FINAL PROGRAMME * Click on session title to see abstracts * * there is a printable, more detailed version of the programme at the foot of this page*
Saturday 28 March 2009
10.00 Registration and coffee [BACS Council meeting]
10.30 SESSION A (90 mins) A1: SOCIAL POLICY Carolyne A. Gorlick, University of Western Ontario, Gaining Ground, Losing Ground: Rural Homelessness Susan Machum and Michael Clow, St Thomas University, You can’t get there from here: Why New Brunswick, Canada’s ‘Road to Self-Sufficiency’ task force agenda is destined to fail Alan Pomfret, The University of Western Ontario, Childhood, Citizenship and Participation in Canada: Policies, Practices and Prospects
Andrew Griffiths, Director General, Citizenship and Multiculturalism, Canadian Multiculturalism: Harmony or Jazz? Robert Orr, Minister, Immigration, Canadian High Commission, Can Migration Be Managed? The Canadian Experience
A3: CULTURE Lisa Doolittle, University of Lethbridge and Anne Flynn, University of Calgary, Assimilating and Accommodating: Bodies and Dancing, Canada’s Choreography of Multicultural Nationhood in the 20th century Stacy Douglas, University of Kent, The Space of the Nation: Canadian National Myth Making at the 4th Line Theatre Production Company Tamara Extian-Babiuk, Duke University, “We Welcome All-the-World and his Wife!” Racialized Depictions of Inclusion and Exclusion in Canadian Political Cartoons
A4: LITERATURE 1 Mei-Chuen Wang, University of Cardiff, Unsettling Auto/Biography: Genre Transgression in Anne Michaels’s Fugitive Pieces Agnieszka Rzepa, Adam Mickiewicz University, Negotiating Belonging: Margaret Sweatman’s When Alice Lay Down With Peter Ewa Urbaniak-Rybicka, Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz, Poland, “We and thee (…), us and them” - Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley as a postmodern parable of difference
12.30 Lunch
B1: LITERATURE 2 Fiona Tolan, Liverpool John Moores University, Contested Visions of Being, Becoming and Belonging in Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin Cristina Ivanovici, University of Birmingham, Archiving Literary Celebrity: Reading the Atwood Papers Katrin Urschel,
National University of Ireland, Galway, Irish Ontario in Canadian
Literature: Diversity and Social Inclusion in the works of Harry J. Boyle and
Dennis T. Patrick Sears
B2: IMMIGRATION 1 Beesan Sarrouh, University of Alberta, Multicultural education policies in Britain and Ontario Zuochen Zhang and Shijing Xu, University
of Windsor, I made my home in Canada,
but do I feel at home: Voices of visible minority immigrants enrolled in a Canadian University Natasha Saltes, York University, Capturing Disability on Camera: An Analysis of Disability Representation in Television Programming with a Focus on Canadian Regulatory Initiatives
B3: DIASPORA 1 Diana Yankova and Andrei Andreev, New Bulgarian University, Cross-cultural and transnational identity: Bulgarian immigrants in Canada Laura Weir, Carleton University, The Making of a Multicultural Imaginary: The Ukrainian Canadian community’s role in challenging the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism Sonia Boulad, Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Aix en Provence, The Middle Eastern Christian Diaspora in Quebec and in France: A Distinct Case of Immigration
B4: FIRST NATIONS 1 Tracie Scott, Birkbeck College, The meaning of sovereignty in a multi-national state: lessons from the Nisga’a Final Agreement Senwung Luk, McGill University, Confounding concepts: the judicial recognition of the constitutional protection of Aboriginal self-government rights in Canada Nathalie Kermoal, University of Alberta, “Who are you?”; “Justify your existence to Us?”: The Métis Fight for Inclusion in a Bilingual and Multicultural Canada
B5: PANEL: Cityscapes, In/exclusion and the Canadian Metropolis Rachel Walls, University of Nottingham, Conflict, cameras and collapse: Timothy Taylor’s representation of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside in the novel Story House Helena Grdadolnik, Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, Olympics and regeneration in Vancouver and London
Mary Kathleen Smith, University of East London, The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth: Mythical Belonging and Alterity in a Prairie City 15.00 Tea
