Conference / Tradeshow
andrea.schwenke.wyile@acadiau.ca
(902) 585-1502
Event in Room: 132
Atlantic Child, Youth, & Place: Growing through Grit
8:30 AM - 9:15 AM
Conference Registration
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Session 7
The Absence of Childhood: Elizabeth Bishop and the Imaginary Maritimes. Adam Beardsworth, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University
Dear Atlantic Canada: Child Figures in Flame and Ashes and No Safe Harbour. Katherine Bell, Wilfrid Laurier University
10:15 – 11:15
Session 8
Newfoundland’s Precarious Childhoods. Helene Staveley, Memorial University
Imagining and becoming: notions of place and belonging in Viola Desmond Won’t be Budged. Heather Phipps, McGill University
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Break
11:30 AM – 12: 30
***KEYNOTE PRESENTATION*** open to public
Form, Purpose, and Implied Readers: Considering Audience for the Jack Series by Andy Jones and Darka Erdelji. Teya Rosenberg, Texas State University. San Marcos.
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Lunch
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Session 9
The Comic Construction of Youth in Wayne Johnston’s The Story of Bobby O’Malley (1985) and Jessica Grant’s Come, Thou Tortoise (2009). Scott Pollard, Newport University.
The Künstlerroman in Lynn Coady’s Atlantic Canada:Ghazals, Emails, and Other Ways of Growing Up in Mean Boy and The Antagonist. Tom Halford, Memorial University
3:00 PM – 3:15 PM
Break
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM
Session 10
"'Get a holt a yerself': Little Simon in David Adams Richards's Lives of Short Duration." Herb Wyile,Acadia University
Go away, b’y!: Young People and the Old Outport in Newfoundland and Labrador Literature. Paul Chafe, Ryerson
“You can call me Columbine all you want”: Adolescence and Bullying in Contemporary Nova Scotia Literature and Pop Culture. Peter Thompson, Carleton University
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM
Closing Words
5 or 6:00 PM –
Optional Unwinding Options:
Theatre Off the Grid: The Tempest @ 6 PM & /or The Turn of the Screw (by the Fire) @ 9:30 PM (picnics available)
andrea.schwenke.wyile@acadiau.ca
(902) 585-1502
Event in Room: 132
Atlantic Child, Youth, & Place: Growing through Grit
8:30 AM - 9:15 AM
Conference Registration
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Session 7
The Absence of Childhood: Elizabeth Bishop and the Imaginary Maritimes. Adam Beardsworth, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University
Dear Atlantic Canada: Child Figures in Flame and Ashes and No Safe Harbour. Katherine Bell, Wilfrid Laurier University
10:15 – 11:15
Session 8
Newfoundland’s Precarious Childhoods. Helene Staveley, Memorial University
Imagining and becoming: notions of place and belonging in Viola Desmond Won’t be Budged. Heather Phipps, McGill University
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Break
11:30 AM – 12: 30
***KEYNOTE PRESENTATION*** open to public
Form, Purpose, and Implied Readers: Considering Audience for the Jack Series by Andy Jones and Darka Erdelji. Teya Rosenberg, Texas State University. San Marcos.
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Lunch
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Session 9
The Comic Construction of Youth in Wayne Johnston’s The Story of Bobby O’Malley (1985) and Jessica Grant’s Come, Thou Tortoise (2009). Scott Pollard, Newport University.
The Künstlerroman in Lynn Coady’s Atlantic Canada:Ghazals, Emails, and Other Ways of Growing Up in Mean Boy and The Antagonist. Tom Halford, Memorial University
3:00 PM – 3:15 PM
Break
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM
Session 10
"'Get a holt a yerself': Little Simon in David Adams Richards's Lives of Short Duration." Herb Wyile,Acadia University
Go away, b’y!: Young People and the Old Outport in Newfoundland and Labrador Literature. Paul Chafe, Ryerson
“You can call me Columbine all you want”: Adolescence and Bullying in Contemporary Nova Scotia Literature and Pop Culture. Peter Thompson, Carleton University
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM
Closing Words
5 or 6:00 PM –
Optional Unwinding Options:
Theatre Off the Grid: The Tempest @ 6 PM & /or The Turn of the Screw (by the Fire) @ 9:30 PM (picnics available)
Pricing & Tickets
Pricing: $20 per session, $75 for the day, or Full Conference Fee ($195 regular; $100 student/retired/unwaged). Keynote presentation at 11:30am is free.
Where to buy Tickets: During conference registration times on conference days or online
Purchase Tickets Online
Where to buy Tickets: During conference registration times on conference days or online
Purchase Tickets Online
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