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CCLA 2017

Ryerson University welcomes you to Congress in Toronto.

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Information for all attendees: WIFI access + Congress Map App TBA

09:30 EDT

Welcome VIC-Victoria 105

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Canadian and Indigenous Issues VIC-Victoria 105Albert Braz • Simon Harel • Heather McFarlane • Cheryl Suzack

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Rehearsal Space for First-time Presenters 10-12 with quiet space for writing 12-2pm POD-469

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Coffee break TBA

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Issues of English and Other Languages VIC-Victoria 105Paul Morris • Doris Hambuch • Nasrin Rahimieh • Jerry White

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Lunch TBA

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Comparative Literature in Canada and Issues of Outreach VIC-Victoria 105Jessica Tsui-yan Li • Eva-Lynn Jagoe • Jan Plug • Asma Sayed

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Coffee Break TBA

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Digital Knowledge and Publishing VIC-Victoria 105Pan Lu • Joshua Synenko • Eleanor Ty

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EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING (for members of the CCLA executive VIC-Victoria 101

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Special Event: Ashineu aimun / La poésie, ça se vit la nuit / Poetry Lives at Night : An Indigenous Poetry Night 8pm+ Imperial Pub, 54 Dundas St. E., Toronto (Co-sponsored by CCLA and CRCL) Imperial Pub, Back Room

09:30 EDT

Keynote Address/ Conférence d’honneur KHE-Kerr East 117Jessica Tsui-yan Li • Kwok-kan Tam

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Rehearsal Space for First-time Presenters 10-12 with quiet space for writing 12-2pm POD-469

10:30 EDT

BREAK/ PAUSE (coffee/café) TBA

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Bodily Processes - Cultural Techniques VIC-Victoria 101Monique Tschofen • Stefanie Heine • Jeanne Mathieu-Lessard Changing Representations of East Asian Women Stereotypes in Transnational Popular Culture VIC-Victoria 109Kaby Kung • Chun Lung Ma De l’ici à l’ailleurs : Diversité et interdisciplinarité dans la pratique de la littérature comparée VIC-Victoria 104Lambert Barthélémy • Roswitha Boehm

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12:30 – 13:30 PAUSE/ BREAK (lunch options on campus) TBA

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Comparing Fashion Tales of Travel and Translation VIC-Victoria 109Jennifer Sweeney • Josh Trichilo • Nathaniel Weiner Defiant Bodies: Genders, Sexualities, and Literatures VIC-Victoria 104Tegan Zimmerman • Jordana Greenblatt • Chia-sui Lee • Daniel Sander New Media/New Methods: Comparative Literature on the Edge VIC-Victoria 101Andrea C Val • Rasoul Aliakbari • Karin Beeler • Guy Risko Self-Translation/Auto-traduction (with ACQL) VIC - Victoria 501Joseph Pivato • Trish Van Bolderen • Elena Anna Spagnuolo elena • Eva C. Karpinski • Tiziana Nannavecchia

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Ryerson Exhibition Opening: Contested Lands: Canadiana at 150 TBA

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BREAK/ PAUSE (coffee/café) TBA

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From Here to There: Contemporary Literature and Cinema and the 21st Century Refugee Experience VIC-Victoria 101Colman Hogan • Hudson Moura The “Middleness” of Middle Eastern Cultural Production: Mediation, Ambiguity, In-Betweenness TBAWalid El Khachab • May Telmissany Traversing Genre, Geography, Media: Canada to Dominican Republic to the Wonderful Land of Oz VIC-Victoria 109Doris Hambuch • Stephen Cruikshank • Elena Siemens

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President’s Reception/Réception du recteur Room/Salle: Mattamy Athletic Centre Matamy Athletic Centre

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Diverse Dialogues on Cinema I: Terrains of Gender VIC-Victoria 109Irene Sywenky • Elli Dehnavi • Asma Sayed Round Table: Revisiting and Renewing Critique VIC - Victoria 513Monique Tschofen • Daniel Browne • Lai-Tze Fan • Nataleah Hunter-Young Sex and Sexuality VIC-Victoria 101Jessica Tsui-yan Li • Katie Fry • Shlomo Gleibman • Christine Nguyen

