The Americas in Canada - Les Amériques du Canada International conference / Colloque international Canadian Studies Centre / Centre d'Etudes Canadiennes Masaryk University / Université Masaryk 20-21 October / 20-21 octobre, 2017 PROGRAMME Friday 20 October / Vendredi 20 octobre 12:00 – 13:00 Registration / Inscription Building B2 / Edifice B2 Arne Nováka 1 13:00 – 13:30 Opening / Ouverture Don Sparling, Co-Chair, Canadian Studies Centre, Masaryk University / Co-directeur du Centre d'études canadiennes, Université Masaryk Barbara C. Richardson, Ambassador of Canada to the Czech Republic / Ambassadeur du Canada en République tchèque Petr Kyloušek, Vice-Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, Faculty of Arts, and Co-Chair, Canadian Studies Centre, Masaryk University / Vice-doyen à la recherche et aux études supérieures, Faculté des lettres, et Co-directeur du Centre d'études canadiennes, Université Masaryk Room / Salle B2.23 Building B2 / Edifice B2 Arne Nováka 1 13:30 – 14:30 1st Keynote address / 1ère Conférence plénière Peter Klaus (Freie Universität, Berlin) Canadienne, américaine, francophone et/ou autochtone: quel destin pour la littérature québécoise? 14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break / Pause café 15:00 – 16:00 2nd Keynote address / 2e Conférence plénière Richard Nimijean (Carleton University, Ottawa) Reframing Canadian "Americanness" and Cross-Border Relations in the Age of Trump 16:00 – 16:15 Coffee break / Pause café 16:15 – 18:00 Session 1 / 1ère Séance 1.1 Québec / Amérique Présidence : Petr Vurm Véronique Millet (Dawson College, Montréal) René Derouin : art et américanité Room / Salle B2.23 Building B2 / Edifice B2 Arne Nováka 1 Józef Kwaterko (Université de Varsovie) « Négriture et ré-enracinement » : l’Amérique comme espace de compagnonnage dans la poésie québécoise Petr Kyloušek (Université Masaryk, Brno) Entre Montréal, New York, Miami et Port-au-Prince : les Haïtiens 16:15 – 18:00 Session 1 / 1ère Séance 1.2 Anglophone literature in the American context Chair: Vanja Polić János Kenyeres (ELTE, Budapest) Literary Manifestations of the Canadian Dream in Fiction Andrea F. Szabó (University of Pannonia, Veszprém) Alice Munro’s Canada and America in the Making Tihana Klepač (University of Zagreb) Cinderella Writes Back: S.J. Duncan’s Mary Trent as Canada personified Room / Salle G 23 Building G / Edifice G Gorkého 7 18:00 – 21:00 Conference buffet dinner / Dîner d’ouverture Building B2 / Edifice B2 Arne Nováka 1 Saturday 21 October / Samedi 21 octobre 9:00 – 10:45 Session 2 / 2e Séance 2.1 Mythes, Religions, Arts Présidence : Peter Klaus Marilyne Lamer (Université de Montréal) De l'entreprise de mythographie dans le pays à venir de Victor Lévy-Beaulieu Petr Vurm (Université Masaryk, Brno) Américanité technologique dans les romans de Nicolas Dickner Ewelina Berek (Université de Silésie) « Le roman sans aventure » à la François Blais. La nouvelle société québécoise en manque d’american dream Room / Salle G 12 Building G / Edifice G Gorkého 7 9:00 – 10:45 Session 2 / 2e Séance 2.2 The North American political space Chair: János Kenyeres Magdalena Firtová (Charles University, Prague) NAFTA and Free Trade between the USA and Canada Don Sparling (Masaryk University, Brno) de Toqueville, Democracy in America, and (Lower) Canada Diana Yankova (New Bulgarian University, Sofia) 150 years of Immigration Trends in North America: An overview Room / Salle G 31 Building G / Edifice G Gorkého 7 10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break / Pause café 11:15 – 13:00 Session 3 / 3e Séance 3.1 Américanité québécoise mise en scène Présidence : Petr Kyloušek Hana Rozlozsniková (Université Masaryk, Brno) Le drame poétique de Rina Lasnier et la société canadienne-française Šárka Novotná (Université Masaryk, Brno) Américanité comme miroir déformant d’une illusion (théâtrale) : quelques figures de l’american dream chez Michel Tremblay Room / Salle G 12 Building G / Edifice G Gorkého 7 11:15 – 13:00 Session 3 / 3e Séance 3.2 Identifying Canada Chair: Diana Yankova Jason Blake (University of Ljubljana) "a little bit Canadian"? What does that even mean? Krizstina Kodó (Kodolányi János University of Applied Sciences, Székesfehérvár) Canada: The Inconspicuous Silent Dreamer and Otherside of the Americas Jana Javorčíková (Komenský University, Bratislava) “Freestyle” Canada: The Canadian Dream Then and Now Room / Salle G 31 Building G / Edifice G Gorkého 7 11:15 – 13:00 Session 3 / 3e Séance 3.3 Canada and popular culture Chair: Lucia Otrísalová Klára Kolinská (Metropolitan University, Prague) “Welcome to the Rock” or, Gander Comes to Broadway. Canadian Musical’s Journey to the World Stage Tomáš Pospíšil (Masaryk University, Brno) We definitely blew it! Dennis Hopper's Easy Rider, Larry Kent's High and the Failure of North American Counterculture Peter Thompson (Carleton University, Ottawa) Pogey Beach: Representations of Atlantic Canada on Youtube Room / Salle G 32 Building G / Edifice G Gorkého 7 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch / Déjeuner Building G / Edifice G Gorkého 7 14:00 – 15:45 Session 4 / 4e Séance 4.1 Cultural markers Chair: Jason Blake Lucia Grosu-Rӑdulescu (Bucharest University of Economic Studies) Is it Canadian or is it American? A Case Study of American Influences on the (Cultural) Awareness of Canada among Romanian Students Room / Salle G 12 Building G / Edifice G Gorkého 7 Marica Mazurek (University of Žilina) Cross-border cooperation in tourism Nikola Tutek (University of Rijeka) Book Cover as an Artistic Statement and a Cultural Phenomenon – The Canadian Example 14:00 – 15:45 Session 4 / 4e Séance 4.2 Reflections of Indigeneity Chair: Klára Kolinská Jana Marešová (Charles University, Prague) Indigenous Identity in Today’s Canada: Reflections in Contemporary Texts by Indigenous Writers Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia, Vancouver) Treaty 9: The Implications of Alanis Obomsawin’s Trick or Treaty Éva Zsizsmann (Corvinus University and Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church, Budapest) Stories Without Borders. Thomas King, The Inconvenient Indian Room / Salle G 31 Building G / Edifice G Gorkého 7 14:00 – 15:45 Session 4 / 4e Séance 4.3 (Re)assessing paradigms Chair: Tomáš Pospíšil Vanja Polić (University of Zagreb) Guy Vanderhaeghe’s A Good Man and the State of USCanadian Relations at the End of the 19th Century Oleh Kozachuk (Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University) “Peace, Order and Good Government” vs. “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”: Theoretical Background Revision for Canada – the U.S. Comparison Lucia Otrísalová (Komenský University, Bratislava) Is Canadian Literature American? CanLit within Hemispheric American Studies Room / Salle G 32 Building G / Edifice G Gorkého 7 15:45 – 16:00 Closing / Clôture Room / Salle G 32 Building G / Edifice G Gorkého 7 16:15 – 18:15 Tour of Brno (optional) / Visite de Brno (optionnel)