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ACSUS Fund for the Arts
The Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, with the
support of the International Academic Relations Division of Foreign
Affairs Canada, has introduced a new program, The ACSUS Fund for the
Arts. The program will fund several projects annually with grants ranging
from $500 to $1,000. It is designed to stimulate U.S. academic institutions
to organize more academic events, public lectures and appearances by
authors, film-showings with appearances by filmmakers, art exhibits,
lectures by painters, photographers, sculptures, artisans, as well as
performances by singers, musicians and dancers emanating from all of
Canada, including anglophone, francophone, First Nations, etc. The
winning projects for 2005 are:
o Metropolitan State University: visit by Canadian children’s
author, Tim Wynee Jones.
o Nokomis Learning Center and Michigan State University:
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performance by the O’ De’M Kwe Singers at the Nokomis Fall
Festival.
SUNY, New Paltz: film screening of “Letters from Karelia.”
Baruch College: support ‘Two Quebec Writers: Louise Dupré &
Madeleine Monette.’
Owens Community College: support a musical performance
‘The Arrogant Worms.’
Samford University/Birmingham-Southern College: support a
lecture ‘“American-ness” of Canadian and Quebec Art.”’
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania: support a presentation by
four Canadian writers.
New Association for Canadian Studies in Columbia
ACECAN (Asociación Colombiana de Estudios Canadienses /
Colombian Association for Canadian Studies) was launched officially
on March 17, 2005 at Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá. The
inauguration ceremony was opened by the Canadian Ambassador in
Colombia Jean Marc Duval and by Jean Labrie representing the
International Academic Relations Division of Foreign Affairs Canada.
May 2005
The Association integrates four active Canadian Studies Centers
located in Colombia’s most prestigious Universities: Universidad del
Rosario in Bogotá; Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla; Universidad
Nacional Autonoma in Bucaramanga; and Universidad EAFIT in
Medellin.
Canadian Studies has grown rapidly in South America over the past three
years, thanks, in part, to the support of Foreign Affairs Canada and the
Latin American Network, under the leadership of Zilá Bernd (Brazil),
President of the ICCS. In addition to the associations for Canadian
Studies in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela, centres for
Canadian Studies can also be found in Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
First CECANUCA Seminar
The First Seminar in
Canadian Studies at
the University of Ciego
de Ávila in Cuba was
held February 25,
2005. Twenty-three
members of the Canadian Studies Centre
at the University of
Ciego
de
Avila
(CECANUCA) joined
dignitaries from the College and five representatives from other Cuban
Canadian Studies centres for a multidisciplinary seminar featuring eleven
papers covering nine fields of study: literature, language, arts, history,
political science, economics, education, geography, and tourism in
Canada. Marcia Suárez García, CECANUCA President, announced the
anticipated March 16th launch of the centre’s web page, timed to
celebrate the 60th Anniversary of Canadian-Cuban relations.
Travelling Canadian Studies Collection
The 21st annual International Conference of the Indian Association for
Canadian Studies on the theme Society, Environment and Technology :
Canada and India was held February 24-26 at P.G. College, Osmania
University, Hyderabad. One eagerly anticipated feature of the annual
conference is Travelling Canadian Studies Collections (TCSC). An
initiative of the International Academic Relations Division of Foreign
Affairs Canada, the TCSC is compiled in five sets each year by the
Association for the Export of Canadian Books (AECB) and circulated at
Canadian Studies conferences worldwide by the ICCS, working in
collaboration with Canadian posts abroad. In Hyderabad the TCSC
attracted a constant flow of visitors who received informative brochures
and maps on Canada as well as the free catalogue, Books on Canada
2005, which features the nearly 350 titles in the collection. Although books
are not for sale during the conference, the catalogue offers contact
information for Canadian suppliers and is used extensively by the
Embassy, Indian libraries, and individual academics.
Brian Dickson (Deputy High Commissioner in black suit), Bernard
Francis, Academic Relations & E-Communications Officer, shaking
hands with the High Commissioner, Mrs. Lucie Edwards at the
inauguration of the TCSC exhibit.
Inuit Colloquium
Canada’s Inuit were the topic of a international colloquium Le Canada Inuit :
Les enjeux de la recherche anthropologique en Amérique du Nord
organized March 2-4, 2005 by Serge Jaumain, Director of the Centre
d’études canadiennes of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB-CEC), in
cooperation with Groupe de recherche sur la construction interculturelle
des mondes sociaux (C.I.M.S.) and the Belgian Society of Americanists.
The colloquium examined the socio-political reality for Inuit in Canada; an
ethnographic methodology for studying the Inuit in situ in the Canadian
Arctic and specific politics regarding anthropological research. The
complete program is available at www.ulb.ac.be/philo/cec.
(Linda M. Jones); the International Academic Relations Division, FAC
(Rémi Tremblay) and the Embassy of Canada in Russia (Gregory
Lemermeyer). The donation builds on an earlier donation made by the
ICCS and the Canadian Embassy in 2002 and will further stimulate the
study of Canada at the university. To date four graduate students are
finishing dissertations on Canada, while fifteen more are writing MA
(diploma) theses on Canadian history and politics.
Dr. Kurilla presented the donation of books during the international
conference “Canadian socio-cultural model in the Globalizing world” in
Volgograd April 14-15, 2005, organized by the Russian Association for
Canadian Studies (RACS), represented by Dr. Vassili Sokolov, and the
Center for American Studies “Americana” at Volgograd State University,
represented by Dr. Alexander Kubyshkin, Chief of the Southern Branch
of RACS. Researchers from Pennsylvania (U.S.A.), Moscow, St.
Petersburg, Kazan, Saratov, Tambov, Stavropol, Volgograd and Volzhsky
presented papers on Canadian history and contemporary cultural policy,
education, economic development, federal and local politics.
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The conference is one of an ambitous schedule of conferences and
seminars organized by the ULB-CEC for 2005 including March 23-25, “La
citoyenneté dans tous ses états; May 18-21 “Contester dans un pays
prospère: L’extrême-gauche en Belgique et au Canada; and June 8-11
“Banlieues au Canada et en Europe: une perspective comparée.”
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With a Little Help from Friends — Canadian Studies in
Volograd
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Volograd State University in Russia has become a major centre for the
study of Canadian history with the recent acquisition of 200 books and
several hundred journals donated by professors in the Department of
History, University of Ottawa. The donation was inititated by Professor
Corinne Gaudin during a 1999 visit to Ottawa by Dr. Ivan Kurilla,
Associate Professor of History and International Relations at Volgograd
State University. Transport was finally arranged in November 2004 when
Dr. Kurilla returned to Ottawa on a Faculty Enrichment Grant. The shipment
of the long-awaited books was made possible with the help of the ICCS
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Margaret Atwood has been awarded an Honorary
Doctorate by the Université Paris III-Sorbonne
Nouvelle.
Barbara Gowdy’s Romantic and Steven Galloway’s
Ascension have been translated into Italian by Claudia
Valeria Letizia and published, thanks to a Canada
Council international translation grant by Edizioni e/o
of Rome.
Diddy R.M. Hitchins, Vice-President of the
Association for Canadian Studies in the United States,
has been awarded an MBE by Her Majesty Queen
Elizabeth II in the 2005 New Year’s Honours List for
her services as British Honorary Consul for Alaska.
Ingo Kolbloom (University Dresden), past president of
the AIEQ has been awarded an honorary doctorate by
Université du Québec à Montréal.
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