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Session 1

Thursday, April 8, 2:15pm-4:15pm

1.01 Global Cinemas (Seminar) St. Pierre

1.02 Displacement, Dispossession, and Uprootedness (Seminar) Longueuil

1.03 Recasting the Role: Older Women in Memoir and Drama (Seminar) Pointes-aux-Trembles

1.04 Memory and Violence in Iberian Literatures and Cultures (Seminar) Verdun

1.05 Mujeres afro-descendientes en Latino América (Seminar) Jacques Cartier

1.06 Past and Present on the Screen: History and Society in Italian Film (Seminar) Fundy

1.07 Behind the Spanish Lens: Stars and Sexualities in Contemporary Spanish Film (Seminar) Lachine

1.08 New Directions in Detective Fiction (Seminar) Lasalle

1.09 Medieval Italian Literary Culture: In Memory of Michelangelo Picone (Seminar) La Verriere

1.10 900 sommerso (Seminar) Salon C

1.11 Leggere e (ri) scrivere in epoca umanistica: esegesi e libertas dicendi (Seminar) Salon D

1.12 Architecture and Literature (Seminar) Salon E

1.13 The Body in German Realism and Naturalism (Seminar) Salon F

1.14 Scénographie romanesque de la maladie et de la mort au XIXe et XXe (Seminar) Salon G

1.15 Creative Writing in the Composition Classroom (Seminar) Salon H

1.16 Beckett’s Letters (Seminar) St. Lambert

1.17 French-Canadian Literatures Outside Quebec (Seminar) St. Michel

1.18 Down the Highway, Down the Tracks/Poetics, Geography and Location (Seminar) St. Leonard

1.19 Urban Places: The Literary Ecology of American Cities (Seminar) St. Laurent

1.20 New Formalism, Aesthetics, and American Literary Studies (Seminar) Mont-Royal

Session 2

Thursday, April 8, 4:30pm-6:00pm

2.01 El cine y la literatura en la formación de la identidad nacional hispánica I St. Pierre

2.02 Mysticism, Epiphany, and Enunciation Narratives Longueuil

2.03 Classic and Contemporary American Girl Lit: Girls’ Worlds Pointes-aux-Trembles

2.04 Homosexual Women in Italian Literature, Cinema and Other Media I Verdun

2.05 Cinematic Representation of Immigration, Spaces and Identities Jacques Cartier

2.06 Shakespeare, Language and Translation: An Inquiry into National Identity (Seminar) Fundy

2.07 The Visualizing Gift: Description and Material Culture in the Novel Lachine

2.08 Genre, Invention, and Modernity in Nineteenth Century Spain Lasalle

2.09 The Practice and Purposes of Book Reviewing (Roundtable) Mont-Royal

2.10 Writing Faculties: Intersections of Creativity and Pedagogy Salon C

2.11 Alla Ricerca di Nuove Identità nel Teatro Italiano Contemporaneo Salon D

2.12 Primo Levi’s Works Between Testimony and Literature (Roundtable) Salon E

2.13 Space and Subjectivity in German-language Modernist Literature Salon F

2.14 Judging Women: Law, Literature and Female Guilt Salon G

2.15 Translation and Translingualism Salon H

2.16 Travelling Genre, Geopolitical Space, and Reception, 1775-1830 St. Lambert

2.17 Serializing Fiction I St. Michel

2.18 ‘This world only my body remembered’: Women Writing Nature, Nation and Self St. Leonard

Session 3

Friday, April 9, 8:30am-9:45am

3.01 House Work: Masters and Servants in Post-Modern Culture St. Pierre

3.02 Leon Edel and Henry James Biography Longueuil

3.03 Bridging the Gap Between Language and Content in the Foreign Language Class (Roundtable) Pointes-aux-Trembles

3.04 Canada and the Spanish-Speaking World Verdun

3.05 Amnesia and Memory in Contemporary Spanish Cinema Jacques Cartier

3.06 Archives of Transgression / Transgressing the Archive Fundy

3.07 Women and the Politics of the Vernacular St. Michel

3.08 The Adoption Memoir Lasalle

3.09 Analytic Philosophy and the Novel Salon C

3.11 Red, White and Blues for Mr. Charlie: Baldwin’s New Queer America Salon D

3.12 Italian Literature: Renaissance to Humanism Salon E

3.13 German Masters Reloaded Salon F

3.14 From Nomad to Nobel Laureate: (Re-) Examining J.M.G. Le Clézio in 2010 Salon G

3.15 Rethinking Feminist Language and Theory Salon H

3.16 From the Favela to the Novela St. Lambert

3.17 Interlanguage Commmunication: Mishaps of Misunderstood Language Lachine

3.18 The Future of Women’s Literature in Modernist Studies (Roundtable) St. Leonard

3.19 Insular Identities and the Borders of Medieval Britain St. Laurent

3.20 The Politics of the Western Mont-Royal

3.21 Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century American Masculinities Mont-Royal

