2012 (Re)Scriptae Schedule

(Re)Scriptae Schedule

FRIDAY MARCH 16, Evans Room, Rozsa Centre

5:30-6:45 (Re)visiting Place – Chair: Danielle Marie Bitz

·     Douglas Neilson – The End of Scott’s Lake: A Creative Look at Place, Space and Interpretation

·     Katrina Strauss - Curious Perceptions of Utopia and Dystopia: Multiplicity, Adaptability, Subjectivity

·     Tempest Emery – Voicing the Landscape: A Close Reading of Sid Marty’s Men for the Mountains and Leaning on the Wind: Under the Spell of the Great Chinook

7:00-8:00 Inaugural Honors Alumni Lecture

            Dr. Rita Wong, Emily Carr University -- Water as Poetics and Praxis

 8:00-9:00 Reception

SATURDAY MARCH 17, Cassio A & B, Mac Hall

9:15 Welcome (Dr. Bennett)

9:30-10:45 (Re)discovering Feminisms – Chair: Caitlyn Spencer

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      Danielle Marie Bitz – The Men’s GOLF Manual: A plan of action for Getting Over Left-wing Feminisms, Updated and Revised 3^rd Edition.

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      Kaitlin Kiddey – Fear, Fascination, and the Female: The Representation of Women within Nineteenth-century American Gothic Literature

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      Katie Rudolf - Beyond the Drawing Room: Early Feminism and Gender Subversion in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

10:45-11:00 BREAK

11:00-12:15 (Re)creating Text – Chair: Allie Watson

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      Lindsay Bec – Living Networks: Exploring Collaborative and Interdependent Textuality

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      Sean Geddes – Coming to Presence: Meaning in Shakespeare’s Sonnets

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      Stephanie Bedin – "With lel letteres loken": An examination of the Middle English poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

12:15-1:30 LUNCH

1:30-2:45 (Re)presenting Self – Chair: Katrina Strauss

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      Caitlyn Spencer – (Not) Writing About Racism: A Canadian Conundrum

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      Maddy Sawyer - Gothic Demons: Embodiments of Self Reflections

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      Thomas Brookes - Language, Thought and Social Reality in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four

2:45-3:40 (Re)framing Stories – Chair: Lindsay Bec

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      Carmen Cookson-Hills - A Star Rises in the East: Hercule Poirot and the British Empire

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      Katie Harris - The Importance of Reading Good Books: The Representation of  Reading in Adaptations of ‘Beauty and the Beast'

3:40-4:00 BREAK

4:00-5:15 (Re)claiming Identities – Chair: Thomas Brookes

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      Allie Watson – Bodiless Users and Broken Links: Reconnecting the (Post)Human Subject to Hypertextual Networks

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      Brin-Chenille Bugo - (Re)Writing the Self:Healing After the Canadian Residential School Experience

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      Tara Bodie - Not a Marrying Man: A Literary Analysis of Sherlock Holmes as the Victorian Asexual

5:15 Closing remarks (Dr. Bart Beaty, Department Head)


Abstracts available here: http://ucalgaryenglishhonours.blogspot.com/p/paper-abstracts.html