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Exile’s Return

An EMiC Colloquium at the Sorbonne Nouvelle

Paris, France, June 28–30, 2012

(Conveners: Marta Dvorak, Dean Irvine)

PROGRAMME

Thursday, June 28th

8:00-8:45am Registration

8:45-9:00am Welcome and Opening Remarks

9:00-10:30am Session 1

Plenary: Modernism Reaching Out: From Paris to Planetarity

Chair: Dean Irvine (Dalhousie University/Yale University)

Andrew Thacker (De Montfort University)

Taking Root or Moving On? Modernism, Transnationalism, and Little Magazines

Suzanne Bailey (Trent University)

Remaking Diaspora: David Silverberg at William Hayter’s Atelier 17

Miguel Mota (University of British Columbia) and Paul Tiessen (Wilfrid Laurier University)

Malcolm Lowry’s “Lost” Novel (1931-44): From Paris Stories to Canadian Ashes to Archival Return

10:30-11:00am Break

11:00-12:30pm Session 2

2A: Transmedia Modernisms

Chair: Matt Huculak (Dalhousie University)

Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan)

New York to Paris: Transnational Modernisms in Adaptations of Mazo de la Roche's Jalna

Gilles Lapointe (Université du Québec)

Identité sans frontières : Edmund Alleyn et l’espace artistique parisien entre 1955 et 1970

Stéphanie Danaux (Université de Montréal) and Nova Doyon (Université Laval)

«Combien d’autres sont partis qu’on n’a jamais vus revenir?» Le débutant d’Arsène Bessette illustré par Théophile Busnel (1914)

Session 2B: Elsewhere Communities

Chair: Marc Fortin (Queen’s University)

Emily Robins Sharpe (Pennsylvania State University)

Honeymoon in Paris: Women Reporting the Spanish Civil War

Bart Vautour (Mount Allison University)

Reporting Spain: Modernist Journalism and the Politics of Proximity

Sophie Marcotte (Université Concordia)

Du Fémina à l’indifférence : Gabrielle Roy et la France

12:30-2:00pm Lunch

2:00-3:15pm Session 3

3A: Sheila Watson in Paris and Paris in her Journals

Chair: Paul Hjartarson (University of Alberta)

Matt Bouchard (University of Toronto) and Harvey Quamen (University of Alberta)

Bringing the Archive to the Streets: the WatsonAR Smartphone

Application

Kristin Fast (University of Alberta)

Mapping Sheila's Paris: just what did this exile return home with, anyway?

Linda Morra (Bishop’s University)

“I want my story told”: Modernism and Autobiographical Representation in

Sheila Watson’s Notebooks

Shirley Neuman (University of Toronto)

Sheila Watson, Paris, 1955

3B: Comme Il Faut: Exile and Return in Modernist Canadian Periodical Production

Chair: Andrew Thacker (De Montfort University)

J. Matthew Huculak (Dalhousie University),

The Cosmopole Writes Back: Exile and Return in Le Nigog

Faye Hammill (University of Strathclyde)

Modes de Paris: Literature, Fashion and Excess in Dispatches to Canadian Periodicals

Michelle Smith (University of Strathclyde)

The Pursuit of Elegance: Advice and Advertisements for Parisian Travel in Canadian Magazines of the 1920s and 1930s

3:15-3:30pm Break

3:30-4:45pm Session 4

4A: Edges of the Modern

Chair: Vanessa Lent (University of Alberta)

Manina Jones (University of Western Ontario)

Collaboration as Collage: Brion Gysin and the Cutting Edges of Modernism

Erin Wunker (Dalhousie University)

“Try Advil, try Stein”: Sina Queyras the Making of Contemporary Canadian Feminist Poetics

Mathieu Duplay (Paris 7 University)

Chinese Poems on the Moon: Writing the Canadian Landscape in Malcolm Lowry’s “The Forest Path to the Spring”

4B: Editing in Exile: Viewpoints from the Student Vanguard

A Roundtable

Chair: E.M. Kondusky (University of New Brunswick)

Melissa Dalgleish (York University)