Session 4

Friday, April 9, 10:00am-11:30am

4.01 The World is Not Flat: Body Traffic across the Global Village St. Pierre

4.02 Literary Motherhood in the New World Longueuil

4.03 Technology, Migrations and Displacements in the Portuguese-Speaking Spaces Pointes-aux-Trembles

4.04 Rethinking Modernism, Rethinking the Child: Modernist Experiments in Childland Verdun

4.05 Playing Web 2.0: Intertextuality, Narrative and Identity in New Media Jacques Cartier

4.06 Pictures of an Exhibition: Museums and Collections in Literature and Media Fundy

4.07 No Turning Back: Distance Education in 2010 Lachine

4.08 Communal Modernisms Lasalle

4.09 Importance of Studying Oscar [Wilde]: His Plays, Stories, Letters, and Lectures Salon C

4.10 The American Aesthetic of Marilynne Robinson La Verriere

4.11 El cine y la literatura en la formación de la identidad nacional hispánica II Salon D

4.12 Breaking Atoms: Reading Hip Hop as Literature Salon E

4.13 Outside from Within: The German Literary Outsider Salon F

4.14 Translation and the Transnational Past Salon G

4.15 Empowering Silence Salon H

4.16 Les pratiques scripturales de la migrance littéraire I St. Lambert

4.17 The City as a Space of Exile St. Michel

4.18 Film and Philosophy St. Leonard

4.19 Fictional Histories/Historical Fictions: Renaissance Historical Fiction St. Laurent

4.20 The Coming of Age Stories of James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison Westmount

4.21 Teaching Shakespeare Mont-Royal

4.22 The Marketplace in/and Twentieth-Century Literature Hampstead

4.23 Chaos in Tranquility: Humor in American Life Writing Cote-St. Luc

4.24 James and the Women Outremount

4.25 Spirits Rapping: Spiritualism in Anglo-American Fiction Le Portage

4.26 Indigenous Literatures of Native North America Frontenac

Session 5

Friday, April 9, 11:45am-1:15pm

5.01 A Bridge Too Far: Bisexuality in Contemporary Culture St. Pierre

5.02 Whose Africa?: Representations of Africa in African and Diasporic Literatures I Longueuil

5.03 The Library in German Literature Pointes-aux-Trembles

5.04 The Internet as a Contestatory Medium in Latin America Verdun

5.05 Shifting Boundaries of Childhood, Adolescence, and Adulthood in Italian Film Jacques Cartier

5.06 Interviews & Literature: Self-Commentary, Self-Presentation and Narrative Form Fundy

5.07 Film: Poetics versus Theory Lachine

5.08 Women Writing Spanish American Revolution(s) Lasalle

5.09 Classic and Contemporary American Girl Lit: Place & Space Salon C

5.10 La narrativa de la dictadura en Latinoamerica La Verriere

5.11 Slumming It: Metatextual Bleeding Between “Literature” and Popular Media Salon D

5.12 Innovative Approaches to Teaching Canonical Works Salon E

5.13 Italian Women Writers and Autobiography Salon F

5.14 Madness in Women’s French and Francophone Fiction Salon G

5.15 Seventeenth-Century French Writers’ Lives Salon H

5.16 Transformations of Antiquity in the Long Eighteenth Century St. Lambert

5.17 Queering the Caribbean: Toward Open Discussion of Queerness in Caribbean Writing St. Michel

5.18 Margaret Atwood and Canada: Interventions, Influences, Interconnections St. Leonard

5.19 ‘Pillars of Witness’: Brontë Literature as Commentary St. Laurent

5.20 ‘Ah Got De Law in My Mouth’: Black Women Writing Justice Westmount

5.21 To Give or Not To Give: The Ethics of Nineteenth-Century Charity Mont-Royal

5.22 Serializing Fiction II Hampstead

5.23 Modernism, Poetry, and Faith Cote-St. Luc

5.24 Terrified White Masculinity in Twentieth-Century American Literature Outremount

5.25 Turning Their Backs on the Land: American Literature at the Waterline Le Portage

5.26 Overreachers & Machiavels: The Works of Christopher Marlowe Frontenac

Session 6

