Deepening Integration in the Americas

Programme: Friday 22 February, 2002

Canadian High Commission, Macdonald House, 1 Grosvenor Square, London W1
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.
10.30	Vilaysoun Loungnarath (World Trade Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland), “The Quebec Society and the Pan-American Integration.”
11.15	Michael Burgess (Department of Politics & International Studies, University of Hull, UK), “Federalism, Democracy and the State in the Era of Globalisation.”
12.00	Lunch
1.00	Tim Rooth (Department of Economics, University of Portsmouth, UK), “Canada: Continental Drift?”
1.45	Louis Dupont (Laboratoire Espace et Culture, Université Paris 4 Sorbonne, Paris, France), “The New Borders.”
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.”
3.35	Raymond Towse (Earth Sciences & Geography, Kingston University, UK), “Perspectives on Canadian Identity and Hemispheric Integration: The Challenge of Environmental Assessment.”
The remainder of the day’s programme will take place at Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1.
5.15	Reception hosted by the Canadian High Commission in London
6.00	Public Lecture by Sharon O’Regan (Deputy Director, Canadian Foundation for the Americas, Canada): “Democratic and Human Rights Development in the Americas.”

Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1H
10.00	Alan Hallsworth (Division of Geography, School of Sciences, Staffordshire University, UK), “PanAm Integration … America’s Backyard or America’s Bank-Guard?”
10.45	Sahadeo Basdeo (Department of History, Okanagan University College, Canada), “Canada, Cuba and CARICOM: An Evolving Relationship in Hemispheric Cooperation and Integration.”
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.”
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.”
1.20	Lunch and close of conference

We are grateful to the Canadian High Commission (London) and the Quebec Government Office (London) for their generous support.