An Editing Modernism in Canada (EMiC) Colloquium
Colloque de L’Édition du modernisme au Canada (EmaC)
Paris, France, June 28–30, 2012
L’Institut du Monde Anglophone
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3
5, rue de l’Ecole de Médecine
75006 Paris
Métro/RER : Odéon, Cluny-La Sorbonne, Saint-Michel
Organizing Committee
Comité scientifique
Marta Dvorak (Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle)
Dean Irvine (Dalhousie University/Yale University)
Matt Huculak (Dalhousie University)
Kit Dobson (Mount Royal University)
Colloquium Administrator
Colloque administrateur
Emily Ballantyne (Dalhousie University)
8–8:45h Registration
L’Institut du Monde Anglophone
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3
5, rue de l’Ecole de Médecine
8:45–9h Welcome and Opening Remarks
Grand Amphithéâtre
9–10:30h Session 1
Plenary: Modernism Reaching Out: From Paris to Planetarity
Grand Amphithéâtre
Chair: Dean Irvine (Dalhousie University/Yale University)
Andrew Thacker (De Montfort University) Taking Root or Moving On? Modernism, Transnationalism, and Little Magazines
Suzanne Bailey (Trent University) Remaking Diaspora: David Silverberg at William Hayter’s Atelier 17
Miguel Mota (University of British Columbia) and Paul Tiessen (Wilfrid Laurier University) Malcolm Lowry’s ‘Lost’ Novel (1931-44): From Paris Stories to Canadian Ashes to Archival Return
10:30–11h Break
11–12:30h Session 2
2A: Transmedia Modernisms
Grand Amphithéâtre
Chair: Matt Huculak (Dalhousie University)
Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan) New York to Paris: Transnational Modernisms in Adaptations of Mazo de la Roche’s Jalna
Gilles Lapointe (Université du Québec) Identité sans frontières : Edmund Alleyn et l’espace artistique parisien entre 1955 et 1970
Stéphanie Danaux (Université de Montréal) and Nova Doyon (Université Laval) «Combien d’autres sont partis qu’on n’a jamais vus revenir?» Le débutant d’Arsène Bessette illustré par Théophile Busnel (1914)
Session 2B: Elsewhere Communities
Petit Amphithéâtre
Chair: Marc Fortin (Queen’s University)
Emily Robins Sharpe (University of Guelph) Honeymoon in Paris: Women Reporting the Spanish Civil War
Bart Vautour (Mount Allison University) Reporting Spain: Modernist Journalism and the Politics of Proximity
Sophie Marcotte (Université Concordia) Du Fémina à l’indifférence : Gabrielle Roy et la France
12:30–14h Lunch
Le Procope
13, rue de l’Ancienne Comédie
14–15:15h Session 3
3A: Sheila Watson in Paris and Paris in her Journals
Grand Amphithéâtre
Chair: Paul Hjartarson (University of Alberta)
Matt Bouchard (University of Toronto) and Harvey Quamen (University of Alberta) Bringing the Archive to the Streets: the WatsonAR Smartphone Application
Kristin Fast, Nick van Orden (University of Alberta), Rebecca Blakey (University of Alberta), and EMiC UA Mapping Sheila’s Paris: “just what did this exile return home with, anyway?”
