Program (PDF) - (upadated Oct 17)
Wednesday October 22
Venue: Room 129, Education Faculty, 3700 McTavish Street
5:00-5:30 Workshop package, including program and papers, available for pick up
5:30 Workshop Opening
Welcome and opening remarks
Elizabeth Wood (Associate Dean, Faculty of Education, McGill)
Paul Yachnin (Director of the Making Publics project and English Department Chair, McGill)
Public lecture
Susannah Radstone: Getting over trauma: New paradigms in memory research
Wine and cheese reception
Photographic exhibition
Bringing the future forward: What can a girl do with a camera? A photographic tribute to the memory of Jackie Kirk.
Thursday October 23
Venue: Room MS 42, Street level, McLennan Library Building, 3459 McTavish Street
8:15 Continental breakfast
8:30-9:00 Introduction: Teresa Strong-Wilson
9:00-11:00 Working Session 1: Childhood
Chair: Martha Langford
Elizabeth Goodenough: Landscaping the present
Jacqueline Reid-Walsh: 18th and 19th century children’s inscriptions on their books as instances of artifactual memory
Margaret Mackey: Readers remember: Text, residue and periphery
Sandra Chang-Kredl: Childhood texts, psychoanalysis and the fluid messy time warp
Maria Korpijaakko: Real or reinforced memory: Sifting through time to find what’s mine
Lisa Taylor: Narrative mapping alter(ed) childhoods as palimpsestal learning
Discussant: Sandra Weber
11:00-11:15 BREAK
11:15-1:15 Working Session 2: Place & Space
Chair: Maija Harju
Cynthia Chambers & Narcisse Blood: “When I first woke up”: Productive remembering in Blackfoot and Inuinnait
Mike Corbett: Remembering French in English: the Borg speak
Tony Kelly: The bildungsroman Bakhtinian excavations in East Coast fiction: The case of the Mean Boy
Michele Tanaka: Formative touchstones: Changing perspectives through an indigenous teacher education experience
Susann Allnutt: Making place: Photography and memory
Ingrid Johnston: Re-memoring colonial spaces of apartheid and the holocaust through imaginative fiction
Discussant: Margaret Mackey
1:15-2:15 LUNCH (Venue: Room MS 24, Street level, McLennan Library Building, 3459 McTavish Street)
2:15-3:15 What’s Method Got to do With it? Methods for Memory (working groups)
Kathleen Pithouse and Pontso Moorosi
3:15-3:30 BREAK (coffee, tea, and juice will be available)
3:30-5:15 Working Session 3: Embodiment
Chair: Maria Korpijaakko
Relebohile Moletsane: Exploring the evolution of my personal, political and intellectual project of teaching sexuality in education
George Carani: Seeing a question – A way to remember
Mathabo Khau: Memory self and taboo subjects: When memories can break your heart
Ran Tao: Boundaries blurred: The past mobilized to give meaning to the present and to envisage the future in relation to sexual identity construction among Chinese youth
Sandra Weber: Dressing Memory
Discussant: Susannah Radstone
7:00 Dinner at Robin des Bois Restaurant (4653 boul. Saint-Laurent, Montréal, QC, H2T 1R2, tel: 514.288.1010) [35 MINUTE WALK FROM DELTA HOTEL OR TAKE A TAXI]
Friday October 24
Venue: Room MS 42, Street level, McLennan Library Building, 3459 McTavish Street
8:30 Continental breakfast
9:00-10:30 Working Session 4: Generations
Chair: Erica Lehrer
Martha Langford: Collective memories and persistent primitivisms: Notes of caution on the photographic vernacular
Charlotte Hussey: Glossing fairy: Remembering and ever becoming
Peter Cohen: Haitians and Dominico-Haitians in the Dominican Republic: Stateless individuals and nostalgia
Maija Harju: “I remember when I was your age: Productive remembering, crossover literature and the politics of intergenerational relationships
Discussant: Alan McCully
10:30-10:45 BREAK
10:45-12:30 Working Session 5: Legacies of Political Conflict
Chair: Mike Corbett
Myriam Gervais and Eliane Ubalijoro: Productive remembering of social action and change: Girls and women’s rights experienced in post-genocide Rwanda
Ursula Kelly: My back pages: Three Guineas, melancholia and the implication of women in war
Farouk Mitha: Remembrance of things Muslim: Burdens of memory and hope in the writings of 3 contemporary Muslim reformers
Erica Lehrer: Please respond: Provoking difficult encounters in post-holocaust Poland
Alan McCully: Can secondary History teaching make a contribution to the processes of ‘truth recovery’ and reconciliation in a society emerging from conflict?
Discussant: Cynthia Chambers
12:30-1:00 Forward to the Future: Productive Remembering and Social Action... and Next Steps
Claudia Mitchell and Pontso Moorosi
1:00-2:00 LUNCH (Venue: Room MS 24, Street level, McLennan Library Building, 3459 McTavish Street)
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