Friday, April 9, 1:30pm-2:45pm

6.01 Lost Pasts/Broken Futures: Forgetting as Narrative Crisis in Film St. Pierre

6.02 Representations of the Working-Class in Film (Seminar) Longueuil

6.03 Identity, Resistance and Challenges to the Center in Portuguese-speaking Africa Pointes-aux-Trembles

6.04 Homosexual Women in Italian Literature, Cinema and Other Media II (Roundtable) Verdun

6.05 William Hogarth: Interpretation and Influence Jacques Cartier

6.06 The Giallo Italiano from 1945 to the Present Fundy

6.07 Multilingual Texts in the FL Classroom Lachine

6.08 Les pratiques scripturales de la migrance littéraire II Lasalle

6.09 Gender and Performance in 18th-century German Literature Salon C

6.10 Re(In)vision of Africa in Contemporary Spanish Texts La Verriere

6.11 The Dramatic Monologue in Hispanic Poetry Salon D

6.12 Responding to Representations of Trauma in Student Essays in College Writing (Roundtable) Salon E

6.13 Double Agencies: Parsing Dissent between LGBTQ Studies and Queer Theory Salon F

6.14 Pier Vittorio Tondelli: 30 Years After Altri libertini (Roundtable) Salon G

6.15 Literature and Cinema of the Fascist Period Salon H

6.16 Translating German-Language Literature (Creative) St. Lambert

6.17 Fun and Games in Medieval France St. Michel

6.18 If We’re Writing about Writing, Then What Kind of Writing Do We Assign? St. Leonard

6.19 Black Modernisms: Harlem Renaissance, Negrismo, Negritude St. Laurent

6.20 Ecocriticism and Canada I: Queer Nature, (Non)Human Geography, and Biotechnology Westmount

6.21 Shakespeare and the Environment Mont-Royal

6.22 Psychoanalysis and Early Modern English Tragedy Hampstead

6.23 Leon Edel and Henry James Scholarship Cote-St. Luc

6.24 ‘Making Her Meaning Known’: New Scholarship about Audre Lorde Outremount

6.25 Looking Back on Activism and American Literature of the Twentieth Century Le Portage

6.26 If the Lion Could Speak: The Animal Story in North American Literature Frontenac

Session 7

Friday, April 9, 3:00pm-4:30pm

7.01 Le cinéma français contemporain St. Pierre

7.02 Teaching Contemporary Fiction from the Middle East Longueuil

7.03 The Myth of Rome Pointes-aux-Trembles

7.04 Historia y televisión en España Verdun

7.05 Being and Thinking as an Academic Mother: Theory and Narrative (Roundtable) Salon C

7.06 Art as Symptom? Yes! Fundy

7.07 Re-Imagining First-Year Composition (Roundtable) Lachine

7.08 The Power of Images: The Ethics and Efficacy of Photography Lasalle

7.09 Screening Spanish American Revolutions Jacques Cartier

7.10 Poesía y mujer La Verriere

7.11 After the Berlin Wall: Rethinking Contemporary Russian and East European Writing Salon D

7.12 Henry James’s Children Salon E

7.13 Methods for Teaching and Improving Conversation in the Second Language (Roundtable) Salon F

7.14 Beyond Girls in Uniform & Death in Venice: Questioning a Queer German Canon Salon G

7.15 Satirical Aesthetics and Subtexts in Contemporary German Literature and Film Salon H

7.16 Au Croisement: la fermentation intellectuelle dans la littérature maghrébine St. Lambert

7.17 Figuring out Fascism St. Michel

7.18 Postcolonial Ecologies St. Leonard

7.19 Uncovering the Irish Woman in Early 20th Century Fiction St. Laurent

7.20 Shakespeare’s Cougars Westmount

7.21 African American Autobiography & the Archives: Teaching Students to Be Scholars Mont-Royal

7.22 Delineating the Contemporary in American Literature (Roundtable) Hampstead

7.23 In-betweenness in Adolescent Literature Cote-St. Luc

7.24 Teaching Early Native American Literature Outremount

7.25 The Role of Non-Tenure Track Faculty in the Academy (Roundtable) Le Portage

7.26 ‘Theres nothing so sensible as sensual inundation’: Mary Oliver’s Poetics Frontenac