Christopher Doody (Carleton University)

Hannah McGregor (University of Guelph)

Jennyfer Randall (Paris 7 University)

4:45-5:15pm Break

5:15-6:45pm Session 5

Session 5A: Enemies and Exiles

Chair: Glenn Willmott (Queen’s University)

Melissa Dalgleish (York University)

The White Goddess in Toronto: Jay Macpherson, Robert Graves, and the Exile of Canadian Modernist Mythopoeia

Leah Ellingwood (University of Victoria)

Digitizing the Enemy: Developing a Resources Website on Wyndham Lewis's Tarr

Adam Hammond (University of Toronto)

Figures on Familiar Ground: Paris, Toronto, and the Heavenly City in Sheila Watson and Wyndham Lewis

Session 5B: Sexuality, Textuality and Transculturality

Chair: Christopher Doody (Carleton University)

Katie Tanigawa (University of Victoria)

“The absolute change of atmosphere”: Locating Paris in Canada’s Nostromo

Jason Wiens (University of Calgary)

Tracing the Limits of the Obscene: John Glassco’s Revisionary Modernism

Margo Gouley (York University)

Metaphor and the Modern Critic: The Transcultural Contexts of W.E. Collin’s The White Savannahs

Emily Ballantyne (Dalhousie University)

Reading Backward: The Sexual and Textual Productions of John Glassco's Memoirs of Montparnasse

6:45-7:45pm Reception

Friday, June 29th

9:00-10:30am Session 6

Plenary: Glocal Poetics

Chair: Hannah McGregor (University of Guelph)

E.M. Kondusky (University of New Brunswick)

“This is called work by those who know”: The Genesis of Leonard Cohen’s Death of a Lady’s Man

Nadine Fladd (University of Western Ontario)

Revis(it)ing Modernist Moments: Morley Callaghan and The New Yorker

Catherine Lanone (University of Paris)

Reinventing the Image: T.S. Eliot and Emily Carr

10:30-11:00am Break

11:00-12:30pm Session 7

7A: Transnational Periodicals and Textual Migrations

Chair: Emily Ballantyne (Dalhousie University)

Jade Ferguson (University of Guelph)

“I’m Alabama Bound”: The 1930s International Anti-Lynching Campaign in the Pages of Masses and the Poetry of Dorothy Livesay

Louise Kane (De Montfort University)

“an exile’s magazine”(?): Palms (1923-30), transatlantic review (1924), transition (1927-38), and Epilogue (1935-8)

Zailig Pollock (Trent University) and Christopher Doody (Carleton University)

“I Have Changed”: Textual Transformations in P.K. Page's Brazilian Journal

7B: Routes of the Modern

Chair: Miguel Mota (University of British Columbia)

Marc Delrez (University of Liège)

Rilke in Frame

Johannes F. Evelein (Trinity College)

Locus of Exile: Paris in the Modernist German Novel

Mark Williams (Victoria University)

Dark Furniture: The Lugubrious Modernism of Late Manhire

12:30-2:00pm Lunch

2:00-3:15pm Session 8

8A: France-Québec Connections

Chair: Sophie Marcotte (Université Concordia)

Jacques Paquin (Université du Québec)

L’expérience littéraire de Gatien Lapointe en France (1956-1962) à travers sa poésie et ses archives personnelles

Michel Lacroix (UQAM)

Les exotiques à Paris (1910-1914) : entre modernismes et (néo-)classicisms

Sarah Alharbi (Université de Montréal)

Vers une phénoménologie de l’exil : quand l’exil du corps au Royaume des Idées symbolise le retour de l’âme à ses origins

8B: Writing Athwart: Editing Roy K. Kiyooka

A TransCanada Institute Panel

Chair: Kit Dobson (Mount Royal University)

Smaro Kamboureli (University of Guelph)

Letters from the Other Side: On Editing and Editing Roy K. Kiyooka

Roy Miki (Simon Fraser University)

Transforming inglish: Editing the Poetry of Roy K. Kiyooka

Glen Lowry (Emily Carr University)

Roy Kiyooka's 'Wheels': A Trip thru the Coach House Backcountry

3:15-3:30pm Break

3:30-4:45pm Session 9

Plenary: Global Migrations and Mutations

Chair: Marta Dvorak (Sorbonne Nouvelle)

John Thieme (University of East Anglia)

How Did Modernism Transform Itself When Nissim Ezekiel Shipped It to Bombay?

