Institute of English Cultures and Literatures
Faculty of Philology University of Silesia
ul. Gen. Stefana Grota-Roweckiego 5 41-205 Sosnowiec, Poland
Tel. (48) (32) 36 40804 Fax (48) (32) 35 40809
Days of Canadian Culture at the University of Silesia
May 13-15, 2013
PROGRAM for May 14, 2013 (Tuesday)
9:45-11:15Lecture hall 0.3 / Keynote lecture
MONIQUE MOJICA (Toronto, playwright, artistic director, stage and film actress)
- Scoring the Body Through Guna Aesthetic Principles: Indigenous Dramatic Arts in Theory, Process and Practice.
11:15 -11:30 / Coffee break
11:30-12:50
Lecture hall 0.3 / BELEN MARTIN LUCAS (Universidade de Vigo)
- Postcolonial and Transnational: The Politics of Genre in Canadian Speculative Fiction.
12:50-14:00
Lecture hall 0.3 / Activities for students (quiz, etc.)
14:00-16:30 / Late lunch break
16:40-18:10
Lecture hall 1.48 / Film Screening
A Windigo Tale
Dir. Armand Garnet Ruffo (90 min)
Introduction to the film: Eugenia Sojka
Monique Mojica (Guna and Rappahannock),playwright, artistic director of Chocolate Woman Collective, stage and film actress and social activist, committed to strengthening the continental links among the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. She is passionately dedicated to a theatrical practice as acts of healing and reclaiming historical/cultural memory. Her acting credits include: Red River by Daniel David Moses and Jim Millan; Mango Chutney, The Rez Sisters by Tomson Highway; Jessica by Maria Campbell and Linda Griffiths; Sucker Falls by Drew Hayden Taylor and The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God by Djanet Sears; Her film and television credits are: Smoke Signals, Traders, Earth: Final Conflict, La Femme Nikita, and Conspiracy of Silence. She is the author of Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots and co-editor with Ric Knowles, of Staging Coyote’s Dream An Anthology of First Nations Drama in English, vols. I & II. As a co-founder of Turtle Gals Performance Ensemble, Mojica taught Indigenous Theatre in theory, process and practice at the University of Illinois, the Institute of American Indian Arts and at McMaster University. She founded Chocolate Woman Collective in 2007 to develop the play Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way (2011) which was created by devising a dramaturgy specific to Guna cultural aesthetics, story narrative and literary structure. She was most recently seen on stage in therole of Goneril in the NAC’s production of King Lear. Her upcoming projects include Side Show Freaks and Circus Injuns co-written with LeAnne Howe and directed by Michael Greyeyes.
Belen Martin Lucas, Associate Professor at the University of Vigo, Spain, where she teaches postcolonial literatures in English, Feminist Writing and Diasporic Writing and coordinates the Research Group Feminario de Investigacion Feminismos e Resistancias). She has published extensively both in English and Spanish on Canadian women’s fiction, on feminist perspectives on nationalisms, and on the use of new literary genres by feminist authors. She has been the director of the Research Project “Globalized Cultural Markets: the Production, Circulation and Reception of Difference” funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. She also participated as a researcher in the research project “Globalization and Feminism: Transnational counterdiscourses and practices of resistance” funded by Cátedra Novacaixagalicia de Estudios Feministas de la Universidade de Vigo.
Dr Maria Belen Martin Lucas is also a recipient of numerous grants, awards and distinctions. Of the most notable are Graduate Research Grant at the University of Alberta awarded by International Council for Canadian Studies, September 1991 to September 1992; Predoctoral Scholarship at the University of Oviedo, 1989-1991; Air Canada/AEEC Award for Young Researchers 1992. Short Story Cycles in English by Canadian Women Writers. Granted by the Spanish Association for Canadian Studies; she is a Chair of the Feminist Studies Panel of the Spanish Association of Interdisciplinary India Studies and a member of the European Association for Commonwealth Language and Literary Studies.