15.30 SESSION C (60 mins) C1: FIRST NATIONS 2 Peter Clancy, St Francis Xavier University, Canadian Offshore Petroleum and the Aboriginal Challenge
C2: LITERATURE 3 Dagmara Drewniak, Adam Mickiewicz University, ‘Memory is also a form of negotiation’ – the concept of post/memory in recent immigrant writing in Canada Britta Olinder, Gothenburg University, Being, belonging and becoming: The Ukrainian issue in Keefer's wor
Danielle Lafond, University of Toronto, Multiracial Men in Canada: Identity, Race and Masculinity? Nancy Earle, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Is There a Writer in the House?Cultural Citizenship and the Canada Council Writer-in-Residence Program C4: HISTORY 1 Jordan Axani, Royal Military College of Canada, The ‘Van Doos’: Glorifying or Exemplifying French Canadian Identity? Lucille H. Campey, In at the deep end: the English children who were sent to Atlantic Canada in the late 19th and early 20th centuries Dawna Moore, University of Ottawa, Brewers, Shopkeepers, Gentlemen, and Church Ladies: Toronto’s Victorian Philanthropists and Social Inclusion
16.30 BACS AGM
17.30 Plenary I: Eccles Lecture, Professor Heidi Macpherson, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, De Montfort University, Mouthy Enemies: Canadian Writers and the Power of Being, Belonging, and Celebrity 19.00 Reception and welcome by the Lord Mayor of Oxford 20.00 Dinner
Sunday 29 March 2009
07.30 Breakfast 08.00 Registration
08.45 SESSION D (120 mins) D1: PANEL: Feminist Translation as Creative, Interpretive, and Community-Building Process in the Production and Reception of the Work of Nicole Brossard Chair: Susan Rudy, University of CalgaryNicole Brossard, Poet, Novelist, Essayist, Montréal Louise Forsyth, University of Saskatchewan Anne-Marie Wheeler, University of SaskatchewanD2: DIASPORA 2 Azra Dabiri, Azzahra University and Avisa Rouholamin, Simon Fraser University, Iranian Immigrants and the Issue of Identity and Adjustment: The Case of the City of Vancouver Felicity M Greenfields, The Open University, More Equal than Others: Canadian myths on acceptance of Otherness Paula Donovan, University College Cork, Chinese immigration to Canada from 1788 to 2008: Language and Integration Mukesh Bhatt, Birkbeck College, University of London, Autopoiesis In A Growing Diaspora: Gujaratis and Canada part II
D3: POLITICS 1 Wayne A. Hunt, Mount Allison University, A Digitally-Inclusive Intellectual: How Michael Ignatieff’s use of social networking opened a space for the participation of a number of “New Canadian”groups Joseph Ahorro, University of Alberta, Revitalizing Canadian Political Parties: Engaging ‘Visible-Minority’ Groups In Political Participation and Democratic Governance Howard Cody, University of Maine, Stephen Harper and the Politics of Identity Martin Thornton, University of Leeds, Anglo-Canadian relations at the Versailles Peace Conference of 1919: the relationship of Sir Robert Borden and Lloyd George
D4: FIRST NATIONS 3 Sarah Galletly, University of Strathclyde, ‘on the sweet circumference of things’: Gwendolyn MacEwen, the Haida, and the threat of marginalisation Shannon Hengen, Laurentian University, The Woodland School of Aboriginal Theatre in Ontario Thomas Snell, University of Newcastle, Being the Dehumanised, Becoming the Rehumanised and Belonging as the Posthumanised Gundula Wilke, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Belonging to CanLit: Construction and Representation of First Nations Literature by First Nations Critics
10.45 Coffee 11.15 Plenary session: Professor Patrick James, President of ACSUS 12.00 Plenary II: Professor Gérard Bouchard, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Managing Ethnic Diversity in Québec: the so-called "accommodation crisis" and the Bouchard-Taylor Report 13.00 Lunch (Québec reception and award of Prix du Québec)
14.00 SESSION E (90 mins) Guy Laforest, Université Laval, The Bouchard-Taylor Commission and the Place of Québec in the Unfolding of the Modern Nation-State Ian Morrison, York University, The Emergence of the Secular Citizen in Québec E2: LITERATURE 4 Ken Hirschkop, University of Waterloo, The art of multiculturalism: the aestheticisation of urban ethnicity in the Canadian novel Will Smith, University of Nottingham, “A dream of interpenetration”: Toronto in Stephen Marche’s Raymond and Hannah (2005) Johannes Springer and Christian Werthschulte, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Diversity's other? News from Canada's suburban nowhere