Session 8

Friday, April 9, 4:45pm-6:15pm

8.01 Queer Ecocriticism and Literature (Roundtable) St. Pierre

8.02 Our Monsters, Ourselves Longueuil

8.03 Un mundo al revés: la re-escritura de cuentos infantil Pointes-aux-Trembles

8.04 The Publishing Revolution: Creating Textbook Content with Web 2.0 Tools Verdun

8.05 The Interplay of Literature, Music, Theater, Cinema and the Visual Arts Jacques Cartier

8.06 Seeing Things: Dreams, Visions and Hallucinations Fundy

8.07 William Blake and His Influence Lachine

8.08 Where Are We Now? The Evolution of Women’s, Gender and Feminist Studies (Roundtable) Lasalle

8.09 Rewriting and Reinventing the American West in German Culture Salon C

8.10 Literature and Science: A Reciprocal Exchange? La Verriere

8.11 Seeking a Postmodern God: Figures of the Absent Center in Contemporary Writing Salon D

8.12 Immigration Stories Salon E

8.13 Russian Women Writers: New Views Salon F

8.14 Re-Approaching the ‘Patriarch’ in Asian North American Literature Salon G

8.15 Translation and Pedagogy (Roundtable) Salon H

8.16 Transcending the Binaries: Re-conceptualizing Heimat and Fremde (Roundtable) St. Lambert

8.17 Elles réécrivent leur H/histoire(s) entre le particulier et le collectif St. Michel

8.18 Littératures en langue française: quoi de neuf? St. Leonard

8.19 NeMLA Diversity Committee Forum St. Laurent

8.20 Unearthing Ephemera: Retrieving the Extra-Poetic Work of 20th-C American Poets Westmount

8.21 Romancing America: Authorship, National Identity, and the Writing of Historical Mont-Royal

8.22 Individual and Collective Memory in Contemporary Multi-Ethnic Literature Hampstead

8.23 Technical/ Professional Writing for Undergraduates (Roundtable) Cote-St. Luc

8.24 CAITY Reception and Business Meeting Le Portage

8.25 Female Absence and Expressions of Black Masculinity Frontenac

Session 9

Saturday, April 10, 8:30am-10:00am

9.01 Representations of the Body in African-American Literature St. Pierre

9.02 Escritores hispanos de aquí y allá: polémicas y críticas del siglo XX Longueuil

9.03 Literary Hostesses Pointes-aux-Trembles

9.04 Performing Democracy: Cultural Representations in the Spanish Transition Verdun

9.05 Resilience Narratives in Literature and Popular Culture Jacques Cartier

9.06 Technologies et acquisition du français: un potentiel pédagogique tangible? as (Roundtable) Fundy

9.07 Considering the Reading of Films Lachine

9.08 Downtown: Cityscapes in Post-Wall German Literature Lasalle

9.09 Spanish Theater and the Contemporary Memory Boom La Verriere

9.10 Russian Poetry: The Silver Age Salon C

9.11 Teaching the Connections: Interdisciplinary Dialogue in the Classroom Salon D

9.12 Places, Faces, and Queer Spaces Salon E

9.13 Italian Short Story Salon F

9.14 Food as Reality and Metaphor in 20th Century Italy (Roundtable) Salon G

9.15 Literature and Time Salon H

9.16 Advocating for a Good Cause: Building and Maintaining a Strong French Program (Roundtable) St. Lambert

9.17 Les tropes artistiques: quelles nécessités textuelles? St. Michel

9.18 Fiction Writers, 1960 to the Present, and Their Use of Fairy Tales St. Leonard

9.19 Women, Utopia and the Fantastic in 20th and 21st-century narratives St. Laurent

9.20 Thinking the Sacred Today Westmount

9.21 Affect and Ethnic Literature Mont-Royal

9.22 Death Resentenced Hampstead

9.23 South Asia’s Orients Frontenac

9.24 The Urban Pastoral in Contemporary American Fiction Cote-St. Luc

9.25 Perception and Nation in Early America Le Portage

Session 10

Saturday, April 10, 10:15am-11:30am

10.01 Physical and Mental Diseases: Plague and Hypochondria in Italian Literature St. Pierre

10.02 Queer Transformations: From Page to Screen (and Back) Longueuil

