturalism

 

9.45        Patrick Imbert (University of Ottawa)

              The Valorization of Geographic, Cultural and Economic Displacements

              in the Literary World of Canada

 

10.30      Coffee Break

 

11.00      Gabriele Pisarz-Ramírez (Universität Leipzig)

              A Country of the Americas? Rethinking Hemispheric Studies from Canada

 

11.45       Eleanor Ty (Wilfrid Laurier University)

              Globality, Mobility and the Everyday in Asian Canadian Narrative

 

12.30      Lunch Break

 

 

Großer Seminarraum: Panel 1

 

14.00      Till Kinzel (TU Berlin)

              Transcending Multiculturalism and Transnationalism? Neil Bissoondath,

              M.G. Vassanji, and Canadian Identity

 

14.45      Georgiana Banita (Universität Konstanz)

              Neil Bissoondath and the Ambivalent Novel of Terror

 

15.30      Coffee Break

             

16.00      Markus M. Müller (Universität Trier)

              En route to ‘Africada’: Black North American History and Culture in

              George Elliott Clarke’s Nova Scotia

 

16.45      Kirsten Sandrock (Universität Göttingen)

              Carnival in Cape Breton: Multiculturalism in Ann-Marie MacDonald’s

              Fall on Your Knees                                        

 

 

Großer Konferenzraum (third floor): Panel 2

 

14.00      Reingard M. Nischik (Universität Konstanz)

              “Heights and Depths I Never Guessed At”: Cultural Locations of Ethnicity

              in Vancouver Short Fiction by First Nations and Chinese Canadian Writers

 

14.45      Sabine Kim (York University, Toronto)

              Border Crossings and Customs Trouble in Fred Wah’s Diamond Grill

 

15.30      Coffee Break

 

16.00      Elisabeth Damböck (Universität Wien)

              “Even Things That Are True Can Be Proved.” Even They?

 

  

18.00      Guided Tour of Göttingen’s Historic City Centre

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday, July 12, 2008 

Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek (SUB)

 

Großer Seminarraum (first floor)

 

9.00        Waldemar Zacharasiewicz (Universität Wien)

              Transatlantic Memories, Ethnic Encounters and Transculturation in

              Canadian Literature   

 

9.45        Maria Moss (Universität Hamburg)

              Canada‘s Mosaic Reconsidered: Postcolonial or Not?

 

10.30      Coffee Break                                 

 

11.00      Renate Eigenbrod (University of Manitoba)

              Canada: Land vs. Country

 

11.45      Martin Kuester (Universität Marburg)

              Region/Gender/Nation: Mennonite Women Writing Themselves into the Mosaic

12.30      Lunch Break

 

14.00      Susan Ingram (York University, Toronto)

              The Reverse Diversity of FT Fashion Television: Canadian Culture’s

              Global Positioning System

 

14.45      Víctor Sevillano Canicio (University of Windsor)

              Cultural and Religious Identity in “Migrant” Soaps of Canada (Little Mosque

              on the Prairie and Germany (Türkisch für Anfänger)

 

15.30      Coffee Break

 

15.40      Anca-Raluca Radu (Universität Marburg)

              Divisadero – A Reader’s Novel

 

16.30      Markus Reisenleitner (York University, Toronto)

              Gibson Country: Global City-Spaces in the North American Imaginary of Pattern

              Recognition and Spook Country

 

17.15      Closing Discussion

 

18.00      End of Conference