Canada 150
BOUND BY THREE OCEANS: Reading, Writing, Printing and Publishing in Canada since Confederation
30 May 2017
Ryerson University, Toronto
Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Organized by The Bibliographical Society of Canada & The Canadian Association for the Study of Book Culture
8:30 – 9:00 am
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Room: KHE-Kerr East 321C
Myra J. Tawfik, University of Windsor, President, CASBC-ACÉHL Ruth-Ellen St. Onge, Rare Book School at the University of Virginia, Vice-President, BSC-SbC
9:00 – 10:00 am
SESSION 1 : The State and the Canadian Printing and Publishing Industries
Room: KHE-Kerr East 321C
Chair: Val Lem (Ryerson University)
A Denial of Independence, a Stunting of the 19th-Century Canadian Print Industry Meera Nair, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology Cultural Salvation or Just More Blue Books on the Shelf? Ontario’s Royal Commission on Book Publishing Five Decades On Ruth Bradley-St-Cyr, University of Ottawa
10:00 – 10:15 am
Coffee break
10:15 am – 12:15 pm
SESSION 2 : Writing, Printing and Publishing for Markets at Home and Abroad
Room: KHE-Kerr East 321C
Chair: Carole Gerson (Simon Fraser University)
Writing in Canada, Publishing in the United States: The Experiences of Four Scientific Authors in the Victorian Period Jennifer J. Connor, Memorial University and Bertrum H. MacDonald, Dalhousie University Un nationalisme tourné vers l’Amérique et les colonies : le cas du « Roman canadien » d’Édouard Garand Marie-Hélène Constant et Caroline Loranger, Université de Montréal The Ryerson Press: An Enduring Legacy Clive Powell, Independent Scholar L’imprimerie Gagné de Louiseville : 125 ans de technologie, de commerce, de journalisme et de littérature Sébastien Ruffo, University of Western Ontario
12:15 – 1:30 pm
Catered Lunch
1:30 – 3:30 pm
Canadian Publishers’ Panel : The Lovely Treachery of Canadian Book Publishing: Current Circumstances, Future Directions
Room: KHE-Kerr East 321C
Moderated by: Josée Vincent (Université de Sherbrooke); Ruth-Ellen St. Onge (Rare Book School)
Peggy Burns, Publisher, Drawn & Quarterly Kirk Howard, Founder and Owner, Dundurn Press Mark Leslie Lefebvre, Director of Self-Publishing and Author Relations, Kobo Writing Life Geoffrey Little, Editor-in-Chief, University of Concordia Press Rodney Saint-Éloi, Éditeur, Directeur général, Mémoire d’encrier Lisa Quinn, Director, Wilfrid Laurier University Press
3:30 – 4:00 pm
Coffee Break
4:00 – 6:00 pm
SESSION 3 : Canadian Publications, Their Readers and Their Reception
Room: KHE-Kerr East 321C
Chair: Sandra Alston (University of Toronto)
The Home Cook Book: The Influence of Canada’s First Community Cookbook in the Early Years of Canadian Confederation Melissa McAfee and Ashley Shifflett McBrayne, University of Guelph An Examination of E.J. Pratt’s Brébeuf and His Brethren in Its Moment Philippe Mongeau, University of Toronto Les périodiques gais au Québec (1971-2009) : vecteurs de reconnaissance et de légitimation d’une communauté Nicholas Giguère, Université de Sherbrooke Mass Reading Events and Affective Citizenships Philip Miletic and Keely Cronin, University of Waterloo
6:00 pm
Closing Remarks
Myra J. Tawfik & Ruth-Ellen St. Onge