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Wednesday
June
19th |
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18:15 – 19:00 |
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Registration Table at the Welcome Event
Location: Kitchener Public Library, 85 Queen Street North, Kitchener, ON, N2H 2H1 (theatre, lower level) |
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19:00- 21:00 |
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Welcome Event
Launch of the “Moving on Land” issue of The Goose with co-editors Tanis MacDonald and Ariel Gordon and contributors Amy Wang, Leanne M.R. Charette, Amy Neufeld, and Yvonne Blomer.
Location: Kitchener Public Library, 85 Queen Street North, Kitchener, ON, N2H 2H1 (theatre, lower level)
Light snacks and soft drinks to be served |
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Thursday
June 20th |
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8:00 – 10:45 |
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Registration Table
Location: DAWB 2-106 |
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9:00- 10:30 |
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Land Acknowledgement + Opening Thematic Engagement Session
Host: ALECC Co-President, Jordan B. Kinder
Location: DAWB 2-106 |
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10:30 |
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Health Break location: DAWB 2-106 |
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Regular Sessions A, 10:45 – 12:15 |
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10:45- 12:15 |
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Delisted 2023: Mourning and Hope in the Midst of Mass Extinctions
Roundtable featuring Madhur Anand, Alissa Hattman, Adriene Jenik, Joanna Lilley
Facilitator: Madeline Bassnett
Location: DAWB 2-101
Narrativizing Migrations
Kit Dobson and Tathagata Som, Happiness Scripts in the Forest: Metaphors, Science Writing, and Simard’s Finding the Mother Tree
Meaghan Sych, Ecological Colonialism and the Impact of the ‘Englishman’s Foot’: A Literary Ecology of an Invasive Species
Ariel Kroon, “It might be easier now”: Non-migrants’ adaptations to a changed environment in The Late Great Human Roadshow
Chair: Kit Dobson
Location: DAWB 2-105 |
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12:15- 13:15 |
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Lunch – Boxed
Location: Paul Martin Centre
Mentor/Mentee pair-ups (Lisa Szabo-Jones will be your introduction facilitator at the Paul Martin Centre)
Members are Invited to BYOB (Bring Your Own Book) for a Launch Display
Location: Paul Martin Centre |
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Keynote, 13:15-14:15 |
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13:15- 14:15 |
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Deborah McGregor, The role of Indigenous law and knowledge in Environmental Justice
Host and Moderator: Jordan B. Kinder
Location: Paul Martin Centre |
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14:15 |
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Health Break
BYOB (Bring Your Own Book) Launch Display
Location: Paul Martin Centre |
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Regular Sessions B, 14:30 – 16:00 |
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Poets Walk I (Creative)
With Yvonne Blomer, Ariel Gordon, Roshan James, & Tanis MacDonald
Location: Meet at DAWB 2-101
Migrating Species: Poetic Engagements (Creative)
Philip Abbott, Jessica Marion Barr, and Jack Hoggarth, Elegies for Eels and Salmon: Disrupted Migrations in Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg Territory
Reuben Martens & David Janzen, Orchestrations of Carbon: Transformative Energy Soundscapes as Agents of Environmental Awareness
Geoff Martin, Channel Migration: Recording an Audiowalk Poetics of Schneider Creek, Kitchener
Chair: Jordan B. Kinder
Location: DAWB 2-106
Ornithologies: Migrating Birds, Poetics, and Preservation
April Best, Birdsongs Across Borders: Poetic Portrayals and Environmental Realities of Border Walls
Zahra Barzegar, Following the Nature’s Patterns in Indigenous Poetry
Alice Burns, “One place suits one person, another place suits another person. For my part I prefer to live in the country”: Beatrix Potter and the Migration to the Lake District
Chair: Jenny Kerber
Location: DAWB 2-105 |
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16:00 |
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Free Time |
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17:00 – 18:45 |
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BBQ and Alanna Bondar Literary Prize Winner Announcement
Location: The Quad (outdoors on campus but weather-dependent) |
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Plenary Session |
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19:00-
20:30 |
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Plenary
The Critical Refugee and Migration Studies Collective:
Counter-Archives of Refugee and Migrant Oral History and Digital Storytelling
Thy Phu, Maral Aguilera-Moradipur, Anh Ngo, & Muna-Udbi Abdulkadir Ali
Moderator: Lisa Szabo-Jones
Location: Paul Martin Centre |
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Friday
June 21 |
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8:00 – 10:15 |
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Registration Table
Location: DAWB 2-106 |
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Regular Sessions C, 8:30 – 10:00 |
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Literary Biodiversities
Sarah Krotz, Uproot: a meditation on prairie grasses
Molly Pearce, The Creator-Conservationist in Late-Twentieth-Century BC Women’s Poetry
Stephanie Oliver, Beyond Taxonomy: Smell, Biodiversity, and Sensing Otherwise
Rachel Burlock, Layering Narratives in Place: Twining with Wagons to Wings
Chair: Kit Dobson
Location: DAWB 2-101
Poetic & Sonic Energetics (Creative)
Melanie Dennis Unrau, The Goose Poetry Project
Joanna Lilley, Never coming back: a poetic exploration of more than human translocation
Chair: Lisa Szabo-Jones
Location: DAWB 2-104
Migration: Narratives, Materiality, and Identity in Theory and Practice
Jennifer Doyle, Micro-Migrations and Islandness
Sorouja Moll, 365 Day: you will never know: Migratory Movements of the Solitary
Greg Campbell, Embodied Experience, Implicit and Explicit Learning, In and Out of Place
Sarah Cardey, Narratives of Climate Mitigation and Migration in Aurora Province, Philippines
Chair: Jennifer Doyle
Location: DAWB 2-105 |
