Chair: Don Sparling

Chair: Michelle Gadpaille

Chair: Martina Horáková

Modérateur:Evaine Le Calvé Ivičević

The Northern Politics of the Post in Canada

Narrativizing North: The Franklin Expeditions in Canadian and Other Novels

Multicultural Identity Negotiation in Some Recent Canadian and U.S. Mixed-Blood Narratives

Portrait de l’Esquimau, à travers plusieurs écrits de la Nouvelle-France

Survival and Survivance: The Divergent National Narratives of the True North

The Emasculating North: Deconstructing the Myth of the Pioneer in the Works of Jean McNeil and Alistair MacLeod

Representing the North in Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes

Géants, cannibales, licornes et autres mythes d’un espace imaginaire, Terra Incognita, le Grand Nord canadien

Relative North: Literary Representations of American artists in the Canadian North

A Place of Authenticity: “The North” in English-Canadian travel writing from the 1950s

“Ideas of North:” The Representation of Canada in Samuel Ringgold Ward’s Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro (1855) and Austin Steward’s Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman (1857)

Le Grand Nord mis en scène

Chair: Maggie Ann Bowers

Chair: Monique Nadeau Saumier

Chair: János Kenyeres

Modérateur: Marija Paprašarovski

Addressing the North and Whiteness in “The Great White North”

The Mysteries of Ellef Ringnes

Le Nord retrouvé

Canadian cartoonists and the North

Place of Darkness: Implications of Weather in Canada’s North

“The North Is Not Endless”: Margaret Atwood’s Eco-critical Warnings

Ce Nord tout en feu : Les héritiers de la mine et Il pleuvait des oiseaux de Jocelyne Saucier

The north in Seth’s The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists

“Toronto of the North” or “Forgotten North”? Being a Northerner in Churchill, Manitoba

The Reverse of the Medal. The Oil Industry’s Impact on Nature As Reflected in a Selection of Canadian Eco-Literature

La «pensée nordique» et la «pensée de midi» dans Les Chambres de bois d’Anne Hébert

Chair: Katarína Labudová

Chair: Joe Blades

Chair: Kenneth Froehling

Chair: Martin Cyr Hicks

Canadian cultural identity: in search of a literary canon

Visual and Audible Expressions of the North

Nunavut’s Language Policy: Unprecedented Protection of an Aboriginal Language

The North Shore in contemporary fiction in Québec

Multiculturalsim and Terrorism

Pictures of the North in Canadian Culture (Interwar period)

In the defense of Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic

Great Expectations: A Homeward Journey from South to North

Geocritical Perspectives on Representation of Nordicity in Canadian Narratives

Canadian Kaddishes: Mourning North, Mourning South

Nunavik’s quest for self-governance

Conceptualising the North: re-imagining the spaces of the North in Jacques Ferron’s L’amélanchier and Mohammed Dib’s Les Terrasses d’Orsol

Chair: Felicity Skelton

Chair: Marcel Martel

Chair: Linda Warley

Modérateur: Evaine Le Calvé Ivičević

Canada, the North and the Czech Consumer

Under the Northern Lights: The North Narrated by Richard van Camp

The Hudson’s Bay Company and the exploration of the North

Out of Canada: The Expatriate Experience

Two Mary’s and a Missus: Image and Ideology among Women Travellers in the Canadian North West

Translating the Canadian North in Bulgaria. Cultural Stereotypes and Appropriations

Geography of Violence and Homecoming: North(e)scapes of Eden Robinson

Chair: Mark Anthony Jarman

Chair: Milena Marinkova

Chair: Aritha van Herk

Modérateur: Evaine Le Calvé Ivičević

Blood, Elegance, Heat: Leonard Cohen in a Musicalized Fiction by Bill Gaston

A Filmed Representation of the Canadian Aboriginal North: Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)

Fathers in the Provincial North:  Masculine Parenting in Canada on an Imagined Frontier after 1945

In Praise of the Human Voice: Robert Bringhurst’s New World Suite No. 3 and Glenn Gould’s The Idea of North

Indigenous Research Dilemma

The Narrative Self in Northern Rural Dementia

Folk Songs of the North

Legal status of women in Canada – legal model beyond the 49th Parallel?

The North: Land of Ice and Vice

Chair: Diana Yankova

Chair: Pavel Hlaváček

Chair: Krzysztof Majer

Chair: Judit Molnár

“My reptilian brain becomes confused” – On Mark Anthony Jarman’s Writing

Decade of Harper’s Northern Policy: Achievements and Failures

Visual and Verbal in the Canadian Short Story (With Regard to the Depiction of Northness)’

Dystopian “North”: future space and future bodies in Margaret Atwood’s “MaddAddam” trilogy

Title of presentation: Revisiting March 1955: Alternative Perspectives of the Richard Riot in Montreal

“We have been making some fairly profound changes to how we handle immigration”- Stephen Harper and (his) new Canada

“Iceberg, enigma, strange and timeless”: The North in Canadian Short Fiction

Leave Them on the Ice Floe? Put Them in the Nursing Home? Geronticide in Margaret Atwood’s “Torching the Dusties” (2014)

How hockey helps Canada to claim and keep its North

The impact of membership in North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA) on Canada`s Economy

Sex in the Snow: The relation of gender to Northern imagery in the short stories of Lisa Moore

Beyond the North: Nordicity in Canadian Fantastic Literature

Chair:  Jason Blake

Chair: Ulla Kriebernegg

Chair: Martin Löschnigg

The Canadian North in the English Classroom

« Canada, Canada, and where is that place? In the North Pole, that’s where »: Perceptions of Canada as the North in South-Asian Immigrant Writing

Quitting Home, Chasing Home

The Canadian North – a cold experience for students of English

A Peephole onto a Vastness: Micro-Spaces in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi

A Peacekeeper of the North, a Bystander in the South? Affecting Humanitarian Intervention in Canadian Fiction

Plagiarism in Academia – European and North-American Practices