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May 31, 2015 | June 2, 2015
ARCYP Program: Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Ottawa, ON
May 31, 2015
3:00-4:15 PM
ARCYP co-hosted with FSAC/ACEF (Room TBA)
Jack Zipes, Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota
Keynote: Spreading the Word: The Dangerous Power and Magic of Memetic Tales
The Congress theme highlights the power of ‘Capital Ideas’ that inspire the confluence of scholars for
cross-disciplinary dialogue and debate that changes the ways people live and view the world. Dr. Jack
Zipes’s keynote, “Spreading the Word: The Dangerous Power and Magic of Memetic Tales,” focuses on
the strengths of cross-disciplinary work and scholarly convergence. Dr. Zipes will discuss how his work on
the dissemination and relevance of folk and fairy tales exemplifies the bringing together of his study of
folklore with memetics, evolutionary anthropology, philosophy, and cognitive sciences. Drawing upon his
study of the persistent transmission of certain words in tales, Dr. Zipes will discuss why he believes that
dilettantism and interdisciplinary thinking might enable folklorists and other interested scholars to explain
the inexplicable.
Dr. Jack Zipes is a professor emeritus of German and former director of the Center for German and
European Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is one the most prolific editors and authors in the
field of fairy tale and folklore studies as well as an internationally renowned translator and scholar.
4:15-6:00 PM Plenary roundtable
Distinguished scholars in the field participate in this roundtable that follows the keynote lecture by Jack
Zipes. Each panelist will highlight key questions/issues related to interdisciplinary research related to folk
and fairy tales raised in the plenary. Participants will speak to the opportunities and challenges of
interdisciplinary research as relevant to their own work.
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Cristina Bacchilega (University of Hawai’i-Mānoa)
Pauline Greenhill (University of Winnipeg)
Sadhana Naithani (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Jennifer Schacker (University of Guelph)
Chair: Naomi Hamer (University of Winnipeg; ARCYP Executive)
The keynote lecture and roundtable is co-hosted with FSAC/ACEF (Folklore Studies Association of
Canada/Association Canadienne d’ethnologie et de folklore) with funding support from the Federation for
the Humanities and Social Sciences through the International Keynote Speaker Support Fund.
This session is open to all Congress attendee
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June 2, 2015
ARCYP/ACCUTE program (Room TBA)
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Roundtable: Fairytale remediations and the cultures of young
people
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Kendra Magnus-Johnston (University of Manitoba)
Elizabeth Marshall (Simon Fraser University)
Jill Rudy (Brigham Young University)
Catherine Tosenberger (University of Winnipeg)
Chair: Naomi Hamer (University of Winnipeg; ARCYP executive)
Roundtable description:
“It has generally been assumed that fairy tales were first created for children and are largely the domain of
children. But nothing could be further from the truth.” - Jack Zipes, Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous
Fairytales of Western Culture
This roundtable provides an opportunity for a cross-disciplinary dialogue on the relationship between
fairytale remediations and young people’s cultures. Fairy tale narratives continue to be dominant cultural
venues for storytelling, often through the remediated forms of film, television, visual and performance art,
and most recently through a range of digital fan cultures. Many of these remediations and their affiliated
fan cultures subvert and/or explicitly challenge the assumption that fairy tales are “largely the domain of
children.” The research highlighted in this roundtable explores how a range of fairy tale remediations
extend or challenge familiar narratives in mainstream North American picture books, comics, television
and film.
12:00 p.m.- 1:30 PM- Lunch break (no catering)
1:30 p.m.- 3:00 PM- ARCYP Annual General Meeting (catering)
3:15 p.m.- 5:00 PM Roundtable: Keywords in the Cultures of Young People
Invited panel:
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Kristine Alexander (University of Lethbridge)
Nat Hurley (University of Alberta)
Awad Ibrahim (University of Ottawa)
Louise Saldanha (Douglas College)
Lisa Weems (Miami University)
Chairs: Elizabeth Marshall (Simon Fraser University; ARCYP Executive);
Tyler Pollard (McMaster University; ARCYP Executive )
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Roundtable description:
In 1976, Denis Donoghue reviewed Raymond Williams’ Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society for the
New York Times. He wrote that as a teacher Williams loved “to show where ideas begin and end, in
principle, only to emphasize that in practice their beginnings and endings are incorrigibly wayward” (2).
Adopting Williams’ commitment to incorrigibility, this roundtable encourages an approach to “keywords in
cultures of young people” that acknowledges that language is erratic and unpredictable with varied sets of
meanings and associations. Panelists will critically question and interrogate familiar keywords used in the
study of cultures of childhood and youth, and propose new terms and definitions to capture and
understand the complexities and contradictions that define young peoples’ cultures and texts. This
interdisciplinary panel includes time for lively debate between panelists and the audience.
6:00 – 9:00 p.m. - ARCYP Annual Dinner and Drinks (location TBA)
All members, participants, and attendees are welcome! See you there!
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For general information on Congress, and to register, visit http://congress2015.ca
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