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10:00 |
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Health Break
Location: DAWB 2-106 |
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Regular Sessions D, 10:15 – 11:45 |
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Self and Family (Creative)
Amy Wang, Journeys of Generational Knowledge in Zou Bu
Robin Durnford, This is Not a Poem: An Emotional Migration
Roland Samuel, Oja Player: The Influence of Migration on International Students
Chair: Susie O’Brien
Location: DAWB 2-101
Resistance
Mailyn Abreu Toribio, Establishing Selfhood through Urban Wilds in Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street
Haruko Kudo, From a threat to a subject of protection: LGBTIQ+ refugees and asylum seekers under the politics of sexuality
Chair: Brent Ryan Bellamy
Location: DAWB 2-105
Speculative Fictions, Ecologies, & Migrations
Sydney Wildman, Gothic Ecologies: Colonial Migration and Disorientation in James De Mille’s A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (1888)
Emma Ferrett, Big Bugs, Small Humans, and Shared Territory in Michael Matthews’ Love and Monsters
Chair: Ariel Kroon
Location: DAWB 2-106 |
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11:45 |
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Keynote, 12:00 – 1:00 |
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12:00 |
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Madhur Anand, The Unnatural Histories of the Human Species: A Poetic-Scientific View
Moderator: Jenny Kerber |
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13:00 |
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Hot Lunch –
Location: Paul Martin Centre |
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Regular Sessions E, 14:00-15:30 |
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Poet’s Walk II (Creative)
With Yvonne Blomer, Ariel Gordon, Roshan James, & Tanis MacDonald
Location: Meet at DAWB 2-106
Migrating Discourses and Poetics
Joshua Schuster, Ecopoetics, Ecosemiotics, and the Motivated Sign
Abbie McCabe, Trans-versing Wastelands: Translation and Borders in Señales que precederán al final del mundo
Brennan McCracken, ‘Some wilderness. Some distance’: The rhetoric of migration and dispossession in Jordan Abel’s Empty Spaces
Chair: Brennan McCracken
Location: DAWB 2-105
(Post)Colonial and Intersectional Ecologies: Encounters & Representations
Jill Didur, Wastescapes and Critical Anthropocene Futures: Shipbreaking in Tahmima Anam’s The Bones of Grace and Edward Burtynsky’s Manufactured Landscapes
Jordan B. Kinder, Infrastructuralisms North and South 1970s
Chair: Susie O’Brien
Location: DAWB 2-104 |
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15:30 |
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Health Break |
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Film Screening and Discussion with Filmmakers, 15:45-17:15 |
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15:45 |
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Mark Robinson, Bracing for Armageddon: The Great Lakes as a Climate Refuge and Mark Terry, The Youth Climate Report: How Documentary Film is Being Used by the United Nations
Moderator: Ariel Kroon
Location: Arts 1E1 |
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17:15 |
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Free Time |
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19:00-
20:30 |
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Banquet (Optional and not covered by conference fees)
Wildcraft
425 King St N, Waterloo, ON N2J 2Z5 |
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Saturday
June 22 |
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8:30 |
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Annual General Meeting
DAWB 2-101 |
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9:30 |
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Health Break
Location: DAWB 2-104 |
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Regular Sessions F, 9:45-11:15 |
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Revisioning Migrations (mixed creative-critical)
Molly Wallace, The Internet Is a Place: On Migration
Thomas Letcher-Nicholls, Migration, Research Mobility, and Place: Learning from Water in the Contemporary Academy
Alec Follett, Where Land Meets Knowledge: Intercultural Relation Building in Indigenous and Italian-Canadian Fantastic Literature
Matthew Zantingh, A Story in a Different Tune: Trevor Herriot’s The Economy of Sparrows and Writing About Place
Chair: Ariel Kroon
Location: DAWB 2-101
Extra-Canadian Ecologies
Susie O’Brien, Undomesticating Canadian Ecologies in Mariam Pirbhai’s Outside People
Zahra Tootonsab, Exploring Decolonial Sheltering and Flourishing in Métis and Bakhtiari Art
Tania Aguila-Way, “the uncleanness of my dark skin”: toxic burdens and brown embodiment in sulphurtongue
Chair: Jenny Kerber
Location: DAWB 2-105
Creative Writing Workshop (2 hrs)
With Yvonne Blomer
Location: DAWB 2-106 |
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11:15 |
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Health Break |
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Regular Sessions G, 11:30-13:00 |
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Zine-Making Workshop
Hosted by Emma Carey
Pre-session info
Location: DAWB 2-101
Switching On: Teaching Environmental Literature in a Disengaged Classroom (wherever that may be)
Roundtable featuring Lisa Szabo-Jones, Jenny Kerber, Joshua Schuster, and Brent Ryan Bellamy
Facilitator: Lisa Szabo-Jones
Location: DAWB 2-104 |
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Optional Field Trips, 13:00- |
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Field Trip St. Jacobs Market for Lunch
Optional field trip to St. Jacobs Farmers Market ($15 bus fee added to registration)
Departure: Leaving from Campus (Parking lot to follow)
“surface/tension” – Schneider Creek Audiowalk (1.2km) and “FLOW” Art Exhibit (Globe Studios)
Optional field trip to Kitchener’s Victoria Park Lake (Willow River Park) and Inter Arts Matrix, Globe Studios (141 Whitney Place)
with The Creek Collective co-founders Geoff Martin, Sydney Lancaster, Deborah Carruthers
Travel: LRT South to “Victoria Park Station” or Bus #7 south on King St. to Kitchener City Hall (King/Young) then walk to 117 David St. to begin the audiowalk, which takes you south to Globe Studios.
Postcard flyers will be available for more info, or visit: https://thecreekcollective.com/surfacetension-(audiowalk) |
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