Deepening Integration in the Americas
Day 1: 22 February 2002
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Venue: Canadian High Commission, Macdonald House, 1
Grosvenor Square, London W1
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| 9.45 |
Registration |
| 10.15 |
Welcome and introductory remarks from the Organizers (Birkbeck
College and LCCS); the Canadian High Commission in London; and
the Quebec Government Office in London.
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| 10.30 |
Vilaysoun Loungnarath (World Trade Organisation, Geneva,
Switzerland): “The Quebec Society and the Pan-American
Integration.”
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| 11.15 |
Michael Burgess (Department of Politics & International
Studies, University of Hull, UK): “Federalism, Democracy and
the State in the Era of Globalisation.”
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| 12.00 |
Lunch |
| 1.00 |
Tim Rooth (Department of Economics, University of Portsmouth,
UK): “Canada: Continental Drift?”
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| 1.45 |
Louis Dupont (Laboratoire Espace et Culture, Université Paris 4
Sorbonne, Paris, France): “The New Borders.”
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| 2.30 |
Coffee/Tea |
| 2.50 |
Victor Armony (Département de sociologie, Université du Québec
à Montréal, Canada): “Civil society's Discourse on Pan-American
Integration.”
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| 3.35 |
Raymond Towse (Earth Sciences & Geography, Kingston
University, UK): “Perspectives on Canadian Identity and
Hemispheric Integration: The Challenge of Environmental
Assessment.”
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Venue: The remainder of the day's programme will take
place at Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street,
London WC1.
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| 5.15 |
Reception hosted by the Canadian High Commission in London
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| 6.00 |
Public Lecture by Sharon O'Regan (Deputy Director, Canadian
Foundation for the Americas, Canada): “Democratic and Human
Rights Development in the Americas.”
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Day 2: 23rd February 2002
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Venue: Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet
Street, London WC1H
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| 10.00 |
Alan Hallsworth (Division of Geography, School of Sciences,
Staffordshire University, UK): “PanAm Integration … America's
Backyard or America's Bank-Guard?”
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| 10.45 |
Sahadeo Basdeo (Department of History, Okanagan University
College, Canada): “Canada, Cuba and CARICOM: An Evolving
Relationship in Hemispheric Cooperation and Integration.”
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| 11.30 |
Coffee/Tea |
| 11.50 |
Alfredo Valladao (Institut Sciences Politiques, Paris, France):
“The Blending of North-American Multiculturalism and
Latin-American Métissage: A New Global Way of Managing
Diversity.”
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| 12.35 |
Donald Cuccioletta (Center for the Study of Canada, State
University of New York, USA): “The Integration of the Americas:
An Historical Opportunity to Re-invent an America of Multiple
Identities and Cosmopolitan Citizenship.”
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| 1.20 |
Lunch and close of conference
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Acknowledgements
We are grateful to the Canadian High Commission (London) and the
Quebec Government Office (London) for their generous
support.