| November 17, 2017: Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Austin Clarke Nexus Lounge, 12th Floor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 252 Bloor Street West |
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| 7:00 | Authors’ roundtable with David Chariandy, Cecil Foster, Sonnet L’Abbé and Rod Michalko Moderated by Leslie Sanders, Department of Humanities, York University |
| 8:30 | Reception |
| November 18, 2017: Remembering Austin Clarke—Canadian Literature post-1960 519 Kaneff Tower, York University |
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| 9:00 | Keynote Lecture: "Clarke's 'Saga Boys': Black Aesthetics as Epistemology"
Michael Bucknor, Department Head, Literatures in English, University of the West Indies (Mona campus) |
| 10:30 | Break |
| 10:45 | Austin’s Interventions (Chair: Sharon Beckford Foster, Assoc. Professor of English, Rochester Institute of Technology) Kris Singh, Royal Military College of Canada, “Loneliness and W(e)ary Immigrants in Austin Clarke’s Toronto Trilogy” Sobia Kiran, MA York University, “Toronto: A Psychological and Physical Landscape in More by Austin Clarke” Stephen Cain, Department of English York University, “Austin Clarke as Poet” Augustine Nchoujie, PhD candidate York University, “Language as Identity in Austin Clarke’s More” Darcy Ballantine, PhD candidate York University, “Austin Clarke's Funereal Fiction: From the Almshouse to the Cathedral” |
| 12:15 | Lunch |
| 1:15 | Afternoon Roundtable Plenary (Chair: Daniel Coleman, Professor of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University) Paul Barrett, Department of English, Acadia University Camille A. Isaacs, Liberal Arts and Sciences, OCAD University Aaron Kamugisha, Program Coordinator Cultural Studies, University of the West Indies (Cave Hill Campus) Leslie Sanders, Department of Humanities, York University |
| 2:45 | Break |
| 3:00 | Austin Challenge (Chair: Andrea Davis, Associate Professor Humanities, York University) Ronald Cummings, English Language and Literature, Brock University Phanuel Antwi, Department of English, University of British Columbia Andrea Medovarski, Department of Humanities, York University Jan Anderson, PhD candidate Humanities, York University |
| 5:00 | Closing Reception, Schulich Executive Dining Room ’Membering Austin (session with Austin’s friends) Moderated by Rinaldo Walcott, Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto |
