uOttawa English’s 14th Annual Graduate Student Conference
Section 1: Conference Schedule
1:00-2:30
Witcher 3: Wild Hunt”
2. Bridget Fleming – “9/11 on the American Frontier:
A House in Asia’s Treatment of the Archive as a Site of
Performance”
Ruins, Grief, and Memory in Victorian Poetry"
2:30-2:45 COFFEE BREAK
Survivor: An Analysis of Four Subversive Essays”
2. Luciana Erregue – “A Place to Stand: Viewing Numa
Ayrinhac’s Double Portrait of President Juan Perón
and his Wife Eva Duarte at the Museo del
Bicentenario in Buenos Aires”
Dead Memory of the Living: Maria Stepanova’s In
Memory
4:15-5:45
Moshekwa Langa’s Temporal Distance (with a Criminal
Intent) You Will Find Us in the Best Places”
2. Jaclyn Morgan – “Mediating the Experience of the
Subaltern: The Reconstruction of Identity and the
Reclamation of Female Agency in Cracking India”
3. William Bonfiglio – “Description, Ekphrasis, and the
Other”
Saturday,
4. Trauma Studies 1. Md Abu Shahid Abdullah – “Linking
Personal
Trauma of Sexual Violence with Collective Trauma of
the Holocaust in D.M. Thomas’s The White Hotel”
2. Shamma Alkhoori – “Pandemic Postmemory:
Trauma after Medical Disasters in Contemporary
Fiction”
Mouawad’s Scorched”
10:15-10:30 COFFEE BREAK
Anathémata and Basil Bunting’s Briggflatts”
2. Joseph LaBine – “Fiction or Memory? Forgetting
George Mackay Brown and Jorge Luis Borges”
3. Bryan Counter – “Modes of Forgetting and
Narration in Proust”
1. Amy Kwong – “‘Something that will go on and on:’
Parallels Past and Present in Julia O’Faolain’s No
Country for Young Men”
3. Jane Willsie – “Forbidden Remembering as an Act
of Disappearance in Madeleine Thien’s Dogs at the
Perimeter”
Evan Buck
7. Memory and Identity 1. Brittany Munro – “To yield to: On being
beyond
self-possession in Tara June Winch’s ‘The Yield’”
2. Walter Villanueva – “The Invisible Labour of
Informal Care: Parentified Caregiving in David
Chariandy’s Soucouyant”
Remember About Your Brother”: Intersubjective
Memory in
5:30-7:00 DINNER
8. Spatialized Memory 1. Marisa Lewis – “Toppling as Place-Making?
Protest
and the Politics of Place in the removal of John A.
Macdonald Memorials in Canada”
Remembrance”
Remembrance of Place in Simon Tay’s City of Small
Blessings and Patrick Chamoiseau’s Texaco”
Sunday, March 7 Panel Theme Speakers
9:00-10:00
Meditation on Space, History
the memory were raking
over him and leaving
A Visit from the Goon Squad”
2. M. Djamel Eddine
3. Andrew William Lee – ““An
Open-Source, 21st Century
Belonging”
Role of Cultural Productions
and Virtual Technology to
1. M. NourbeSe Philip - Friday, March 5, 2021 (7:00-9:00pm
EST)
Born in Tobago, M. NOURBESE PHILIP is an unembedded poet, essayist,
novelist, playwright and independent scholar who lives in the
space-time of the City of Toronto where she practised law for seven
years before becoming a poet and writer. Among her published works
are the seminal She Tries Her Tongue; Her Silence Softly Breaks;
the speculative prose poem Looking for Livingston: An Odyssey of
Silence; the young adult novel, Harriet’s Daughter; the play, Coups
and Calypsos, and four collections of essays including her most
recent collection, BlanK. Her book-length poem, Zong!, is a
conceptually innovative, genre-breaking epic, which explodes the
legal archive as it relates to slavery. Among her awards are
numerous Canada Council and Ontario Arts Council grants, including
the prestigious Chalmers Award (Ontario Arts Council), the Canada
Council’s Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award (Outstanding
mid-career artist), as well as the Pushcart Prize (USA), the Casa
de
las Americas Prize (Cuba), the Lawrence Foundation Prize (USA), the
Arts Foundation of Toronto Writing and Publishing Award (Toronto),
and Dora Award finalist (drama). Her fellowships include
Guggenheim, McDowell, and Rockefeller (Bellagio). She is an awardee
of both the YWCA Woman of Distinction (Arts) and the Elizabeth Fry
Rebels for a Cause awards. She has been Writer-in-Residence at
several universities and a guest at writers' retreats. M. NourbeSe
Philip is the 2020 recipient of PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement
