Culture, Language and Literature: Canadian and Comparative Perspectives

Announcement of our 19th annual interdisciplinary and international conference on 21–22 February 2003, in association with the BACS.

Programme: Friday 21 February, 2003

Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London SW1 (England)
9.45	Registration
10.15	Welcome & introductory remarks by the organizers (Birkbeck, LCCS & BACS Literature Group), Canadian High Commission Representative, London, Québec General Delegation Representative, London
10.30	Marta Dvorak (University of Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle), “The Shifting Discursive Strategies of Native Literature: from Adversarial to Interfusional.”
11.15	Helene Destrempes (University of Moncton), “Voicing Differences: Native Women Writers in Quebec.”
12.00	Lunch
1.00	Françoise Mougeon (Glendon College, York University), “The Culture of Bilingualism in Post-Secondary Bilingual Institutions in Ontario.”
1.45	Ceri Morgan (Keele University), “Writing the Heartland I: La Gaspésie.”
2.30	Coffee/Tea
2.50	Jan Pieter Van Oudenhoven (Groningen University), “Adaptation to New Societies: Some Canadian, USA and Australian Data.”
3.35	Susan Billingham (University of Nottingham), “Reviving the Two-Spirit: Gender and Sexuality in First Nations Writing.”
Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet St., London WC1
5.15	Reception in the Council Room, Birkbeck College, hosted by Canada High Commission, UK
6.00	Public Lecture by Christian Rioux (Paris, France), “Small Nations: A Quebec Perspective.” Christian Rioux is an award-winning journalist and author of Voyage à l’intérieur des petites nations (Boréal).

Large Physics Theatre, Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet St, London WC1H
10.00	Ray Mougeon (York University), “Patterns of Linguistic Variation in Quebec, Ontario and Immersion French.”
10.45	Jean-Marc Dewaele (Birkbeck College, University of London), “Pronouns of Address in French Immersion Classes in Canada and Abroad.”
11.30	Coffee/Tea
11.50	Martin Lubin (SUNY Plattsburgh), “Hands across the Canada-US Border: Perforated Sovereignties and the International Outreach Activities of Quebec.”
12.35	Pierre Larrivée (Aston University), “Language, Culture, and Legislation: a Legitimate Relation?”
1.20	Lunch and book launch: Pierre Larrivée (ed), Linguistic Conflict and Language Laws: Understanding the Quebec Question