TRANSCANADA: LITERATURE * INSTITUTIONS * CITIZENSHIP

June 23 to 26
YOU ARE INVITED To celebrate the Opening Night of....
TRANSCANADA: LITERATURE * INSTITUTIONS * CITIZENSHIP

Thursday, June 23
5:30-7:30

Harbour Centre (515 West Hastings St.):
Fletcher Challenge Theatre - 1900

DON'T MISS THIS SPECIAL FREE EVENT THAT IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
featuring...
Diana Brydon
Rinaldo Walcott
Richard Van Camp
Lee Maracle
Larissa Lai
Daphne Marlatt

Details of the Evening:
KEYNOTE ADDRESS (5:30-6:30pm)
Diana Brydon (University of Western Ontario): "Metamorphosis of a Discipline: Rethinking the Canadian Literary Institution"
RESPONDENT: Rinaldo Walcott (OISE, University of Toronto)

READINGS (6:30-7:30pm)
Richard Van Camp
Lee Maracle
Larissa Lai
introduced by Daphne Marlatt

We are also inviting participants to the conference...
TRANSCANADA: LITERATURE * INSTITUTIONS * CITIZENSHIP
June 24-26, 2005

Morris J. Wosk Centre of Dialogue
Harbour Centre, Simon Fraser University

TransCanada is an interdisciplinary conference that responds to the critical juncture we believe the study of Canadian literature is at: beyond the troubled legacy of nationalism, the domestication of multiculturalism, and an acquiescent engagement with globalization.

Featured Speakers: Diana Brydon, Daniel Coleman, Richard Cavell, Lily Cho, Peter Dickinson, Len Findlay, Lee Maracle, Ashok Mathur, Lianne Moyes, Winfried Siemerling, Stephen Slemon, Rinaldo Walcott . . . and many others.

Co-organizers: Smaro Kamboureli (U of Guelph) and Roy Miki (Simon Fraser U)

Details of Program: www.transcanadas.ca

To register: Please go the registration desk in the main foyer of Harbour Centre on Thursday, June 23, 4:30-5:30pm, or to the main desk of the Centre for Dialogue on Friday, June 24, 9am.

Fees: $300.00. Students, sessionals, and retired: $180.00

The conference fee includes coffee breaks and luncheons on the three days of the conference, Friday dinner at the Wild Ginger, and Saturday dinner and dance at Steamworks, as well as one free drink for each dinner.

For more information: Check out our website (www.transcanadas.ca) or contact Tara Lee (velve@yahoo.com)