Daniel Laforest, University of Alberta – Introduction;
Larissa Lai, University of Calgary – Ghost Biologies: Sovereignty, Diaspora and the Geopolitics of Exception;
Libe Garcia Zarranz, University of Manitoba – Posthuman Matters in Hiromi Goto's Hopeful Fictions;
Marie Carriere, University of Alberta – Ailing Bodies, Caring Habits: Nancy Lee's The Age;
Shoshannah Ganz, Memorial University of Newfoundland – "Meat is the Message": The Story of Cattle and Women in Ruth Ozeki's My Year of Meats;
Vanessa Rachael Mardsen, Memorial University of Newfoundland – Bad [Wo]Men Eat Meat: Biopolitics and Cycles of Violence in Ruth Ozeki's My Year of Meats, Han Kang's The Vegetarian, and Kyung Ran Jo's Tongue;
Christine Lorre-Johnston, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3– Disease and Care in Alice Munro's "The Bear Came Over the Mountain";
Maïté Snauwaert, University of Alberta – Un corps qui se disloque : morceaux de la fin de vie et régime de care ;
Maria Fernanda Arentsen, Université de Saint-Boniface – De " la folie qui serait venue dans les flancs des bateaux négriers " : Marie-Célie Agnant et Le Livre d'Emma ;
Claudine Sagaert, Université de Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Toulon, Var – Nelly Arcan, la quête de la belle apparence au risque d'une identité brisée ;
Christine Baron, Université de Poitiers – Jacques Ferron et Martin Winckler : L'écrivain médecin en contexte franco-québécois.