E3: MUSEUMS Victoria Dickenson, McCord Museum Montreal Souvenirs of Here: the Photograph Album as Private Archive of Chinese Montrealers
Leslie Tepper, Curator of Ethnology, Pacific Coast
Canadian Museum
of Civilization, Formlines and
Formulations: Constructing Northwest Coast Aboriginal Representation at
Canada’s National History Museum
E4: DIASPORA 3 Brian Tanguay, Wilfrid Laurier University, State Funding of Religious Schools in Ontario and Quebec
George H. Richardson, University of Alberta, Ingrid Johnston, University of Alberta, Terry Carson, University of Alberta and Dwayne Donald, University of Alberta, Plural Contexts, Singular Perspectives: Canadian Teacher Education and the Tensions of Diversity Education
Betty Bednarski, Dalhousie University, Sameness and Difference in Les belles-soeurs: A Canadian Spectator's Reflections on Two Polish Productions of Michel Tremblay's Play Simone Lomartire, University of Leeds, ‘Home, home at last[?]’ Staging and performing social segregation and integration in Caterina Edwards’ Homeground and Marco Micone’s Déjà l’agonie Francesca L'Orfano , Carleton University, An Italian diaspora in Canada: Identità - Two Films: Les Enfants de la Loi 101 and Sons and Daughters: The Italians of Schreiber
E6: POLITICS 2 Matthew Jones, Canterbury Christ Church University and The University of Kent, Modern Canada, Liberalism, and the ‘Politics of Difference’ Fiona MacDonald, University of Manitoba, The Emergence of Neoliberal Multiculturalism and its Implications for Group Differentiated Citizenship in Canada
15.30 Tea
16.00 SESSION F (90 mins) F1: LITERATURE 5 Krzysztof Majer, Adam Mickiewicz University, The Raven Breaks the Vessels: The Trickster Myth and the Kabbalah in Mordecai Richler’s Solomon Gursky Was Here Jonathan Rollins, Ryerson University, Manufactured Belonging: Code-switching and the Culture Industry in the fiction of Wayson Choy Catherine Bates, Keele University, Becoming through waste: Rubbish and subjectivity in First Nations writings
F2: IMMIGRATION 2 Ruth Kircher, Queen Mary, University of London, Language attitudes and linguistic integration: immigrants in Quebec Claude Couture and Paul Dubé, University of Alberta, Non-Christian French speaking minorities in Alberta and ‘public’ schools Vera Regan and Niamh Nestor, University College Dublin, Language and emigration: the case of Canadian-Kashubs and Irish-Poles
F3: POLITICS 3 Manvitha Singamsetty, University of Ottawa, National Identity in a multicultural society: What it means and why it matters Rémi Léger, Queen’s University and Jean-François Caron, Laval University, Contiguous Diasporas as a Form of Liberal Multiculturalism: An Inquiry of Canadian Jean-François Caron, Laval University, The Supreme Court Reference Relating to Quebec Secession: A Move Toward Democratic Agonism and its Potential for Political Unity of the Canadian State
Martin Fürlinger, University of Graz, Austria, Culture, Multiculturalisme, Transculturalisme? Transculturalism in the works of Lise Tremblay Gillian Roberts, University
of Nottingham, Yann Martel’s Syncretic Self: Bilingualism and Radical
Simultaneity
Christina Horvath, Oxford Brookes University, Littérature migrante en France et au Québec : une lecture croisée de Sami Tchak et de Dany Laferrière
F5: DIASPORA 4 Marina Morgenshtern and Shoshana Pollack, Wilfrid Laurier
University, On the intricacies of identity(ies)
and belonging(s): multiculturalism, Soviet Jewish immigrants
and the Canadian Jewish community Gregory S. Szarycz, Wilfrid Laurier University, East-Central European Immigrants’ Attitudes Towards Interracial Couples in Canada: Cultural Integration, Racial Discrimination and the Mainstream Canadian Identity Molly Tepper, Constructions of “First Generation” Identity Conflicts in Canada
F6: FIRST NATIONS 4 David MacKenzie, Ryerson University, The Indian Act and the Aboriginal Peoples of Newfoundland at the Time of Confederation Christopher G. Trott, University of Manitoba, Articulating Nationalisms: Inuit Celebrations of Canada Day in Pangnirtung, Nunavut Roy Todd, University of Leeds, Urban Indigenous Cultural Renewal: Decolonisation and the Transformation of Social Conditions for Urban Indigenous Communities?
