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Conference Program

Friday May 1, 2009

Noon to 1 pm – Registration (Building 250, Room 120)

1 pm  - Official Welcome and Announcements (Building 250, Room 125)

  • President Ralph Nilson
  • Dean Steve Lane, Arts and Humanities
  • Virginia MacCarthy, Program Coordinator, Faculty of Education
  • Snuneymuxw Elder Ellen White

1:45 - 3:15 pm - Concurrent Session I

Panel A: Children, Land, and National Identities (Building 250, Room 120)

  • Chair: Donna Ellwood Flett (University of Victoria, Canada)  
  • Juliet Linden Bicket (University of Glasgow, Scotland), “’When stories are told in the sea a magic gets in them’: Legend, Myth, and Ecology in George Mackay Brown’s Children’s Stories.”
  • Sudipa Topdar (University of Michigan, USA), “Towards the Service of Our Country: The Child and the Nation in Bengali Children’s Magazines 1905-1925.”
  • Sheila Grieve (Athabasca University/Assiniboine Community College, Canada),
    “Children’s Literature and Indigenous Peoples.”

Panel B: Aboriginal Voices and Literary Traditions (Building 250, Room 140)

  • Chair: Dawn Thompson (Vancouver Island University, Canada)
  • Melissa Li Sheung Ying (University of Alberta, Canada), “Reading into the Voice:
    Representation of the Native Voice in Three Early Twentieth Century Children’s
    Story Collections.”
  • Brianne Grant (University of British Columbia), “Countering the North American Myth: Indigenous Children’s Literature and the History of Education.”
  • Donna Ellwood Flett (University of Victoria), “’Drew Hayden Taylor’s vampire story  sucks!’: Combating Adolescent Hostility towards The Night Wanderer: A Native Gothic Novel by Contextualizing the Canadian Tale for Teens.”

3:15 - 3:30 pm – Coffee Break (set up in hall)

3:30 - 4:30 pm – Plenary Session I (Building 250, Room 125)

  • Mavis Reimer (University of Winnipeg, Canada), “No Place Like Home: Globalization and Deterritorialisation in Canadian Children’s Literature.”

5 pm – Welcome Reception (Building 356, 2nd Floor Atrium)

Saturday, May 2, 2009

8:30 am – Registration Desk and Morning Coffee Table open (Building 250, 1st floor hall)

9:30 - 11 am – Concurrent Session II

Panel A: What’s Good for the Child?  Who Decides? (Building 250, Room 120)

  • Chair: Heather Pastro (Vancouver Island University)
  • Lian Beveridge (University of British Columbia, Canada), “Intellectual Freedom in Surrey Kindergartens.”
  • Michael McCarthy (University of British Columbia, Canada), “In Defence of Susan Jeffers: Fake Indians, Fake Tears, the Environmental Movement, and
    Appropriation of Voice.”
  • Caroline Bagelman (University of Victoria, Canada), “Deschooling the Child.”

Panel B: Pedagogical Approaches: Reading and School Appearances (Building 250, Room 140)

  • Chair: Jennifer McDonald (Vancouver Island University, Canada)
  • Camilla Gordon (Macquarie University, Australia), “Learning Astronomy in the Pre-School Setting: Using Storybooks to Stimulate Young Children’s Understanding.”
  • Alexandra Bomphray (University of Victoria, Canada), “Using Graphic Novels in Multi-Lingual Classrooms: A Multimodal Approach to Engaging English Language
    Learners in Classroom Communities.”
  • Linda Coles (Memorial University, Canada), “Children Talk about Reading: Their
    Perceptions of the Lived Experiences.”

11 - 11:15 am – Coffee Break

11:15 am - 12:45 pm – Concurrent Session III

Panel A: Borderlands (Building 250, Room 120)

  • Chair: Janet Grafton (University of British Columbia, Canada)
  • James Mulcahy (Lakehead University, Canada), “Imagination and Cultural Syncretism in White Jade Tiger.”
  • Michelle Superle (Newcastle University, England; University of the Fraser Valley,
    Canada), “Imagining the Motherland: Moving Between India and Otherworlds.”

Panel B: Ecocriticism: The Child, The Environment, and Home (Building 250, Room 140)

  • Chair: Jennifer Brownlow (Vancouver Island University, Canada)
  • Karen Taylor (University of British Columbia, Canada), “The Landscapes of Childhood in Kit Pearson’s Guests of War Trilogy: An Ecocritical Perspective.”
  • Vikki VanSickle (Independent Scholar, Canada), “Daughters of the Land: An
    Ecofeminist Analysis of the Relationships between Female Adolescent
    Protagonists and Landscape in Three Verse Novels for Children.”
  • Zuzana Vasko (Simon Fraser University, Canada), “”Seeing What is Right Here:
    Forming Attachment to the Local through Word and Image.”

