From Darwin to The Beatles - Bishop's University
From Darwin to The Beatles - Bishop's University
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Welcome <strong>to</strong> the<br />
3rd annual Quebec<br />
Universities English<br />
Undergraduate<br />
Conference!<br />
This is your guide <strong>to</strong> navigate<br />
the events of the QUEUC<br />
weekend. <strong>The</strong> theme for this<br />
year’s conference is ‘<strong>From</strong><br />
<strong>Darwin</strong> <strong>to</strong> the <strong>Beatles</strong>:<br />
Narratives of Evolution and<br />
Revolution.’ We hope that you<br />
enjoy your stay in the beautiful<br />
Eastern Townships.<br />
Panels on Friday, February 24th<br />
Cleghorn<br />
Session A: 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm<br />
Sites of Struggle in Decolonized Racial Identity<br />
Jessika Deschenes (Laval): “Charles Chesnutt’s Subversion<br />
of Plantation Stereotypes”<br />
Jason Michael Beland (Laval): “A Morality S<strong>to</strong>ry Founded<br />
on the Characteristics of Oral Tradition and Fairy Tales:<br />
Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness”<br />
Sabrina Penon-Meunier (U de M): “Crime, Self-development,<br />
and the Nigerian Romance”<br />
QUEUC 2012 Schedule<br />
When and where <strong>to</strong> find all events for QUEUC weekend.<br />
Please refer <strong>to</strong> panel details inside brochure for listings of<br />
presenters and session locations.<br />
Friday, February 24th<br />
01:00 pm – Registration (Cleghorn)<br />
02:00 pm – Panels: Session A<br />
03:30 pm – Panels: Session B<br />
05:00 pm – Registration (Cleghorn)<br />
05:30 pm – Dinner (Cleghorn)<br />
07:00 pm – Mock Trial (<strong>The</strong> Gait)<br />
09:00 pm – <strong>The</strong> Gait<br />
Saturday, February 25th<br />
08:30 am – Registration and Breakfast (Cleghorn)<br />
09:30 am – Welcome Address (Cleghorn)<br />
10:00 am – Panels: Session 1<br />
11:30 am – Panels: Session 2<br />
12:45 pm – Lunch<br />
01:45 pm – Panels: Session 3<br />
03:15 pm – Panels: Session 4<br />
05:00pm – Wine & Cheese (Adam’s Dining Room)<br />
06:00 pm – Dinner (Dewhurst Dining Hall)<br />
09:00 pm – Poetry Slam (<strong>The</strong> Lion)<br />
2012<br />
<strong>From</strong> <strong>Darwin</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Beatles</strong><br />
Session B: 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm<br />
Colonial Identities: Negotiation and Reconciliation<br />
Alexandre Gayk-Lemay (Laval): “Negotiation of Harassment<br />
and Attainment of Equality in the Narratives of Frederick<br />
Douglass’s and Harriet Jacobs’s Lives”<br />
Delan Hamasoor (York): “Ex Pede Dolorem: Cross-Cultural<br />
Exchange and Representation in V.S. Naipaul’s ‘One out<br />
of Many’”<br />
Kristy Benz (Bishop’s): “Spaces of Resistance: Xuela as<br />
the Third Space in <strong>The</strong> Au<strong>to</strong>biography of My Mother”<br />
Laurel Rogers (UBC): “Natives, Interlopers, and the<br />
Rightful Inheri<strong>to</strong>rs: Colonial and Postcolonial Tensions in<br />
Stargate: Atlantis”<br />
Dr Riddell and QUEUC would like <strong>to</strong> thank:<br />
VP Academic Michael Childs, Dean of Arts and<br />
Sciences Benoit Bacon, and the Office of<br />
<strong>University</strong> Advancement.<br />
Quebec Universities English Undergraduate Conference
Cleghorn<br />
Session 1: 10:00 am – 11:15 am<br />
Experiments in Genre: Prose, Narratives, and Identity<br />
Gillian Massel (McGill): “Hybrid Genres: Re-conceptualizing<br />
19th Century Realism in George Elliot’s Silas Marner and<br />
Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles”<br />
Denise St. Pierre (Bishop’s): “<strong>From</strong> Aqaba <strong>to</strong> ‘<strong>The</strong> Voice of the<br />
Guns’: Musical Symbolism and the Evolution of Identity in David<br />
Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia”<br />
Nora Karailieva (U de M): “<strong>The</strong> Defamiliarization of Life in<br />
Cormac McCarthy’s <strong>The</strong> Road”<br />
Session 2: 11:30 am – 12:45 pm<br />
Psychological States: Behaviour, Adaptation and Fragmentation<br />
Anne-Marie Dorais (U de M): “<strong>The</strong> Emergence of Animal<br />
Instincts: A Means of Adaptation in the Post Apocalyptic Narrative”<br />
Tiffany Morris (Dalhousie): “Numinous Machine: <strong>The</strong> Psychological<br />
and Emotional Status of Roy Batty in Blade Runner<br />
(1982)”<br />
Kathleen MacDougall (Concordia): “Lolita and Lacan’s Mirror<br />
Stage”<br />
Alexei Fraser (UBC): “Fragmentation of the Human Psyche in<br />
King Lear”<br />
Session 3: 1:45 pm – 3:00 pm<br />
Evolutions in Language and Technology<br />
Michael Saunders (Concordia): “Evolution and its Temporal<br />
