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  • Professor Professor Maeve Conrick0

  • Craig Dobbin Chair of Canadian Studies

  • University College Dublin

  • Memorial University of Newfoundland

  • University of Sherbrooke

  • Professor Maeve Conrick

  • Professor Wade Lock

  • Professor Marc André Fortin

14h00-15h00 : Registration (WIT)

15h00-15h15 : Welcome

15h15-16h45 : Panel 1 (Venue F02)  Reuniting Canada and Ireland/Réunir le Canada et l’Irlande

Chair: Dr Richard Hayes

  • Dr Jennifer O’Mahoney (WIT), Dr Ria Croll, (Memorial University) Maria Ronan (WIT) Apology and reconciliation - Magdalene survivor stories from Ireland and Canada.
  • John Maher, Richard Burke, Yogesh Jaiyawala, Sean Byrne (WIT) Residential Property and Retirement Income: bosom friends or distant relatives?
  • Kieran Cronin, WIT A voyage of discovery of the transatlantic immigration ships and passages of the William Graves & Sons shipping company of New Ross during the famine and post-famine period (1847 to 1859).


16h45-17h30 : Opening Keynote 1 Prof Maeve Conrick
Professor Emeritus, University College Dublin (Venue F02)
Language Policy and Language Planning in Canada and Québec: aspirations and realities


Introduction: Dr Paul Halferty

19h00: Mayor’s Reception (City Hall) and Presentation of Prix de la Délégation générale du Québec à Londres

09h00-10h30 : Panel 2  (Venue G18) Restoring lost voices in Canadian Literature/Récupérer les voix perdues dans la littérature canadienne.

Chair: Prof Marc André Fortin

  • Jana Marešová, Charles University, Prague Indigenous Literary Re-Generations: Traditional Storytelling in Contemporary Canadian Indigenous Fiction
  • Dr Robyn Morris, University of Wollongong Immigration, Dislocation and Belonging: The Cambodian Genocide in Canadian Fiction and Memoir.
  • Breanna Keeler, University of Ottawa Re-writing collective myths: Jordan Abel’s transformative translations of Marius Barbeau.

10h30-11h00 : Coffee

11h00-12.30 : Panel 3  (Venue  G18) Redesigning Canada on Stage and in Art/Redessiner le Canada au théâtre et dans l’art

Chair :Dr Riana O’Dwyer

  • Dana Cserepes, Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Surrey, BC. Re-imagining Canada by the Women Artists of the Beaver Hall Group
  • Kym Bird, York University Feminism, Social Gospel, and the Counterpublic in Clara Rothwell Anderson’s Joggsville Convention
  • Moira Day, University of Saskatchewan Shades of Irish/Canadian Nation, Immigration, and Theatre-Building on the Canadian Prairies

12h30-13h30: Panel 4A (Venue G18) Representing Space and Movement in Canadian Literature/Représenter l’espace et le movement dans la littérature canadienne.

Chair:  Dr Dervila Cooke

  • María Jennifer Estévez Yanes, University of La Laguna Re-Generation through Vulnerability: Connections across Migrant Stories in David Chariandy’s Soucouyant
  • Dr Christine O’Dowd Smith, WIT Re-visualising the North Atlantic: Naming the Islands in the poetry of Newfoundland & Saint Pierre et Miquelon.

12h30-13h30: Panel 4B (Venue G18) Linguistic Resistance/Résistance linguistique

Chair: Prof  Rachel Killick

  • Gillian Lane-Mercier, McGill Resisting Canada’s Federal Cultural Policies on Equity, Diversity, and Reconciliation.
  • Wilfred Denis, Université de Saskatchewan La confrontation de visions du monde dans la jurisprudence des droits en éducation dans les langues officielles au Canada. 

13h30-14h30 : Lunch

14h30-15h15 : Keynote 2, Prof Marc André Fortin (Venue G18) Affect, Pedagogy, Decolonization: Repatriating Indigenous Literature in Canada

Introduction Dr Julie Rodgers

15h15-16h45 : Panel 5  (Venue G18) Revisualising Canada and Quebec /Réenvisager le Canada et le Québec 

Chair : David Parris

  • Karine Bertrand, Queen’s University Transnationalisme et collaborations Québec-Autochtonie : pour une reconfiguration du paysage cinématographique canadien et Québécois.
  • Mercédès Baillargeon, University of Maryland Cinéma indé et esthétique de l’ennui dans le renouveau du cinéma québécois.
  • Prof Maura Hanrahan: University of Lethbridge, Alberta Re-imagining Canada's Indigenous Landscape: Erasing the Ktaqmkuk

16h45-17h30: Keynote 3: Prof Wade Locke, Memorial University of Newfoundland (Venue 18)  On the Edge: Memorial University's Contribution to Economic Development - Lessons for Ireland

Introduced by Dr Ray Griffin

17h30-18h30: ACSI AGM

18h30-19h30: Canadian Embassy Reception and Presentation of ACSI Prizes

19h30: Conference Dinner at Tower Hotel

09h00-10h30: Panel 6 (Venue F02)

Re-Reading, Remembering and Re-defining Canada through History/Relire, Rappeler et Redéfinir le Canada à travers l’histoire.

Chair: Dr Christine O'Dowd-Smyth

           Dr Rainer Baehre, Memorial University of Newfoundland  Re-interpreting the role of the Newfoundland fishery in Canadian history, 1755-1783         

           Ibrahim Berrada, Laurentian University Canadian Political Culture: History, Collective Memory, Values, Identity, and Ideology

  • Prof Raymond Blake, University of Regina,  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Canadian Citizenship

10h30-11h00: Coffee

11h00-12h00: Panel 7A  (Venue F02) Regenerating and Reacting to Politics in Canada and Ireland/ Regenerer et reagir a la politique au Canada et en Irlande

Chair: Dr Felicity Kelliher, Fulbright Scholar

  • Dr Thomas Mohr, University College Dublin Canadian Reactions to the Birth of the Irish Free State 1922
  • Paul Coleman, Brock University and University of Buffalo (27th) Canadian-American Survey of Attitudes Toward the Role of Government: The North American “Continental Divide”

11h00-12h00: Panel 7B (Venue F02)  Generation and Nation in Quebec Literature/Les générations et la nation dans la littérature québécoise.

Chair: Michael Brophy

  •  Dr Dervila Cooke, DCU (Recipient of the ACSI Prix du Québec, 2016) Childhood in the Works of Abla Farhoud
  •  Prof Rachel Killick, University of Leeds “Too much history, too little geography?” Re/membering the Québécois nation in Michel Tremblay’s Family Sagas.

12h00-13h00:  Keynote (4): (Venue F02) 

Prof Ged Martin, Emeritus Professor of the University of Edinburgh  A Canadian Studies Agenda: Past and Future

Introduction: John Maher

13h00-14h00: Lunch 

14h30-16h00: Guided Walking Tour of Waterford (optional)