Panel One A: History, Resistance, and Decolonization
9:00 - 10:30 Atlantic
9:30 - 11:00 NL
Chair: Dr. Adam Beardsworth
| Rylie Moscato, Acadia University Writing Women into History: Margaret Atwood’s and Dionne Brand’s Interrogation and Relocation of Power
Kristie Earles, Mount Allison University Ideas of Resistance in Jordan Abel’s Injun and Dionne Brand’s No Language is Neutral
Jasmine Tremblay D’Ettorre, Mount Allison University The Restoration of Forgotten Places: Diasporic Memories of Africville
Stacey Blackburn, Mount Saint Vincent University Triple Consciousness-The Forced, Fractured Black Identity
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Panel One B: Fiction, Poetry, Memoir I
9:00 - 10:30 Atlantic
9:30 - 11:00 NL
Chair: Dr. Tom Halford
| Emma Cole, Acadia University Matter of the Heart
Claire McCormick, Dalhousie
Stars
Véronique Landry, Université de Moncton Dating in the 21st Century
Sidney Robichaud, Saint Mary’s University Jenny
Olivia Landry, Mount Saint Vincent University Ghost girls never sleep |
Panel Two A: Conflict, Nationhood, and Transcendence
10:45 - 12:15 Atlantic
11:15 - 12:45 NL
Chair: Dr. Shoshannah Ganz
| Sidney Robichaud, Saint Mary’s University Title: The Nature of a Nation
Ramona E. Blinn, Université Sainte-Anne Title: A Sole Soul: Disability as a phantom-like, marginalized, stigmatized reality in “Disabled”
Kaylee Rideout, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University Title: The Depiction of War in Charles G.D. Robert’s “Going Over”
Sophie Downie Allen, Saint Mary’s University Title: Owen Warland as Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Transcendentalist
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Panel Two B: Fiction, Poetry, Memoir II
10:45 - 12:15 Atlantic
11:15 - 12:45 NL
Chair: Dr. Tom Halford
| Tarini Fernando, Dalhousie A Burden on the Girl’s Back
Sophia Godsoe, Mount Saint Vincent University God of Oblivion
Laura Flight, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University The Cry of a Woman against 21st century Oppression
Sabriyya Harvey, Mount Allison University “An Elegy” and a Critical Introduction
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| Panel Three A: Fantasy, Discipline, and Feminized Space 1:00 - 2:30 Atlantic
1:30 - 3:00 NL
Chair: Dr. Holly Pike
| Gabriel MacAdam, Saint Mary’s University Title: Venereal Infection in the Victorian Novel: The Depiction of Women and The Function of Fantasy
Lin Pollack, Mount Allison University Title: Tell Me A Different Story: A Creative Project in Hope and Reimaging the Role of Literature
Emma Campanaro, University of Prince Edward Island Title: Nature as a Feminized Holding Space in Jane Eyre
Darcy Eisan, Mount Saint Vincent University Title: “Smashing China, Smashing ‘Voice’”: The Chorus and Polyphony in Atwood and Woolf
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Panel Three B: Epic, Tragedy, Romance
1:00 - 2:30 Atlantic
1:30 - 3:00 NL
Chair: Dr. Johnathan Pope
| Alex Constantine, St. Thomas University Masculine Medea and Femininity as a Weapon in Euripides’ Medea
India De Silva, Saint Mary’s University The Tragic Love of Eloisa and Abelard
Haydn Hopkins, Saint Mary’s University The Intersection of Discipline and Class in Mary Barton and Wuthering Heights
Nathanael Telman, St. Thomas University Kingly Advice: A Study of Kingship in The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Aeneid
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| Panel Four A: Modern Portraits, Modern Plagues 3:00 - 4:30 Atlantic
3:30 - 5:00 NL
Chair: Dr. Adam Beardsworth
| Taylor Skinner, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University Ideological Violence and Disqualification in Timothy Findley’s The Butterfly Plague
Jules Sabourin, Mount Saint Vincent University Subtler Wings: The Influence of French Symbolists of T.S. Eliot’s Early Poetry
Julia Hines, Mount Saint Vincent University The Reciprocal Relationship and Peculiar Portraitures of Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein
Lola Turner, St. Thomas University Peatmots and Plamtroos: Advertisement as Narrative Device Ulysses
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Panel Four B: Fiction, Poetry, Memoir III
3:00 - 4:30 Atlantic
3:30 - 5:00 NL
Chair: Dr. Mikka Jacobsen
| Tiffany Mosher, Dalhousie
My Scrubbed Swan Song
Shayle Hele, University of Prince Edward Island Broken
Hridya Chaudhary, Cape Breton University I just want my english breakfast
Keanan Byggdin, Dalhousie
Fragments
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