Friday, September 26, 2008

8:30-9:15 refreshments and registration
(outside conference rooms Gander and Heron)

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Session A
9:15-10:30 a.m. Heron Room
L’Italie et l’Italien dans la littérature française
Chair : Sante A. Viselli, University of Winnipeg

1. Sante A. Viselli, Présentation générale de la thématique &
La fiction romanesque française du XVIIIe siècle et l’Italie: l’exemple des Aventures du chevalier Berardi
2. Armelle St. Martin, Université du Manitoba
Sade à Rome: art, sexualité et perversion
3. Antonio G. Viselli, Université de Perpignan (France) et de Bergame (Italie)
De Gaetano Donizetti à Tristan Corbière: le poète-apothicaire et L’Elisir d’amore

Session A
9:15-10:30 a.m. Gander Room
Politics and the West
Chair : TBA

1. John Peacock, Maryland Institue College of Art, Baltimore
Discourse on Western Planting
2. Marilyn Baker, University of Manitoba
Pearl Richmond Hamilton (Mrs. E. W.) of The Canadian Thresherman
3. Sarah Aleshire, Minot State University
Postmodern Argonauts : Picking up the Fragmented Self in Bret Harte’s Mining Tales

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Coffee and refreshments

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Session B
10:45-12:00 Heron Room
Le français dans l’Ouest
Chair : Alan MacDonell

1. Vincent Schonberger, Université Lakehead
Stratégies de réduplication interdiscursive dans La petite poule d’eau de Gabrielle Roy
2. Michelle Keller, Université du Manitoba
La présence ou l’absence de l’autre dans La Liberté pendant le 100e anniversaire de Saint-Boniface
3. Joseph Nnadi, University of Winnipeg
Le “Far West” de L’Amérique du Nord dans l’esthétique baudelairienne du Sauvage

Session B
10:45-12:00 Gander Room
The West in Literature
Chair: TBA

1. David A. Godfrey, Jamestown College, ND
“Artists of the Deceased”: Narrative Technique and the Death of the Old West in Clyde Edgerton’s Redeye: A Western
2. Andrew Trump, NDSU, Fargo
True West by Sam Shephard:“Territory’ and Displacement”
3. Mark William Brown, Jamestown College, ND
Howling Adventures Among the Injuns, Over in the Territory: East as West in Rudyard Kipling’s Man Who Would be King

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Lunch Break

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Session C
1:15-2:30 Heron Room
Theory of the West
Chair : TBA

1. Bruce Maylath, NDSU
A Response to Halloran’s 2007 Plenary Session : Memories, Thought and Language along the United States’ Frontier West as Shaper of U.S. Foreign Policy in the 21st Century.
2. Eunice Johnston, NDSU
Searching for Adam and Eve: Rudolph Friedrich Kurz on the Upper Missouri River
3. Ying Kong, UW, & Guizhi Wang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Mapping Western Chinese Literature

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Session D
2:45-4 :00 Heron
European West
Chair : TBA

1. Gaby Divay, University of Manitoba
Grove’s First Canadian Publication : «Rousseau als Erzieher» (1914): FPG’s Model Nietzsche in Munich & on the Prairies
2. Jorge Machin-Lucas, University of Winnipeg
Juan Benet’s Esthetic Program or the Inappropriate Weight of Tradition

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FRIDAY NIGHT
Dinner at Oceana Restaurant, Pembina Highway
(6:00, 30$, please reserve in advance)

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Saturday 27, 2008
Brunch and Business Meeting
“aux frais de la princesse”
32 Garnet Bay
(just off Pembina Hwy, 10 minutes walk from the Holiday Inn)