9 am

Welcome/Land Acknowledgement
HLTH 1A60, Health Sciences Building
Delivered by Dr. Brent Nelson, Department Head of English
Opening remarks by Lisa Szabo-Jones, ALECC President, and Cheryl Lousley, ALECC conference committee

Roundtable: Diversifying the Environmental Humanities
HLTH 1A60
Chair: Lisa Szabo-Jones
Discussants: Cheryl Lousley, Rina Chua, Anita Girvan, Melody Dowdy, and Zahra Tootonsab 

10:30

Health Break
HLTH 1B21 Lounge, Health Sciences Building
Snacks, tea, coffee, and other refreshments will be available

10:45

1. Reconciliation on Ecologies
   HLTH 1A60
   Chair: Jessica Marion Barr
   
   • Cheryl Lousley: Trevor Herriot’s Reconciliation Ecologies
   • Abbey Ballard: ‘Coax Stories out of the Permafrost’: Stories from the Ice within Tanya Tagaq’s Split Tooth
   • Alec Follet: Wild Rice and the Good Life: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s and Drew Hayden Taylor’s Strategic Uses of Mainstream Environmentalism and Reconciliation
     
     
2. The Weird, the Monstrous, and Other-than-Human Ecologies
   HLTH 1B11, Health Sciences Building 
   Chair: Elspeth Tulloch
   
   • Amy LeBlanc and Leah Van Dyk  (co-presenters): Following the Terns: Ecohorror and Grief in Charlotte McConaghy’s Migrations
   • Jessica Beaudin: Animal Ethics, Hunting, and the Elk Woman in Stephen Graham Jones’s The Only Good Indian
   • Franz Krause: The Tempo of Solid Fluids: On River, Ice, Permafrost, and Other Melting Matter in the Mackenzie Delta

12:15

Lunch
Boxed Lunch in HLTH GD50 Large Atrium, Health Sciences Building

Lunch includes your choice of smoked turkey kaiser or organic quinoa and avocado wrap served with fruit, a granola bar, and a drink

13:15

Keynote: Rita Wong
"Rivers are Life Lines: Why Wet'suwet'en Law Matters to us all"
HLTH 1B11
Chair and introductions by: Kit Dobson

Canada’s systemic violence against the Wet’suwet’en land protectors has continued to escalate, making it clear that Canada remains a violent colonial project built at the expense of Indigenous peoples. How do (un)settlers who do not support this colonial project work to support Indigenous freedom, resurgence and law? I will share some of my journey around this question, looking at how to divest from destructive extractivism and invest in renewing our relationships with the Land and its peoples. 

14:15

Health Break
HLTH 1B21 Lounge
Snacks, tea, coffee, and other refreshments will be available

14:30

1. Poetry Trail Walk 1:
   Walk begins at Parking Lot P17, Near Diefenbaker Centre 
   Led by Ariel Gordon, Tanis MacDonald, and Rhona McAdam

2. Environmental Humanities Pedagogy
   HLTH 1B11
   Chair: Matthew Zantingh 
   
   • Paul Huebener: Sleeping in Class: Approaching Critical Sleep Studies in the Classroom
   • Nuria Mina-Riera: The Non-Human World as Teacher in Crozier’s Poetry
   • Brenda Vellino: Confluencies: From Rita Wong’s Decolonial Watershed Poetics to Eco Literary Fieldwork Pedagogy
   • Marika Brown: Transforming Classroom Ecologies: Labour-Based Contract Grading in Environmental Humanities Pedagogy 

16:00

Free Time
Possible excursions include:

• The "Confluence" exhibit by Susan Shantz, open at the Gordon Snelgrove Gallery (find more information regarding this exhibit here)
• The "skodenstoodis" exhibit by Wally Dion, an outside exhibit located by the Peter MacKinnon Building
• The Sculpture Garden, located near the Diefenbaker Center
• See the Arts page for more exhibits

17:00 18:45

BBQ
The Palliser Gardens
Dinner will include both beef and black bean burgers, served with potato, vegetable, and fruit salads. Dessert will be a house-made assortment of classic squares with a seasonal twist of ingredients and flavours.

We will also be joined by participants of the Indigenous Literary Studies Association 2022 Annual Gathering

19:00-20:30

Word Splash with SAWCI
River Landing Amphitheatre, 414 Spadina Crescent E
A Celebration of Indigenous Writing, hosted by the Saskatchewan Ânskohk Writers Circle, Inc. (SAWCI)

8:30

Roundtable: Artists, Activists, Academics, and ALECC
HLTH 1B11
Chair: Lisa Szabo-Jones
Discussants: Jessica Marion Barr, Nancy Holmes, Ariel Gordon, Alec Follett, Leah Van Dyk, and Laura Moss

This roundtable emerges out of an ALECC conversation in response to some members' inquiries into 'who is ALECC?' (not what is ALECC). We see this as an opportunity to engage members with their reflection about the association. ALECC has always been a home for diverse thinking in the humanities and regarded itself as a place where artists, activists, and academics work together cross-and inter-disciplinary. Or, is this the ideal and not the reality?