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Rehearsal Space for First-time Presenters 10-12 with quiet space for writing 12-2pm POD-469 Ryerson Presents: Open House and Student Project Exhibition on the Canadian Whites Comics Collection, Centre for Digital Humanities Centre for Digital Humanities

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PAUSE/ BREAK (coffee/café) TBA

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Comparative Modernisms VIC-Victoria 101Lauren Beard • Shengqin Cai • Terry Siu-han Yip Diverse Dialogues on Cinema II: History, Politics and Popular Culture VIC-Victoria 109Khatereh Sheibani • Pascal Michelberger • Zaira Zarza Within and Beyond Nations VIC - Victoria 513Prathna Lor • Cristina Caracchini • Alexandre Desbiens-Brassard

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BREAK/ PAUSE (lunch options on campus) TBA

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(Un)familiar Spaces and Places VIC-Victoria 101Susan Ingram • Aleksandra Bida • Jason Wang Translation/Transculture VIC-Victoria 109Kar Yue Chan • Ming Ming Du • Aiora Jaka • Lisandra Sousa Transgressive Figures: Knights, Terrorists, Monsters VIC - Victoria 513Mustapha Hamil • Forrest Johnson • Yan Wang • Xiaowen Xu

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PAUSE/ BREAK (coffee/café) TBA

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Cultural Performance – Our Land of Canada: Diversity and Peace by Moon Pointer Productions OAK-Oakham-Thomas Lounge

16:45 EDT

Annual General Meeting / Assemblée générale annuelle VIC-Victoria 303

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18:30 pm+ CCLA Soirée de l’ACLC - Wickson Social The Wickson Social, 5 St Joseph St

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In the Press Vic 204Xueqing Xu • Esther Berry • Jennifer Quist • Amy Steinepreis ROUNDTABLE: Digital Spatial Ecologies: Geolocating the Layers of History and Memory in New Media Vic 202Jill Didur • Lai-Tze Fan • Agata Mergler • Joshua Synenko • Mark Terry Traversing Media VIC 201Iris Bruce • Christine Albert • David Mongor-Lizarrabengoa • Jing Xu

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Rehearsal Space for First-time Presenters 10-12 with quiet space for writing 12-2pm POD-469

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BREAK/ PAUSE (coffee/café) TBA

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Comparative Easts and Wests Vic 204Paul Morris • Paul Bleton • Xiaoyan Wang Paradoxes of Desire and Rejection VIC 201Kevin G. Wilson • Jeannine Pitas • Haiyan Xie Politics, Resistance and Activisms Vic 202Concetta Principe • John Nyman • Irina Sadovina

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PAUSE/ BREAK (lunch options on campus) TBA

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The Spiritual and the Supernatural VIC 201Jing Xu • Miguel Neneve • Yuan Zhang • Tong Zhou Autobiography Life Writing Vic 204Carrie Bettel • Safaneh Neyshabouri • Charles Reeve • Myer Siemiatycki Politics, Trauma and Resistance Vic 202Pietro Giordan • Katelyn Dykstra • Bei Bei Guan • Yiwen Liu

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Cosmopolitan Influences: Art and Travel VIC 201Albert Braz • Carlos Fuentes • Songyun Zheng Female Identities Vic 202Pouneh Saeedi • Valentin Duquet • Eliziane Navarro • Xie Qun • Elizabete Sampaio ROUNDTABLE: Teaching, Interdisciplinarity, Technology, and Experimentation Beyond the Classroom Vic 204Dr. Kat Sark • Kathryn Franklin • Peter Schweppe • Joshua Synenko

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Ryerson Hosted Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Mixer TIFF BELL Lightbox, 3rd Floor Learning Studios Ryerson Presents Launch of the Stories in Play Initiative (storiesinplay.com) Centre for Digital Humanities