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ALECC CONFERENCE 2024: MIGRATIONS<\/b><\/p>\n

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PROGRAM OF EVENTS<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Wednesday<\/b><\/p>\n

June <\/b><\/p>\n

19th<\/b><\/td>\n

 <\/td>\n18:15 – 19:00<\/td>\n <\/td>\n\n

Registration Table <\/b>at the Welcome Event <\/p>\n

Location: Kitchener Public Library, 85 Queen Street North, Kitchener, ON, N2H 2H1 (theatre, lower level)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n19:00- 21:00<\/td>\n <\/td>\n\n

Welcome Event<\/b><\/p>\n

Launch of the “Moving on Land” issue of The Goose<\/i> with co-editors Tanis MacDonald and Ariel Gordon and contributors Amy Wang, Leanne M.R. Charette, Amy Neufeld, and Yvonne Blomer.<\/p>\n

Location: Kitchener Public Library, 85 Queen Street North, Kitchener, ON, N2H 2H1 (theatre, lower level)<\/p>\n

Light snacks and soft drinks to be served<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Thursday<\/b><\/p>\n

June 20th<\/b><\/td>\n

 <\/td>\n8:00 – 10:45<\/td>\n <\/td>\n\n

Registration Table<\/b><\/p>\n

Location: DAWB 2-106<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n9:00- 10:30<\/td>\n <\/td>\n\n

Land Acknowledgement + Opening Thematic Engagement Session <\/b><\/p>\n

Host: ALECC Co-President, Jordan B. Kinder<\/p>\n

Location: DAWB 2-106<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n10:30<\/td>\n <\/td>\nHealth Break location: DAWB 2-106<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nRegular Sessions A, 10:45 – 12:15<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n10:45- 12:15<\/td>\n <\/td>\n\n

Delisted 2023: Mourning and Hope in the Midst of Mass Extinctions<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Roundtable featuring Madhur Anand, Alissa Hattman, Adriene Jenik, Joanna Lilley<\/p>\n

Facilitator: Madeline Bassnett <\/p>\n

Location: DAWB 2-101<\/p>\n

Narrativizing Migrations<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Kit Dobson and Tathagata Som, Happiness Scripts in the Forest: Metaphors, Science Writing, and Simard\u2019s Finding the Mother Tree<\/i><\/p>\n

Meaghan Sych, Ecological Colonialism and the Impact of the \u2018Englishman\u2019s Foot\u2019: A Literary Ecology of an Invasive Species<\/p>\n

Ariel Kroon, \u201cIt might be easier now\u201d: Non-migrants\u2019 adaptations to a changed environment in The Late Great Human Roadshow<\/i><\/p>\n

Chair: Kit Dobson<\/p>\n

Location: DAWB 2-105<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n12:15- 13:15<\/td>\n <\/td>\n\n

Lunch \u2013 Boxed<\/b><\/p>\n

Location: Paul Martin Centre<\/p>\n

Mentor\/Mentee pair-ups (Lisa Szabo-Jones will be your introduction facilitator at the Paul Martin Centre)<\/p>\n

Members are Invited to BYOB (Bring Your Own Book) for a Launch Display<\/b><\/p>\n

Location: Paul Martin Centre<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nKeynote, 13:15-14:15<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n13:15- 14:15<\/td>\n <\/td>\n\n

Deborah McGregor, The role of Indigenous law and knowledge in Environmental Justice<\/b><\/p>\n

Host and Moderator: Jordan B. Kinder<\/p>\n

Location: Paul Martin Centre<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n14:15<\/td>\n <\/td>\n\n

Health Break <\/b><\/p>\n

BYOB (Bring Your Own Book) Launch Display<\/b><\/p>\n

Location: Paul Martin Centre<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nRegular Sessions B, 14:30 – 16:00 <\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Poets Walk I <\/i><\/b>(Creative)<\/p>\n

With Yvonne Blomer, Ariel Gordon, Roshan James, & Tanis MacDonald<\/p>\n

Location: Meet at DAWB 2-101<\/p>\n

Migrating Species: Poetic Engagements <\/b>(Creative)<\/p>\n

Philip Abbott, Jessica Marion Barr, and Jack Hoggarth, Elegies for Eels and Salmon: Disrupted Migrations in Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg Territory<\/p>\n

Reuben Martens & David Janzen, Orchestrations of Carbon: Transformative Energy Soundscapes as Agents of Environmental Awareness<\/p>\n

Geoff Martin, Channel Migration: Recording an Audiowalk Poetics of Schneider Creek, Kitchener<\/p>\n

Chair: Jordan B. Kinder<\/p>\n

Location: DAWB 2-106<\/p>\n

Ornithologies: Migrating Birds, Poetics, and Preservation<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

April Best, Birdsongs Across Borders: Poetic Portrayals and Environmental Realities of Border Walls<\/p>\n

