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Thursday, October 20
7:00 pm Roundtable: Editing as Cultural Practice
Faculty Club, University of Guelph
(5th Floor, University Centre Building)
Readings & Discussion Moderated by
Smaro Kamboureli (TCI, Guelph) and Dean Irvine (EMiC, Dalhousie)
Robert Bringhurst, George Elliott Clarke, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Frank Davey, Roy Miki, and Daniel David Moses.
Session to be recorded for dissemination as podcast on TCI and EMiC websites.
9:00 pm Reception
Friday, October 21
TransCanada Institute (TCI)
(9 University Ave. East, University of Guelph)
9:00-9:30 Opening remarks: Editing as Cultural Practice: Workshop’s Goals and Scope
Smaro Kamboureli and Dean Irvine
9:30-12:00 Session I: Editing as Recovery/Editing as Scholarship
Moderator: Dean Irvine (EMiC, Dalhousie)
Bart Vautour (Mount Allison): The Politics of Recovery and the Recovery of Politics: Editing Canadian Writing on the Spanish Civil War
George Elliott Clarke (Toronto): Toward Establishing an—or the—“Archive” of African-Canadian Literature
Zailig Pollock (Trent): Bad News and Good News: The Material and Cultural Transformation of Scholarly Editing in Canada
12:00-1:00 Lunch break (catered on the premises)
Discussion led by Lisa Quinn (Wilfrid Laurier UP)
1:00-3:00 Session II: Editing and Institutional Formations part 1
Moderator: Smaro Kamboureli (TCI, Guelph)
Robert Lecker (McGill): Keeping the Code: Narrative and Nation in Donna Bennett and Russell Brown’s An Anthology of Canadian Literature in English
Carole Gerson (SFU): Project Editing in Canada: Challenges and Compromises
3:00-3:30 Nutritional Break
3:30-5:30 Session III: Editing and Institutional Formations part 2
Moderator: Dean Irvine (EMiC, Dalhousie)
Laura Moss (UBC) and Cynthia Sugars (Ottawa): Performing Editors: Juggling Pedagogies in the Production of a “Canadian” Literature
Kate Eichhorn (New School) and Heather Milne (Winnipeg): Labours of Love and Cutting Remarks: The Affective Economies of Editing
5:30-6:00 Free Time
6:00-9:00 Working Dinner (Takeout at TransCanada Institute)
Collaborative production of document on editorial principles and practices.
Saturday, October 22
TransCanada Institute (TCI)
(9 University Ave. East, University of Guelph)
9:30-12:00 Session IV: The Poetics and Politics of Editing
Moderator: Smaro Kamboureli (TCI, Guelph)
Terry Goldie (York) and Daniel David Moses (Queen’s): Canon Fodder: Editing Native Literature in Canada
Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm (Freelance Poet, Editor/Publisher, Kegedonce Press): W’daub Awae: Editing Indigenous Texts as an Indigenous Editor
Robert Bringhurst (Freelance editor/poet/translator): Air, Water, Land, Light, and Language
12:00-1:00 Lunch Break (catered on the premises)
1:00-3:30 Session V: Editing as Digital Practice
Moderator: Dean Irvine (EMiC, Dalhousie)
Darren Wershler (Concordia): The Ethically Incomplete Editor: Coach House Books and Canadian Digital Cultural Policy
Hannah McGregor (Guelph): Martha Ostenso: Editing Without Author[ity]
Paul Hjartarson, Harvey Quamen, and EMiC UA (Alberta): Editing the Letters of Wilfred and Sheila Watson, 1956-1961: Scholarly Edition as Digital Practice
3:30-4:00 Nutritional Break
4:00-6:30 Session VI: Editing as/and Cultural Theory
Moderator: Smaro Kamboureli (TCI, Guelph)
Irene Gammel (Ryerson) and Benjamin Lefebvre (Wilfrid Laurier): Editing in Canada: The Case of L.M. Montgomery
Frank Davey (Western): bpNichol editor
Christl Verduyn (Mount Allison): Literary and Editorial Theory and Ins and Outs in Editing Marian Engel
6:30-7:00 Free Time
7:00-10:00 Dinner and Discussion: Editing the Collection
At private room in local restaurant The Bollywood Bistro (51 Cork St. East)