Canadays

Programme

 

& Thursday 26

Canadian Literature and Creative Writing

8:00-9:00 Registration (second floor, outside Saló Victor Siurana)

9:00-9:30 Welcome address (Saló Victor Siurana, edifici rectorat, second floor)

9:30-11:30 Creative Writing Workshop I (sala de juntes, second floor)

Dennis Cooley (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada)

11:30-12:00 Coffee break

12:15-14:15 Hyde Park Corner (Saló Victor Siurana)

12:15-12:30 Beyond the Triple Goddess in Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Wife

Isabel Larrea (University of La Rioja, Spain)

12:30-12:45 Naming and Identity in Robert Kroetsch’s The Puppeteer and The Studhorse man

Sheila Bademunt (University of Lleida, Spain)

12:45-13:00 The Canadian North: A Deconstructed White Page

Mercé Agustí (University of Lleida, Spain)

13:00-13:15 An Approach to Michael Ondaatje’s In The Skin of a Lion and The English Patient

Ares Tuset and Pilar Megías (University of Lleida, Spain)

14:00–16:00 Lunch and social break

16:00 – 17:00 Myth in the Works of W.O. Mitchell (Saló Victor Siurana)

Karen Clavelle (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada)

17:15 – 18:15 First Nations and Their Myths (Saló Victor Siurana)

Dolors Collellmir (University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain)

19:00 – 20:00 A Near Myth: The Seeking Self in David Arnason’s Marsh Burning (Saló Victor Siurana)

Dennis Cooley (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada)

x Friday 27

Canadian Film and Creative Writing

9:00–11:00 Creative Writing Workshop II (Sala de juntes, second floor)

Dennis Cooley (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada)

11:00-11:30 Coffee/Tea break

11:30-12:30 The Cultural Heritage: Myth in the Films of David Cronenberg (Saló Victor Siurana)

Mertxe Lasierra (University of Lleida, Spain)

13:00-14:00 Hyde Park Corner (Saló Victor Siurana)

13:00-13:15 "He’s Only a Cat". An Approach to the Poetry of Lorna Crozier

Aet Leemet (University of Lleida, Spain)

13:15-14:00 Revisionist Mythology in Margaret Atwood’s Poetry

Allison Funk (University of Southern Illinois at Edwardsville, SIUE)

14:00-16:00 Lunch and social break

16:00-18:00 Mythic Shapes of Childhood: The Manitoba Experience in Film (Saló Victor Siurana)

Gordon Collier (Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany)

18:30-20:30 Anti-Myth and Anti-Melodrama in the Films of Guy Maddin (Saló Victor Siurana)

Gene Walz (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada)

? Saturday 28

Creative Writing and Reading

9:00–11:30 Creative Writing Workshop III (Sala de Juntes, second floor)

Dennis Cooley (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada)

11:30–12:00 Coffee/Tea break

12:00-14:00 Literature Gala (Saló Victor Siurana)

Participants in Workshops I, II and II read selections from the fruits of their in-class writing activity.

14:30 Communal Farewell Lunch