Join us on Monday, February 27, 2021 for the 2017 CLC Research Seminar, organized by CLC Postdoctoral Fellow Dominique Hétu.
View and download our program by clicking here.
Join us on Monday, February 27, 2021 for the 2017 CLC Research Seminar, organized by CLC Postdoctoral Fellow Dominique Hétu.
View and download our program by clicking here.
Join us on Monday, February 27, 2021 for the 2017 CLC Research Seminar, organized by CLC Postdoctoral Fellow Dominique Hétu.
View and download our program by clicking here.
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CLC Research Seminar 2017
Figures of Care and of the Ordinary in Contemporary Canadian Literatures
Figures du care et de l’ordinaire dans les littératures canadiennes
Monday, February 27th 2017
Salter Reading Room, 3-95 Humanities Center
Monday, February 27th 2017
Canadian Literature Centre
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB
Organized by Dominique Hétu, Postdoctoral Fellow (SSHRC, CLC)
8:30 Coffee/Welcome participants (Humanities Center 4-29)
9:00 Introduction (Salter Reading Room, Humanities Center 3-95)
Daniel Laforest, CLC acting director
Panel 1 Politics of Care and Transcultural Vulnerabilities / Vulnérabilités transculturelles et politiques du care
9h15 Danielle Lamb
“Caregivers: Grand(parenting) in Métis Picture Books”
9h35 Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike
“Care-less-ness in Jane Urquhart’s Sanctuary Line”
9h50 Asma M’Barek
“Vulnérabilité et postures du care dans Ru de Kim Thúy »
10h10 Questions/Discussion
10h30 Break/Pause (4-29)
Panel 2 Practices of Care/Pratiques du care
10h45 Russell Cobb
“Dumb Okies, Rednecks, and White Trash: Caring about Class.”
11h05 Emily Hoven
“Spatializing Everyday Care: Field Notes from Edmonton’s Cloverdale Bridge”
11h25 Emma and Joseph Pivato
“Maintaining Personhood in the Context of Care: A Dialogue”
11h45 Questions/Discussion
12h05 Lunch
Panel 3 Poetics of Care/Poétiques du care
1h15pm Genève Rousseau
« Raconter le particulier dans Kuessipan de Naomi Fontaine : la mosaïque ordinaire »
1h35 Riley Klassen-Molyneaux
« Care de sa culture : la langue, le temps et la terre dans Bâtons à message/Tshissinuatshitakana de Joséphine Bacon et Née de la pluie et de la terre de Rita Mestokosho »
1h55 Amanda Lim
“The Good and Infinite Life: Philosophy, Ethics and Wellness in Anne Carson’s ‘Water Margins’”
2h15 Questions/Discussion
2h35 Break/Pause
Panel 4 Imagined Futures of Care/Imaginer le futur du care
2h55 Emilia Nielsen
“Rereading Cereus Blooms at Night: Explicating Figures of Care”
3h15 Dylan Bateman
“Moving Away from Waste: Kinship with Water in Rita Wong’s undercurrent.“
3h35 Question/Discussion
3h55 Keynote
Dominique Hétu
“Cats, Care, and Hospitality: The Ordinary and the Extraordinary
in the Works of Heather O’Neill”
4h45 Recap/Conclusion
5pm CLC Poetry Contest Award Reception
2017 CLC Kreisel Lecture with Heather O’Neill
“My Education. On unusual muses and mentors. And how I had to teach myself everything in order to cross the class divide.”
Thursday, March 9, 2021 | 7:30 PM | Timms Centre for the Arts
Pay-what-you-can | Reception & signing to follow
Watch Heather O’Neill’s 2017 CLC Kreisel Lecture: