The Western
Canadian Studies Association (WCSA)
and
The
Canadian Studies Program at UC Berkeley
invite
you to attend a symposium
Canadian
Studies: On the Edge
featuring
recent research on
The
day’s events are free but advance registration is required***
The
day’s events are free but advance registration is
required***
10:00
- 12:30 Paper session
Emma Bufton (Mills College) --"No longer a here or a there": Metafiction
and
Metadiscourse in Margaret Atwood's Bodily
Harm
Greg Croft (UC Berkeley) --Canada's Growing Role in
World Oil
Supply
Joe Dimento (UC Irvine) --Of Ameros, Jelly
Bean Standards,
Security and Prosperity: North American Transnational Governance
Jennifer Hoofard (Mills College) --"It is her
body
silent/and fingerless, writing this poem":
Margaret Atwood's Notes Towards a
Poem that Can Never Be Written
Karma Waltonen (UC Davis) -- Hearing Voices: Social
Prosthetic
Systems in Margaret Atwood's
Works
12:30 -1:30 LUNCH. Attendees are invited to join
us for
lunch. *** RSVP*** (acceptances only) to Rita Ross at canada@berkeley.edu or (510)
642-0531 no
later than Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008
1:30 Film and discussion
Nelson Graburn (UC Berkeley) will introduce and discuss
the recent documentary film Ullumi,
made by the Inuit, about life in Quebec's Arctic
town of
Nunavik.
Review
of Ullumi in The Concordian online
Associated
website http://www.ullumi.tv/en/index.php
supported
by the Government of
Monday,
March 03, 2008
2223
Fulton St., 6th floor conference room
(510)
642-0531
http://www.ias.berkeley.edu/canada
http://www.ias.berkeley.edu/canada