NACS X TRIENNIAL CONFERENCE AARHUS 2011

12:00

1441 Foyer: Registration desk opens

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15:00

1441, Auditorium 1: OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE

Rector’s Representative,University ofAarhus

H.E. Peter Lundy,Canada’s Ambassador toDenmark

Peter Bakker, President, NACS

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1441, Auditorium 1: Plenary keynote address:

G. Zoë Garnett
writer, critic; Writers’ Union of Canada,Toronto

17:00-18:00

1441, Foyer: Coffee; Literary book exhibition

18:00–19:30

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RECEPTION hosted by the CANADIAN EMBASSY,COPENHAGEN

20:00 – …

1451-225

NACS TRIENNIAL GENERAL MEETING:

• President’s Report, 2008-2011
• Treasurer’s Report, 2008-2011
• Elections: NACS Central Executive Board and National Chapter Boards

08:30-18:00

1441, Foyer: registration desk open

09:00-10:00

1441, Auditorium 1: Plenary keynote address:

Stéphane Roussel
Département de science politique,
Université du Québec à Montréal

10:00-10:30

1441, Foyer: Coffee

10:30-12:00

Presentation sessions

1441, Aud. 1

Urban environments: Cultural diversity and governance

1441, Aud. 2

Colonialism and the politics of memory

1441, 010

Canadian foreign policy and the USA

10:30-11:00

Harvey Schwartz:

The Economic Affects of Large Cities on the Canadian Economy

Hans Hauge:

The return of anti-imperialism and the end of post-colonialism: Aquin and Beauchemin

Joseph T. Jockel and David G. Haglund:

What’s love got to do with it? Obama and Canada-U.S. relations

11:00-11:30

Gurli Woods:

Cultural Diversity in Canada’s Urban Environments as Depicted in Novels by Goto, Lai, Nourbese Philip, van Herk, and Brand

Keith Hyde:

The Heart of the Monster: Cultural Weetigos in Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen

John Belec and Patrick Buckley:

One Public or Two: Environmental Resource Management along the US-Canada Border

11:30-12:00

Sarah Feingold:

Language Education Policy and Cultural Diversity in Urban Environments

Ruta Šlapkauskaite:

Along Narrative Traplines: A Poetics of Confusion and Politics of Memory in Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach

Charles-Philippe David and Élisabeth Vallet:

Has the Mouse become an Elephant?

Canadian Foreign Policy under US Influence

12:15-13:30

LUNCH, FREE TIME

Lunch at 1423, Stakladen

13:30-14:15

1441, Auditorium 1: Plenary keynote address: ‘Danish-Canadian relations, particularly with regard to the Arctic’

H.E. Lars Møller, Ambassador,
Chair of the Senior Arctic Officials, Arctic Council, 2009–2011; Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

14.30-17.30

Presentation sessions

1441, Aud. 1

Life and living in the North

1441, Aud. 2

Female voices in Canadian fiction and drama

1441-010

War, peace and international relations

14:30-15:00

Hartmut Lutz:

Sagas of Northern Contacts: From Historical Conflict to Fictional Conciliations

Allan Weiss:

White Woman’s Burden:

Female Canadian Characters in African Short Stories by Women

Stephane Roussel:

Canada’s Realpolitik in the Arctic: Conservatism and Continentalism in the Harper Government Foreign Policy

15:00-15:30

Patrik Lantto:

A Native Industry? Canada and the attempts to introduce reindeer husbandry for the Inuit

Laura-Violeta Duta:

Beautiful Soldiers: of Women and War in Jack Hodgins’s Broken Ground

Heather A. Smith:

Canadian Climate Change Policy: Internationalism, Securitization and Human Insecurity

15:30-16:00

Keith Battarbee:

Language policy as an index of cultural attitudes

Vappu Kannas:

'Down, You Vagabond of a Heart!' Romance and Created Personas in the Journals of L. M. Montgomery

Claire Sjolander:

When pulling out means staying in: Afghanistanas a measure of Canadian middle-powermanship

16:00-16:30

1441, Foyer, coffee

16:30-17:30

Presentation sessions

1441, Aud. 1

Teaching Canadian Studies

1441, Aud. 2

Female voices in Canadian fiction and drama

1441, 010

Canadian collective social identities I

16:30-17:00

Sharlee Reimer and Lorraine York:

Beyond Celebration or Critique: Pedagogical Unsettledments in ‘Can’Lit

Albert-Reiner Glaap:

Palace of the End by Judith Thompson – A Canadian Playwright’s View of the Iraq War

Michael Böss:

Canada– Pride and Patriotism: Debating Canadianness at the Vancouver Olympics

17:00-17:30

L. Pauline Rankin:

Canadian Studies in a Cold Climate: Securing the Future of Canadian Studies Programs at Home and Abroad

Voichita-Maria Sasu:

Histoire et mémoire: Le Livre d’Emma de Marie-Célie Agnant

Julie Perrone:

Playing Hockey and Building Communities: A Case Study of the Montreal Forum

17:30-18:30

1441, Auditorium 1

Plenary keynote address (video conference):

Michael Byers

Canada Research Chair in Global Politics
& International Law
University of British Columbia

18:30-20:00

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RECEPTION hosted by CANADIAN STUDIES CENTRE,University of Aarhus(incl. book launch).

