Friday,
September 26, 2008
8:30-9:15 refreshments and registration
(outside conference rooms Gander and Heron)
Session A
9:15-10:30 a.m.
Heron Room
L’Italie et l’Italien dans
la littérature française
Chair : Sante A. Viselli, University of Winnipeg
1. Sante A. Viselli, Présentation générale
de la thématique &
La fiction romanesque française du XVIIIe siècle
et l’Italie: l’exemple des Aventures
du chevalier Berardi
2. Armelle St. Martin, Université du Manitoba
Sade à Rome: art, sexualité et perversion
3. Antonio G. Viselli, Université de Perpignan
(France) et de Bergame (Italie)
De Gaetano Donizetti à Tristan Corbière:
le poète-apothicaire et L’Elisir d’amore
Session A
9:15-10:30 a.m. Gander
Room
Politics and the West
Chair : TBA
1. John Peacock, Maryland Institue College
of Art, Baltimore
Discourse on Western Planting
2. Marilyn Baker, University of Manitoba
Pearl Richmond Hamilton (Mrs. E. W.) of The Canadian
Thresherman
3. Sarah Aleshire, Minot State University
Postmodern Argonauts : Picking up the Fragmented Self
in Bret Harte’s Mining Tales
Coffee and refreshments
Session B
10:45-12:00 Heron Room
Le français dans l’Ouest
Chair : Alan MacDonell
1. Vincent Schonberger, Université Lakehead
Stratégies de réduplication interdiscursive
dans La petite poule d’eau de Gabrielle
Roy
2. Michelle Keller, Université du Manitoba
La présence ou l’absence de l’autre
dans La Liberté pendant le 100e anniversaire
de Saint-Boniface
3. Joseph Nnadi, University of Winnipeg
Le “Far West” de L’Amérique
du Nord dans l’esthétique baudelairienne
du Sauvage
Session B
10:45-12:00 Gander Room
The West in Literature
Chair: TBA
1. David A. Godfrey, Jamestown College, ND
“Artists of the Deceased”: Narrative Technique
and the Death of the Old West in Clyde Edgerton’s
Redeye: A Western
2. Andrew Trump, NDSU, Fargo
True West by Sam Shephard:“Territory’
and Displacement”
3. Mark William Brown, Jamestown College, ND
Howling Adventures Among the Injuns, Over in the Territory:
East as West in Rudyard Kipling’s Man Who Would
be King
Lunch Break
Session C
1:15-2:30 Heron Room
Theory of the West
Chair : TBA
1. Bruce Maylath, NDSU
A Response to Halloran’s 2007 Plenary Session
: Memories, Thought and Language along the United States’
Frontier West as Shaper of U.S. Foreign Policy in the
21st Century.
2. Eunice Johnston, NDSU
Searching for Adam and Eve: Rudolph Friedrich Kurz on
the Upper Missouri River
3. Ying Kong, UW, & Guizhi Wang, Harbin
Institute of Technology, China
Mapping Western Chinese Literature
Session D
2:45-4 :00 Heron
European West
Chair : TBA
1. Gaby Divay, University of Manitoba
Grove’s First Canadian Publication : «Rousseau
als Erzieher» (1914): FPG’s Model Nietzsche
in Munich & on the Prairies
2. Jorge Machin-Lucas, University of Winnipeg
Juan Benet’s Esthetic Program or the Inappropriate
Weight of Tradition
FRIDAY NIGHT
Dinner at Oceana
Restaurant, Pembina Highway
(6:00, 30$, please reserve in advance)
Saturday 27, 2008
Brunch and Business Meeting
“aux frais de la princesse”
32 Garnet Bay
(just off Pembina Hwy, 10 minutes walk from the Holiday
Inn)