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<DIV><FONT size=4>This is to remind you that you are all cordially invited to
attend the Fourth Partnership Conference of the University<BR>of
Iceland and the University of Manitoba, entitled "Culture and Science:
Mutually Reinforcing."<BR>There is no conference fee and no sign-up; you can
simply show up when you<BR>please.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Items in the program that may be of special
interest:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoTitle style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=center><SPAN lang=IS
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><STRONG>Friday 18
March</STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=4><SPAN lang=IS
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><STRONG>15:45-16:30<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Readings: Room 132, Natural
Sciences Building, Askja</STRONG></SPAN><SPAN lang=IS
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align=left><SPAN lang=IS
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=4>U. of M. writers David Arnason, Dennis Cooley and Alison Calder read from
their works.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=IS
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=4> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></H2>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=center><SPAN lang=IS
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT size=4><FONT
size=5>Saturday 19 March</FONT> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></H2>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=IS
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p><FONT
size=4></FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=IS
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=4><STRONG>11:40-12:40<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Session 5: Room 132, Natural Sciences Building,
Askja<o:p></o:p></STRONG></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT
size=4>Chair: Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir, Associate Professor, Department of English,
Faculty of Humanities, U. of I. <SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><FONT
size=4>“The Social Conscience of Margaret Benedictsson: From Iceland to
Manitoba”<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 27pt"><FONT size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Carolyn
Crippen, </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Assistant
Professor, Dept. Educational Administration, Foundations and Psychology, Faculty
of Education, U. of M.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Panel
discussion: Carolyn Crippen & Kristín Ástgeirsdóttir, </SPAN><SPAN lang=IS
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Erla Hulda
Halldórsdóttir, Auður Styrkársdóttir, </SPAN><SPAN lang=IS
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Centre for Women’s and
Gender Studies, U. of I.</SPAN><SPAN lang=IS
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN lang=IS
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=4>12:40-13:40<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Lunch</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=IS
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: IS; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><BR
style="PAGE-BREAK-BEFORE: always" clear=all></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=IS
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=4><STRONG>13:40-15:10<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Room 132, Natural Sciences Building, Askja</STRONG><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT
size=4>Chair: Guðrún Björk Guðsteinsdóttir, Associate Professor, Department of
English, Faculty of Humanities, U. of I.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">“</SPAN><SPAN
lang=IS style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Technical Change and
the Democratization of Literature in Canada</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT
size=4>David Arnason, Head, Dept. of English; Acting Head, Dept. of Icelandic,
Faculty of Arts, U. of M.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT
size=4>“Literary Ecology: The Structure of the Deep Map Text as Ecological
‘Borrowing’”<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT
size=4>Alison Calder, Associate Professor, Department of English, Faculty of
Arts, U. of M.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Scientific
Discourse in </SPAN><SPAN lang=IS style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">David Arnason’s Long
Poem Marsh Burning. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
lang=IS
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt"><FONT size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Dennis
Cooley, Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Arts, U. of M.</SPAN><SPAN
lang=IS
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><FONT size=4><SPAN lang=IS
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">15:10-15:20<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Coffee break</SPAN><SPAN lang=IS
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=IS
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=4><STRONG>15:20-16:50<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Session 7: Room 132,
Askja<o:p></o:p></STRONG></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT
size=4>Chair: Úlfar Bragason, Director, the Sigurður Nordal Institute, U. of
I.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">“</SPAN><SPAN
lang=IS style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">The New World in the
Minds </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">of
</SPAN><SPAN lang=IS style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Two
European Writers”</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT
size=4>Birna Bjarnadóttir, Chair, Department of Icelandic, Faculty of Arts, U.
of M.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">“</SPAN><SPAN
lang=IS style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Icelandic Legal
Transplants to Manitoba: Current Research Strategies at Manitoba’s Law
School</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt"><FONT size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">DeLloyd
J. Guth, Professor, </SPAN><SPAN lang=IS
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Faculty of Law</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">,
U. of M.</SPAN><SPAN lang=IS
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=IS><FONT
size=4>“Mobilizing Culture and Science in Racial Discourses: ‘White’ and First
Nations People in Upper Canadian Newspapers”</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt"><FONT size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Robin
Jarvis Brownlie, Associate Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Arts, U.
of M.</SPAN><SPAN lang=IS
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P><FONT
face=Arial size=2> <BR>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -36pt"><SPAN
lang=IS style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">See
full program at <A
href="http://www.hi.is/Apps/WebObjects/HI.woa/wa/dp?detail=1003652&name=frettasida">http://www.hi.is/Apps/WebObjects/HI.woa/wa/dp?detail=1003652&name=frettasida</A></SPAN></SPAN></P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>