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Conference Program
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For the Love of Words
Aboriginal Writers of Canada Conference
September 30-October 2, 2004
Location: CanadInns on Pembina Highway
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Organizers :
Dr. Emma LaRocque
Dr. Renate Eigenbrod
Department of Native Studies,
University of Manitoba
Sponsors:
Canada Council for the Arts
Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada
The University of Manitoba:
- Dean of Arts
- Institute for the Humanities
- St. John’s College
- Office of University Accessibility
- Department of Native Studies
- Department of English
Registration Fees:
Whole conference:
$ 75.00 (includes banquet, one lunch and coffee break foods)
$ 25.00 (Graduate Students/Unwaged/Underemployed
–includes the above)
One day:
$ 10.00 for Thursday
$ 25.00 for Friday or Saturday (includes the respective meal)
University of Manitoba students: no registration fees, but $ 10.00 for meal ticket
Thursday, September 30
8:00a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Registration
coffee/tea and assorted breakfast pastries (provided)
9:00a.m. Opening Welcome by the Dean of Arts, Dr. Richard Sigurdson
9:15 a.m. -10:15 a.m. Dr. Emma LaRocque: Opening Address
10:30 a.m. 12:30p.m. Panel One: The Poetics of Auto/Biography
Chair: Dr. Peter Kulchyski, (University of Manitoba, Chair, Department of Native Studies)
Deanna Reder (British Columbia). “Voices of the Plains Cree: Edward Ahenakew’s Autobiography in Disguise?”
Hartmut Lutz (Greifswald, Germany). “Interfacing of Fact and Fiction in the Autobiographical Writings of Howard Adams.”
Susan Gingell (Saskatchewan). “The Social Life of Sedna and Sky Woman.”
12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. LUNCH BREAK (on your own)
2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m. Panel Two: The Play of Poetry
Chair: Dr. Renate Eigenbrod
Rob Appleford (Alberta). “Whalebone and patches: some thoughts on imagination, aesthetics, and the ‘indigenous sublime’.”
Jesse Archibald-Barber (Toronto). “Other Skies in Nineteenth-Century Native-Canadian Elegiac
Lyrics: Colonial Resistance and Unity in Pauline Johnson’s Memorial Odes.”
Lally Grauer ( Okanagan) with Marie Annharte Baker. “Marie Annharte Baker as scavenger and bricoleuse.”
3:30 p.m. COFFEE BREAK (provided)
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. First Keynote Address: Armand Garnet Ruffo.
“Where the Voice was Coming From: An Examination of Early Contemporary Aboriginal Literature.”
7:30 p.m. Readings by Aboriginal Authors
Marilyn Dumont
Duncan Mercredi
George Kenny
Daniel David Moses
Ian Ross
Friday, October 1
8:30 a.m. Coffee/Tea and assorted breakfast pastries (provided)
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Second Keynote Address : Jeannette Armstrong
“The Aesthetic Qualities of Aboriginal Writing”
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Panel Three: The Complexities of Fiction
Chair: Dr. Emma LaRocque
Jane Haladay (University of California). “En’owkin as Novel: Female Community in Jeannette
C. Armstrong’s whispering in shadows.”
Maurizio Gatti (Laval). “Bernhard Assiniwi’s Saga or How to Keep the Beothuk Alive.”
Jessica Woolford (Manitoba). “Death Sending: Revisiting Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach.”
Jack Robinson (Grant MacEwan). “A Different Aesthetic Excellence: Locating the Multidimensional Behind the Linear in Thomas King’s Medicine River.”
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. LUNCH BREAK (on your own)
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Panel Four: The Aesthetics of Border Crossings
Chair: Dr. Wanda Wuttunee (University of Manitoba, Department of Native Studies)
Laura Johnston (Malaspina). “Dancing … We …Breathe: Journeying Inwards through Eden
Robinson’s Monkey Beach.”
Shelley Stigter (Lethbridge). “The Presence of Double Voice in Native American Literature: a Feature that Alludes to its Oral Roots.”
Pamela Sing (University of Alberta). “Textual Production of Mitchif Voices as Cultural Weaponry.”
3:00 p.m. COFFEE BREAK (provided)
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.: Readings by Aboriginal Authors
Emma Lee Warrior
Ruby Slipperjack
Richard van Camp
Beatrice Culleton-Mosionier
Gerry Williams
Lee Maracle
6:00 p.m. Cash Bar
6:30 p.m. Banquet (covered by registration fee or meal ticket)
8:00 p.m.: Drew Hayden Taylor’s presentation on Native humour
Saturday, October 2
8:30 a.m. Coffee/Tea and assorted breakfast pastries (provided)
9:00 a.m. -10:a.m: Third Keynote Address: Louise Halfe
“The Sacred Story of the Rolling Head, Cihcipistikwan-Atayohkewin”: An Exploration of Cree Thought in Language and Legend.”
10:30 a.m. - 12:00p.m: Panel Five: The Multiplicity of Voices
Chair: Dr. Warren Cariou (University of Manitoba, Department of English)
Kristina Fagan (Saskatchewan). “Reading Tomson Highway as a Cree Storyteller.”
Sam McKegney (Queen’s). “ ‘Analyze, if you wish, but listen’: The Positivist Literary
Methodology of Rita Joe.”
Heather Macfarlane (Toronto). “How Beth Brant and Chrystos Subvert, Invert,
Divert, Convert, Pervert and Avert (both Overtly and Covertly).”
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. LUNCH (covered by registration fee or meal ticket)
1:00 p.m. – 2:30p.m.: Panel Six: The Aesthetics of Resistance
Chair: Dr. Chris Trott (University of Manitoba, Department of Native Studies)
Jo-Ann Episkenew (First Nations). “Living and Dying with the Madness of Colonial Policies:
The Aesthetics of Resistance in Daniel David Moses Almighty Voice and His Wife.”
June Scudeler (Calgary). “’We got the right to speak’: Gregory Scofield’s Resistance Aesthetics.”
Warren Cariou (Manitoba). “ ‘How Come These Guns are so Tall?’ Anti-corporate resistance in Marvin Francis’s City Treaty.”
2:30 p.m. COFFEE BREAK (provided)
3:00p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Readings by Aboriginal Authors
Kateri Akiwenzie Damm
Marvin Francis
Gregory Scofield
4: 30 p.m. Dr. Renate Eigenbrod: Closing Remarks
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