Rethinking The Great White North
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Day 1: 01 FEB 08
Bruce Erickson (York University):
“A Phantasy in White in a World that is Dead”: Grey Owl and the Whiteness of Surrogacy
(01/02/08 8:30-9:00am)
Jocelyn Thorpe (York University):
Making Race, Nature and Nation in 'Temagami's Tangled Wild'
(01/02/08 9:00-9:30am)
Dr. Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands (York University):
Le Petit Dérangement: Expropriation, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Landscape in Cape Breton Highlands National Park
(01/02/08 9:30-10:00am)
Dr. Phillip Mackintosh (Brock University):
The “occult relation between man and vegetable”: Transcendentalism, race, city beautification and the park planning impulse in Toronto, circa 1900
(01/02/08 10:45-11:15am)
Dr. Renisa Mawani (University of British Columbia):
Legalities of Nature: Law, Empire, and Wilderness Landscapes in Canada [video not available]
(01/02/08 11:15-11:45am)
Richard Milligan and Tyler McCreary (University of Saskatchewan):
Just an Innocent Journey in the North: Exploring the Racial and Spatial Constructions in Samuel Hearne's Travelogues
(01/02/08 2:45-3:15pm)
Emilie Cameron (Queen's University):
Of Beaver Dung and Copper Wires: Rethinking Narrative Geographies of the Central Arctic
(01/02/08 3:15-3:45pm)
Lauren Vedal (University of Wisconsin - Madison):
Geographies of Victimhood and Whiteness in Two First Nations Novels
(01/02/08 4:15-4:45pm)
Renee Hulan (Saint Mary's University):
White Technologies and the End of Science in Gwendolyn MacEwen's Terror and Erebus
(01/02/08 4:45-5:15pm)
Day 2: 02 FEB 08
Dr. Stephen Bocking (Trent University):
Indiginous Knowledge and the Intersection of Science, Nature and Cultural Identity in Northern Canada
(02/02/08 8:30-9:00am)
Jessica Dempsey, Stephen Gould and Dr. Juanita Sundberg (UBC):
Changing Land Tenure, Defining Subjects: Neoliberalism and Property Regimes on Native Reserves
(02/02/08 9:00-9:30am)
Brian Egan (Carleton University):
Titles, Territories, Treaties: The Long Road to Reconciliation in British Columbia
(02/02/08 9:30-10:00am)
Dr. Amina Mire (Carleton University):
Purity, Prairie Wheat and the Politics of Whiteness
(02/02/08 10:45-11:15am)
Dr. Roger Keil and Claire Major (York University):
SARS and Service Work: Infectious Disease and Racialization in Toronto
(02/02/08 11:15-11:45am)
Dr. Kay Anderson (University of Western Sydney):
Discussant Address
(02/02/08 1:00-1:30pm)
Dr. Sherene Razack (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/U of T):
Discussant Address
(02/02/08 1:30-2:00pm)
More coming...