INTERDISZIPLINÄRE ARBEITSGRUPPE KANADA-STUDIEN DER PHILIPPS-UNIVERSITÄT
MARBURG
Canadian Literature Day 2001/ Journée de la littérature canadienne 2001
ENCS Seminar:
"Comparative Ethnic Literatures in Canada and Europe"
Dienstag / Mardi / Tuesday, 12/06/2001, Kanada-Saal (Universitätsbibliothek)
19:30
Opening Address & Readings by
 Nancy Burke (Warsaw)
 Smaro Kamboureli (Victoria, B.C.)
 Hans Jürgen Greif (Laval)
Mittwoch / Mercredi / Wednesday, 13/06/2001, Kanada-Saal (UB)
09:00 - 10:00
Session I: Europeans in Canadian Writing (Chair: Charlotte Sturgess)
 Wolfram R. Keller (Marburg): "Circulating Mythemes: Trans-Cultural Communication in David
Williams's Lacjardin Trilogy"
10:15 - 11:15
Session IIa: Surveys of Ethnic Canadian Writing (Chair: Fabienne Quennet)
 Mira Buchholtz (Torun): "Singing Snakes and Artistic Hens: Ethnic Diversity in Canadian Children's
Books of the 1980s and 90s"
 Don Sparling (Brno): "The Representation of Ethnic Minorities in School Textbooks"
11:30 - 12:30
Session IIb: Surveys of Ethnic Canadian Writing (Chair: Smaro Kamboureli)
 Katalin Kürtösi (Szeged): "Ethnic Drama"
 Fabienne Quennet (Marburg): "Humour in Jewish Canadian Writing"
14:00 - 15:30
Session III: Asian-Canadian Ethnic Writing (Chair: Wolfram R. Keller)
 Charlotte Sturgess (Strasbourg): "Evelyn Lau: Figuring Ethnicity in Other Women"
 Nancy Burke (Warsaw): "'Mixing Memory and Desire' - M. J. Vassanji and the East Asian Canadian
Novel"
 Smaro Kamboureli (Victoria): "Denise Chong's The Concubine's Children: Modernity and
Postethnicity"
15:45 - 16.45
Session IV: Europeans & Canadians (Chair: Martin Kuester)
 Hans-Jürgen Greif (Laval): "Questions de l'identitaire dans le roman québécois contemporain"
 Eugenia Sojka (Sosnowiec): "Inscriptions of Polishness on the Canadian Cultural Landscape"
18:30
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50 Years / 50 Jahre Alan Coatsworth Canada Collection
Festvortrag / Lecture by Prof. Dr. Paul Goetsch, Universität Freiburg
Book launch and reception hosted by the Canadian Ambassador
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the European Network for Canadian Studies, the Gesellschaft für
Kanada-Studien, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Ursula-Kuhlmann-Fonds and the Canadian Embassy in Berlin.