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Wla Draft Program October 2014 UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY PRESS Happyland: Promoters, My Name Is Lola A History of the Planters, LOLA ROSZA AND “Dirty Thirties” and Pioneers: SUSIE SPARKS in Saskatchewan, The Course and 1914-1937 Context of Belgian 336 pp, $39.95 CAD / USD CURTIS R. Settlement in MCMANUS Western Canada 9781552387191 hc 9781552387375 epub CORNELIUS J. 336 pp, $34.95 CAD / JAENEN $41.95 USD 9781552385241 362 pp, $34.95 CAD / $41.95 USD 9781552382585 Looking Back: Always An Somebody Canadian Women’s Adventure: Else’s Money: Prairie Memoirs An Autobiography The Walrond and Intersections HUGH A. DEMPSEY Ranch Story, of Culture, History, 1883–1907 414 pp, $34.95 and Identity CAD / USD WARREN ELOFSON S. LEIGH 9781552385227 MATTHEWS 290 pp, $29.95 CAD / $34.95 USD 428 pp, $39.95 CAD / 9781552382578 45.95 USD 9781552380963 Neighbours Farmers “Making Prairie West as and Networks: Good”: The Promised Land The Blood Tribe Development of EDITED BY in the Southern Abernethy District, R. DOUGLAS Alberta Economy, Saskatchewan, FRANCIS AND 1884–1939 1880-1920 CHRIS KITZAN W. KEITH (Second Edition) REGULAR LYLE DICK 486 pp, $54.95 CAD / $56.95 USD 260 pp, $34.95 CAD / 336 pp, $34.95 CAD / 9781552382301 $39.95 USD $39.95 USD 9781552382431 9781552382417 A Voice of Betrayal: The Bar U Her Own Agricultural and Canadian EDITED BY Politics in Ranching History THELMA R. the Fifties SIMON M. EVANS POIRIER ET AL. HERBERT SCHULZ 386 pp, $44.95 CAD / 512 pp, $34.95 CAD / 235 pp, $29.95 CAD / $51.95 USD $39.95 USD $34.95 USD 9781552381342 9781552381809 9781552380987 Visit us at www.uofcpress.com BORDERSONGS Western Literature Association 2014 Victoria The story was so unusual and repeated so vividly so many times along both sides of the that it braided itself into memories border to the point that you forgot you hadn’t actually witnessed it yourself. Jim Lynch, Border Songs: A Novel (2009) BORDERSONGS Western Literature Association 2014 Victoria Douglas Street Douglas Street BALCONY 21 LANGFORD METCHOSIN RETAIL SALES/ADMINISTRATION RETAIL SHOPS RETAIL SHOPS VIEW ROYAL COLWOOD SIDNEY SHOPS OFFICES RETAIL SHOPS RETAIL SHOPS PREFUNCTION 2 VCC PREFUNCTION VCC VICTORIA Level one 3 Level two EVENT SERVICES Victoria LOADING RAMP SALON SALON SALON INFORMATION ? C B A AUDIO/VISUAL SUPPLIER LECTURE PRE- VIDEO PREFUNCTION THEATRE FUNCTION CONFERENCE 1 1 SUITE CARSON HALL COURTYARD (OUTSIDE) PREFUNCTION 2 2 ESQUI- MALT HELMCKEN 2 1 1 SUITE SOOKE SAANICH LOADING OAK BAY VCC KITCHEN BLANSHARD DOCK SUITE Humboldt Street DOUGLAS CONCIERGE SUITE BENGAL PATIO COAT ROOM COAT ELEVATORS CRYSTAL FITNESS WILLOW BALLROOM CENTRE MEZZANINE STREAM CONSERVATORY BENGAL LOUNGE ELEVATORS SPA Western Literature Association 2014 Association Literature Western SHOP POOL SHADE STAIRS GARDEN The fairmont Empress: SHOP SHOP The fairmont Empress: upper/lobby level Reception/Lower PALM COURT RETAIL RETAIL RETAIL EMPRESS lobby level DINING ROOM SHOP SHOP FAIRMONT STORE ELEVATORS RETAIL RETAIL STAIRS KIPLINGS STAIRS EMPRESS ARCHIVES TEA LOBBY ELEVATORS TO GARDENS RECEPTION STAIRS HARBOURSIDE LOBBY ROOM (RL) ROOM ROOM RECEPTION DESK UPPER BALMORAL LIBRARY VESTIBULE ROOM KENS- ROOM INGTON BUCKINGHAM LOBBY Humboldt Street LOUNGE WINDSOR (UL) VERANDAH PORTER BORDERSONGS BORDERSONGS LOWER LOBBY LEVEL (LL) LOBBY LEVEL (L) TO PARKADE Government Street Government Street The Fairmont Empress The Fairmont Upper/Lobby Level The Fairmont Empress Reception/Lower Lobby Level BORDERSONGS Western Literature Association 2014 Victoria 2 LEVEL ONE | 23,500 ft 2,183m2 Victoria UPPER PAVILION TO THE FAIRMONT EMPRESS 1 SOOKE OAK BAY 1 MEETING PLANNER’S OFFICE SAANICH 1 2 ESQUIMALT 2 AUDIO/VISUAL SERVICES OUTDOOR COURTYARD 3 VIDEOCONFERENCE SUITE 2 PRE-FUNCTION 1B LOWER PAVILION REGISTRATION TOTEM AREA 1 PRE-FUNCTION LECTURE 1A THEATRE Western Literature Association 2014 Association Literature Western CLIENT/ EVENT VICTORIA 2 3 SERVICES THE SHOPS THE SHOPS THE SHOPS THE SHOPS DOUGLAS STREET ENTRANCE BORDERSONGS BORDERSONGS One TO CRYSTAL GARDEN N NOT TO SCALE Victoria Conference Centre Centre Conference Victoria Level 5 BORDERSONGS Western Literature Association Conference November 5–8, 2014 Welcome to Canada. Welcome to Victoria. Welcome to the Western Literature Association’s 49th meeting, Bordersongs. We found the theme and focus for this conference early on when one of us presented the other with a novel to satisfy a wager on the Stanley Cup Finals. Jim Lynch’s Border Songs is set on the border between British Columbia and Washington State; it burlesques national stereotypes and reflects on the absence of borders in the lives of birds. To develop dimensions of border and song, we decided to open the meeting with a festival of oral storytelling from several cultures, and to extend this introduction