Réalisme et esthétiques de la dissidence dans la littérature française
du 19e – Expression d’un chiasme dans l’imaginaire collectif :

- Alzira Guesdes
Université de Coimbra, Portugal
Baudelaire et Flaubert, précurseurs de la modernité...

- Kaboub Ahmed
Université du Maine, France

Rhetorics and Linguistic Stereotypes in the Portrayal of the Other:

- Leilei Chen
Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta
A Caged Spectator: The Traveling Self as a Bestiary of Modernity

- Michael Ethen
Department of Musicology, McGill University
Existing in Subordination: Popular Music, Midgets, and a Vicious Cycle
of Identity

Indigeneity : Finding a Representational Space in Contemporary Politics and Aesthetics – The case of Canada and Méjico:

- Kristy McKay
Department of Comparative Literature, University of Alberta Anarcho-Indigenism and the Arche of the Story

- Salvador Leetoy
Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta El sujeto cultural indígena y la participación democrática: El dilema neozapatista en la competencia y disputa de la esfera pública en México.Location: Student Lounge

Problematizing the Concept of Self in the German Philosophical Tradition:

- James Czank
Department of Political Science, University of Alberta
Of Fetishes, Identity, and Substance: What We Can Learn from
Horkheimer and Adorno

- Lisa Villareal
Department of Comparative Literature, Stanford University
A Lesson in Narration: Representations of Otherness and the Rational Project in
Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello

- Dan Webb
Department of Political Science, University of Alberta
“If Adorno isn't the Devil, it's because He's a Jew: Lyotard's Mis-reading of
Adorno's Aesthetics through Thomas Mann's Dr. Faustus."

Fragments of the Self in Art Production and Performance :

- Andrea Pinheiro
University of Alberta
The photosensitive self and intangible light of radioactivity: bearing
witness to the space between

- Monica Rettig
Program of Comparative Literature, University of Western Ontario
Stunts and Graphica: Contemporary Hunger Artists?

- Vicky Moufawad-Paul
MFA in Film and Video, Production Stream, York University
Toronto Arab Film Festival, Executive Director
"Remembering the Dismembered: The Fragment as the Emblem of Diasporic
Identity in
Autoethnographic Filmmaking"

FILM SCREENING:

Short Introduction to the Austrian Documentary film Industry by Jerry White, professor in Film Studies at the University of Alberta
Darwin’s Nightmare – Hubert Sauper Workingman’s Death – Michael Glawogger

The Stage of Self Disclosure : Arendt & Benjamin:

- Trevor Tchir
Department of Political Science, University of Alberta
Judging the Political Performance: Self-Disclosure and the Spectator
in Hannah Arendt

- Graham Lyons
Simon Fraser University, BC
Which Walter? Staging the Self as Dialectic in Walter Benjamin’s Moscow Diary

Understanding the Self – Between Hermeneutics and Inherited Reality :

- Robert Lee Nichols
Department of Political Philosophy, University of Toronto
Genealogy’s Relationship to Hermeneutics on the Question of the Self

- Gustav Arnold
University of North Dakota
“I am not what I thought I was”:The Transmission of Desire from a Systemic Perspective

Taming the Body – Insights on the Rationalization of Physical Activity :

- Ian Watts
Faculty of Physical Education and recreation, University of Alberta
“Playing True”, Playing Pure: Another (Re)thinking: Performance Enhancing Drugs and repression and Liberation in Marcuse’s Eros and Civilization

- Greg Bowden
Sociology Department, Faculty of Arts,
University of Alberta.
Working at the Limit: Indoor Rowing and the Agony of Ecstacy

Spaces and Traces: Consciousness, Absence, Presence.

