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| Panel Eight |
Imagining Alberta Culture: Private, Public, Imagined and Beyond |
CURA |
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Gloria Filax Historicizing Discourses of Individualism in
Alberta, Canada
Lorelei Hanson Alberta In the Canadian Imaginary
Chair: Patrick Walton
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THE NEW FRONTIER:
Second Life And Online Community Building
Dan O’Reilly, John Craig Freeman, and Paul Stacey |
| Panel Nine |
Education in the West |
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Lynne Wiltse Pre-service Teachers' Responses to
Representations of the West in Canadian Picture
Books
Pamela Cairns Seymour Arm: A Rural Education Case Study
Robert Whiteley A neoliberal transnational university: The making
of UBC Okanagan
Chair Penny Heaslip |
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| 10:30-12:00 |
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| Panel Ten |
Voices Muted and Exalting |
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Owen D. Percy
Philip Mingay
Ryan Melsom
Chair |
‘The enchantment of these mute fragments is undeniable’: Eward Byrne, Metaphorical Glaciers, and the Impossibility of History in Thomas Wharton’s Icefields.
Painting the Mute Landscape in Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Last Crossing
‘A very grateful task to the pen of a skilful panegyrist’: Early West Coast Explorers and the Evolution of Failure
Doug Knowles |
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| Panel Eleven |
Immigrants, Migrants, and Settlers: Western portraits |
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Karin Hess
Yaying Zhang
Lisa Grekul
Chair |
The Autonomy of Migration: The Example of the Nikkei in Canada, 1941-1949
What is the Chinese-Canadian Accent?: Construction of Cultural Identities through Linguistic Practices (Presentation supported by the Small Cities CURA)
Monumental Conflicts: Ukrainian Canadian Communities and the Politics of Memory
Tom Waldichuk |
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| 13:30 - 15:00 |
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| Panel Twelve |
"The Play's the Thing": Western Literature and Politics |
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Ginny Ratsoy
Kimberly Mair
Chair |
Performing Another West: Historically Based Theatre in a Western Canadian Small City (Presentation supported by the Small Cities CURA)
Subjects of Consumption and the "Alberta Advantage": Representations of Wiebo Ludwig in the Theatre and in the Media
Jim Hoffman |
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| Panel Thirteen |
Visual Representations |
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Sandra Shields, David Campion
Mervyn Nicholson
Chair |
The Calgary Stampede and the Myth of the West
Babes in the Woods: Exotic Americans in British Columbia Films
Tina Block
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| Panel Fourteen |
Memory Everlasting: Post-Peasant Cultural Sensibilities from the Canadian Prairies: the Art and Vision of the 3rd Generation |
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Donald Goodes,
Lisa Grekul,
Norman Nawrocki,
Beverly Dobrinski
Chair: Ila Crawford
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| 15:15 - 17:00 |
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| Panel Fifteen |
Creating Canada |
CURA |
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Christopher Bolander
Forrest D. Pass
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The Beautiful Failure of Thomas-Alfred Bernier’s Francophone West
"My Canada Is Still Unborn": British Columbia Writers and the Question of a National Literature 1920-1960
Henry Hubert |
MUSEUMS, GALLERIES AND QUALITY OF LIFE:
How cultural organizations affect quality of life in small cities.
Jann L.M. Bailey, Linda Liboiron, Douglas Worts, and Glenn Sutter |
| Panel Sixteen |
Political Discourses |
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Dominique Perron
Gloria Filax
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Consquences d'une Lecture "Western" sur les Récit du Pétrole en Alberta
Discourses of youth and sexuality in the province of the ‘severely normal’: Alberta in the 1990s
Kelly-Anne Maddox |
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| 18:00 - 19:30 |
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Art Exhibit & Wine and Cheese |
CURA |
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18:00 - 19:30 |
Opening at Kamloops Museum & Archives: Come for hors d’oeuvres/ wine & cheese reception hosted by the Small Cities CURA Bus transportation going from TRU campus to the Museum and Archives will be available
Dinner in Kamloops |
Saturday evening opening of Art Exhibit “Making the Scene in the Small City” at the Kamloops Museum and Archives.
Coordinated by Elizabeth Duckworth and Melinda Spooner |