Saturday March 1st, 2014 – Day 3
9:15am – 11:00am
Panel 6 (Alumni Hall): Space matter(s)
Moderator: Kate Sedon (University of Toronto)
Stephanie Fung (University of British Columbia)
“(Re)Worlding Space, (Un)Doing Joy: Cosmopolitan Imaginaries and “Exquisite Corpses” in Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For”
Julia Polyck-O’Neill (Brock University)
“Civil Delirium: Lisa Robertson, Douglas Coupland, and the ‘Joy’ of the Vancouver Suburbs”
Sarah Piazza (Yale University)
“Music and Metafiction: Creative Listening in Caribbean Narrative”
Elizabeth Geary Keohane (University of Toronto)
“Inscribing joy into journeys : Michaux, Paulhan and Bouvier”
11:00am – 11:15am
Coffee Break
11:15am – 1:00pm
Panel 7 (Alumni Hall): Politiques de la joie
Modératrice: Joëlle Papillon (McMaster University)
Michaël Trahan (Université de Montréal / Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7)
“La cure d’idiotie de Valère Novarina : une politique de la joie”
Isabelle Galichon (Université Clermont-Ferrand)
“ ‘Si mes phrases sourient, c’est parce qu’elles portent du noir’ ”
Simon Harel (Université de Montréal)
“La joie simple des Montréalais”
1:00pm – 2:15pm
Lunch
2:15pm – 3:30pm
Panel 8 (Alumni Hall): Affirmative Ethics
Moderator: Élise Couture-Grondin (University of Toronto)
Alla Ivanchikova (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)
“Dangerous Feminisms and the Politics of Joy”
Raili Marling (University of Tartu)
“Killjoys and joy in feminist politics, art and fiction”
Grant Dempsey (University of Western Ontario)
“Becoming and Compassion: On the Importance of Joy”
3:30pm – 3:45pm
Coffee Break
3:45pm – 5:00pm
Keynote Address (Alumni Hall)
Dina Al-Kassim (University of British Columbia)