in International Literature
2. Guy Beiner - Saturday, March 6, 2021 (12:00-1:30pm EST) Guy
Beiner is professor of modern history in Ben-Gurion University of
the Negev in Israel and has held research fellowships in the United
States and Europe. He specializes in the study of historical
remembrance and forgetting in the late-modern era, with a
particular interest in Ireland. Beiner’s books Remembering the Year
of the French: Irish Folk History and Social Memory (University of
Wisconsin Press) and Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting and
Vernacular Historiography of a Rebellion in Ulster (Oxford
University Press) won multiple prizes. He has recently edited
a
volume of collected essays titled ‘Pandemic Re-Awakenings: The
Forgotten and Unforgotten Flu of 1918-1919’ to be published by
Oxford University press.
Section 3: Roundtable - Sunday March 7, 2021
Memory Entanglements: Dialogues on Memory, Community, and
Remembrance in Local/Transnational Contexts
Description: Drawing from subject-specific expertise, this
interdisciplinary roundtable will feature early-career and
established scholars of memory studies affiliated with the Memory
Studies research stream at the Centre for Transnational Cultural
Analysis (CTCA) at Carleton University. Facilitated by coordinators
of the CTCA’s Memory Studies stream, each panelist will give a
short presentation of their research specialization, followed by a
roundtable discussion and a Q&A period. Intersecting across
each presentation are questions centred on the entanglement of
memory from comparative frameworks to the entwining of individual
and collective memory through the remembering, sharing, and
re-telling of histories and experiences. Panelist expertise is
rooted in locally and temporally specific contexts, but their
research offers us perspectives on memory, remembrance, and absence
that can transcend time and create transnational connections.
Topics range from looking at absence and remembrance of the
Uruguayan dictatorship of the 1970s; inauthenticity as a curatorial
strategy for exhibiting traumatic memories related to the Indian
Residential School system; memory work by contemporary Indigenous
and diasporic artists in Ottawa who juxtapose traditional craftwork
with digital mediums; and the importance of telling and re-telling
by Holocaust survivors and the ways these stories shift over time
to bridge connections between past, present, and future.
1. Emily Putnam
Emily Putnam is an early-career curator and art history scholar
whose research and practice emphasizes building relationships
through ethical praxis, community collaboration, and public
engagement. A PhD student in Cultural Mediations at Carleton
University, Emily’s work focuses on contemporary art, critical race
theory, and the archive. Her research considers how art oriented
around archives, counter-archives, and the anarchive can transform
the way knowledges are understood and expand the capacity with
which we can interact with museum spaces. Her primary scope of
theoretical interest includes activism and critical race theory,
memory studies, worlding, and potential histories. In addition to
her role as a coordinator for the Memory Studies research stream at
the Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis (CTCA), Emily is
also an Image Research Associate at the Art Canada Institute and a
Research Assistant on the Worlding Public Cultures project for the
Transnational and Transcultural Art and Culture Exchange (TrACE)
network.
2. Dr. Rebecca Clare Dolgoy
As the Curator of Natural Resources and Industrial Technologies,
Rebecca Dolgoy brings an interdisciplinary perspective to the
portfolio. Her research on memory and museums explores
relationships between material culture and public memory. She is
committed to collaborative research and to developing creative
processes of stakeholder engagement, partnership development, and
public
scholarship. While originally from Edmonton, Alberta, Rebecca did
her doctoral work in Oxford. She has been Ottawa-based since 2015
and is currently an Adjunct Research Professor in Carleton’s School
of Indigenous and Canadian Studies.
