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?The Concept of Vancouver? is a two-day conference to be held at Brock University in October 2016. Vancouver, located on the unceded Coast Salish territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Watuth, and Stó:l? First Nations, is an important nexus of art, literature, activism, and other forms of social and political organizing and expression within Canada. The two days of the conference are devoted to providing a historically-grounded, academically-rigorous, and aesthetically-charged survey of the manifold intersections between visual arts, literary arts, and the city of Vancouver. There will be plenary speakers, roundtable discussions, special topics panels, practical-skills workshops, public exhibitions of First Nations and Canadian art, musical performances, a public poetry reading, featured plenary addresses byRichard Cavell, Roy Miki,Lisa Robertson, Michael Turner, and Rita Wong, and a public keynote address by Canada?s first Parliamentary Poet Laureate and winner of two Governor-General?s Awards for Literature George Bowering. This event will bring together scholars, artists, writers, and activists to broadly think through the conceptualizations of the histories, present, and possible futures of the city.

All are welcome to attend.