An interdisciplinary and international conference of Birkbeck's
Centre of Canadian Studies, organized in association with the
London Conference for Canadian Studies and the Aboriginal Studies
Circle, to be held on 23–24 February 2001.
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Venue: Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London
SW1
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| 10.00 |
Registration |
| 10.15 |
Welcome & Introductory Remarks
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| 10.30 |
Professor Guy Lachapelle (Department of Political Science,
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada), “Economic
Integration, Values & Identities: A Comparison between
N. America and Europe.”
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| 11.10 |
Coffee/Tea |
| 11.30 |
Professor Donald Cuccioletta (Center for the Study of Canada,
State University of New York, Plattsburgh, New York, USA),
“Multiculturalism or Transculturalism: Creating the Cosmopolitan
Citizenship.”
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| 12.10 |
Professor Jagdish Gundara (International Centre for
Intercultural Studies, Institute of Education, University of
London, London, England, UK), “Intercultural Education in the
Context of Multicultural Britain and Canada: A Comparative
Perspective.”
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| 12.50 |
Lunch |
| 2.00 |
Professor Norbert Gilmore & Dr. Hanna Zowall (Centre for
Medicine, Law & Ethics & Kellogg Centre, McGill
University & Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec,
Canada), “Threatening Inequality: The Struggle to Maintain
Canada's National Health Care System.”
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| 2.40 |
Coffee/Tea |
| 3.00 |
Dr. Özlem Ülgen (School of Law, University of Aberdeen,
Aberdeen, Scotland, UK), “Balancing Aboriginal Peoples'
Individual and Collective Rights.”
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| 3.40 |
Dr. Richard Cornes (Law Department, University of Essex,
Colchester, England, UK), “Being the Last Words: Top Judges in
Canada and the UK.”
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| 5.15 |
Reception hosted by the Canadian High Commission. The Council
Room, Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street,
London WC1H 0PD. Note the change of venue for this event
and the remainder of the programme
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| 6.00 |
Public Lecture (free entry) at Harkness Hall I, Birkbeck
College. Professor Lynette Hunter (School of English, University
of Leeds, Leeds, England, UK), “Equality as Difference: Telling
Stories in/of Nunavut.”
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Venue: Harkness Hall II, Birkbeck College, University of
London
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| 9.30 |
Vivien Hughes (Academic Relations, Canadian High Commission,
London, England, UK), “Women are Persons! How the Famous 5 in
Canada Won Legal Equality for Women.”
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| 10.10 |
Professor André Tremblay (Département de sociologie, Université
d'Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada), “Equality of Access,
Inequality of Results: Women and Higher Education Since 1960.”
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| 10.50 |
Coffee/Tea |
| 11.20 |
Dr. Colin Samson (Department of Sociology, University of Essex,
Colchester, England, UK), “Teaching Lies: The Innu Experience of
Schooling.”
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| 12.00 |
Dr. Heather Norris Nicholson (Centre for Canadian Studies,
Birkbeck College, University of London, London, England, UK),
“`At the Centre of it all are the Children’: Aboriginal
Childhoods through the Camera Lens.”
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| 12.40 |
Professor Coral Ann Howells (Department of English, University
of Reading, Reading, England, UK), “Towards a Recognition of
Being: Thomson Highway's The Kiss of the Fur Queen and
Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach.”
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| 1.20 |
Lunch and Close of Conference.
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