SESSION F F1: QUEBEC STUDIES 2 Martin Simard, University of Quebec at Chicoutimi Is Local Democracy Weak in Canadian Peripheral Areas? Evidence from the 2009 Quebec Municipal Election Micheline Cambron, Université de Montréal / Université Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle Presse et démocratie : L'Artisan de James Huston Ciaran Toal, Queen’s University Belfast Science, Religion and Space in Montreal
F2: LITERATURE 6 Anouk Lang, University of Birmingham Modernity in practice: A comparative view of the cultural dynamics of modernist literary production and leftist politics in Canada Britta Olinder, Gothenburg University A Postcolonial Waste Land in Terms of Human Rights, Social Justice and Eco-Environmental Issues Lianne Moyes, Université de Montréal “Oka” : literary representations, public culture and the processes of democratization
F3: FIRST NATIONS 3 Tricia E. Logan, Kingston University Memory and Commemoration of Residential Schools in Canada Renate Eigenbrod, University of Manitoba ‘asserting our presence in the face of erasure’: literary representations of residential school experiences Eric Woods, LSE Political Apologies, Cultural Trauma, and Collective Identity: The case of the Anglican Church of Canada and the memory of the Indian Residential Schools Elizabeth Cassell, University of Essex When Sorry is Not Enough: A Response to Stephen Harper’s Apology F4: MULTICULTURALISM 2 Jean-François Caron, Université Laval Quebec’s Intercultural Approach to Pluralism in the Bouchard-Taylor Report: Toward a New Sense of Belonging Rachelle Freake, Queen Mary, University of London The French language and belonging in Quebec: An examination of the Bouchard Taylor Commission briefs
SESSION G G1: Business AND ECONOMIC STUDIES PaneL Alan Hallsworth Canadian Banking and past and present crises [see attachment at foot of page] Tim Rooth Canadian economic performance in the 20th century: an international comparison [see attachment at foot of page] Teresa Gutiérrez-Haces, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) The new face of Canadian Democracy Abroad: the Corporate Social Responsibility and Investment law for the Canadian Extractive Sector G2: LITERATURE 7 Cristina Ivanovici, University of Birmingham Democracy and Readers: Publishing Contemporary Canadian Literature in Romanian Translation Diana Yankova and Andrei Andreev, New Bulgarian University The extrinsic and intrinsic conception of Bulgarians in Canada as reflected in Bulgarian Canadian media G3: DEMOCRACY AND FEDERALISM Stéphane Bernatchez, professeur, Faculté de droit, Université de Sherbrooke La démocratie canadienne et la théorie constitutionnelle Robert Schertzer, London School of Economics Federation as Process: accounting for the dynamic, contested and political nature of the Canadian Federation
SESSION H H1: LITERATURE 8 Aidan Byrne, University of Wolverhampton Taming the Red-Headed Stepchild: cultural integration in the Anne of Green Gables series Sean O’Connor, University of Chichester ‘What’s the point?’ Confronting the (Canadian?) Wilderness in Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel – Hagar’s Book, Hagar’s film Katrin Urschel (National University of Ireland, Galway) ‘You can’t turn that into history’: The Politics of Irish Settlement in Jack Hodgins’s The Invention of the World
H2: Poltical culture 2 Wayne Hunt, Mount Allison University Michael Ignatieff and the Future of Liberalism Julie Rak, University of Alberta The Anxiety of Public Influence: Michael Ignatieff, Citizenship, Memoir James C. Hall, University of Alabama There Is a Town: Expatriation and the Canadian Public Sphere
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