Discontents: Metaphysical, geologic, and technological time as<br />
evolutionary processes in Don Delillo’s Point Omega”<br />
Kayla Piecaitis (Concordia): “Concerning the rift between nature<br />
and mankind in Michael Ondaatje’s <strong>The</strong> Dainty Monsters”<br />
Veronica Belafi (Concordia): “Retroviral Retro-Quoting in Pontypool<br />
Changes Everything”<br />
Session 4: 3:15 pm – 4:30 pm<br />
Representation of Humanity in Hyperreality<br />
Isaac Macdougall (Dalhousie): “Holy Bat-Simulacra! We’re<br />
Surrounded by the Hyperreal!: Miller’s Incorporation of Baudrillard’s<br />
<strong>The</strong>ories”<br />
Emily Quail (York): “<strong>The</strong> Discontents of Ballard’s Civilization:<br />
A Freudian Analysis of J.G. Ballard’s Televisual Society”<br />
Alexis Chouan (Bishop’s): “<strong>The</strong> Apocalypse of the Hyperreal: A<br />
Cultural Critique of 9/11 as an Apocalyptic Spectacle”<br />
Panels on Saturday, February 25th<br />
Old Library<br />
Session 1: 10:00 am – 11:15 am<br />
<strong>The</strong> Power of Performance: Language, Politics, and Feminism<br />
in <strong>The</strong>atre<br />
Fanny Dvorkin (Concordia): “Destroyed Talking: Verbal Violence<br />
in J.M. Synge’s Playboy of the Western World”<br />
Alexandra Lee (Concordia): “<strong>The</strong> Hegelian Lordship of Lear in<br />
Shakespeare’s King Lear”<br />
Zoë Erwin Longstaff (McGill): “Feminist Tragedy: <strong>The</strong> ‘Real’<br />
and Surreal In Sarah Kane’s Blasted and Caryl Churchill’s Top<br />
Girls”<br />
Emily St-Aubin (Bishop’s): “I Am Not an Emotional Creature:<br />
A Critique of Eve Ensler’s Latest Work”<br />
Session 2: 11:30 am – 12:45 pm<br />
<strong>The</strong> Female Gaze: Reifying Gender<br />
Bethan Chalke (Bishop’s): “Windows <strong>to</strong> the Soul: Duessa’s<br />
Gaze in Edmund Spenser’s ‘<strong>The</strong> Faerie Queene’”<br />
Drew Simpson (Concordia): “Exceeding the Mark: <strong>The</strong> Masculine<br />
Gaze and Ekphrastic Rebellion in Robert Browning’s ‘My<br />
Last Duchess’”<br />
Laura Yaternick (Bishop’s): “Dude Comedy Revisited: How<br />
Bridesmaids Reshapes Hollywood Comedy”<br />
Session 3: 1:45 pm – 3:00 pm<br />
Fraudulent Couples: Marriage and its Discontents<br />
Alexandra Pope (Bishop’s): “A Bird Of Paradise And A Steely<br />
Arctic Thing: Incompatibility Between Gerald Crich And Gudrun<br />
Brangwen In D.H Lawrence’s Women In Love”<br />
Zoe Costanzo (Bishop’s): “<strong>The</strong> Fall of Hierarchy in Browning’s<br />
‘My Last Duchess’”<br />
Jessica Marchand (Concordia): “Dead Traditions and Broken<br />
Conventions”<br />
Katharine Dempsey (Concordia): “Conventional Duplicity:<br />
John Gay’s use of ‘Double Capacity’ in <strong>The</strong> Beggar’s Opera”<br />
Session 4: 3:15 pm – 4:30 pm<br />
Resisting and Reinforcing Heteronormativity<br />
Emily LeDuc (McMaster): “Fleeting Femininities: Allegories of<br />
Female Independence in Alice Munro’s Runaway”<br />
Danielle Bird (Concordia): “‘I won’t live without her’: the (Re)<br />
Writing of Kinship and Female-Centric Spaces in Rossetti’s<br />
‘Goblin Market’ and Collins’ <strong>The</strong> Woman in White”<br />
Steve Eldon Kerr (McGill): “Ovid’s Limited Revolution of Gender:<br />
<strong>The</strong> Importance of Feminine Affirmation within a Masculine<br />
Discourse”<br />
Freddie Jean (Sherbrooke): “<strong>The</strong> Madwoman in the Attic and<br />
the Reification of Men in Surfacing”<br />
McGreer 100<br />
Session 1: 10:00 am – 11:15 am<br />
Religion, Art and Social Revolution<br />
Jeffrey Araujo (McGill): “Unitarian Christianity and New<br />
England in the Early Nineteenth Century”<br />
Matthew Baggetta (York): “Ana<strong>to</strong>my of an Ethos: <strong>From</strong> Enlightenment<br />
<strong>to</strong> Postmodernity”<br />
Natasha Chernier (Concordia): “Freud, Joyce, and the Behaviour<br />
of Water”<br />
Session 2: 11:30 am – 12:45 pm<br />
Idealizations and Disillusionment in 20th Century Literature<br />
Caroline Wong (Mount Allison): “‘A Priest of Eternal Imagination:’<br />
Art as Evolved Religion in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the<br />
Artist as a Young Man”<br />
Olivia Lifman (McGill): T. S. Eliot’s “wrestle / With words and<br />
meanings”<br />
Kathleen Keller (Laval): “War Trauma in D.H. Lawrence’s<br />
Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway”<br />
Session 3: 1:45 pm – 3:00 pm<br />
Canadian Journeys: Inter and Extratextuality<br />
Catherine Lacharite Mueller (Sherbrooke): “In European<br />
Skin: Canadian His<strong>to</strong>rical Fiction as the New Epic”<br />
Andrea Matthews (Concorida): “Robert Kroetsch: A Journey<br />
through Narrative”<br />
Adam Young (Bishop’s): “Emerging Authors on CBC’s Canada<br />
Reads”