12:45 - 1:45 pm – Lunch

1:45 - 3:15 pm – Concurrent Session IV

Panel A: Mediating Self and Other I: Ways of Seeing (Building 250, Room 120)

  • Chair: Penni Cotton (Roehampton University, England)
  • Judy Hewitt (Queen’s University, Canada), “The Multi-textured Images of Paul Morin: An Evocative Perspective of Other Cultures and Stories.”
  • Chieh-Lan (Winnie) Li (Pennsylvania State University, USA/Jinwen University of
    Science and Technology, Taiwan), “Children’s Picture Books as Tools to
    Enhance Young Children’s Multicultural Education.”
  • Adrianne Stacey (University of Victoria), “Young Children’s Intertextual and
    Autobiographical Connections to Anthony Browne’s The Tunnel.”

Panel B: Animal-Human Relations (Building 250, Room 140)

  • Chair: Carolyn Bowles (Vancouver Island University, Canada)
  • Lisa Hoffman-Reyes (University of South Florida, USA), “’Of a Monstrous Brood’— Vermin Ambiguity in Robert Browning’s The Pied Piper of Hamelin.”
  • Dianne Hayles (University of Western Sydney, Australia), “Nonhuman Animals,
    Inclusion and Belonging in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.”
  • Ulf Schöne (University of Stavenger, Norway), “What Do Old Dogs and Young
    Children Have in Common? An Individualist-Anarchist Interpretation of Jon
    Fosse’s Hundemanuskripta (“Dog Manuscripts”).”

3:15 - 3:30 pm – Coffee Break

3:30 - 4:30 pm – Concurrent Session V

Panel A: Mediating Self and Other II: Ways of Being (Building 250, Room 120)

  • Chair: Virginia MacCarthy (Vancouver Island University, Canada)
  • Daryl Ritchot (Trinity Western University, Canada), “’And so, with laughter and love, we lived happily ever after’: The Journey Toward Equality and Inclusiveness in Ella Enchanted.”
  • Melissa Bachynski, (University of Western Ontario, Canada), “R.E.S.P.E.C.T., Find Out What it Means to You: Figures of Self-Esteem in J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan.”

Panel B: Green Girls (Building 250, Room 140)

  • Chair: Terri Doughty (Vancouver Island University, Canada)
  • Katie Posey (Pennsylvania State University, USA), "Ethereal Etchings: Connecting with the Natural World in Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables (1908), Emily of New Moon (1923), and  Magic for Marigold (1929)."
  • Janet Grafton (University of British Columbia, Canada), “Girls and Green Spaces: Sickness to Health Narratives in Children’s Literature.”

4:30 - 4:45 pm Break

4:45 - 5:45 pm Plenary Session II (Building 250, Room 125)

  • Perry Nodelman and Mavis Reimer (University of Winnipeg, Canada), “This Work is Our Work: Collaborative Research in the Humanities.”

6:30 pm – Conference Dinner (Building 300, Royal Arbutus Room [upstairs])

Sunday, May 3, 2009

8:30 am – Morning Coffee Table opens

9 - 10 am – Concurrent Session VI

Panel A: Viewing and Being Viewed (Building 250, Room 120)

  • Chair: Jean Tonski (Vancouver Island University, Canada)
  • Kristen Sipper (University of Nottingham, England), “The Children of the East End: Verisimilitude in Victorian ‘Waifs and Strays’ Novels.”
  • Melissa Gaudette (Lakehead University, Canada), “The Panopticon and Wilbur’s Love of Being Watched in E. B. White’s Novel, Charlotte’s Web.”

Panel B: Senses of the Self (Building 250, Room 140)

  • Chair: Melissa Bachynski (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
  • Paige Fisher (University of Victoria/Vancouver Island University, Canada), “Strong Poets: An Exploration of a Postmodern Sense of Self Through Printz Honor Books.”
  • Tanya Whiting (Vancovuer Island University, Canada), “Caught Between Two Worlds: The Immigrant and Native American Experience.”

10 - 10:15 am  – Coffee Break

10:15 - 11:15 am – Plenary Session III (Building 250, Room 125)

  • Perry Nodelman (University of Winnipeg), “The Mirror Staged, the Subject
    Placed: Pictures of Babies in Picture Books.”

11:15 - 1l:30 am – Closing Comments and Announcements

11:30 am – 12:30 pm – Lunch

12:30 - 2:30 pm – “An Afternoon with Emily Carr” (Optional - See Registration Form)