SESSION A A1: HISTORY 1 Peter Neary, University of Western Ontario ‘A great stride forward’: The Post-Discharge Re-establishment Order (PC 7633) of 1 October 1941 Martin Thornton, University of Leeds. Robert Borden, Winston Churchill and the Naval Crisis of 1912
A2: Poltical culture 1 Howard Cody, University of Maine Identity and Political Culture in the Stephen Harper-Michael Ignatieff Era Frédéric Boily, University of Alberta The Political Evolution of Stephen Harper A3: LITERATURE 1 Milena Marinkova, University of Leeds Orpheus Goes North American: or, Is There a Way out of the Balkan Underworld? Sarah Henzi, Université de Montréal Towards Social Equality: Negotiating Political Rhetorics in First Nations Literatures Will Smith, University of Nottingham Matters of art and governance: The Toronto Book Awards SESSION B B1: THE DIGITAL AGE Natasha Saltes, University of Cambridge Deliberative democracy in the digital age: A profile of the Canadian political landscape online David Hutchison, Glasgow Caledonian University Regulating the Internet: The CRTC, CanCon and the Digital Age
B2: LITERATURE 2: SPECULATIVE FICTIONS Fiona Tolan, Liverpool John Moores University “Alone on a wide, wide sea”: Atwood’s Liberal Vision in Oryx and Crake Robyn Morris , University of Wollongong New directions in Asian Canadian writing: Larissa Lai’s ‘thinking through’ a contemporary politics of identity Heidi Butler, University of New Brunswick Consumed Women in Atwood’s Speculative Corpocracies
B3: CULTURE Heather Devine, University of Calgary The Buffalo Hunters of the Pembinah Journal: A Research Update Geok Hui, Florence, Yap, Chang Gung University Ethnicity As a Cultural System: Filmic Representations of Women in Canadian Aboriginal Films
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