AREA OF INTEREST — Our research will mainly engage with issues of orality, and examine how oral traditions intersect with cultural, political, sociological and literary skeins. Susan Gingell’s article “Negotiating Sound Identities in Canadian Literature” will be the scholarly heart of our conference. Gingell invites us to consider the “sound identities” of Indigenous poetics, and the revealing nature of cadences in regards to one’s cultural community. Although oral traditions may seem dated in a steadily globalizing and technological world, we hope to prove in our research that there is indeed, a relevant and immeasurable value that orality possesses.

Gingell, Susan. “Negotiating Sound Identities In Canadian Literature.” Canadian   Literature/Littérature canadienne 204.(2010): 127-130. Web. 8 Apr. 2016.