16:00-17:00

Registration

17:00

Conference Opening

17:30-18:30

Opening Key Note:

19:00

Opening Dinner (by invitation only)

09:00-10:00

Registration

10:00-11:30

I.                  INDIGENOUS TERRITORIES, COMMUNITIES, AND IDENTITIES
 
CHAIR: Phillip Budka (University of Vienna)

Alicia Krömer (University of Vienna)

Social Influence and Impact on the Collective Memory of the Native Residential Schools in Canada: 1867-1996

Jana Maresova (Charles University, Prague) CANCELLED

“Stories Are How We Grow As a People Together”: Community Renewal in Richard Van Camp’s Works

Melanie Braith (University of Konstanz)

A Story, a Vision, a Song: Imaginative Territorealization and Its Implications for Contemporary Indigenous Peoplehood

Patrizia Zanella (University of Fribourg)

“To cross boundaries and build bridges”: Interrogating Joseph Boyden’s Task As Bridge-Builder Through the Border-Crossings in Through Black Spruce

11:30-12:00 Coffee break

12:00-13:00

II.               CANADIAN LITERATURES

CHAIR: Jessica Janssen (Université de Sherbrooke)

Angelika Vybiral (University of Vienna)

Franchir les frontières : Le « gateway to the prairies » dans la littérature franco-manitobaine

Rebekka Schuh (University of Graz)

“I long to see his letter, I dare say it will be a curiosity”: Letters and the Canadian Short Story

13:00-14:30 Lunch break

14:30-16:00

III.           CONTESTING GENDER NORMS

CHAIR: Alexandra Ganser (University of Vienna)

Catherine Lemieux (University of Montreal)

Like Water, Like Fire: Anne Carson on the Elemental Metaphors of Gender

Michael Connors Jackman (Memorial University, Newfoundland)

Queer Cruising, Now and Then: Secularisation, Privatisation, and Memory in St. John’s, Newfoundland

Louisa Potthast (University of Cologne)

"Because it's 2015" – Examining Feminism in Canada from then to now

16:00-16:15 Coffee break

16:15-17:15

IV.            POLITICS, (IM)MIGRATION, and URBANITY

CHAIR: Waldemar Zacharasiewicz (University of Vienna)

Georg Drennig (University of Duiburg-Essen)

Gateway to Asia or Playing Ground of Chinese Investors: The Spatial Legacy of Anti-Chinese Racism in Contemporary Vancouver

Nikolas Schall (University of Trier)

Creating Cosmopolitan Solidarity – An Ethnography of the Production of Global Collaborations

Eliza Yankova (University of Bremen) CANCELLED

“A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian”: New Immigration Policy Under the Liberals

17:15-18:00 Coffee break

18:00-19:00

19:15 Conference Dinner (by invitation only)

09:00-10:00

Registration

10:00-11:30

V.                MINORITIES ACROSS MEDIA

CHAIR: Yvonne Völkl (University of Graz)

Nina Kompein (University of Klagenfurt)

The Modern Plague in Theatre: The Depiction of AIDS/HIV in Canadian Gay Drama at the End of the 20^th and Beginning of the 21^st Century

László Bernáth (University of Klagenfurt)

Slavery in Canada: A Structuring Absence in Canada’s (Hi)Stories

Armin Lippitz (University of Klagenfurt)

The Representation of Sex Workers in Chester Brown’s Paying For It

11 :30-11 :45 Coffee break

11 :45-13 :45

VI.            CONTEMPORARY MULTILINGUALISM(S) AND MULTICULTURALISM(S) 

CHAIR: Fritz Peter Kirsch (University of Vienna)

Annika Groth (University of Siegen)

« Le chiac, c’est comme le plus beau French kiss de langue »: une analyse des débats des profanes sur Facebook

Betsy Leimbigler (FU Berlin)

Multiculturalism and its interpretations through the Canadian Commission for UNESCO

Sophie Dubois (Saarland University)

Le Québec en couleur : l’interculturalisme au programme de l’Abitur allemand

Charlotte Streuli (University of Fribourg)

Laure Rièse (1910-1996) : Itinéraires académique et intellectuel d’une Suissesse au Canada

14:00 Closing remarks + Lunch on site