THE LONDON CONFERENCE FOR CANADIAN STUDIES &
THE ABORIGINAL STUDIES CIRCLE
Announcing an interdisciplinary one-day conference on
"ABORIGINAL IDENTITY: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE"
DATE: On Friday 19 February 1999
PLACE: Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London (England)
Provisional Programme
9.45 am Registration and Coffee
10.15 am Welcome
10.30 am "Aboriginal People in the Cities - Negotiating New Identities"
Dr. Roy Todd, Trinity and All Saints University
College, University of Leeds (England)
11.15 am Dynamic Rights: Aboriginal Land Rights and Economic Development
Dr. Ozlem Ulgen, Nottingham University (England)
12 Noon Lunch
1.30 pm Playing Ourselves: First Nations interpreters and Living
History Sites
Dr. Laura Peers, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford University (England)
2.15 pm Inuit and New Age Cosmology: Egalitarianism in the Contemporary
West Dr. David Riches, University of St. Andrews (Scotland)
3.00 pm Tea
3.30 pm Aboriginal Film-making/makers and Identities on Film
Dr. Heather Norris Nicholson, University College of
Ripon & York St John, University of Leeds
4.15 pm Round Table Discussion
We are grateful to the Canadian High Commission (London) and the Quebec
Government Office (London) for their generous support.
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| Conference Fee: British £20.00/US$ 35.00 |
| For students/unwaged: 10.00 or US$ 17.50. |
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| Please send this part with a cheque payable to "LCCS" by 15 February |
| 1999, to Susan Howard, The Library |
| Imperial College School of Medicine |
| Charing Cross Campus, Reynolds Bldg |
| St Dunstans Road, London W6 8RP, UK. |
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| Name: _________________________________________________________ |
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THE BIRKBECK CENTRE FOR CANADIAN STUDIES
BIRKBECK COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
Theme: CROSSING BOUNDARIES
DATE: Friday 19th Feb., & Saturday 20th 1999
PLACE: Harkness Hall, Birkbeck College,
University of London, Malet St., London WC1
Programme for 19 February 1999
5.30 pm Reception hosted by the Canadian High Commission,
Council Room, Birkbeck College, Malet St. London WC1.
6.15 pm Keynote Lecture
"Boundaries: Real, Imagined and Perverse"
Professor Desmond Morton, OC
McGill Institute for the Study of Canada,
McGill University (Canada)
Programme for 20 February 1999
9.30 am Registration and Coffee
10.00 am Welcome
10.15 am "Enticing the Emigrant: Continuity and Change in
Canadian Agency Activity, 1870-1930"
Dr. Marjory Harper,
University of Aberdeen (Scotland)
11.00 am "Addressing Difference: Canada's Ethnic Liaison &
Policy Rationale since the 2nd World War"
Dr. Linda Blanshay,
Edinburgh University (Scotland)
11.45 am "Immigrant And Host Society Acculturation Strategies:
A Social Psychological Perspective"
Professor Richard Bourhis, Director & Chair
Concordia-UQAM en Etudes Ethniques, Universite du Quebec a
Montreal (Canada)
12.30 pm Lunch
1.30 pm "Getting Environmental Messages across International Boundaries"
Professor Adrian McDonald, University of Leeds (England)
2.15 pm "Telling Stories, Moving Lives: A Contemplation on a
Series of Crossings, Unbounded by the Book"
Dr. Danielle Fuller, University of Birmingham (England)
3.00 pm Tea
3.30 pm "Moved to Learn: Aspects of Canadian Educational Travel in the
20th Century"
Dr. Jim Sturgis & Dr. Margaret Bird
Birkbeck College, England & Open University, England
4.15 pm Round Table Discussion
We are grateful to the Canadian High Commission (London) for generous
support.
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|Conference Fee: British £20.00/US$ 35.00 |
|For students/unwaged: 10.00 or US$ 17.50. |
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|Please detach this part and send cheque payable to "Birkbeck College" |
|by 15 Feb., 1999 to Dr. Itesh Sachdev, Birkbeck College, 43 Gordon |
|Square, London WC1H OPD, U.K. |
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|Name:____________________________________________________ |
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|Address:_________________________________________________ |
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We look forward to seeing you here.
Itesh Sachdev
Birkbeck College, University of London
43 Gordon Square
London WC1H OPD
U.K.
Email: i.sachdev [at] bbk.ac.uk
Telephone: + 44 171 631 6132
FAX: + 44 171 383 3729