DNI KULTURY KANADYJSKIEJ

Days of Canadian Culture

Canadian Studies Centre

Institute of British and American Culture and Literature

University of Silesia (Uniwersytet Śląski)

Sosnowiec, 27-28 April, 2005


Tentative Program


April 27, 2005 (Wednesday)


9:45 – 10:30


Short opening speeches (Rector ? Dean ? Head of the Institute? )


Opening and presentation by His Excellency Mr. Ralph J. Lysyshyn, Ambassador of Canada to Poland



First Nations Cultures and Philosophies


10:40 -11:35

Tomson Highway (Cree), noted playwright, novelist, producer, director; author of Rez Sisters , Dry Lips Ought to Move to Kapuskasing and Fur Queen.

Lecture: “Comparing Mythologies”

11:40 -12:40

Richard Atleo  (Umeek), Hereditary Chief of the Ahousaht, University of Manitoba


Lecture "Tsawalk: A Nuu-chah-nulth Worldview: Implications For an Emergent Global Culture"


12:40 - 13:10


An official book signing by Richard Atleo of his recent book:

Tsawalk: A Nuu-chah-nulth Worldview


13: 50 – 14: 40


Stewart Steinhauer (Saddle Lake Cree Nation), Artist (sculptor) and commentator on art, spirituality, politics, and society). http://www.indigenius.biz/


Lecture: "Wesakeychak, The Genocide-Dodger. What to Say When Words are not Enough."


14: 45 – 15: 40


Allan Ryan (Carleton University),  author of The Trickster Shift: Humour and Irony in Contemporary Native Art.


Lecture: "Coyote Was Walking Along: Trickster Mischief in Canadian First Nations Art."


 15: 45 – 16: 20


Marlene Atleo , ?eh ?eh naa tuu kwiss (Nuu-chah-nulth name), (University of Manitoba)


 Lecture:  “Heart…of …Bloody…Darkness – Aboriginal Education in a Post-Modern Global Village – the Polish Connection(s), 


April 28, 2005 (Thursday)


9: 45 – 10: 15


1. Craig Tapping (Malaspina University College)


Lecture: “The Cultural Work of "Japan" in Canadian Literature: Towards a Semiotics of Ethnicity”


10: 20 - 10: 50


Edward Mozejko (University of Alberta)


Lecture: “Polish Immigration Culture in Canada and Politics of Multiculturalism”


10: 50 – 11: 20


3. Barbara Sharratt (University of Toronto


Lecture: "The Image of Slavic People in English Canadian Literature"


Mini-festival of Canadian Films on First Nations Topics


12: 00 - 20:00


Fergus Foley


Lecture: “Representation of First Nations People in Canadian Cinema.”


Films:

CLEARCUT

MEDICINE RIVER

THE TEMPTATIONS OF BIG BEAR

ATANARJUAT


Discussion on the films will be led by Fergus Foley after each screening.






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