08:30-18:00

Registration desk open

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09:00-10:00

1441, Auditorium 1: Plenary keynote address:

Catherine Iorns Magellanes
Faculty of Law,
Victoria University of Wellington

10:00-10:30

1441, Foyer, Coffee

VIII

10:30-12:00

Presentation sessions

1441, Aud. 1

Teaching Canadian Studies

1441, Aud.2

Canadian spaces and narratives

1441, 010

Canada’s Arctic identity

10:30-11:00

panel debate and workshop

10:30-12:00

Panelists:
Claire Campbell, Anna Fahraeus, Eva Pors, Robert C. Thomsen

Britta Olinder:

New Perceptions, New Writing: Janice Kulyk Keefer’s Midnight Stroll

Krisztina Kodó:

Creation of Identities through Northern Visions in Canadian Art

11:00-11:30

Katja Sarkowsky:

Places of Citizenship in Canadian Literature

John Kennair:

Snow Bound: Developing a Common Identity throughCanada’s Arctic Policies

11:30-12:00

Janne Korkka:

‘The full page of our knowing’: Robert Kroetsch and Canadian spaces

12:15-14:15

LUNCH, FREE TIME

Lunch at 1423, Stakladen

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14:30-17:45

Presentation sessions

1441, Aud. 1

Migration and settlement

1441, Aud. 1

Trans-Arctic relations

1441, 010

Canadian collective social identities

14:30-15:00

J. Laliberte:

All My Neighbours are Ghosts:

How the Gold in Them There Hills Left the Specters in This Here Valley

Joël Plouffe:

L’effet canadien en Arctique : impulsion politique ou calcul stratégique ?

Stefanie Rudig:

The “Two Solitudes” in Twenty-First-Century Montreal: Communicating Across the Linguistic Divide

15:00-15:30

Freyja Egilsdóttir:

Taking the linguistic heritage with you: Canadians of Icelandic descent.

Douglas C. Nord:

The Arctic in Recent Canadian and American Foreign Policies

America M. Lizarraga Gonzalez:

Québec Film Industry: Culture and Identity

15:30-16:00

Ulfar Bragason:

Benedikt Gröndal’s criticism of the Icelandic Emigration to North-America

Lena Sidorova:

Features of the Russian ethnic corporate culture in the Russian - Canadian cooperation.

Nobuaki Suyama:

The rise and pseudo-culmination of Quebec’s independence movement

16:00-16:30

1441, Foyer, coffee

Aspects of a northern urban community: Thompson, Manitoba

Federalism and democracy in Canada and the EU

16:30-17:00

Greg Stott:

Transplanting the Suburban Dream: The Emergence of the Planned Northern Resource-Extraction Town of Thompson, 1956-70

John E. Fossum & David Laycock:

Representation and democratic legitimacy: comparing the European Union andCanada

17:00-17:30

Maureen Simpkins:

Staying in the North? Evolving Attitudes Towards Gender Identity Issues and Same Sex Relationships

Michael Behiels & Robert Talbot:

PM Harper’s Conception of Federalism: Theory and Practice,

1987-2011

17:30-18:00

Chad D. Thompson:

Incorporating ‘the North’: the city in Canada’s Arctic fantasy

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18:00-19:00

1441, Auditorium 1: Plenary keynote address:

Ian Morissette
Director for Political and Public Affairs
Délégation Générale du Québec

19:00-20:30

RECEPTION hosted by DÉLÉGATION GÉNÉRALE DU QUÉBEC

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XI

10:00-11:00

‘Hobrohuset’: Plenary keynote address:

Kristin R Good
Dept of Political Science,
Dalhousie University ,Halifax NS

11:00-12:30

GUIDED TOURS OF DEN GAMLE BY HISTORICAL PARK

12:30-16:30

LUNCH in ‘Møllestuen’ (free for all participants)

FREE TIME (museums, shopping, etc.)

16:30-17:00

Coffee, ’Møllestuen’

17:00-17:30

CLOSING OF THE CONFERENCE (‘Hobrohuset’)

18:00-

CONFERENCE BANQUET ‘Hobrohuset’