10.04 Rethinking Home: Representations of Male Domesticity Verdun

10.05 The Sociability of Print Jacques Cartier

10.06 Nature in Italian Literature and Film Fundy

10.07 El espacio en el cine del siglo XXI Lachine

10.08 Violence & Passion in 20th Century Irish Literature & Film Lasalle

10.09 The Personal Narrative in Political Times (Creative) La Verriere

10.10 Don Quixote: Perspectives on the Life and Times of Miguel de Cervantes (Roundtable) Salon C

10.11 A Global Stage: Dramatizing the Non-Hispanic in Spanish Peninsular Theatre Salon D

10.12 Navigating the Academic Nexus (Roundtable) Salon E

10.13 The Politics of Our Shared Learning Space (Roundtable) Salon F

10.14 Italian Contemporary Poetry Salon G

10.15 Female Authors and Images of Femininity: From the Weimar to the Berlin Republic Salon H

10.16 Recent Trends in Sub-Saharan Francophone Literature and Criticism St. Lambert

10.17 La lettre pose-t-elle de nouveaux enjeux en littérature? St. Michel

10.18 Masculinities in Recent Francophone Literature: 1900-present. St. Leonard

10.19 Original Poetry and Teaching the Creative Writing Process (Roundtable) St. Laurent

10.20 The Cultures of Literature and Composition: Revisiting the Relationship (Roundtable) Westmount

10.21 Religious Argumentation in Women’s Writing of the Long Eighteenth Century Mont-Royal

10.22 Lessons in Sympathy in 19th-century British Literature Hampstead

10.23 New Perspectives on Martin R. Delany Cote-St. Luc

10.24 Writing Across the Medicine Line: Confinement and Freedom in Native Literature Outremount

10.25 The Silent Figure in Literature, Film and Culture Frontenac

10.26 Exhibit Talk: (Creative) Salon B

Session 11

Saturday, April 10, 11:45am-1:15pm

11.01 Gay Representations in Film: A New, More Androgynous, Nationalist Imaginary? St. Pierre

11.02 Gender and Expression in Chinese Literature Longueuil

11.03 Border Crossing Poetry (Creative) Pointes-aux-Trembles

11.04 Post-Colonial Theory Featured Speaker Verdun

11.05 Comparative Futurism Jacques Cartier

11.06 Cultural Memory and Diversity in Postunification Discourses Fundy

11.07 Lying With the Truth: Harrower, Nabokov, and Shanley Blink! Lachine

11.08 Popular Culture Area Event Lasalle

11.09 Ghostly Women & Apparitional Lesbians La Verriere

11.10 Teatro contemporáneo español visto desde EE.UU.: José Ramón Fernández Salon C

11.11 Multiculturalism and Globalism in the Millennial Classroom Salon D

11.12 La poesia italiana del XX secolo. Salon E

11.13 Her Story: Telling Stories of French and Francophone Women’s Lives Salon F

11.14 The Boundaries of Québec in Contemporary Immigrant Fiction Salon G

11.15 Redefining Masculinity in 20th-Century British Popular Fiction and Culture Salon H

11.16 American Collaborations St. Lambert

11.17 The Aesthetics of Social Problem Literature St. Michel

11.18 Translation and Identity: Transforming the Personal Toward the National/Global (Roundtable) Westmount

Session 12

Saturday, April 10, 1:30pm-3:00pm

12.01 Re-Defining / Re-Mapping Queer Identities (Roundtable) St. Pierre

12.02 National Identities in Twentieth Century Women’s Writing Longueuil

12.03 Beyond Traduttore/Traditore: Translation from/into Italian across the Centuries Pointes-aux-Trembles

12.04 The Multicultural Middle Ages Verdun

12.05 Whose Africa?: Representations of Africa in African and Diasporic Literatures II Jacques Cartier

12.06 Teaching The Story of the Stone as World Literature Fundy

12.07 New Media, New Narrative: Technological Effects on Student Writing (Roundtable) Lachine

12.08 Intrangers: les écrivains beurs des origines à nos jours Lasalle

12.09 Images of Prophecy: Dystopian and Apocalyptic Graphic Novels La Verriere

