Boundaries, Passages &
Sanctuaries
Università di Genova, Italia ‑ 27-28 October 2006
British
Association for Canadian Studies, Italian Association for Canadian Studies,
Centre de Recherche en Études Canadiennes et sur l'époque de l'expansion
européenne & Centro di Ricerca sui Sistemi Costituzionali Comparati.
The
conference programme can be found on the BACS website at http://www.canadian-studies.info/main/content/blogcategory/44/71
where it will be updated regularly.
Provisional
Programme
Friday 27 October 2006
Registration open 12.00
noon
13.30-14.30
Plenary I:
Professor Coral Ann Howells
"Not
Belonging, but Longing": Shifts of Emphasis in Contemporary Diasporic
Writing in Canada
14.30-15.30
Panel Giuridico: Relazioni (chair: Prof Xavier Arbos Marin)
J.Maria Castella Andreu (Università di Barcellona)
Federalismo canadese e domande costituzionali del West
Giancarlo Rolla (Università di Genova)
Federalismo e tutela dei diritti in una società multietnica:
il ruolo della giurisprudenza della Corte suprema del Canada
Literature I
Simona Bertacco, Università di Milano
A
Trans-Canadian Vernacular: Writing and the Boundary
Domenic
Beneventi, Université de Sherbrooke
Representing
Homelessness in Canadian Urban Literature
15.30 Tea break
16.00-17.30
Panel
Giuridico (chair: Prof Xavier Arbos Marin)
Nino Olivetti Rason (Università di Padova)
La giurisprudenza della Corte suprema del Canada e la tutela
dell'eguaglianza tra le persone ed i gruppi
Eleonora Ceccherini (Università di Siena)
Il riconoscimento degli inherent rights dei popoli aborigeni
Giuseppe di Genio (Università di Salerno)
Il federalismo canadese come modello di frontiera
CONNECT
Program
Christopher
Kirkey, SUNY Plattsburgh and George Sulzner, Past-President ACSUS
The CONNECT
Program: A Passageway for New Canadianists in the United Kingdom and Italy
17.30-18.30
Plenary II:
Professor Michael Behiels
Canada's
Charter of Rights and Freedoms: Transcending Boundaries, Creating Passages, and
Offering Sanctuaries
18.30-19.30
Literature II
Licia Canton, Editor-in-Chief, Accenti Magazine
Antonio
D'Alfonso and the Passage of Time: From Fabrizio's Passion to A Friday in
August
Silva Del
Zotto, Universities of Udine and Trieste
Crossing Linguistic
Boundaries: The Role of Female Italian-Canadian Writers as Translators of a
Language, a Literature and a Culture
Francesca L'Orfano, Carleton University
Immigrazione in Canada: The Films of Paul Tana
20.30 Dinner
Saturday 28 October 2006
9.00-10.30
Panel Giuridico: Diritti e pluralismo (chair: Nino Olivetti
Rason)
Eleonora di Benedetto (Università di Roma)
Il riconoscimento delle differenze e la giurisprudenza della
Core suprema in tema di same sex marriage
Alexander Schuster (Università di Trento)
Frontiere culturali e religiose.Modalità di passaggio in
Canada ed Europa
Maria Dicosola (Università di Siena)
Judicial
balancing between religious freedom and secularism: the duty of accommodation
Arianna Pitino (Università di Genova)
La tutela della salute degli aborigenti in Canada
Marco Gaggero (Università di Torino)
L'accordo tra Primi ministri e leaders delle first Nations
Giuseppe Passaniti (Università di Siena)
Gli Arbitration tribunals nella realtà multietnica in Canada
Literature III
Eleonora Federici, Università di Trento
A Languaged
Self: Translating Aritha van Herk's novels
Michele
Lacombe, Trent University
Boundaries,
Passages and Sanctuaries in Joseph Boyden`s Three Day Road
Valerio Bruni, Università di Udine
From
boundaries to a "sanctuary": Dorothy Livesay's Other
Multiculturalism I
Francesca
Rosati
Beyond
Boundaries: Multiculturalism and Multilingualism in Contemporary Canada
Francesca
Vaccarelli, University of Rome
Endangered
Languages and Cultures in Canada
Serena Viola, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Urban
landscape expression, vitality, multiculturality in an identity protection
perspective: pedestrian walkways in Montreal