Laetitia Zecchini (CNRS)

Modernism in Indian Poetry: A Paradigm for Emancipation, Recovery and Creative Out-of-placeness

Hannah McGregor (University of Guelph)

Writing the “Foreign”: Narratives of Travel in the Writing Careers of Margaret Laurence and P.K. Page

4:45-5:15pm Break

5:15-7:00pm Keynote Presentations and Readings

Chair: Marta Dvorak (Sorbonne Nouvelle)

Mavis Gallant and Alberto Manguel

Saturday, June 30th

9:00-10:30am Session 10

Plenary: Intermedial Métissage

Chair: Gregory Betts (Brock University)

Katherine McLeod (University of Guelph)

Radio Modernism in Canada

Linda Steer (and Gregory Betts) (Brock University)

“I AM THAT AM I?” Brion Gysin’s Art of Unsettled Identities

Marta Dvorak (Sorbonne Nouvelle)

Image and Page: Mavis Gallant's Modernist Transmutations

10:30-11:00am Break

11:00-12:30pm Session 11

11A: Mansfield, Exile and the Self

Chair: Christine Lorre-Johnston (Sorbonne Nouvelle)

Simone Oettli (University of Geneva)

Katherine Mansfield and the Notion of Self

Elizabeth Welsh (University of Auckland)

Within the Pages of Rhythm: Mansfield, Exile and nostalgie de la boue

Janet Wilson (University of Northampton)

Mansfield, France and Childhood

11B: Place and Displacement

Chair: Bart Vautour (Mt. Allison University)

Travis Mason (Dalhousie University)

Reading Partridges and Others at the Edge of Ernest Buckler's Modernist Style

Marc Fortin (Queen’s University)

Marius Barbeau in Europe: Modernism, Ethnography, Translation

Robert Zacharias (University of Toronto)

“Brilliant Exile, for the Heart / Is and Not Makes, a Work of Art”: Modernism and the Aesthetics of Displacement in Canada

Tony Tremblay (St. Thomas University)

Locating Attitudes to Place in Canadian Modernism: A New Brunswick Study

12:30-2:00pm Lunch

2:00-3:30pm Session 12

12A: Wilfred Watson's Paris and the Problem of Finding a Canadian Idiom

Chair: Shirley Neuman (University of Toronto)

Paul Hjartarson (University of Alberta)

The Other Watson: Wilfred in (Another?) Paris

Gregory Betts (Brock University)

“I held all the hot egos of the world in my hand”: Conscious of Multi-Consciousness in Wilfred Watson’s Poetry

Vanessa Lent (University of Alberta)

Paris and Wilfred Watson’s Cockcrow and the Gulls

12B: Mansfield and Gallant: International Modernism and Paris

Chair: Janet Wilson (University of Northampton)

Sydney Janet Kaplan (University of Washington)

Mansfield, Manoukhin and International Modernism: Paris 1922

Anne Mounic (Sorbonne Nouvelle)

A Flavour of Paris in Katherine Mansfield’s Stories

Christine Lorre-Johnston (Sorbonne Nouvelle)

Women Abroad: Expatriation in Short Stories by Katherine Mansfield and Mavis Gallant

Teresa Gibert (Spanish National University)

Transculturality and Transnationalism in Mavis Gallant’s Writings

4:00-4:30pm Break

4:30-5:30pm Session 13

From Exile to Return: A Roundtable

Chair: Dean Irvine (Dalhousie University/Yale University)

Kit Dobson (Mount Royal University)

J. Matthew Huculak (Dalhousie University)

Glenn Willmott (Queen’s University)

Faye Hammill (University of Strathclyde)

Smaro Kamboureli (University of Guelph)

Shirley Neuman (University of Toronto)

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