From Polarity to Circumpolarity: The Future of Canadian Studies in Europe

9:00

• The Ambassador of Canada in Sweden
• The Ambassador of Canada in the Netherlands (online)
• The Dean of the Faculty of Humanities
• The Head of the Department of Romance Studies and Classics

9:45

Keynote

• Rūta Šlapkauskaitė (Vilnius University). Case Closed? The Ethics of (Wildlife) Detection in Jeffrey Moore’s The Extinction Club

10:45

11:15

Environmental considerations

• «Chiara Falangola (University of New Brunswick). Au-delà du dualisme nature-culture : apprendre de la forêt boréale et des animaux non humains dans l’œuvre de Gabrielle Filteau-Chiba ».
• Lorraine York (McMaster University). “The World Was Just One Big Place for Me to Explore”: Reconsidering the Dichotomy of Self and Environment in Canadian Environmental Graphic Memoirs.
  

12:15

Lunch

14:00

Direction Nord

• Bill Marshall (University of Stirling). Lateral Movements, Concentric Circles: Quebec Cinema and the Arctic
• John Bessai (Independent scholar). Entangled Archives: The National Film Board of Canada and the Circumpolar Imagination
• Jen Andrews (Dalhousie University). Rethinking Canadian Nationalism: Going North in Camp Zero and North of North

15:30

Break and alternative tour of Stockholm University campus
with L. Anders Sandberg (York University, Toronto)

9:00

Keynote

• Rachelle Viader Knowles (Manchester Metropolitan University) & Judy Anderson (University of Calgary)

10:00

Break

10:30

Indigenous perspectives I

• Cécile Brochard & Dominique Peyrache-Leborgne (Nantes University). Dépasser les dualismes dans les littératures autochtones : poétiques de la métamorphose
• Yasmine Bendahmane (University of Blida). Circumpolarité et déconstruction des dualismes nordiques dans la littérature québécoise contemporaine : repenser le Nord et l’identité autochtone dans Kukum de Michel Jean
• Alexandre Lebreton (Nantes University). Le théâtre autochtone et l’obsolescence des polarités naturalistes : l’animal chez Tomson Highway (Cree), Dave Jenniss (Wolastoqey) et Émilie Monnet

12:00

Lunch

13:30

Keynote

• Diana Mistreanu (University of Passau). Risking Connection: Indigenous Theories of Emotion Between Storytelling, Life Writing, and Activism

14:30

Indigenous perspectives II

• Kirsten Emiko McAllister (Simon Fraser University). Rethinking Settler Stories and Our Relations to Indigenous Land in a Time of Climate Change
  

15:30

Conclusion of the conference and future perspectives

16:00

End of the conference