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PROGRAM.

9h30 - Arrival and Coffee
10h00-11h30 - Panel 1: Belief in a Real-World Context

Emily Stobbe-Wiebe - "Undermining the Martyr Myth in Miriam Toews' All My Puny Sorrows"

Isaac Schlegel - "In Bruges and the Death of a Priest"

Steven Tutino - "The Role of the Supernatural and Occult in Strindberg's Religious Conversion and Reawakening as an Artist"

11h45-12h45 - Panel 2: Representations of Religion and Myth in the Context of the Imagination

Jeanne Lebossé-Gautron - "Religious and Mythical figures in The Graveyard Book"

Carrie Lynn Evans - "The Evolution of Doubt in Contemporary Science Fiction and Fantasy"

12h45-13h45 - Lunch
13h45-15h15 - Panel 3: Satanism and Witchcraft: A Mediated Peek into the Abyss

Marianne Paquin - "When I Grow Up, I Want to Be a Witch: Censorship, Morality and the Harry Potter Series"

Mathieu Colin - "Le satanisme de La Veyen: entre égotisme, matérialisme et athéisme"

Ariana Potichnyj - "Living Deliciously: Escaping Puritanism Via Secularism in The Witch"

15h30-16h45 - Honoured Guest Speaker

Dr. Yael Halevi-Wise - "Wrestling with Religion: Jewish Holidays in A.B. Yehoshua's Fiction"

16h45-18h00 - Wine and Cheese
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