Roundtable Panelists
1. Dr. Trina Cooper-Bolam - “Mnemonic Fakery and Other Interpretive
Strategies”
Trina Cooper-Bolam recently defended her dissertation, “Claiming
the Terrible Gift–A Post-TRC Investigation in Praxiological
Museology” (2020), earning her PhD in Cultural Mediations (Visual
Culture) at Carleton University and a Senate Medal for Outstanding
Academic Achievement. Previously, Cooper-Bolam held senior
positions at the Aboriginal Healing and Legacy of Hope
Foundations–organizations working to transform the legacy of Indian
residential schools. Her Master of Arts thesis, "Healing Heritage:
New Approaches to Commemorating Canada’s Indian Residential School
System" (2014), contributed to Volume 5, The Legacy, of the Truth
and
Reconciliation Commission’s final report (2015). Her 2018
publication, "On the Call for a Residential Schools National
Monument" in the Journal of Canadian Studies, vol 52.1, stimulated
dialogue within the Department of Canadian Heritage on
socially-engaged processes of monument creation and led to her
current consultative role on the Residential Schools National
Monument project. Equally an academic researcher and an active
exhibition curator and designer, Cooper-Bolam is the recipient of
academic and professional awards including the Joseph-Armand
Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship and a joint recipient with
the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre of the Ontario Historical
Society’s 2018 Indigenous History Award.
2. Marie-Catherine Allard - “Remediating Identity: Ruth Barnett’s
Quest for Belonging”
Marie-Catherine Allard is a PhD candidate in Cultural Mediations at
Carleton University. Her dissertation, which is entitled
“Remediating Memory: Narrating the Kindertransport in Literature
and Popular Culture,” focuses on the work of Karen Gershon, Ruth
Barnett and Frank Meisler. In her work, she explores the ways in
which the Kinder’s numerous retellings of their evacuation and
remediation from one medium or
literary genre to another foster the reconfiguration of their
Kindertransport experience. To support her research on the artistic
representation of the Kindertransport, the rescue operation which
allowed, before the outbreak of World War II, for the relocation of
ten thousand children at risk of deportation from Austria, Germany,
Czechoslovakia, and Danzig mainly to Great Britain, Marie-Catherine
has been awarded the Andras Memorial Award.
3. Anna (Ania) Paluch - “Tactile Memory Work of Indigenous and
Diasporic Artists in Ottawa, Canada” Anna (Ania) Paluch is a
Polish-Canadian PhD student in Cultural Mediations at Carleton
University, situated on unceded Algonquin territory in Ottawa,
Canada. Her research focus is on Indigenous North American and
Eastern European Futurism, spaces of cultural hybridity, and
post-memory in the diaspora, specifically around diasporic and
mixed identity. She is a curator, mixed-media artist, cultural
educator through the Young Polish Canadian Professional Association
(YPCPA), Polski Piknik and co-director of the
Indigenous+Diasporic Friendship Festival in Ottawa, connecting
diasporic/immigrant communities with local Indigenous communities
through art, academia and culture.
4. Jessica Marino - “Remembering the Past in the Present and
Future: The Role of Cultural Productions and Virtual Technology to
Commemorate the Holocaust and the Uruguayan Dictatorship”
Jessica Marino is a third year PhD student in the Cultural
Mediations Program at Carleton University. Her research focuses on
analyzing the representation of memory in relation to the Holocaust
and the Uruguayan dictatorship of the 1970s and 1980s. She focuses
on the use of different media to commemorate these two events, in
particular the nuanced role of virtual reality. Jessica has an MA
in Comparative Literature and a Hons. BA in German Studies and
Spanish.
Section 4: Registration Information & Zoom Link
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