Linda Morra (Bishop’s University) “I want my story told”: Modernism and Autobiographical Representation in Sheila Watson’s Notebooks”
3B: Comme Il Faut: Exile and Return in Modernist Canadian Periodical Production
Petit Amphithéâtre
Chair: Andrew Thacker (De Montfort University)
J. Matthew Huculak (Dalhousie University) The Cosmopole Writes Back: Exile and Return in Le Nigog
Faye Hammill (University of Strathclyde) Modes de Paris: Literature, Fashion and Excess in Dispatches to Canadian Periodicals
Michelle Smith (University of Strathclyde) The Pursuit of Elegance: Advice and Advertisements for Parisian Travel in Canadian Magazines of the 1920s and 1930s
15:15–15:30h Break
15:30–16:45h Session 4
4A: Edges of the Modern
Grand Amphithéâtre
Chair: Vanessa Lent (University of Alberta)
Katie Tanigawa (University of Victoria) “The absolute change of atmosphere”: Locating Paris in Canada’s Nostromo
Erin Wunker (Dalhousie University) “Try Advil, try Stein”: Sina Queyras the Making of Contemporary Canadian Feminist Poetics
Mathieu Duplay (Paris 7 University) Chinese Poems on the Moon: Writing the Canadian Landscape in Malcolm Lowry’s “The Forest Path to the Spring”
4B: Editing in Exile: Viewpoints from the Student Vanguard
A Roundtable
Petit Amphithéâtre
Melissa Dalgleish (York University)
Christopher Doody (Carleton University)
Hannah McGregor (University of Guelph)
Jennifer Randall (Université de Paris 8 )
16:45–17:15h Break
17:15–18:45h Session 5
Session 5A: Enemies and Exiles
Grand Amphithéâtre
Chair: Emily Robins Sharpe (University of Guelph)
Melissa Dalgleish (York University) The White Goddess in Toronto: Jay Macpherson, Robert Graves, and the Exile of Canadian Modernist Mythopoeia
Leah Ellingwood (University of Victoria) Digitizing the Enemy: Developing a Resources Website on Wyndham Lewis’s Tarr
Adam Hammond (University of Toronto) Figures on Familiar Ground: Paris, Toronto, and the Heavenly City in Sheila Watson and Wyndham Lewis
Session 5B: Sexuality, Textuality and Transculturality
Petit Amphithéâtre
Chair: Christopher Doody (Carleton University)
Jason Wiens (University of Calgary) Tracing the Limits of the Obscene: John Glassco’s Revisionary Modernism
Margo Gouley (York University) Metaphor and the Modern Critic: The Transcultural Contexts of W.E. Collin’s The White Savannahs
Emily Ballantyne (Dalhousie University) Reading Backward: The Sexual and Textual Productions of John Glassco’s Memoirs of Montparnasse
18:45-20h Reception
9–10:30h Session 6
Plenary: Global Poetics
Grand Amphithéâtre
Chair: Hannah McGregor (University of Guelph)
Robert Zacharias (University of Toronto) “Brilliant Exile, for the Heart / Is and Not Makes, a Work of Art”: Modernism and the Aesthetics of Displacement in Canada
Nadine Fladd (University of Western Ontario) Revis(it)ing Modernist Moments: Morley Callaghan and The New Yorker
Catherine Lanone (Sorbonne Nouvelle) Reinventing the Image: T.S. Eliot and Emily Carr
10:30–11h Break
11–12:30h Session 7
7A: Transnational Periodicals and Textual Migrations
Grand Amphithéâtre
Chair: Emily Ballantyne (Dalhousie University)
Jade Ferguson (University of Guelph) “I’m Alabama Bound”: The 1930s International Anti-Lynching Campaign in the Pages of Masses and the Poetry of Dorothy Livesay
Louise Kane (De Montfort University) “an exile’s magazine”(?): Palms (1923-30), transatlantic review (1924), transition (1927-38), and Epilogue (1935-8)
Zailig Pollock (Trent University) and Christopher Doody (Carleton University) “I Have Changed”: Textual Transformations in P.K. Page’s Brazilian Journal
7B: Routes of the Modern
Petit Amphithéâtre
Chair: Miguel Mota (University of British Columbia)
Marc Delrez (University of Liège) Rilke in Frame
Mark Williams (Victoria University) Dark Furniture: The Lugubrious Modernism of Late Manhire
Teresa Gibert (Spanish National University) Transculturality and Transnationalism in Mavis Gallant’s Writings
12:30–14h Lunch
Bouillon-Racine
3, Rue Racine
14–15:15h Session 8
8A: France-Québec Connections
Grand Amphithéâtre
Chair: Sophie Marcotte (Université Concordia)
Jacques Paquin (Université du Québec) L’expérience littéraire de Gatien Lapointe en France (1956-1962) à travers sa poésie et ses archives personnelles
Michel Lacroix (UQAM) Les exotiques à Paris (1910-1914) : entre modernismes et (néo-)classicisms
Sarah Alharbi (Université de Montréal) Vers une phénoménologie de l’exil : quand l’exil du corps au Royaume des Idées symbolise le retour de l’âme à ses origins
8B: Writing Athwart: Editing Roy K. Kiyooka
A TransCanada Institute Panel
Petit Amphithéâtre
Chair: Kit Dobson (Mount Royal University)
Smaro Kamboureli (University of Guelph) Letters from the Other Side: On Editing and Editing Roy K. Kiyooka
Roy Miki (Simon Fraser University) Transforming inglish: Editing the Poetry of Roy K. Kiyooka
Glen Lowry (Emily Carr University) Roy Kiyooka’s ‘Wheels’: A Trip thru the Coach House Backcountry
15:15–15:30h Break
15:30–16:45h Session 9
Plenary: Global Migrations and Mutations
Grand Amphithéâtre
Chair: Marta Dvorak (Sorbonne Nouvelle)
John Thieme (University of East Anglia) How Did Modernism Transform Itself When Nissim Ezekiel Shipped It to Bombay?
