the 2014 sla conference program
college of the rockies
cranbrook, british columbia

angie abdou, host
jamie dopp, program chair

tues 6.24     wed 6.25     thurs 6.26     fri 6.27     sat 6.28

TUESDAY 24 June 2014

3:00-7:00 Registration in Purcell House Residence

All sessions in Lecture Theatre, Room 250

WEDNESDAY 25 June 2014

7:30-8:30 Breakfast in the cafeteria (across parking lot from residence)

8:45 Registration at Lecture Theatre (Room 250), same building as cafeteria
All sessions will take place in the Lecture Theatre

9:00-9:15 Welcome and Greetings
Angie Abdou (College of the Rockies)
Darrell Bethune (Dean of University Studies, College of the Rockies)
Jeremy Larance (SLA President, West Liberty University)

9:15-10:30am

Panel I: Sport and Popular Culture

Chair: Richard Crepeau (University of Central Florida)

Tim Morris (University of Texas at Arlington)
"Sport in The Walking Dead"

Kyle Belanger (Springfield College)
"The Twitterature of Sochi: Social media as textual analysis of the 22nd Olympic Winter Games"

Misao Dean (University of Victoria)
"John Green Plays FIFA 14"

10:30-10:45 Coffee break, Room 247

10:45am-12:00pm

Panel II: Sport and Spirituality

Chair: Mark Noe (Pennsylvania College of Technology)

Duncan Jamieson (Ashland University)
"The Vibrant Bicycle"

Cory Willard (Red Deer College)
"Spirituality and Ecology in Fly Fishing's Literary Tradition"

Paula Makris (Wheeling Jesuit University)
"Faith, Salvation, and the Red Sox: Finding the Path in Stephen King's The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon"

12:00-1:30 Buffet Style lunch in cafeteria

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1:30 - 2:30

Panel III: Richard Sherman Incident

Chair: Jeremy Larance (West Liberty University)

Matt Tettleton, Winner of Lyle Olsen Graduate Student Essay Contest (Texas Christian University)
"Lunch Pails and Thugs: The Richard Sherman Saga, Sport Literature, and the Racial Discourse of American Sports"

2:30-2:45 Coffee break, Room 247

2:45-3:45pm

Panel IV: Sport and World Literature I

Chair, Tim Morris (University of Texas at Arlington)

Richard McGehee (University of Texas)
"Without a Winner: Julio Cortázar's Todos los Fuegos el Fuego"

David Vanderwerken (Texas Christian University)
"The Tennis Not-So-Handsome: Hal Incandenza in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest"

3:45 SLA Lifetime Achievement Award: David Vanderwerken

Remarks: Tim Morris, Bob Hamblin, Don Johnson

5:00-6:15 Outdoor barbeque (included in registration, cash bar)

7:00 Poetry Readings to follow barbeque (cash bar)
Poets: Don Johnson, Ron Smith, Jamie Dopp, Randall Maggs

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THURSDAY 26 June 2014

7:30-8:30 Breakfast in Cafeteria

9:00-10:15

Panel V: Sport, History, Memory

Chair: Duncan Jamieson (Ashland University)

Joel Sronce (University of North Carolina)
"Changing nothing but your life"

Dennis Gildea (Springfield College)
"They Can Play Basketball, but They Don't Like Catholics"

Bruce Pratt (University of Maine)
"The Ba: The Great Antecedent"

10:15-10:30 Coffee break, Room 247

10:30 - 11:30

Panel VI: Running

Chair: Julian D'Arcy (University of Iceland)

Gudrun Björk Guðsteinsdottir (University of Iceland)
"An Exclusive Race"

Fred Mason (University of New Brunswick)
"Always Moving Forward: Writing [and] ultrarunning"

11:30-1:00 Lunch in cafeteria (included in registration fee)

1:00-2:15

Panel VII: Baseball

Chair: Joyce Duncan (East Tennessee State University)

Bob Hamblin (Southeast Missouri State University)
"Brooklyn Boy in Mississippi"

Tom Wells (Schreiner University)
"Baseball's Favorite Anarchist: Jeremiah Eversole and His Season with the Arkansas Reds"

Jeremy Larance (West Liberty University)
"Shticks with Big Sticks: Baseball and Barnstorming Golems in the Graphic Novels of James Sturm"

2:30-3:30

Panel VIII: Hockey

Chair: Kyle Belanger (Springfield College)

Paul Martin (MacEwan University)
"'Place(s) where time and space have a different rhythm': Hockey, Freedom, and Confinement in Richard Wagamese's Indian Horse"

Julian D'Arcy (University of Iceland)
"Western Icelandic Saga: National Identity and Canadian Hockey in Cara Hedley's Twenty Miles"

Jamie Dopp (University of Victoria)
"(Mis)Deeds of Gods and Heroes: The Summit Series and Religion"

FREE EVENING
Possible Outing: Fernie

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FRIDAY 27 June 2014

7:30-8:30 Breakfast in Class Act, separate dining room at back of cafeteria

9:00-10:15

Panel IX: Randall Maggs

Chair: Angie Abdou (College of the Rockies)

Reading by Randall Maggs of Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems

Jamie Dopp (University of Victoria)
"The Face Before the Mask: Thoughts on Randall Magg's Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems

10:15-10:30 Coffee Break, Room 247

10:30-11:45

Panel X: Fiction and Memoir

Chair: Don Johnson (East Tennessee State University)

Angie Abdou (College of the Rockies)
Reading from Between, novel forthcoming from Arsenal Pulp Press (August 2014)

Mark Baumgartner (East Tennessee State University)
Reading from "Some Miles Back"

Joyce Duncan (East Tennessee State University)
Reading from "Money Talks: Reprise"

FREE AFTERNOON(possible outings—Creston wine tour or Radium Hot Springs)

12:00 Box lunch available (room 247) to be taken on afternoon adventures

6:00-9:00

Banquet at St. Eugene Mission

(Option: group tour of residential school, on site; dinner at 7)

Keynote Speaker: Jon Turk, National Geographic Adventurer of the Year

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SATURDAY 28 June 2014

7:30-8:30 Breakfast in Class Act, a separate dining room at back of cafeteria

9:00-10:15am

Panel XI: Sport and the Bigger Picture

Chair: Fred Mason (University of New Brunswick)

Courtney Stanton (Temple University)
"On the Cusp of a Paradigm Shift: Olympic Culture and Dis/Abled Identity"

Craig Riordan (Humboldt State University)
"The Bottle That You Drink: Sports, Alcohol, and Societal Reflections"

10:15 -10:30 Coffee, Room 247

10:30-11:30

Panel XII: Sport and World Literature II

Chair: Dennis Gildea (Springfield College)

Philip C. Wedge (University of Kansas)
"'Bad Shots' or 'amiable Young Men': Sport in the Minor Works of Jane Austen"

Richard McGehee (University of Texas)
"Magical Soccer: Marcelo Cohen's Fantasía Española"

12:00-1:00

Box Lunch and Business Meeting in Lecture Theatre (room 250)

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