9:30

Health Break
HLTH 1B21 Lounge
Snacks, tea, coffee, and other refreshments will be available

9:45

1. Confluence: a collaborative art and Indigenous Knowledges Project:
   HLTH 1B11
   Chair: Jessica Marion Barr 
   
   • Jessica Marion Barr, Jenn Cole, Cara Mumford, Barbara Moktthewenkwe Wall, and Alex Wilson
     
     
2. Toxicity and Contamination in Creative Works: 
   HLTH 1A60 
   Chair: Brenda Vellino
   
   • Willa Smart and Lindsey French (co-presenting): A Fable for Tomorrow
   • Alexandra Simpson: Messy Manifestations: An Exploration of Care and Toxicity
   • Evie Ruddy: Queering the Creek: Curating the Disruption of Public Space Using Augmented Reality 

11:15

Health Break
HLTH 1B21 Lounge
Snacks, tea, coffee, and other refreshments will be available

11:30

"Ceremony, Desire, Requiem: The Poetics of Water and Land"
HLTH 1B11
Chair and introductions by: Tanis MacDonald
A plenary panel featuring Tenille K Campbell and Sheri Benning

12:30

Lunch on your own
Please see the "Places to Check out on Campus" in our Guide to Saskatoon for possible lunch options

14:00

 "Refracted listening in times of upheaval"
HLTH 1B11
Chair and introductions by: Lisa Szabo-Jones
A plenary panel featuring Zoe Todd and Ame Kanngieser 

15:00

Health Break
HTLH 1B21 Lounge
Snacks, tea, coffee, and other refreshments will be available

15:15

1. River Response-abilities
   HLTH 1A60 
   Chair: Laura Moss 
   • Zahra Tootonsab: An Ecopoetic Existence: The Karun River and Environmental Activism in Iran
   • Jenny Kerber and Daniel Moore (co-presenting): “This wetland interface design”: Cross-cutting a Transboundary River in Beholden 
   • Emma Morgan-Thorp: Submerged Perspectives: Rivers Resisting the Colonial Gaze 
2. Undercurrents of Genre
   HLTH 1B11 
   Chair: Paul Huebener 
   
   • John Pizer: Literal and Figurative Watersheds Dividing Canada Ethnically as well as Environmentally in the Eyes of the 18^th and 19^th Century German-Language Travelers
   • Elspeth Tulloch: Negotiating Political Currents: The Beluga in Maryse Goudreau’s Experimental Theatre
   • Deanna Smid: Bella and Jack Bring Back the Bees (and so Should You): Bees, Books, and the Literature of Blame
   • Rebecca Geleyn: Capture: On Zoos, Photographs, and the Ethics of Animal Representation

16:45

Free Time
Possible excursions include:

• The "Confluence" exhibit by Susan Shantz, open at the Gordon Snelgrove Gallery (find more information regarding this exhibit here)
• The "skodenstoodis" exhibit by Wally Dion, an outside exhibit located by the Peter MacKinnon Building
• The Sculpture Garden, located near the Diefenbaker Center
• See the Arts page for more exhibits

17:30

"Confluences of Water, Art and Science"
Murray 299
Chair and introductions by: jake moore, Director, University Art Galleries and Collections
A plenary panel featuring Susan Shantz and Graham Strickert

19:00-21:00

Banquet
Private Dining Room, Marquis Hall Events Centre
Announcement of the 2022 winner of the Alanna Bondar Memorial Prize for the Environmental Humanities and Creative Writing

Dinner will include your choice of either Horseradish-crusted Lake Diefenbaker steelhead trout with northern Saskatchewan wild rice pilaf, roasted chicken pieces with fresh herbs and Mediterranean couscous pilaf (Halal), or a chickpea cassoulet with collard greens. Dessert will be Saskatoon berry pie. 

21:00

Grad Social Event & U of Sask MFA Students Reading
Filosophi, 414 Cumberland Ave N
See their menu here

8:30

Annual General Meeting
HLTH 1A60

9:30

Health Break
HLTH 1B21 Lounge
Snacks, tea, coffee, and other refreshments will be available

9:45

1. 1. Kelownafornia:
      HLTH 1A60 
      Chair: Cheryl Lousley
      
      • Judith Burr: Listening to Fire Naturecultures in the Okanagan Valley
      • Greg Garrard: Raise a Glass to the Burrowing Owl: Endangered Species and Cultural Nationalism in the South Okanagan
      • Nancy Holmes: Reading from Arborophobia
        
        

   2. The Goose 
      HLTH 1B11
      Chairs: Rina Chua and Alec Follett
      
      This session will feature short recorded poetry readings from the most recent issues of The Goose: A Journal of Arts, Environment, and Culture in Canada. The poetry readings will be followed by collaborative embodied critical and creative responses to the poems that potentially will be featured in The Goose’s next issue this summer 2022. 

11:15

Health Break
HLTH 1B21 Lounge
Snacks, tea, coffee, and other refreshments will be available

11:30

1. Poetry Trail Walk 2:
   Walk begins at Parking Lot P17, Near Diefenbaker Centre 
   Led by Lisa Bird-Wilson, Ariel Gordon, Tanis MacDonald, and Rhona McAdam

13:00

• • Lunch on your own &/or Field Trips
    Please see our Guide to Saskatoon for different sites to see around the city!
  • Possible excursions:
    • 2:00-3:00 pm: Sound/Water Wave Meditation with Sandie Irvine in Susan Shantz's Exhibition, Confluence.
    • Sound/Water Wave Meditation 1, is open to attendees of ALECC.
    • Tickets (and medical masks due to Covid) required (space will be limited):
    • Saturday, June 18, 2:00 – 3:00 (gallery doors will open at 2:00 and will be closed at 2:15 to ensure this is an uninterrupted event).

See this Eventbrite link to book your spot.