Laetitia Zecchini (CNRS) Modernism in Indian Poetry: A Paradigm for Emancipation, Recovery and Creative Out-of-placeness
Hannah McGregor (University of Guelph) Writing the “Foreign”: Narratives of Travel in the Writing Careers of Margaret Laurence and P.K. Page
16:45–17:15h Break
17:15–18:15h Keynote Presentation
Grand Amphithéâtre
Moderator: Marta Dvorak (Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Alberto Manguel First and Last Modernists: From Conrad to Borges
18:30–19:30h Reception
9–10:30h Session 10
Plenary: Intermedial Métissage
Grand Amphithéâtre
Chair: Gregory Betts (Brock University)
Katherine McLeod (University of Guelph) Radio Modernism in Canada
Linda Steer (and Gregory Betts) (Brock University) “I AM THAT AM I?” Brion Gysin’s Art of Unsettled Identities
Marta Dvorak (Sorbonne Nouvelle) Image and Page: Mavis Gallant’s Modernist Transmutations
10:30–11h Break
11–12:30h Session 11
11A: Mansfield, Exile and the Self
Grand Amphithéâtre
Chair: Christine Lorre-Johnston (Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Simone Oettli (University of Geneva) Katherine Mansfield and the Notion of Self
Elizabeth Welsh (University of Auckland) Within the Pages of Rhythm: Mansfield, Exile and nostalgie de la boue
Janet Wilson (University of Northampton) Mansfield, France and Childhood
11B: Place and Displacement
Petit Amphithéâtre
Chair: Bart Vautour (Mt. Allison University)
Travis Mason (Dalhousie University) Reading Partridges and Others at the Edge of Ernest Buckler’s Modernist Style
Marc Fortin (Queen’s University) Marius Barbeau in Europe: Modernism, Ethnography, Translation
Tony Tremblay (St. Thomas University) Locating Attitudes to Place in Canadian Modernism: A New Brunswick Study
12:30–14h Lunch
La Mosquée de Paris
39, rue Geoffrey Saint-Hilaire
14–15:30h Session 12
12A: Wilfred Watson’s Paris and the Problem of Finding a Canadian Idiom
Grand Amphithéâtre
Chair: Linda Morra (Bishop’s University)
Paul Hjartarson (University of Alberta) The Other Watson: Wilfred in (Another?) Paris
Gregory Betts (Brock University) “I held all the hot egos of the world in my hand”: Conscious of Multi-Consciousness in Wilfred Watson’s Poetry
Vanessa Lent (University of Alberta) Paris and Wilfred Watson’s Cockcrow and the Gulls
12B: Mansfield and Gallant: International Modernism and Paris
Petit Amphithéâtre
Chair: Janet Wilson (University of Northampton)
Sydney Janet Kaplan (University of Washington) Mansfield, Manoukhin and International Modernism: Paris 1922
Anne Mounic (Sorbonne Nouvelle) A Flavour of Paris in Katherine Mansfield’s Stories
Christine Lorre-Johnston (Sorbonne Nouvelle) Women Abroad: Expatriation in Short Stories by Katherine Mansfield and Mavis Gallant
15:30–16h Break
16–17h Session 13
From Exile to Return
A Roundtable
Grand Amphithéâtre
Chair: Dean Irvine (Dalhousie University/Yale University)
Kit Dobson (Mount Royal University)
J. Matthew Huculak (Dalhousie University)
Faye Hammill (University of Strathclyde)
Smaro Kamboureli (University of Guelph)
Catherine Lanone (Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Paul Hjartarson (University of Alberta)
20h Colloquium Dinner
Les Ministères
30, rue du Bac
End of Colloquium
Fin de Colloque