- James Martell de la Torre
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Kansas
Hamlet’s Rest (of silence): The Telos of a Declension

- Hector MacIntyre
Department of Philosophy, University of Alberta
Professor Zwicky on the Priority of the Spatial

Disclosing the Other as Self-Discovery – The Two Sides of a Same Coin:

- Mavis Chia-Chieh Tseng
Graduate Institute of Foreign Literature and Linguistics,National
Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
The Remains of the Clones: The Uncanny Otherness within Ourselves in Kazuo Ishiguro’s
Never Let Me Go

- Johanna Rossi Wagner
Department of Italian, Rutgers University, NJ
In the Eye of the ‘I’: Visual Perception as Self Perception in Massimo
Bontempelli’s Minnie la Candida (Minnie the Innocent)

Literary Metaphors of Modernity:

- Frederick Cullum
University of Northern British Columbia
The Great Chain of Refuse: Capitalist Allegories in the Insect Kingdom

- Jean-Jacques Defert
Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta
Nation Building – Network Metaphors in Social Discourse

Constructing Subjectivities in Latin American Literature:

- Kendall, A. Whitney
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Kansas
The Twilight Zone and the Paranoid Android: Declension at the Border in Roberto
Bolaño’s 2666

- Sandra Navarro
Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta
Beyond the Binaries: an Alternative Reading of Paso de Dos

Keynote address by Dr. George Pavlich, professor of Law and Sociology,
University of Alberta

On The Subject of Criminal Identification
From within crime-obsessed cultures, it is difficult to entertain that one of criminal law’s constitutive subjects – ‘the criminal’ – betrays a complex, but entirely contingent, lineage. It emerges out of discourses striving to fix (often under the guise of scientific discovery) the criminal’s distinctive (essential?) ontology. Most significantly, that subject is posited as a central figure in the development of criminal identification technologies designed to prevent crime by scientifically identifying ‘habitual criminals.’ This paper will focus on several discourses in nineteenth century Britain that provide conceptual foundations for the habitual criminal subject to be ‘identified’ recursively by ‘scientific’ criminal identification technologies (e.g., Bertilllon’s Anthropometry and Galton’s Composite Criminal Portraits). What are the implications of that subject’s formation for contemporary criminology, as well as our continued efforts to govern through ‘crime’ and forensically defined ‘criminals’?

Representation of the “Real” – A linguistic approach:

- Liu Xinhiu
Faculty of Education, University of Alberta
Cultural Tags for the Implied Reader in Ha Jin’s Waiting

- David Martin
University of Alberta
Wittgenstein’s Ordinary Language Rules and Thirteen Ways of Looking at Birds in Ulysses

- Rui Feng
University of Alberta
Graphomaniac Revelation: Chinese Subculture via Online Writing

Language, Ethics and Politics:

- Magdalena Zolkos
Department of Political Science, University of Alberta
Questioning the Imperative of Forgiveness: “Theologies of Justice” seen through the
Prism of Jean Améry’s “Resenting Subject”

- Angela Thachuk
University of Alberta
Attending to the Chaos: Bringing Justice to Narratives of the Unspeakable

Le dans la création artistique : A vatars du sujet moderne : paradigme
de la violence et schizophrénye

- Adnen Jdey
Département de Philosophie, Université de Tunis, Tunisie
Esthétique de la violence originaire : acéphalité de la pensée ou exigence d'affect?

- Khadija Khalife
Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures Portland State
University, Oregon
L'homme moderne entre tendances de bestialité et espérance de divinité

A la recherche du Moi – Esthétisation de la dialectique identitaire dans la
littérature francophone

- Nicolas L’Hermitte
Département de Philosophie, Université Paris IV – La Sorbonne
Un sujet pour le Sujet

- Rodah Sechele-Nthapelelang
Laboratoire de Recherche CTEL, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, FR

Aesthetics of Authenticity, Memory, and Belonging:

- Zuzanna Vasko
Department of Arts Education, Simon Fraser University

- Nico Rogers
University of Alberta
The Island Within: Newfoundland Belonging Through Intergenerational Narrative

- Lynn Lunde
Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta
Mummers, Janneys and Naluyuks of Newfoundland and Labrador

AN EVENING OF POETRY AND MUSIC

Featuring K.L. McKay, Nico Rogers, David Martin, Trevor Tchir