17.30 Plenary III Prof. Keith Banting, Queens University Kingston, Belonging: Multiculturalism and Social Integration in Canada 19.00 Reception hosted by CHC 20.00 Conference Dinner and after dinner address by HE Mr James Wright, High Commissioner for Canada
Monday 30 March 2009
07.30 Breakfast 09.00 SESSION G (90 mins) G1: Legal Studies Panel 1: Issues of Discrimination Lisa Vanhala, Disability Rights Activists in the Supreme Court of Canada: Legal Mobilization Theory and Accommodating Social Movements Robert Tarantino, "Free to deal as he may choose" – Why displacing "freedom of commerce" was a necessary condition to the creation of Canadian multiculturalism
G2: SECURITY Steve Hewitt, University of Birmingham and Christabelle Sethna, University of Ottawa, “the Americans were particularly poorly behaved”: Canadian State Security and the 1971 Indo-Chinese Conference Betsy Cooper, University of Oxford, Terrorism or National Identity? Canada in Comparative Perspective
G3: Legal Studies Panel 2: Environmental Destruction Laura Westra, University of Windsor and Bradford Morse, University of Ottawa, Environmental Destruction of the Canadian Arctic and its Impact upon the Health of the Inuit G4: Legal Studies Panel 3: State, Law and Theory Noura Karazivan, University of Montreal, Law and Geography in Canadian Constitutional Space Angela Campbell, McGill University, Bountiful Voices
Shauna Van Praagh, McGill University, A Walk through the Neighbourhood - Diversity on the Ground G5: PUBLIC POLICY 2 Shauna Wilton, University of Alberta, Representations of Diversity – Delivering national myths to new immigrants Vincent Defraiteur, North-American Studies Centre, ULB (Brussels), La péréquation en tant qu'outil de citoyenneté Elliot L. Tepper, Carleton University, Visible Minorities and Employment Equity: Changing Parameters of Inclusiveness in Canada 10.30 Coffee
11.00 Plenary IV: Legal Studies Group speaker, The Hon. Madam Justice Rosie Abella
12.00 SESSION H (60 mins) H1: Legal Studies Panel 4: State, Law and Religion Kathleen Mahoney, University of Calgary, Hate Speech, Equality and the State of Canadian Law Asha Kaushal, University of British Columbia, Accommodation in a Multicultural Society: Re-examining the Public/Private Divide
Lucinda Ferguson, University of Oxford, Minority Children and their Families in Public and Private Law Disputes: “Best Interests,” Multiculturalism, and Self-Determination Anastasia Tataryn, York University, Redefining the Myth of Canada: Undocumented Residence, Illegality, and the Prospect of Regularization in a Conservative Canada H4: HISTORY 2
Irving Abella, York University and the University of Ottawa, “Enduring Myths”: Reflections on Canada's Immigration and Refugee Policies
H5: BUSINESS Wendy Cukier, Margaret Yap, Charity-Ann Hannan and Mark Holmes, Ryerson University, Organizational Commitment of Racial Minorities in the IT/ICT and Financial Industries in Canada Teresa Gutiérrez-Haces, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Canadian´s Economic Foreign Policy in the post NAFTA Era Alan Hallsworth, Surrey University, Principles for Sale
13.00 Lunch
14.00 SESSION I (90 minutes) I1: Legal Studies Panel 7: Juridical Questions Charles-Maxime Panaccio, University of Ottawa, The Virtues of the Canadian Practice of Constitutional Rights Judicial Review Nelson Dordelly-Rosales, University of Ottawa, Constitutional Democracy: Canada and Venezuela i2: Legal Studies Panel 8: Managing Diversity Violaine Lemay, University of Montreal, Vigilance démocratique, protection par le droit et construction de l’exclusion par les cloisons disciplinaires. L’exemple de l’évaluation scolaire Jean-Francois Gaudreault-Desbiens, Université de Montréal Canada's Multijural Condition
I3: LITERATURE 6 Marlene Goldman, University of Toronto at Scarborough, Belonging and Becoming: The Trope of Spirit Possession in the Early Writing of Dionne Brand Malgorzata Camastra, University of Nottingham, Being or Constant Becoming?” – Portrait of a Modern Man as Presented by Carol Shields in Larry’s Party
Yoko Fujimoto, Waseda University Japan, Modes of Knowledge and Silence in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night
I4: PANEL: Canada/UK Research Councils Forum Sylvie Paquette, Director of Policy, Planning and International Affairs, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Shearer West, Director of Research, Arts and Humanities Research Council Glyn Davies, Director for International Affairs, Economic and Social Research Council
15.30 Tea 16.00 A Conversation with Yasmin Alibhai Brown and Catherine Fieschi Chair: Doug Saunders, Globe and Mail
European Bureau
17.00 Close of conference |