The 45th Annual Conference
of the
Linguistic Circle of Manitoba & North Dakota

October 18-19, 2002

The Holiday Inn South, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Hosted by the
University of Winnipeg

Friday, October 18

12:30-1:00
Registration & Refreshments

1:00-1:15 (Heron)
Opening Remarks and Greetings:

Welcome and Introduction
Elizabeth Dawes
Dept. of French, University of Winnipeg
& incoming LCMND board member from the University of Winnipeg

Greetings to Open Conference
Neil Besner
Dean of Humanities, University of Winnipeg
& Past President of LCMND (1994)



1:15-2:45 (Heron)
Session 1: Reading Phrases and Images
Chair: Valerie Baseley (University of Winnipeg)

1. Mark Morton (University of Winnipeg): Gender Sequence on the Internet
2. Tracy Whalen (University of Winnipeg ): A Grammatical and Rhetorical Reading of Visuals: Cape Spear, North Americaās most Easterly Point
3. Elizabeth Dawes (University of Winnipeg): The Feminization of Phraseology

1:15-2:45 (Gander)
Session 2: Litt?rature de fiction moderne
Chair: Sante Viselli (University of Winnipeg)

1. Vincent Schonberger (Lakehead University): La rivi?re sans repos de Gabrielle Roy: une oeuvre tragi-comique, polyphonique
2. Vina Tirvengadum (University of Winnipeg, Coll?ge universitaire de Saint Boniface) - Le th?me de la Danse macabre dans Les Fleurs du mal de Baudelaire
3. Andr? Lebugle (Univeristy of North Dakota): Marcel Aym? lāinclassable

2:45-3:00: Coffee Break

3:00-4:30 (Gander)
Session 3: Reading Culture and Politics
Chair: Tracy Whalen (University of Winnipeg)

1. Karim Dharamsi (University of Winnipeg): Salman Rushdie, Islam and Mini-Skirtsä
2. Enrique Fern?ndez (University of Manitoba): Forgetting the Civil War: Memorials and Unmarked Mass Graves in Democratic Spain
3. Neli Gogovska (University of North Dakota): Representations of Eastern Europe in Bram Stokerās Dracula

3:00-4:30 (Heron)
Session 4: Po?tes, romanciers, et moralistes de l'?poque classique
Chair: Elizabeth Dawes (University of Winnipeg)

1. Joseph Nnadi (University of Winnipeg): Christianisme et f?minisme dans la po?sie d'Amable Tastu (1798-1885)
2. Sante Viselli (University of Winnipeg): Devoir versus Amour dans les romans de Madame de Tencin
3. Constance Cartmill (University of Manitoba): Le r(TM)le de l'alt?rit? dans la th?orie de la connaissance de soi de Pierre Nicole

6:00 Banquet: Private Dinner Room

Saturday, October 19

9:00-10:30 (Gander)
Session 5: Literature from Europe
Chair: Karim Dharamsi (University of Winnipeg)

1. Andrew Trump (North Dakota State University): The Screens: Genetās ĪVeiled Portraitsā
2. Louise Rene (University of Manitoba): Beauvoir before Sartre: Secrets of the 1927 Diary
3. Claudia Routon (University of North Dakota): Mother Figures in ĪAmor de madreā and ĪLa buena hijaā by Almudena Grandes and ĪGente que vino a mi bodaā by Soledad Puertolas

9:00-10:30 (Heron)
Session 6: Writing and Reading
Chair: Enrique Fern?ndez (University of Manitoba)

1. Kate Sweney (University of North Dakota): From Editor to Writing Coach
2. Gaby Divay (Univeristy of Manitoba): Frederik Philip Grove's e-published novel Jane Atkinson (ca. 1928): barely veiled references to Felix Paul Greveās Munich days in 1902
3. Robert Kibler (Minot State University): Three Variations on a Theme: Legge, Waley, and Pound Translate the Odes

10:30-10:45 Coffee-Break

10:45-12:15 (Gander)
Session 7: Women and Language
Chair: Robert Kibler (Minot State University)

1. Michelle Sauer (Minot State University): Where are the Mothers in Star Trek? Shifting Gender Representation in 1960s America-or at Least in 1960s Hollywood
2. Leslie Werden (University of North Dakota): Constructing Gender through Language: Djuna Barnesā Nightwood
3. Daniela Koleva (University of North Dakota): Women and Language in Leslie Marmon Silkoās Ceremony

10:45-12:15 (Heron)

Session 8: Reading Pop Culture
Chair: Mark Morton (University of Winnipeg)

1. Alan MacDonell (University of Manitoba) & Alexandra Kinge (University of Manitoba) -- The Top Ten Snappy Existential Pop Lines
2. Kathleen Dixon (University of North Dakota): Deploying Identity for Democratic Ends on Jan Publiek

Lunch and Business Meeting:

Chair: Enrique Fernandez
(Dept. of French, Spanish, and Italian, University of Manitoba
Vice-President of LCMND)