FHIS Graduate Student Conference



The Graduate Student Conference offers our graduate students the opportunity to showcase their research.

2019, On the Move: Narratives of Displacement, Travel and Mobilities
Organizing committee: Liza Bolen, Han Fei, Kathryn Houston, Jennifer Nagtegaal and Xana Menendez Prendes.
Keynote speaker: Simon Harel (Université de Montréal)
Book Talk: Tim Cresswell (University of Edinburgh)

2017, Beyond the right turn: narrating resistance
Organizing committee: Liza Bolen, Karen O’Regan, Upasana Thakkar, Fabricio Tocco
Keynote speaker: Elsa Drucaroff (Unversity of Buenos Aires)

2015, (Re) Telling: Adaptation, Translation, Transformation
Organizing committee: Marie-Gérald Jean, Jennifer Nagtegaal, Raya Polyak
Keynote speaker: Barbara Hovercraft (University of Toronto)

2013, Metamorphosis
Organizing committee: Gabriela Badica, Anne-Claire Marpeau
Keynote speaker: Rosa Sarabia (University of Toronto)

2011, The Labyrinths
Keynote speaker: Teresa Heffernan (Saint Mary’s University)

2009, Circulations
Organizing committee: Virginie Doucet, Alejandra Escudero, Diana Montes de Oca, Molleen Shilliday, Camille Sutton
Keynote speaker: Angela Cozea (University of Toronto)

2007, Re/Reading(s)
Organizing committee: Élise Lepage, Adeline Caute, Alison Fyles
Keynote speakers: Pierre Saint-Amand (Brown University), Françoise Gaillard (Université Paris VII-Diderot)

2005, First Biennal Graduate Student Conference, Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies
Keynote speaker: Anthony Close (Cambridge University)