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Draft LMMI Conference - Sunday, 24 June 2012

9:00 am – 10:30 am — Plenary panel: Gender, Publishing, and Conflict

1. Shaping a Literary Legacy through Law: L.M. Montgomery and Her Heirs in Court—Kate Sutherland (York University)

2. L.M. Montgomery’s Preservation of the New Woman in Cultural Memory—Adeline Carrie Koscher (Massachusetts, USA)

3. The Reading Autobiography of L.M. Montgomery: Literature, Life Writing, Culture—Emily Woster (Illinois State University, USA)

10:30 am – 10:45 am — Nutrition break

10:45 am – 11:45 am — Special panel: Memory and Material Cultures

1. Lucy Maud Montgomery and the Hooking of Stories—Dana Gerberi (Minnesota, USA)

2. Stitching the Stories: The Quilts of L.M. Montgomery—Sandy Wagner (Lawrencetown, NS)

Draft LMMI Conference - Saturday, 23 June 2012

9:00 am – 10:30 am — Plenary panel: Cultural Stories and Storytelling

1. Mock Scots or True Scots? The Highlander in the Work of L.M. Montgomery—Jennifer H. Litster (University of London, UK)

2. Tellers of Tales: L.M. Montgomery’s Story Girls—Benjamin Lefebvre (Wilfrid Laurier University)

3. “A Magnificent Foundation for a Ghost Story”: Ghost Story Telling and Haunting Memories in Montgomery’s Fiction—Tara K. Parmiter (New York University, USA)

10:30 am – 10:45 am — Nutrition break

10:45 am – 12:15 pm — Keynote panel: Folklore, Reading, Remembering

1. Anne of Green Gables as Productive Memory: Reading and Future-Oriented Remembering—Åsa Warnqvist (Stockholm University, Sweden)

Draft LMMI Conference - Friday, 22 June 2012

9:00 am – 10:30 am — Special panel: Memory, Communities, and Readers

Panelists include Mary Beth Cavert (Minnesota, USA), Davida Mackay (Nova Scotia), Jeanne Kaye Speight (New Brunswick), and Christy Woster (Minnesota, USA)

10:30 am – 10:45 am — Nutrition break

10:45 am – 12:15 pm — Keynote panel: Home, War, Metaphor

1. Remembering Home: Memory, Meaning, and Metaphor in L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Ingleside—Elizabeth Rollins Epperly (University of Prince Edward Island)

2. War and Adolescence—Gabriella Åhmansson (University of Gävle, Sweden)

12:15 pm – 1:15 pm – Lunch

1:15 pm – 3:15 pm — Plenary panel: Memory, Authority, and Archives

Draft LMMI Conference - Thursday, 21 June 2012

8:00 am – 10:00 am — Registration

10:15 am – 10:45 am — Welcome

Benjamin Lefebvre, Mark Leggott, Simon Lloyd, and Jean Mitchell

10:45 am – 12:15 pm — Plenary panel: Selective Memory and Resistance

1. Recollection and Remembrance: Montgomery’s Structural Retellings and Active Nostalgia—Trinna S. Frever (Palm Beach State College, USA)

2. Social Resistance and Psychic (Re)Visioning: Rewriting Cultural Memory in L.M. Montgomery’s Emily Series—William Thompson (Grant MacEwan University/Athabasca University)

3. Protecting Her Brand: Contextualizing the Production and Publication of The Alpine Path—Katja Lee (McMaster University)

12:15 pm – 1:15 pm — Lunch

Draft LMMI Conference Program - Wednesday, 20 June 2012

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm — Pre-Conference Workshop A

Story, Identity, Cultural Memory: Oral Storytelling in the Literature Classroom—Trinna S. Frever (Palm Beach State College, USA)

3:30 pm – 5:30 pm — Pre-Conference Workshop B

Once upon a Space: Memory and Place (writing workshop)—Deirdre Kessler (University of Prince Edward Island)

2011 Visiting Scholar

Submitted by jdauphinee on Tue, 11/08/2011 - 15:43

The Lucy Maud Montgomery Institute is pleased to announce that the 2011 Visiting Scholar is Åsa Warnqvist!

Read Full UPEI press release here

LM Montgomery Conference 2012

Planning is well underway for the 10th biennial offering of the Institute's International Conference on LM Montgomery, scheduled for June 21st - 24th, 2012 at UPEI in Charlottetown.

Conference Co-Chairs: Jean Mitchell (mjmitchell@upei.ca) and Simon Lloyd (slloyd@upei.ca)

Program Chair: Benjamin Lefebvre (ben@roomofbensown.net)

 

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Post-Royal Visit Update: The Duchess *meets* "Anne"

Submitted by slloyd on Tue, 07/05/2011 - 11:41

The Guardian (Charlottetown) reports today that the Duchess of Cambridge spoke more about her love of Anne while meeting Tess Benger, the actress portraying Anne in this year's production of Anne of Green Gables: The Musical. Ms. Benger presented a copy of the book to the Duchess, who remarked that she was looking forward to reading it again.

Royal Visit 2011 Update: The Duchess and Anne of Avonlea

Submitted by slloyd on Mon, 07/04/2011 - 12:50

CBC News' Ryan Hicks reports (via Twitter - http://yfrog.com/user/ryhicks/profile) that a young girl presented the Duchess with an early-edition Anne of Avonlea at the Charlottetown waterfront Monday morning; she later told reporters that the Duchess plans to "read it on the plane."

Somebody buy that girl a cordial!

Update (July 5): The very pleasant and helpful Mr. Hicks confirms that the astute young gift-giver's name is Lily Gillespie. Here is a photo -- also courtesy of Mr. Hicks -- of Lily being interviewed after the presentation.

Royal Visit 2011: The Duchess shares her thoughts on Anne ...

Submitted by slloyd on Sun, 07/03/2011 - 22:46

The L.M. Montgomery Institute is pleased to join in welcoming Their Royal Highnesses, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, to Prince Edward Island July 3 - 4 (http://www.gov.pe.ca/royaltour/). As part of The Guardian (Charlottetown) team covering the Island leg of the tour, kindred spirit Jocelyne Lloyd was privileged to meet the Duchess at a media reception in Charlottetown July 3rd, and asked Her Highness about her reported love of Anne Shirley. The Duchess confirmed that she had been a fan ever since reading Anne of Green Gables at age 8, and remarked: "It's every little girl's dream to be Anne, I think." Montgomery's tradition of winning admirers in high places continues (to learn more, read this fine essay by Mary Beth Cavert: http://home.earthlink.net/~bcavert/id35.html)