Date
Tuesday, May 3, 2016 at 9 am – Wednesday, May 4, 2016 at 12:15 pm
Category
Location
Watson Hall, Room 517
49 Bader Lane
˴Ƭ University
Kingston ON K7L 3N6
Canada
Tuesday May 3rd
9:00–10:30 am
Rethinking State Notions of “Belonging” through Indigenous Languages and Legal Customs of the Canadian Pacific Coast
Presenter: Catherine Andre
The Mark of a “Good” Reader: Early Modern Marginalia in Books
Presenter: Vika Nersisyan
10:45 am–12:15 pm
Ghosts and Gaslight: Spirit Photography, Séance Writing and Post-Mortem Materiality in the 19th Century
Presenter: Lin Young
Beyond Death: Tracing Myths of the Afterlife from Western Traditions to 21st Century Fantasy
Presenter: Adam Drysdale
Wednesday May 4th
9:00–10:30 am
How can We Read the Dancer and the Dance?
Presenter: Patty Argyrides
Ethanol is All: Alcohol and Western Drinking Culture in Modernist Literature
Presenter: John Bany-Klupsas
10:45 am–12:15 pm
True Religion or False Superstition: Obeah and the Limits of the Postsecular
Presenter: Jhordan Layne
Collisions of Histories: Travel Writing and the Relational Logics of Collective Memory
Presenter: Robyn Carruthers