Meet Our Keynote
Professor Daniel Justice is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation, born and raised in Colorado. His work in Indigenous cultural and literary studies takes up questions and issues of nationhood, kinship, and belonging, with increasing attention to the intersections between Indigenous literatures, speculative fiction, and other-than-human peoples.
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Professor Justice is a Full Professor and Distinguished University Scholar in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and Department of English Languages and Literatures at UBC. He received his B.A. from the University of Northern Colorado and M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Before coming to UBC in 2012, he spent ten years as a faculty member in the Department of English at the University of Toronto in Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe territory, where he was also an affiliate of the Aboriginal Studies Program.
Featured Panels
01
The Body and the Self
Featured Speakers:
Olivia Lanc, Ava Salo, Anna Wodzicki, Abagail McIntyre Tsiang
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Featured Papers:
To Survive is to Split: How the Strange
Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Critiques the Repressive Nature of Victorian Society;
The Human Body and Classical Tragedy:
A Critical Humanist Reading of William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus and
King Lear; And From Dust He Shall
Return; Necropolitics and Resistance in Frankenstein in Baghdad; The Body as
a Portrayal of Loss of Agency in
“The Husband Stitch"
03
Life, Death, and the Art of
Making Meaning
Featured Speakers:
Siya Marwaha, Victoria Chung,
Elloïse Bastien, Emily Lackie
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Featured Papers:
Inside Interiors: Proust, Cocteau, & the Modernist Bedroom; Making the Present Anew Despite Pain Unanswered: Faith
During Crisis in the Modernist Era; From
God to Nature: Romantic Revolution in
Blake and Coleridge; Life, Death, and Legacy in “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “There
Will Come Soft Rains”
02
Imagining Individual and
Collective Futures
Featured Speakers:
Lauryn Tran, Maddy Bennett,
Zoe Compson, Mehavi Jeyabalan
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Featured Papers:
​The World As We Know It: A Comparative Analysis of “Time Capsule Found on the Dead Planet” and “The World Is Too Much With Us”; As The Bombs Draw Closer: Static to Dynamic Characterization in Burning Vision; The Pursuit of Knowledge as Simulacrum: A Baudrillardian Analysis of Dionne Brand's Theory; Bartleby: Alienation, Dehumanization and Death in Capitalism
04
Challenging Archetypal
Narratives and Paratexts
Featured Speakers:
Madeleine Vigneron, Avery Collins,
Rys Zhu, Marta Dorschner
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Featured Papers:
​“The Slave Woman Ought Not to Be Judged”: Bad Motherhood in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Beloved; A Nineteenth Century ‘Awakening’: Jane Austen’s Catherine, and Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s Cecelia, and Their Struggle in a Sleeping World; Paratextual Harm in “The History of Mary Prince”; Preserving the Home: The Keeping of Tradition in Cranford and “The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood”