12.10 The Ethical Turn to Literature Salon C

12.11 Controversy as Art and Political (In)Correctness in Latin America Salon D

12.12 Ideology and Popular Culture in the Spanish Avant-Garde Salon E

12.13 Publishing an Edited Collection of Essays (Roundtable) Salon F

12.14 (Auto)biographical Features in Post-Unification Literature I Salon G

12.15 Literature as the Locus of Questioning and Evolution in French Caribbean Writing Salon H

12.16 The Enlightenment Philosophical Ethos: Persuasion and Literary Self-Fashioning St. Lambert

12.17 Poetry with Questions St. Michel

12.18 Literary Histories: Early Modern England’s Historical Fiction Tradition St. Leonard

12.19 Male Femininity in Twentieth Century Literature of the Americas St. Laurent

12.20 Ecocriticism and Canada II: (Re)Imagining Space, Place, and People Westmount

12.21 The Politics of Meat in the Nineteenth Century Novel Mont-Royal

12.22 Zadie Smith: After the First Decade Hampstead

12.24 (Re)Writing Anaïs Nin and Her Diaries Outremount

12.25 American Drama as Political Discourse Le Portage

12.26 Formal Progress? American Poetry 1890-1933 Frontenac

Session 13

Saturday, April 10, 3:15pm-4:45pm

13.01 Dictatorship and the Novel: A Transatlantic Comparison St. Pierre

13.02 No More ‘Happily Ever After’? : Rewriting Fairy Tales in the Postmodern Longueuil

13.03 Luis de Góngora’s Legacy in Modern Hispanic Literature Pointes-aux-Trembles

13.04 La novela gráfica: formas alternativas de narrar Verdun

13.05 ‘Mother of everyone’: The Art and Legacy of Muriel Rukeyser Jacques Cartier

13.06 Italian Urban Landscape and Identities. (Roundtable) Fundy

13.07 Teaching Italian Culture I Lachine

13.08 Best New Practices in Teaching Italian with Technology Lasalle

13.09 William Blake in Conversation La Verriere

13.10 Literary Studies and the Affective Turn (Roundtable) Salon C

13.11 Latin American Women’s Writing and the Fantastic Salon D

13.12 Completely LOST: Going Back to TV’s Most Elusive Island Salon E

13.13 Women and Politics in Swiss German Film and Literature Salon F

13.14 Traveling and Yet Standing Still? - Travel in the Age of Globalization Salon G

13.15 Between Present and Past: Nostalgia in Francophone Literature I Salon H

13.16 Rebelles, mécréantes et criminelles dans la littérature francophone St. Lambert

13.17 War in French Literature St. Michel

13.18 Cinema and the Narrative (Roundtable) St. Leonard

13.19 (Re-) Writing Caribbean History Through Literature St. Laurent

13.20 The Margins of the Logos: Children in 19th Century English Literature Westmount

13.21 Negotiating History, Memory, and Trauma in New South African Literature Mont-Royal

13.22 Jane Austen and the Contemporary World: Continuing the Conversation (Roundtable) Hampstead

13.23 With Great Pleasure: Sentimentality in Early African-American Literature Cote-St. Luc

13.24 Reconsidering Consolation in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Elegiac Writing Outremount

13.25 Illness, Wellness and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Writing Le Portage

13.26 The Changing Shape of the Suburb in Recent Fiction and Film Frontenac

Session 14

Saturday, April 10, 5:00pm-6:15pm

14.01 Rethinking Quality TV St. Pierre

14.02 Contemporary Italian Cinema Longueuil

14.03 Illuminating the Everyday Imagination Pointes-aux-Trembles

14.04 Spanish Golden Age Drama in Performance Verdun

14.05 Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust - in English or in German? Jacques Cartier

14.06 Dante meets MTV: Studying Medieval Literature in a Post-Medieval Context (Roundtable) Fundy

14.07 Literary Montreals (Roundtable) Lachine

14.08 ‘Limits of Language’: From Experimentation to Ethics in a Modern World Lasalle

