Literary Eclectic Graduate Student Conference

November 18-19, 2022

Literary Eclectic is a graduate student conference hosted by the Department of English at the University of Regina November 18 and 19, 2022.

The conference features a keynote address by Dr. Aislinn McDougall, Assistant Professor of Creative Technologies in the Faculty of Media, Art and Performance at the University of Regina. Dr. McDougall's much-anticipated lecture is titled: "What is Compostmodernism?: Defining the Post-postmodern Through Digitality"

Thank you to our generous conference sponsors: the Department of English, the Faculty of Arts, Luther College, and Campion College at the University of Regina.

Schedule of Events

Friday, November 18           

3-4 p.m. (CT 215) Professional Development Session: Getting the Most out of a Conference Experience 

4:15-5 p.m. (CT 215) Keynote Address by Dr. Aislinn McDougall: “What is Compostmodernism?: Defining the Post-postmodern Through Digitality”

5-6 p.m. (CT 215) Conference mixer

7-9 p.m. (The Stone’s Throw) Open Mic hosted by the English Students’ Association

Saturday, November 19 

(All events in RI 119)

8:30-9:30 a.m. Continental breakfast for those registered for the full conference experience

9:30-10:45 a.m. Session I: Loss and Fury: Coming to Terms with Femininity

Gideon Uzoma Umezurike, U of Saskatchewan, will present "Dear Welsch, Canada Isn’t Yet Transcultural: The Dynamics of Ontological Difference in Mark Sakamoto’s, Lisa Bird-Wilson’s, and Bertrand Bickersteth’s Writings"

Jennifer Taylor, U of Regina, will present "Bloom-ers or Briefs?: The Gender Performance of Leopold Bloom"   

10:45-11 a.m. Break

11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Session II: Elephants, Shrews, and Tempests: How Father-Daughter Dynamics Shape Identity

Braden Olson, U of Regina, will present "This Thing of Darkness I Acknowledge Mine: A Jungian Perspective on Psyche Representation in The Taming of the Shrew and The Tempest"

Sabrina Cataldo, U of Regina, will present "Elephants in the Living Room and Skeletons in the Closet: Alcoholic Families and Identity in Women’s Memoir"

12:15-1:30 p.m. Lunch provided for those registered for the full conference experience

1:30-2:45 p.m. Session III: Author Readings: Gender, Politics, and Exploration 

Vijay Kachru, U of Saskatchewan, will read from the novella Red Glass Bangles 

Shelley Bindon, U of Regina, will read from her unpublished novel, Unity    

2:45-3 p.m. Break

3-4:15 p.m. Session IV: Paradoxes of Marginalization: Reality and Abjection

Hamid Yari, U of Saskatchewan, will present "Woody Allen’s Zelig: Hyperreal Postmodernism and its Portrayal in the Mockumentary"   

Jocelyne Paulhus, U of Regina, will present "Magic is Might?: Depictions and Constructions of Social Abjection in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series"

Registration

All participants must register. To register for the full conference pass, which includes meals on Nov. 19th, please email your form to Jan Purnis at English.gradcoordinator@uregina.ca by November 7th and note any dietary restrictions. You can pay at the Department of English (AH 313) or at the registration table at the event. Exact cash only, please.

Literary Eclectic registration form Literary-Eclectic-Registration-Form.pdf

To access the entire conference and enjoy breakfast and lunch service, the cost is:

Students: $10

Faculty and staff: $20

It is free to access paper presentations, including the keynote, but no meals will be provided.

More About Our Keynote

Dr. Aislinn McDougall, Assistant Professor of Creative Technologies in the Faculty of Media, Art and Performance at the University of Regina, will be this Literary Eclectic’s keynote speaker. Photo provided.

Dr. Aislinn McDougall is an Assistant Professor of Creative Technologies in the Faculty of Media, Art and Performance at the University of Regina. Her research interests include the shift from postmodernism to post-postmodernism in both print and digital media, digital storytelling, digital archiving and mapping, and video games. Her non-research interests include playing music, roller skating and spending time with her husband and son.

On Friday, November 18, Dr. McDougall will deliver "What is Compostmodernism?: Defining the Post-postmodern Through Digitality." This timely talk comes from her research in the area of Creative Technologies, an interdisciplinary program that is unique in this province and is an emerging area of study that brings together artists, scientists, and cultural theorists. It brings together fine arts, computer science, engineering, and new media, with additional theoretical material drawn from media and communications studies. Come expand your horizons.