Zahra Barzegar, Following the Nature\u2019s Patterns in Indigenous Poetry<\/p>\n

Alice Burns, \u201cOne place suits one person, another place suits another person. For my part I prefer to live in the country\u201d: Beatrix Potter and the Migration to the Lake District<\/p>\n

Chair: Jenny Kerber<\/p>\n

Location: DAWB 2-105<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n16:00<\/td>\n <\/td>\nFree Time<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n17:00 – 18:45<\/td>\n <\/td>\n\n

BBQ and Alanna Bondar Literary Prize Winner Announcement<\/b> <\/p>\n

Location: The Quad (outdoors on campus but weather-dependent)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nPlenary Session<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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19:00-<\/p>\n

20:30<\/td>\n

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Plenary<\/b><\/p>\n

The Critical Refugee and Migration Studies Collective:<\/b><\/p>\n

Counter-Archives of Refugee and Migrant Oral History and Digital Storytelling<\/b><\/p>\n

Thy Phu, Maral Aguilera-Moradipur, Anh Ngo, & Muna-Udbi Abdulkadir Ali<\/p>\n

Moderator: Lisa Szabo-Jones<\/p>\n

Location: Paul Martin Centre<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Friday<\/b><\/p>\n

June 21<\/b><\/td>\n

 <\/td>\n8:00 – 10:15<\/td>\n <\/td>\n\n

Registration Table<\/b><\/p>\n

Location: DAWB 2-106<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nRegular Sessions C, 8:30 – 10:00<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Literary Biodiversities<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Sarah Krotz, Uproot: a meditation on prairie grasses<\/p>\n

Molly Pearce, The Creator-Conservationist in Late-Twentieth-Century BC Women\u2019s Poetry<\/p>\n

Stephanie Oliver, Beyond Taxonomy: Smell, Biodiversity, and Sensing Otherwise<\/p>\n

Rachel Burlock, Layering Narratives in Place: Twining with Wagons to Wings<\/p>\n

Chair: Kit Dobson<\/p>\n

Location: DAWB 2-101<\/p>\n

Poetic & Sonic Energetics <\/i><\/b>(Creative)<\/p>\n

Melanie Dennis Unrau, The Goose <\/i>Poetry Project<\/p>\n

Joanna Lilley, Never coming back: a poetic exploration of more than human translocation<\/p>\n

Chair: Lisa Szabo-Jones<\/p>\n

Location: DAWB 2-104<\/p>\n

Migration: Narratives, Materiality, and Identity in Theory and Practice<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Jennifer Doyle, Micro-Migrations and Islandness<\/p>\n

Sorouja Moll, 365 Day: you will never know<\/i>: Migratory Movements of the Solitary<\/p>\n

Greg Campbell, Embodied Experience, Implicit and Explicit Learning, In and Out of Place<\/p>\n

Sarah Cardey, Narratives of Climate Mitigation and Migration in Aurora Province, Philippines<\/p>\n

Chair: Jennifer Doyle<\/p>\n

Location: DAWB 2-105<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n10:00<\/td>\n <\/td>\n\n

Health Break<\/b><\/p>\n

Location: DAWB 2-106<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nRegular Sessions D, 10:15 – 11:45<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Self and Family <\/i><\/b>(Creative)<\/p>\n

Amy Wang, Journeys of Generational Knowledge in Zou Bu<\/i><\/p>\n

Robin Durnford, This is Not a Poem: An Emotional Migration<\/p>\n

Roland Samuel, Oja Player: The Influence of Migration on International Students<\/p>\n

Chair: Susie O’Brien<\/p>\n

Location: DAWB 2-101<\/p>\n

Resistance<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Mailyn Abreu Toribio, Establishing Selfhood through Urban Wilds in Sandra Cisneros\u2019 The House on Mango Street<\/i><\/p>\n

Haruko Kudo, From a threat to a subject of protection: LGBTIQ+ refugees and asylum seekers under the politics of sexuality<\/p>\n

Chair: Brent Ryan Bellamy<\/p>\n

Location: DAWB 2-105<\/p>\n

Speculative Fictions, Ecologies, & Migrations<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Sydney Wildman, Gothic Ecologies: Colonial Migration and Disorientation in James De Mille\u2019s A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder<\/i> (1888)<\/p>\n

Emma Ferrett, Big Bugs, Small Humans, and Shared Territory in Michael Matthews\u2019 Love and Monsters<\/i><\/p>\n

Chair: Ariel Kroon<\/p>\n

Location: DAWB 2-106<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n11:45<\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nKeynote, 12:00 – 1:00<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Madhur Anand, The Unnatural Histories of the Human Species: A Poetic-Scientific View<\/b><\/p>\n

Moderator: Jenny Kerber<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n13:00<\/td>\n <\/td>\n\n

Hot Lunch  – <\/b><\/p>\n

Location: Paul Martin Centre<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Poet\u2019s Walk II <\/i><\/b>(Creative)<\/p>\n

