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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Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London SW1
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| 10.00 |
Registration
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| 10.15 |
Welcome and 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.” |
| 11.10 |
Coffee/Tea
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| 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.” |
| 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.” |
| 12.50 |
Lunch
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| 2.00 |
Professor Norbert Gilmore (Centre for Medicine, Law & Ethics, Kellogg Centre, McGill University) and Dr. Hanna Zowall (Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada), “Threatening Inequality: The Struggle to Maintain Canada’s National Health Care System.” |
| 2.40 |
Coffee/Tea
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| 3.00 |
Dr. Özlem Ülgen (School of Law, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK), “Balancing Aboriginal Peoples’ Individual and Collective Rights.” |
| 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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Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London WC1H
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| 5.15 |
Reception hosted by the Canadian High Commission. The Council Room, Birkbeck
College, University of London.
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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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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.” |
| 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.” |
| 10.50 |
Coffee/Tea
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| 11.20 |
Dr. Colin Samson (Department of Sociology, University of Essex, Colchester, England, UK), “Teaching Lies: The Innu Experience of Schooling.” |
| 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.” |
| 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.” |
| 1.20 |
Lunch and Close of Conference.
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