CAAS 2022: REANIMATIONS, 28-30 OCTOBER 2022
DAY ONE: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28
Welcome & Opening Remarks
11:15-11:30 NDT / 10:45-11:00 ADT / 9:45-10:00 EDT / 8:45-9:00 CDT / 7:45-8:00 CST & MDT / 6:45-7:00 PDT
Session 1: Horror Redux
11:30-12:45 NDT / 11:00-12:15 ADT / 10:00-11:15 EDT / 9:00-10:15 CDT / 8:00-9:15 CST & MDT / 7:00-8:15 PDT
Chair: Ross Bullen
Erin Finley (OCAD University), “Animating the Line: ‘Live’ Drawing Performance”
Lindsey Banco (University of Saskatchewan), “Reanimating The Twilight Zone: The Contemporary Anxieties of Aviation in Jordan Peele’s ‘Nightmare at 30,000 Feet’”
Bethany Webster-Parmentier (Europa-Universität Flensburg), “Reanimating and Reliving Family Cycles: Exploring the Indigenous Uncanny in Mapping the Interior”
Break
12:45-1:00 NDT / 12:15-12:30 ADT / 11:15-11:30 EDT / 10:15-10:30 CDT / 9:15-9:30 CST & MDT / 8:15-8:30 PDT
Session 2: Animating Acts and Agential Formats
1:00-2:15 NDT / 12:30-1:45 ADT / 11:30-12:45 EDT / 10:30-11:45 CDT / 9:30-10:45 CST & MDT / 8:30-9:45 PDT
Chair: Jenna Hunnef
Mariana Grezova (OCAD University), “WOO’s Knitted Replicas: New & Strange Relationships Based on Old Traditions”
Ian Gibson (University of Waterloo), “No Beauty Is Really a Beauty: Some Thoughts on Form in Jennifer Egan’s ‘Lulu the Spy, 2032’”
Mary Germaine (University of New Brunswick), “LOL Meds: The Benefits and Risks of Micro- (and Macro-) Dosing Cat Memes”
“Lunch” Break w/CAAS Executive Meeting*
2:15-3:15 NDT / 1:45-2:45 ADT / 12:45-1:45 EDT / 11:45-12:45 CDT / 10:45-11:45 CST & MDT / 9:45-10:45 PDT
*Note: the Executive Meeting will begin promptly 15 minutes after the conclusion of Session 2 at 1:00 p.m. EDT
Session 3: Worldbuilding Genres and Remastered Forms
3:15-4:30 NDT / 2:45-4:00 ADT / 1:45-3:00 EDT / 12:45-2:00 CDT / 11:45-1:00 CST & MDT / 10:45-12:00 PDT
Chair: Ross Bullen
James Gifford (Fairleigh Dickinson University), “The Fantasy Revival: The Changing Shapes of Genre, 1977–90”
Sara Gallagher (University of Waterloo), “The Queer Frontier: Queernorm World in the Western”
Tom Halford (Grenfell Campus, MUN), “American Anger in Hardboiled Crime Fiction: A More Complicated Rage in Megan Abbot’s Die a Little”
Natasha Farrell (MUN), “Time and Place: The Great Gatsby and Cinematic Adaptation”
Break
4:30-4:45 NDT / 4:00-4:15 ADT / 3:00-3:15 EDT / 2:00-2:15 CDT / 1:00-1:15 CST & MDT / 12:00-12:15 PDT
Session 4: Leveraging Literature in Technologies of Power
4:45-6:00 NDT / 4:15-5:30 ADT / 3:15-4:30 EDT / 2:15-3:30 CDT / 1:15-2:30 CST & MDT / 12:15-1:30 PDT
Chair: Jennifer Harris
Jennifer Harris (University of Waterloo), “Crossing borders again: Black Literary Societies of Late 19th and Early 20th Century Canada”
Ryan Shea (Western University), “Protesting Prisons: On the Question of Civil Disobedience”
Rohan Ghatage (Trent University), “After Fascism: Langston Hughes’s New Humanism”
Kaylee Lamb (University of Florida), “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Hauntology of the Slave Ship”
DAY 2: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29
Keynote Address by Dr. Erica Fretwell (SUNY Albany), “Once More, without Feeling: The Sentimental Anaesthetics of Living”
11:30-12:45 NDT / 11:00-12:15 ADT / 10:00-11:15 EDT / 9:00-10:15 CDT / 8:00-9:15 CST & MDT / 7:00-8:15 PDT
Break
12:45-1:00 NDT / 12:15-12:30 ADT / 11:15-11:30 EDT / 10:15-10:30 CDT / 9:15-9:30 CST & MDT / 8:15-8:30 PDT
Session 5: Environmental Reanimation in Dark, Dirty, and Noir Ecologies
1:00-2:15 NDT / 12:30-1:45 ADT / 11:30-12:45 EDT / 10:30-11:45 CDT / 9:30-10:45 CST & MDT / 8:30-9:45 PDT
Chair: Ross Bullen
Jessica Hawkes (Dalhousie University), “From Climate Apocalypse to Environmental Recovery: Reanimation in Orleans”
Katrina Younes (Western University), “The Reanimation of Noir in Cli-fi Netflix Series The Silent Sea”
“Lunch” Break w/CAAS AGM*
