This website contains video and written proceedings from the conference Narratives of Citizenship, and also hosts the two main projects that have grown out of the conference: The book Delimiting Citizenship: Diasporic and Aboriginal Literary Perspectives, and the Community Education Roundtable Project, an ongoing discussion of ways in which the University can better provide accessible educational programs to members of the Greater Edmonton Community.

Narratives of Citizenship (University of Alberta, March 23-25, 2007) was a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council funded interdisciplinary conference that theorized and interrogated the notion of citizenship as it manifests itself as a textual construction in fiction, law, historical documents and pedagogical dissemination.

The conference was arranged around three poles: a panel-based academic symposium that theorized local, national, and international narratives of citizenship; an Artists' Gala that allowed prominent Alberta authors and performing artists an opportunity to discuss, through their work, the place of the artist as citizen; and an interactive discussion that featured Edmonton community leaders and organizers, who addressed ways in which the University's resources, both academic and pedagogical, can be used to benefit community members who have not traditionally had access to these resources.

(The original conference website, with brief biographical sketches of our keynotes and featured artists, as well as all information up to and including the final day of the conference, March 25, 2007, can be accessed here.)