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-12.30
Panel Giuridico: Immigrazione e frontiere (chair: Eleonora
Ceccherini)
Elisabetta Nardi (Università di Siena)
The evil
side of porous frontiera:trafficking in human beings
Serena Sileoni (Università di Siena)
The
Canadian Cross-Cultural Roundtable on Security
Irene Poggi (Università di Genova)
Canada and immigration
Silvio Boccalatte (Università di Genova)
The right
to health and regular (or irregular) immigrants in Canada
Simona Lombardo (Università di Genova)
Profili normativi dell'evoluzione dell'immigrazione in
Canada
Literature IV
Anne-Marie
Fortier, Université Laval
Le sanctuaire du
monde. Lecture du Paradis des apparences de Robert Melançon
Rachel
Killick, University of Leeds
'On va faire un
beau p'tit tour dans la forêt enchantée' Memory and Trauma in Michel Tremblay,
Le Premier Quartier de la lune
Sylvain
Lavoie, University of Montreal
Abris de fortune
sur terrain miné: représentations autochtones dans la dramaturgie canadienne
contemporaine
Unsettlings,
Remappings and Reconfigurations: The Politics and Poetics of 'Home' in
Contemporary Canadian Art, Film and Fiction
Anne Gérin,
Université of Québec à Montréal
The
Frenchification of Montreal: How the Quiet Revolution Re-Zoned the East
David
Tavares (University of Ottawa)
Urban
Mobilities and the Production of Multicultural Identities and Spaces: Reading
the Geographies of Dionne Brand's Toronto
Lisa Prosper (Carleton University)
Palimpsests
of Passage: Representing Canada's Landscape Heritage in the Paintings of Landon
Mackenzie
Peter
Hodgins
Unsettling
Images: Memory, Language, Landscape and Identity in François Leclerc's Mémoires
Affectives
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00
History
John
Harries, University of Edinburgh
Becoming
indigenous: the imagining of the native and the paradox of belonging in Canada
Constance Joyce
Martin, Université de Paris IV- Sorbonne
A not so
Peaceful Sanctuary
Elena
Baldassarri, University of Rome 3
The Shared
Frontier between Canada and the United States
Multiculturalism II
Oriana Palusci, Università di Trento
From Pier
21 to Corso Italia: gateways to hyphenated identities
Francesca Astengo
(l'Université de Montréal)
Freedom of
religion and its limits in multicultural Canada
Literature
Panel: The Crossing of Borders: Variations on a Theme
Barbara
Nugnes (University of Pisa)
Jane
Urquhart, The Little Flowers of Madame de Montespan
Biancamaria Rizzardi (University of Pisa)
The short
stories of Sheila Watson
Andrea
Binelli (University of Trento
Jane
Urquhart's novel Away (1993)
Viktoria
Tchernichova (University of Pisa)
Howard
O'Hagan, Tay John (1939)
Elsa
Linguanti (University of Pisa)
Some short
stories by Malcolm Lowry
15.00-15.30 Tea break
16.00-17.00
Plenary
III: Dr Colin Samson and Mr Napes Ashini
The
Benefits of Moving Forward to an Indigenous Hunting Lifestyle: The Quest of the
Innu to Combat Assimilation
17.00-18.30
Literature
V
Gundula
Wilke, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel
"Old
World" Discoverers vs. "New World" Cultural Mutineers
R. Mamoli
Zorzi, University of Venice
Ondaatje's
crossing of geographic, political and cultural borders in Anil's Ghost
Deborah
Saidero, University of Udine
Transcending
Boundaries, Bridging Cultures: transcultural elements in Janice Kulyk Keefer's
fiction
Eleonora Sasso, "Gabriele d'Annunzio" University
of Chieti-Pescara
"Graphomania
in a flimsy cave": Margaret Atwood's inner sanctuaries
Social Sciences
Tracie
Scott, Birkbeck College, University of London
Postcolonial
Theory and Law: Conceiving of a Postcolonial State
Richard E.
Mueller, University of Lethbridge
The Labour
Market Consequences of Aboriginal Residential School Attendance
Boundaries
and Gender
Patrizia Gentile, Carleton University
'Is it safe
to come out?': Re-negotiating gay and lesbian space during Canada's war on
queers
Donna Patrick, Carleton University