Keynote Schedule

Thursday, February 27, 2014 – Day 1
1:30pm – 2:45pm
6th Annual Linda Hutcheon and J.Edward Chamberlin Lecture in Literary Theory
Veronika Ambros (University of Toronto)
“The Joy of Comparison”

Friday February 28, 2014 – Day 2
3:45pm – 5:00pm
Keynote Address
Vivasvan Soni (Northwestern University)
“How (Not) to Make Happiness a Political Idea: The Abandonment of a Politics of Happiness in the Eighteenth Century”

Saturday March 1st, 2014 – Day 3
3:45pm – 5:00pm
Keynote Address
Dina Al-Kassim (University of British Columbia)
“Digging Joy: Affirmation on Anti-Colonial Terrain”