Day Three: Wednesday, June 9th, 2021
event Zoom links emailed to registered participants daily
08:30-9:30 PST / 09:30-10:30 MST/CST / 10:30-11:30 CDT / 11:30-12:30 EST/ 17:30-18:30 CEST:
Renate Eigenbrod Mentorship ‘Brunch’
Participants will be placed in small break-out rooms for informal discussion, visiting, mentoring, and connection. This event is held annually in memory of the late Prof. Renate Eigenbrod.
9:30 PST / 10:30 MST/CST / 11:30 CDT / 12:30 EST / 18:30 CEST:
Break: Optional Zoom visiting space and/or screen break
10:00-11:20 PST / 11:00-12:20 MST/CST / 12:00-13:20 CDT / 13:00-14:20 EST/ 19:00-20:20 CEST:
Session E: “Métis Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Literary Art”
Chair: Aubrey Jean Hanson
Celiese Lypka, “Métis Survivance: Land, Love, and Futures in Cherie Dimaline’s Novels”
Chelsea Fritz, “Humiliating the Archive: Re-telling the Colonial Past in Vermette’s A Girl Called Echo Series”
Matthew Tétreault, “‘Ma douce contrée!”: On the Writing of Home in Louis Riel’s Poetry"
Nicki Ferland, “Stitching together a prairie land-based education”
Session F: “Gender and Relationships to the Land”
Chair: Kristina Bidwell
Catherine Lafferty, “Firekeeper - Literary Fiction”
Julia Siepak, “Sites of Extraction: Mapping the Poetics of Space in Recent North American Indigenous Women’s Writing”
Kai Orca, “‘Against That Whale’s Soft Skin’: Two-Spirit References in Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water”
Isabella Huberman, “From the Floodwaters: Stories of Hydro in Eeyou Istchee”
11:20 PST / 12:20 MST/CST / 13:20 CDT / 14:20 EST / 20:20 CEST:
Zoom visiting space available
