Colloque international: Les Amériques du Canada

The Americas in Canada - Les Amériques du Canada
                            
International conference / Colloque international
Canadian Studies Centre / Centre d'Etudes Canadiennes
Masaryk  University / Université Masaryk
20-21 October / 20-21 octobre, 2017


Programme

 

Friday 20 October / Vendredi 20 octobre

 
12:00 – 13:00
Registration / Inscription (Arna Nováka 1, Building B / Edifice B)
 
13:00
Opening / Ouverture (Arna Nováka 1, Building B / Edifice B, Room / Salle B2.23)
 
Barbara C. Richardson, Ambassador of Canada to the Czech Republic / Ambassadeur du Canada en République tchèque
Petr Kyloušek, Vice-Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, Faculty of Arts, and Co-Chair, Canadian Studies Centre, Masaryk University / Vice-doyen à la recherche et aux études supérieures, Faculté des lettres, et Co-directeur du Centre d'études canadiennes, Université Masaryk
 
13:30 – 14:30
1st Keynote address / 1ère Conférence plénière
 
Peter Klaus, Freie Universität, Berlin
Canadienne, américaine, francophone et/ou autochtone: quel destin pour la littérature québécoise?
 
14:30 – 15:00
Coffee break / Pause café
 
15:00 – 16:00
2nd Keynote address / 2e Conférence plénière
 
Richard Nimijean, Carleton University, Ottawa
Reframing Canadian „Americanness“ and Cross-Border Relations in the Age of Trump
 
16:00 – 16:15
Coffee break / Pause café
 
16:15 – 18:00
Session 1 / 1ère Séance
 
1.1 Québec / Amérique (Arna Nováka 1, Building B / Edifice B, Room / Salle B2.23)
Présidence: Petr Vurm
 
Véronique Millet, Dawson College, Montréal
René Derouin: art et américanité
 
Józef Kwaterko, Université de Varsovie
«Négriture et ré-enracinement»: l’Amérique comme espace de compagnonnage dans la poésie québécoise
 
Petr Kyloušek, Université Masaryk, Brno
Entre Montréal, New York, Miami et Port-au-Prince: les Haïtiens
 
1.2 Anglophone literature in the American context (Gorkého 7, Room/Salle G 23)
 
Janos Kenyeres, ELTE, Budapest
Literary Manifestations of the Canadian Dream in Fiction
 
Andrea F. Szabó, University of Pannonia, Veszprém
Alice Munro’s Canada and America in the Making
 
Tihana Klepac, University of Zagreb
Cinderella Writes Back: S.J. Duncan’s Mary Trent as Canada personified
 
18:00 – 21:00
Conference buffet dinner / Dîner d’ouverture
 

Saturday 21 October / Samedi 21 octobre

 
9:00 – 10:45
Session 2 / 2e Séance
 
2.1 Mythes et américanité (Gorkého 7, Room / Salle G 12)
Présidence: Peter Klaus
 
Marilyne Lamer, Université de Montréal
De l'entreprise de mythographie dans le pays à venir de Victor Lévy-Beaulieu
 
Petr Vurm, Université Masaryk, Brno
Le post-humanisme est-il un humanisme? Les six degrés de liberté de l'homme à l'heure de la mondialisation
 
Ewelina Berek, Université de Silésie
«Le roman sans aventure» à la François Blais. La nouvelle société québécoise en manque d’american dream
 
2.2 The North American political space (Gorkého 7, Room / Salle G 31)
 
Magdalena Firtová, Charles University, Prague
NAFTA and Free Trade between the USA and Canada
 
Don Sparling, Masaryk University, Brno
de Toqueville, Democracy in America, and Canada
 
Diana Yankova, New Bulgarian University, Sofia
150 years of Immigration Trends in North America: An overview

 
10:45 – 11:15
Coffee break / Pause café
 
11:15 – 13:00
Session 3 / 3e Séance
 
3.1 Américanité québécoise mise en scène (Gorkého 7, Room / Salle G 12)
Présidence: Petr Kyloušek
 
Hana Rozlozsniková, Université Masaryk, Brno
Le drame poétique de Rina Lasnier et la société canadienne-française
 
Šárka Novotná, Université Masaryk, Brno
Américanité comme miroir déformant d’une illusion (théâtrale): quelques figures de l’american dream chez Michel Tremblay
 
3.2 Identifying Canada (Gorkého 7, Room / Salle G 31)
 
Jason Blake, University of Ljubljana
„A little bit Canadian“? What does that even mean?
 
Krizstina Kodo, Kodolányi János University of Applied Sciences, Székesfehérvár
Canada: The Inconspicuous Silent Dreamer and Otherside of the Americas
 
Jana Javorcikova, Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica
“Freestyle” Canada: The Canadian Dream Then and Now
 
3.3 Canada and popular culture (Gorkého 7, Room / Salle G 32)
 
Klara Kolinská, Metropolitan University, Prague
“Welcome to the Rock” or, Gander Comes to Broadway. Canadian Musical’s Journey to the World Stage
 
Tomáš Pospíšil, Masaryk University, Brno
We definitely blew it! Dennis Hopper's Easy Rider, Larry Kent's High and the Failure of North American Counterculture
 
Peter Thompson, Carleton University, Ottawa
Pogey Beach: Representations of Atlantic Canada on Youtube
 
13:00 – 14:30
Lunch / Déjeuner
 
14:30 – 16:15
Session 4 / 4e Séance
 
4.1 Cultural markers (Gorkého 7, Room / Salle G 12)
 
Lucia Grosu-Radulescu, Bucharest University of Economic Studies
Is it Canadian or is it American? A Case study of American influences on the (cultural) awareness of Canada among Romanian students
 
Marica Mazurek, Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica
Cross-border cooperation in tourism
 
Nikola Tutek, University of Rijeka
Book Cover as an Artistic Statement and a Cultural Phenomenon – The Canadian Example
 
4.2 Reflections of Indigeneity (Gorkého 7, Room / Salle 31)
 
Jana Marešová, Charles University, Prague
Indigenous Identity in Today’s Canada: Reflections in Contemporary Texts by Indigenous Writers
 
Karis Shearer, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Treaty 9: The Implications of Alanis Obomsawin’s Trick or Treaty
 
Éva Zsizsmann, Corvinus University and Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church, Budapest
Stories Without Borders. Thomas King, The Inconvenient Indian
 
4.3 (Re)assessing paradigms (Gorkého 7, Room / Salle G 32)
 
Vanja Polic, University of Zagreb
Vanderhaeghe’s A Good Man and the State of US-Canadian Relations at the End of the 19th Century
 
Oleh Kozachuk, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University
“ Peace, Order and Good Government” vs. “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”: Theoretical Background Revision for Canada – the U.S. Comparison
 
Lucia Otrísalová, Komenský University, Bratislava
Is Canadian Literature American?: CanLit within Hemispheric American Studies
 
16:15 – 16:30
Closing / Clôture
 
16:30 – 18:30
Tour of Brno (optional) / Visite de Brno (optionnel)


Organized by
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures (Faculty of Arts)
Responsibility
prof. PhDr. Petr Kyloušek, CSc.

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