Evolving Solidarities: Communities, Cultures and Citizenship

A conference, on Friday 11–12 February 2005, organized by the Centre for Canadian Studies, Birkbeck College, the London Conference for Canadian Studies, and in association with the British Association for Canadian Studies Literature Group

Programme: Friday 11 February, 2005

Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London
9.30 Registration and Coffee
10.15 Welcome and Introductory Remarks
10.30 Danielle Fuller (University of Birmingham), “Reading to Belong? Evolving Communities of Reading in Contemporary Canada.”
11.15 Daisy Neijman (University College London), “Icelandic-Canadian Literature: Challenging Concepts of Canadian Idenity.”
12.00 Heidi Macpherson (University of Central Lancashire), “The Geography of Emotions: Poland, Canada, and the USA in Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation.”
12.45 Lunch
2.00 Aleksandar Dundjerovic (Brunel University), “Nô: Multiple Perspectives of Myth and Memory.” This paper will include a screening of Robert LePage’s Nô (1998).
Venue: Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London WC1H
5.00 Reception hosted by the Canadian High Commission, London in the Council Room
6.00 Public lecture by Louise Profeit-LeBlanc (Aboriginal Arts Coordinator, Aboriginal Arts Secretariat, Canada Council for the Arts), “Story: the Means towards Solidarity.” In room B33.

Programme: Saturday 12 February, 2005

Venue: 43 Gordon Square, Birkbeck College
9.30 Philip Handrick (University of Michigan), “Tory Touch or Yankee Glow? Cultural Adaptation in the Eastern Townships of Québec.”
10.15 Anjoom Mukadam (Centre for Excellence in Leadership, Lancaster University) and Sharmina Mawani (SOAS, University of London), “Towards a Shared Vision: Unity in Diversity.”
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Richard Clément (University of Ottawa), “The Problematic Mosaic: Second Language Usage, Identities, and Wellbeing.”
12.15 Colin Samson (University of Essex), “The Mushuau Innu: Surviving Canada.”
1.00 Lunch and end of conference

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