14.09 Theorizing Compassion: Activism and Global Citizenship in Alice Walker La Verriere

14.10 Race and Narrative in Twentieth Century Literature Salon C

14.11 (En)Gendering Literary Translation Salon D

14.12 Travel-Writing from its Origins to the Present Salon E

14.13 Contemporary Jewish-German Authors (Roundtable) Salon F

14.14 Recent Trends in Sub-Saharan Francophone Literature and Criticism II Salon G

14.15 Maghrebian and Arabic Literature: Resisting or Embracing Modernism? (Roundtable) Salon H

14.16 The Church and Secularization in 20- and 21st-Century French and Québécois Lit Frontenac

14.17 Teaching the Connections: Interdisciplinary Dialogue in the Classroom II St. Michel

14.18 Translation and Human Rights St. Leonard

14.19 Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form: Buddhism and American Poetry St. Laurent

14.20 Our Present Time and Self-Made Misery: Anti-Industrialism in Tolkien’s Fiction Westmount

14.21 Rhetoric, Rights, and Transatlantic Modernist Fiction Mont-Royal

14.22 Poetics and Worldview: The Poet as Cultural Critic Hampstead

14.23 Capital in Crisis Cote-St. Luc

14.24 Montreal Poets (Creative) Irish Embassy Pub

Session 15

Saturday, April 10, 6:30pm-7:45pm

15.01 Women’s Caucus Event Mont-Royal

15.02 German Area Special Event Cote-St. Luc

15.03 Reception and Business Meeting for Anglophone Literatures Verdun

15.04 Cultural Studies and Film Screening (7:30pm) Verdun

15.05 Italian Language Area Business Meeting St. Lambert

15.06 Graduate Caucus Business Meeting Frontenac

Session 16

Sunday, April 11, 8:30am-10:30am

16.01 Italian Literature: From The Twentieth Century Into The New Millennium (Seminar) St. Pierre

16.02 The Ethical Turn to Literature II: Genre, the Reader, and the Political (Seminar) Longueuil

16.03 Ecocriticism and Contemporary American Literature (Seminar) Pointes-aux-Trembles

16.04 Inking the Self: Autobiography in Comics (Seminar) Verdun

16.05 ‘Why Do They Hate Us?’: Teaching 9/11 Literature (Seminar) Jacques Cartier

16.06 Exhibiting Capital(s): Berlin and Beyond (Seminar) Fundy

16.07 Places of Transformation and Connection in Postcolonial Francophone Writers (Seminar) Lachine

16.08 Post-Imperial Encounters between Spain and Portugal and East Asia (Seminar) Lasalle

16.09 Contemporary Trends in Latin American Narrative (Seminar) Mont-Royal

16.10 Narrativas de la memoria y la violencia política (Seminar) Salon C

16.11 The Articulate Silence of Women Authors/Literary Subjects in Early Modern Spain (Seminar) Salon D

16.12 Male in Progress Re-defining Masculinities in Italian Studies. (Seminar) Salon E

16.13 Italian Political Theatre from the Renaissance to the XXI Century (Seminar) Salon F

16.14 19th c. Italian Writing: National History, Literary Genres and Linguistic Norms (Seminar) Salon G

16.15 Literary production of non-territorial german-speaking writers (Seminar) Salon H

16.16 Comparative Postcolonialities (Seminar) St. Lambert

16.17 Four Dimensions: Spatio-Temporal Shifts Reflected in 19th-Century Literature (Seminar) St. Michel

Session 17

Sunday, April 11, 10:45am-12:15pm

17.01 Textual Refigurations: Rewriting Old Texts into New Contexts St. Pierre

17.02 Traveling Alone: Women Migrating Across Cultures Longueuil

17.03 Rethinking Narrative in Contemporary Poetry (Seminar) Pointes-aux-Trembles

17.04 Postmodern Tourism Verdun

17.05 Language, Literature, and Culture in Italy’s New ‘Multiculturalism’ (Seminar) Jacques Cartier

17.06 Envisioning the Spanish Empire Fundy

17.07 French and German Exile Writers: Dialogues Lachine

17.08 Teaching Italian Culture II Lasalle

17.09 Ghostly Women and Apparitional Lesbians II Mont-Royal

17.10 Walter Benjamin and Memory Salon C

17.11 (Auto)biographical Features in Post-Unification Literature II Salon D

17.12 Between Present and Past: Nostalgia in Francophone Literature II Salon E

17.13 Rebelles, mécréantes et criminelles dans la littérature francophone II Salon F

17.14 Zadie Smith: After the First Decade II Salon G

17.15 Performing Race in American Literature and Culture Salon H

17.16 Re-reading American Romance: Text, Context, Meta-text St. Lambert