With  Yvonne Blomer, Ariel Gordon, Roshan James, & Tanis MacDonald<\/p>\n

Location: Meet at DAWB 2-106<\/p>\n

Migrating Discourses and Poetics<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Joshua Schuster, Ecopoetics, Ecosemiotics, and the Motivated Sign<\/p>\n

Abbie McCabe, Trans-versing Wastelands: Translation and Borders in Se\u00f1ales que preceder\u00e1n al final del mundo<\/i><\/p>\n

Brennan McCracken, \u2018Some wilderness. Some distance\u2019: The rhetoric of migration and dispossession in Jordan Abel\u2019s Empty Spaces<\/i><\/p>\n

Chair: Brennan McCracken<\/p>\n

Location: DAWB 2-105<\/p>\n

(Post)Colonial and Intersectional Ecologies: Encounters & Representations<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Jill Didur, Wastescapes and Critical Anthropocene Futures: Shipbreaking in Tahmima Anam\u2019s The Bones of Grace<\/i> and Edward Burtynsky\u2019s Manufactured Landscapes<\/i><\/p>\n

Jordan B. Kinder, Infrastructuralisms North and South 1970s<\/p>\n

Chair: Susie O’Brien<\/p>\n

Location: DAWB 2-104 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n15:30<\/td>\n <\/td>\nHealth Break<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nFilm Screening and Discussion with Filmmakers, 15:45-17:15<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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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<\/b><\/p>\n

Moderator: Ariel Kroon<\/p>\n

Location: Arts 1E1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n17:15<\/td>\n <\/td>\nFree Time<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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19:00-<\/p>\n

20:30<\/td>\n

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Banquet (Optional and not covered by conference fees)<\/b><\/p>\n

Wildcraft<\/p>\n

425 King St N, Waterloo, ON N2J 2Z5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Saturday<\/b><\/p>\n

June 22<\/b><\/td>\n

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 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n8:30<\/td>\n <\/td>\n\n

Annual General Meeting<\/b><\/p>\n

DAWB 2-101<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n9:30<\/td>\n <\/td>\n\n

Health Break<\/b><\/p>\n

Location: DAWB 2-104<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\nRegular Sessions F, 9:45-11:15<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Revisioning Migrations <\/i><\/b>(mixed creative-critical)<\/p>\n

Molly Wallace, The Internet Is a Place: On Migration<\/p>\n

Thomas Letcher-Nicholls, Migration, Research Mobility, and Place: Learning from Water in the Contemporary Academy<\/p>\n

Alec Follett, Where Land Meets Knowledge: Intercultural Relation Building in Indigenous and Italian-Canadian Fantastic Literature<\/p>\n

Matthew Zantingh, A Story in a Different Tune: Trevor Herriot\u2019s The Economy of Sparrows<\/i> and Writing About Place<\/i><\/p>\n

Chair: Ariel Kroon<\/p>\n

Location: DAWB 2-101<\/p>\n

Extra-Canadian Ecologies<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Susie O’Brien, Undomesticating Canadian Ecologies in Mariam Pirbhai\u2019s Outside People<\/i><\/p>\n

Zahra Tootonsab, Exploring Decolonial Sheltering and Flourishing in M\u00e9tis and Bakhtiari Art<\/p>\n

Tania Aguila-Way, \u201cthe uncleanness of my dark skin\u201d: toxic burdens and brown embodiment in sulphurtongue<\/i><\/p>\n

Chair: Jenny Kerber<\/p>\n

Location: DAWB 2-105<\/p>\n

Creative Writing Workshop (2 hrs)<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

With Yvonne Blomer <\/p>\n

Location: DAWB 2-106<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n11:15 <\/td>\n <\/td>\nHealth Break<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Zine-Making Workshop<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Hosted by Emma Carey<\/p>\n

Pre-session info<\/a><\/p>\n

Location: DAWB 2-101<\/p>\n

Switching On: Teaching Environmental Literature in a Disengaged Classroom (wherever that may be)<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Roundtable featuring Lisa Szabo-Jones, Jenny Kerber, Joshua Schuster, and Brent Ryan Bellamy<\/p>\n

Facilitator: Lisa Szabo-Jones<\/p>\n

Location: DAWB 2-104<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Field Trip St. Jacobs Market for Lunch<\/b><\/p>\n

Optional field trip to St. Jacobs Farmers Market ($15 bus fee added to registration) <\/p>\n

Departure: Leaving from Campus (Parking lot to follow)<\/p>\n

“surface\/tension” – Schneider Creek Audiowalk (1.2km) and “FLOW” Art Exhibit (Globe Studios)<\/b><\/p>\n

Optional field trip to Kitchener’s Victoria Park Lake (Willow River Park) and Inter Arts Matrix, Globe Studios (141 Whitney Place)<\/p>\n

with The Creek Collective co-founders Geoff Martin, Sydney Lancaster, Deborah Carruthers<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Postcard flyers will be available for more info, or visit:  https:\/\/thecreekcollective.com\/surfacetension-(audiowalk)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n

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