4. Partnership Conference

"Culture/s & Economies: Canada and Europe"
University of Trier, B 506, May 6 - 9, 1991

Monday, May 6

14:00
Opening Addresses
Jörg Hasler (President, University of Trier)
Raymond Currie (Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Manitoba)
Anthony Advokaat (Embassy of Canada, Bonn)
Hans-Josef Niederehe (President, International Council for Canadian Studies)
Herbert Zirker (Coordinator of the Trier/Manitoba Partnership)

Chair: W. Filc

14:40
"West Turns: Space Negotiations in Prarie Writing"
by Robert Enright

Chair: W. Filc

16:30
"Canadian Social Policy Reform: Perestroika without Design"
by Derek Hum

Chair: W. Filc

17:15
"Property Rights in Canada: An Economic-Cultural Dilemma"
by Roy Vogt

18:00
Discussion Period

Tuesday, May 7

Chair: H. Zirker

09:00
"Critical Polyphony: Frye's Voices in The Anatomy of Criticism"
by Judith Weill

Chair: H. Zirker

09:40
"Vive la Différence: Writing the Range from Grove to Kroetsch"
by Daniel S. Lenoski

Chair: W. Klooß

10:50
"Canada's Constitutional Crisis and the Aboriginal People"
by Jean Friesen

Chair: K- Düwell, H. Zirker

12:00
"English Canada and the 'Cultural Question': The Age of Radio and Television"
by Gerald Friesen

Chair: D. Zimmer

15:00
"Stan Burko, Roy Peterson and the Meech Lake Accord"
by Thomas Poiker

Chair: H. Zirker

15:45
"'Wooing distant parts of myself': Narrative Epiphanies
in the Fiction of Alice Munro and Carlon Shields"
by Herbert Weil

18:00
Panel Readings and Discussion
with Meeka Walsh, Roger Léveillé, Margaret Sweatman, Armin Wiebe, Kristjana Gunnars

Wednesday, May 8

Chair: W. Klooß / H. Zirker

09:00
"Border Constructions: Building a Journal"
by Meeka Walsh

Chair: W. Klooß / H. Zirker

09:40
"Dialogue and Difficulty: Writing as Performance"

Chair: B. Bagola / H.-J. Niederehe

11:45
"Écriture engagée / discours dégagé: poésie et communauté franco-manitobaine"
by Roger Léveillé

Chair: B. Bagola / H.-J. Niederehe

12:20
"Idéologie et discours romanesque dans le roman 'historique' de l'Ouest canadien"
by Ingrid Joubert

Chair: H. Zirker

15:00
"A Brief Presented to the Citizens' Forum on Canada's Future by Yasch Oata Siemens on the occasion of the Forum's visit to the Gutenthal Curling Rink on May 7, 1991"
by Armin Wiebe

Chair: H. Braun

15:45
"Toward a Political Economy of Social Welfare: A Comparative Approach"
by G. Olsen

Chair: H. Braun

16:45
"Urban Ecology: Revealing the Links between Culture and Economy"
by Raymond Currie

17:30
Panel: Concluding Statements