2:15-3:15 NDT / 1:45-2:45 ADT / 12:45-1:45 EDT / 11:45-12:45 CDT / 10:45-11:45 CST & MDT / 9:45-10:45 PDT
*Note: the AGM will begin promptly 15 minutes after the conclusion of Session 5 at 1:00PM EDT
Session 6: Counter-Hegemony and Speculative Storytelling
3:15-4:30 NDT / 2:45-4:00 ADT / 1:45-3:00 EDT / 12:45-2:00 CDT / 11:45-1:00 CST & MDT / 10:45-12:00 PDT
Chair: Bernadette Russo
Philippa Chun (Cornell University), “Caring for the Dead in the novels of Pauline Hopkins and Sutton. E. Griggs”
Ryan Borochovitz (University of Toronto), “A Survivor’s Tale: Reanimating Anne Frank in The Secret Annex by Alix Sobler”
Peter Robert Brown (Mount Allison University), “Reanimating the Past: George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo”
Bernadette Russo (Mount Saint Vincent University), “Medieval (Re)animations: American Indigenous Humour and Resistance”
Break
4:15-4:30 NDT / 3:45-4:00 ADT / 2:45-3:00 EDT / 1:45-2:00 CDT / 12:45-1:00 CST & MDT / 11:45-12:00 PDT
Session 7: Political (Re)Animations of Gendered Subjectivities in Literature, Film, and Law
4:45-6:00 NDT / 4:15-5:30 ADT / 3:15-4:30 EDT / 2:15-3:30 CDT / 1:15-2:30 CST & MDT / 12:15-1:30 PDT
Chair: Brad Congdon
Sarah Blanchette (Huron University College), “Madwoman Theory and Kate Millett’s Queer Anti-Psychiatric Feminism”
Maria-Belén Ordóñez (OCAD University), “Maternal Instinct as Counterintuitive: Expulsion in Alexandra Latishev Salazar’s Medea and Ramón Salazar’s Sunday’s Illness”
Cher Hann (Dalhousie University), “Look Who’s Talking: Fetal Subjectivity in 90s Cinema”
Brad Congdon (Dalhousie University), “Society Must Protect Itself: Dysgenics and Gender in H.P. Lovecraft’s ‘The Dunwich Horror’”
DAY 3: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30
Session 8: Historical Revenants and Survivors of Empire
11:30-12:45 NDT / 11:00-12:15 ADT / 10:00-11:15 EDT / 9:00-10:15 CDT / 8:00-9:15 CST & MDT / 7:00-8:15 PDT
Chair: Jenna Hunnef
Luke Bresky (St. Mary’s University), “Survival/Survivance: The Ironies of Charles Eastman/Ohiyesa”
Xine Yao (University College London), “Embarrassment to the Family: Reanimating the Representative Status of the First Asian North American Novelist”
Carole Lynn Stewart (Brock University), “Reanimating the Vanished Pequot: William Apess and Paul Cuffe Jr.”
Break
12:45-1:00 NDT / 12:15-12:30 ADT / 11:15-11:30 EDT / 10:15-10:30 CDT / 9:15-9:30 CST & MDT / 8:15-8:30 PDT
Session 9: Freezing Capital, Rebooting Labour
1:00-2:15 NDT / 12:30-1:45 ADT / 11:30-12:45 EDT / 10:30-11:45 CDT / 9:30-10:45 CST & MDT / 8:30-9:45 PDT
Chair: Dakota Pinheiro
Dakota Pinheiro (University of Waterloo), “‘Where’s Your Fucking Rage? Your Self-Respect?’: Reanimating Representations of Labour Injustice and Resistance in The Boys”
Geordie Miller (Mount Allison University), “The Red Line of Antiracism in Langston Hughes’ Scottsboro Limited”
Craig Stensrud (University of British Columbia), “‘Impure as I am’: Thoreau and Free Produce”
Aaron Obedkoff (Concordia University), “‘So Many Dead / Borne / About’: Specters of Debt in Nathaniel Mackey’s Splay Anthem”
“Lunch” Break
2:15-3:00 NDT / 1:45-2:30 ADT / 12:45-1:30 EDT / 11:45-12:30 CDT / 10:45-11:30 CST & MDT / 9:45-10:30 PDT
Session 10: Reformative Futures
3:00-4:15 NDT / 2:30-3:45 ADT / 1:30-2:45 EDT / 12:30-1:45 CDT / 11:30-12:45 CST & MDT / 10:30-11:45 PDT
Chair: Ross Bullen
Cameron Riddell (Western University), “Abjection-Animation in VanderMeer’s The Strange Bird”
Michael Cameron (Dalhousie University), “‘Why have I written that his name was Adam?’: The Problem of Apocalyptic Revitalization in David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress”
Caroline Diezyn (Western University), “Reanimating Nostalgia in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One”
Closing Remarks
4:15-4:30 NDT / 3:45-4:00 ADT / 2:45-3:00 EDT / 1:45-2:00 CDT / 12:45-1:00 CST & MDT / 11:45-12:00 PDT
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