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 Canada

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 Canada

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