with a storytelling workshop later in the program. Song — George Venn writes that it enables “communities to follow their discontent to discovery and invention” — is always humming in our group. Readers’ Theatre will move us with an adaptation of Border Songs by playwright Bryan Willis. To keep the songs singing, we asked the Executive to approve our presenting the Distinguished Achievement Award, for the first time, to a singer- songwriter. Thursday evening will be full of song, with award winner Connie Kaldor at the piano, accompanied by husband Paul Campagne on guitar and bass. (P.S. Some tickets are still available at the registration desk ...) We want to use this welcome note, especially, to offer our enthusiastic thanks to Nick Bradley (Department of English, University of Victoria; and currently William Lyon Mackenzie King Research Fellow, Harvard University). From the moment he heard about the possibility, Nick has embraced the idea of holding the conference in his home place. He has worked indefatigably, every day for three years, on every aspect of organizing our meeting. He has been disciplined and meticulous in his attention to detail. His assistance, effort, and commitment have been indispensable to the Presidents, and to the Western Literature Association. Please hug him and thank him when you see him. Here at the Empress we are south of the 49th parallel (48.42° N), but also somehow north of it. From the hotel, we can see two nation-states and the homelands of many nations. Here the border is a squiggly invisible shifting line in the water. At the conference itself, you will experience borders in myriad ways. We hope you will embrace these opportunities to forge new connections while celebrating the spirit of collegiality and friendship that has kept the WLA strong for 49 years. Find new borders, new texts, new stories, new songs, and share them (yes, in person as well as via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram & Snapchat). Some among us, in fact, will ask you to speak or sing your stories into a recorder as we look forward to celebrating a milestone anniversary next year in Reno. We are delighted to welcome you to the 49th on the 49th. Sing the WLA! — Anne and Laurie BORDERSONGS Western Literature Association 2014 Victoria 6 Grateful acknowledgements to the following sponsors for their generous support of the Western Literature Association Conference 2014 Charles Redd Center for Western Studies Random House Canada Pacific Northwest Canadian Studies Program, Canadian Studies Consortium University of British Columbia Hemingway Western Studies Center, Department of English, Boise State University University of British Columbia Canadian Studies Program, Department of English, Bridgewater State University University of Victoria Our special thanks to Sabine Barcatta, Director of Operations, WLA Mike Taylor, Jon Johnson, Kieran Kealy, Pattie Kealy, William R. Handley, Executive Secretary, WLA Sharon Baker, Bill Baker, Irene Harrison, Dick Nancy Cook, Treasurer, WLA Harrison, Cheryl Johnston, Brian Johnston, Erin The Executive Council of the WLA Ellerbeck, Tara Penry, Romona at Northbrook Designs, Melody Graulich, Awards Coordinator Rick Lester, Carol Aileen, Bryan Willis, Nancy Turner, The members of WLA awards committees Andrew Holman, Treva Ricou, Liane Ricou, Melanie Jasmine Spencer, Assistant to the Presidents Hibi, Maleea Acker, Inba Kehoe, Tim Personn, Lee van James Rault and the staff at the Empress der Kamp, Kevin Tunnicliffe, Nadia Timperio, Misao Megan Sanders and the staff at the Dean, Kat Goertz, Patricia Ormond, Alex Handley, Victoria Conference Centre Mary Wallace, Hayley Evans, Eric Pelkey (WEC’KINEM), Sheryl McKay, Emily Hector BORDERSONGS Western Literature Association 2014 Victoria 7 Executive Council Anne Kaufman, Co-President Laurie Ricou, Co-President Milton Academy University of British Columbia David Fenimore, Co-President Elect Susan Bernardin, Co-President Elect University of Nevada, Reno SUNY Oneonta Linda Karell, Vice President Richard Hutson, Past President Montana State University University of California, Berkeley Nancy Cook, Treasurer William R. Handley, Executive Secretary University of Montana, Missoula University of Southern California Tom Lynch, Editor, Western American Literature University of Nebraska, Lincoln Geoffrey Bateman (2014) Liz Stephens (2015) University of Denver Glendale College Matt Burkhart (2014) Randi Lynn Tanglen (2015) Colby College Austin College Cathryn Halverson (2014) Priscilla Solis Ybarra (2015) University of Copenhagen University of North Texas Nicolas S. Witschi (2014) Johannes Fehrle (2016) Western Michigan University Mannheim University William V. Lombardi (2014) Mascha Gemein (2016) University of Nevada, Reno. Graduate student representative University of Arizona
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