Schedule of Events
All events are at the Hilton Bonaventure unless otherwise specified.
Thursday, April 8
- 12:00PM - 6:00PM
- Registration
- 1:30pm - 2:30pm
- Leon Edel Returns to McGill
- This tour of McGill’s holdings and lecture exploring the papers of Henry James biographer and McGill graduate
Leon Edel will be held in Rare Books and Special Collections at the McGill University Library.
- 2:15PM - 4:15PM
- Track 1: Seminars
- 4:30PM - 6:00PM
- Track 2 sessions
- 6:00PM - 6:20PM
- Graduate Caucus Informational Meeting
- Registration Area
- Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus Meet and Greet
- Hilton Lobby
- 6:30PM
- Reading and Welcoming Reception, Gail Scott
- CafCon, Marriott Montreal Champlain
- Wine and cheese served
- 8:15PM
- Graduate Caucus Welcome Dinner
- Carlos & Pepes, 1420 Rue Peel
Friday, April 9
- 8:00AM - 5:00PM
- Registration
- 8:00AM - 5:00PM
- Book Exhibit
- Salon B
- “Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women,” co-curated by Michael Kaminer and Sarah
Lightman, University of Glasgow; exhibit text written by Ranen Omer-Sherman, University of Miami
- 8:00AM - 9:00AM
- Continental breakfast served
- Salon B
- 8:30AM - 9:45 AM
- Track 3 sessions
- 10:00AM - 11:30AM
- Track 4 sessions
- 11:45AM - 1:15PM
- Track 5 sessions
- 1:00PM - 2:00PM
- Afternoon snack
- Salon B
- 1:30PM - 2:45PM
- Track 6 sessions
- 3:00PM - 4:30PM
- Track 7 sessions
- 4:45PM - 6:15PM
- Track 8 sessions
- CAITY Business Meeting and Reception
- Le Portage
- Diversity Committee Forum
- St. Laurent
- 6:15PM - 6:45PM
- Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus Business Meeting
- LaSalle
- 6:45PM
- Keynote Address
- Westmount
- “From Reading to Social Computing”
- Alan Liu, UC Santa Barbara
Sponsored by McGill University- 7:45PM - 9:00PM
- Keynote Reception
- Outremount
- Hors d’oeuvres buffet
- 8:00PM
- LGBTQ Business Meeting and Reception
- Irish Embassy Pub
Saturday, April 10
- 8:00AM - 5:00PM
- Registration
- 8:00AM - 5:00PM
- Book Exhibit
- Salon B
- “Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women,” co-curated by Michael Kaminer and Sarah
Lightman, University of Glasgow; exhibit text written by Ranen Omer-Sherman, University of Miami
- 8:00AM - 9:00AM
- Continental breakfast
- Salon B
- 8:30AM - 10:00AM
- Track 9 sessions
- 10:15AM - 11:30AM
- Track 10 sessions
- 11:30AM - 12:00PM
- Afternoon snack
- Salon B
- 11:45AM - 1:15PM
- Track 11 sessions and special events
- Spanish Language Area Special Event
- Salon C
- “Teatro contemporáneo español visto desde EE.UU.: José Ramón Fernández”
- Sponsored by the Ministerio de Cultura d’España
- Chair: Enrique Ruiz-Fornells, University of Alabama
- Panelists:
- John Gabriele, The College of Wooster
- Linda Materna, Rider University
- Response: José Ramón Fernández
- Popular Culture Area Special Event
- Lasalle
- “Queer Content in Context”
- Mariiko Tamaki
- Co-Sponsored by the LGBTQ Caucus
- Post-Colonial Theory Featured Speaker
- Verdun
- “The Incredible Disappearing Slave: Slavery and Visibility in Nineteenth-century Jamaican Landscapes“
- Charmaine Nelson, McGill University
- 1:30PM - 3:00PM
- Track 12 sessions
- 3:15PM - 4:45PM
- Track 13 sessions
- 5:00PM - 6:15PM
- Track 14 sessions
- 4:30PM - 6:30PM
- Montreal Writers Reading
- Irish Embassy Pub
- Appetizers served
- 6:30PM - 7:45PM
- Track 15: Section events and receptions
- German Language Area Event and Reception
- Cote-St. Luc
- Reading from Fremdschläfer and other recent works
- Verena Stefan
- Speaker sponsored by the Swiss Consulate
- Italian Language Area Business Meeting
- St. Lambert
- Reception to follow at the Montreal Italian Cultural Institute
- Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus Speaker and Reception
- Mont-Royal
- “America Is Also a Québec Novel”
- Madeleine Monette
- Reception and Business Meeting for Anglophone Literatures
- Verdun
- Sponsored by American / British Literatures Area
- Members will discuss the status and organization of Anglophone literatures at NeMLA
- Graduate Caucus Business Meeting
- Registration Area
- 7:30PM
- Popular Culture Screening: Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
- Verdun
- Co-Sponsored by American Literatures Area and the Diversity Committee
- 8:00PM
- Graduate Caucus Reception
- O’Hara’s Pub, 1197 Rue University
- French Language Area Sponsored Event
- 4890, boulevard Saint-Laurent
- Theatre L’Espace Go: Les Saisons (Acteva Reservations Required)
- Meet in the Theatre bar for a hosted glass of wine
- Spanish Language Area Sponsored Event
- La Place des Artes, 175, rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest
- La Otra Orilla (Flamenco) (Acteva Reservations Required)
Sunday, April 11
- 8:00AM - 10:30AM
- Registration and Coffee
- 8:30AM - 10:30AM
- Track 16 sessions
- 10:45AM - 12:15PM
- Track 17 sessions
- 12:30PM - 1:30PM
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- Closing Brunch and Membership Meeting
- Le Portage
