Programme for Colloquium on Magazines, Travel & Middlebrow Culture
Thursday 24 May 2012
9:00-9:30 Coffee, Pastries & Welcome
9:30-11:00 Session 1: Magazines, Modernity, & Middlebrow Culture
Chair: Anouk Lang
Cecilia Morgan “She is a Toronto Girl”: Canadian Actresses’ Transatlantic and Transnational Careers Through the Lenses of Canadian Magazines, 1890s-1930s (view abstract)
Will Straw Montreal Modern: Sanitized Images in English Canadian Periodicals, 1950-1970 (view abstract)
Victoria Kuttainen Trafficking Literature: Mobility and Middlebrow Modernity in BP Magazine (view abstract)
Michelle Smith A Selected Class of Traveller: Canadian Magazines and the Culture of Aspiration (view abstract)
11:00-11:30 Coffee and Tea Break
11:30-1:00 Session 2: Cross-cultural Exchange & Print Culture Histories
Chair: Eva-Marie Kröller
Chantal Savoie Femmes, mondanité et culture dans les années 1940 : l’exemple de la chronique « Ce dont on parle » de Lucette Robert dans La Revue populaire (view abstract)
Marie Vautier Hemispheric Travel and the Imaginary: the Literatures of Canada and Québec (view abstract)
Lise Jaillant New York Middlebrow: Selling the Modern Library series to the Canadian Market (view abstract)
Wendy Roy Home as Middle Ground in Adaptations of Two Early Twentieth-Century Middlebrow Novels (view abstract)
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-2:45 Session 3: Humanities Scholarship & Digital Technologies
Chair: Hannah McGregor
Anouk Lang Geolocating little magazines: Some thoughts on the value of mapping technologies and periodical studies (view abstract)
Susan Brown The Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory Project: Scaling Up Collaboration Online (view abstract)
2:45-4:15 CWRCshop
Susan Brown Please bring your laptop for this workshop on digital research tools being developed by the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory
4:15-4:45 Coffee and Tea Break
4:45-5:30 Creative Non-Fiction Reading
Ted Bishop Canadian Middlebrow Goes Motorcycling: Narrative Nonfiction from Magazine to Book (view abstract)
5:30-7:00 Break
7:00 Dinner at The Arc Hotel
Friday 25 May 2012
9:00-9:30 Coffee & Welcome
9:30-11:30 Session 4: Ethnography, Tourism, & Middlebrow Materiality
Chair: Lise Jaillant
Hannah McGregor Eating Vietnam: Souvenir-Literature, the Tourist Gaze, and Book Club Readers in Camilla Gibb’s The Beauty of Humanity Movement (view abstract)
Gillian Roberts The Book of Negroes’ Illustrated Edition: Circulating African-Canadian History through the Middlebrow (view abstract)
Peter Hodgins Presenting Canada to the Scientific Gaze: the 1884 Annual Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Montreal and the eccentricity of scientific tourism (view abstract)
Eva-Marie Kröller Adrienne Clarkson, Travel, and the Middle-Brow Media in Canada (view abstract)
Dean Irvine White Aboriginality: Indian Time and Middlebrow Ethnography in Canada (view abstract)
11:30-12:00 Coffee and Tea Break
12:00-1:00 Advisory Board Consultation
Faye Hammill Presentation of the website for Magazines, Travel, and Middlebrow Culture in Canada 1925-60, followed by a discussion of the planned special issue of International Journal of Canadian Studies
1:00-2:00 Lunch & Farewell