CANADA'S CENTURY?
The Midwest Association for
Canadian Studies (MWACS)
10th BIENNIAL CONFERENCE
Was held October 11-12, 2002
at the Marriott Hotel in
East Lansing, Michigan
OUR NEXT CONFERENCE
WILL BE HELD IN THE FALL
OF 2004
IN OMAHA, NEBRASKA
PLEASE CONTACT THE CONFERENCE
ORGANIZER,
BETSY ELIOT-MIESEL, AT:
elmeis@creighton.edu
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The 20th century was supposed
to be "Canada's Century." As we now move into the 21st Century --and
a new Millennium-- was the promise of the 20th century fulfilled --will
the 21st be Canada's Century?
Our plenary speaker was Mike
Donahue, President and CEO of the Great Lakes Commission, who spoke on
the State of the Great Lakes. For more information about Dr. Donahue
and the Great Lakes Commission,
go here: Great Lakes Commission Website
We were joined by Canadian
Aboriginal playwright, humorist, and film director, Drew Hayden Taylor
from the Curve Lake Reserve in Ontario, who presented his recent NFB film
Redskins,
Tricksters, and Puppy Stew.
For more information on the video,
go here: NFB - Redskins, Tricksters, and Puppy Stew
Through the fine efforts
of Dennis Moore and others at the Canadian Consulate in Detroit, Tim Millard,
President of the Ontario Forest Industries Association (OFIA) was our Saturday
luncheon speaker.
Tim spoke about the very
timely issue of forest sustainability and access to international markets.
For more information on the OFIA,
go here: OIFA.com
For the complete text of Mr. Millard's
speech, please go here: Fair Trade
in Softwood Lumber: Canada's View through Ontario's Eyes
For more information about
the conference, you can contact the conference organizers at:
Phil Bellfy (bellfry@msu.edu)
or Jefferson Sina (faye@msu.edu)
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The
complete program is reprinted below and you can see the wide breadth of
issues that we discussed.
FRIDAY – OCTOBER 11
Friday Morning - 8:30 - 10:00
LITERATURE AND PLACE (I)
-- Chair - Mary Kirtz
David McNab; Ute Lischke - “Rudolph’s
Land”: Borders of Transformation and the Impact of Places on the Writings
of Louise Erdrich
Margaret Cunniffe – Space Into Place:
The Construction of Canada in the Fiction of Joyce Marshall and Other Canadian
Women Writers: 1960 to 1985
ABORIGINAL PEOPLES (I)
-- Chair - Phil Handrick
Allan McDougall - The Evolution of
Treaty 29, 1827
Lisa Philips Valentine - The Devolution
of Treaty 29, 1827
FRIDAY MORNING SESSION – 2 – 10:15 to 11:45
LITERATURE AND FAMILY
(II) -- Chair - Robert P. Holley
Daniel-Raymond Nadon - Domineering
Mother - Absent Father: A Discussion of the Stereotypical Gay Family
in the Works of Michel Tremblay
Tobi Nadine Kozakewich - Scarlet Letters:
Adulterous Discourse in 20th-century English-Canadian Print Culture
Elizabeth B. Elliot-Meisel - John Bartlet
Brebner: The Private Man of the “North Atlantic Triangle”
CURRENT SOCIAL CONDITIONS
-- Chair - Matthew S. Mingus
David Katz - Canadian Single-Payer
Health Insurance: Prognosis Guarded
Peter Vanderhart - The Use of Real-Time
Data to Estimate the Bank Of Canada’s Reaction Function
John Reifenberg - The Latest Developments
in the Canadian Supreme Court's Charter of Rights
FRIDAY LUNCH –12:00 to
1:00
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
- 1:00 to 1:45: THE STATE OF THE GREAT LAKES – Mike Donahue, President
and CEO of the Great Lakes Commission
PLENARY SESSION ON THE
GREAT LAKES –– 2:00 to 3:00 -- Moderated by Mike Donahue
Dean Jacobs – Executive Director, Walpole
Island Heritage Centre
Mike Jones – Fisheries and Wildlife,
Michigan State University
Tracy Dobson – Fisheries and Wildlife,
Michigan State University
FRIDAY AFTERNOON SESSION - 3:15 to 4:45
ABORIGINAL PEOPLES (II)
-- Chair - David McNab
Jacques Ferland - "Removal Practices
against the Maine Penobscot Indians, 1820-1835"
Paula du Hamel – Aboriginal Youth:
Risk and Resilience
NEWS AND MARKETS -- Chair
- Edward Anthony Pasko
Linda Rouillard – Marketing Strategies
Featuring Quebec Historical Icons
Walter C. Soderlund & Kai Hildebrandt
- International News Reporting in Canadian Newspapers at the
End of the 20th Century: An Assessment”
Phil Handrick – The English-speaking
Minority in the Eastern Townships of Quebec
FRIDAY AFTERNOON BREAK – 4:45 to 6:00
FRIDAY DINNER - 6:00 to 7:00
DREW TAYLOR – REDSKINS,
TRICKSTERS, AND PUPPY STEW
A SHOWING OF THE FILM
AND PRESENTATION BY THE DIRECTOR – 7:00 to 9:00
SATURDAY – OCTOBER 12
SATURDAY COFFEE – 8:00
to 8:30
SATURDAY MORNING SESSION 1 – 8:30 to 10:00
THE NORTH AND NORTHWEST
-- Chair - Betsy Elliot-Meisel
Mike Unsworth - Muskeg and Mosquitoes”:
Confronting the Japanese Balloon Attack in the Canadian Northwest
Jefferson Sina – Our Brothers’ Keepers:
The Gwitchin and the Caribou
Christophir Jentoff - The Innu Story
from the Perspective of Canadian Government-Indian Relations
SATURDAY MORNING SESSION 2- 10:15 to 11:45
CROSSING THE BORDER --
Chair - Joe T. Darden
Phil Bellfy – Recent Aboriginal Cross-Border
Movements
Bill Joyce - Harriet Tubman and the
Final Link in the Underground Railroad
POLITICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
-- Chair - Bruce Way
Mel Watkins - The Judge, the Dene,
the Pipeline, and the Premier: Mackenzie Valley, 1977-2002.
Katherine Smith - Assessing the environmental
effects of low-head barrier dams used to control sea lamprey reproduction
in Great Lakes tributary streams.
SATURDAY LUNCH AND KEYNOTE
– 12:00 to 2:00
Tim Millard, President of
the Ontario Forest Industries Association (OFIA):
Speaking on the issues forest sustainability and access to international
markets
SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS – 2:00 to 3:00
STUDYING, AND STUDYING
IN, CANADA -- Chair - Evelyne Cudel
Mary Kirtz - Virtual Roundtables: A
Template for Future Conferences?
R. Bruce Way - Canadian Content in
the Two-Year Curriculum: Michigan and Ohio
Robert P. Holley - Quebec French Translation
of Library of Congress Subject Headings
LITERATURE (III) -- Chair
- Peggy Cunniffe
Daniel Faussie - Rural Quebec Women:
Sacrificial Lambs and Lost Identities
Edward Pasko - Responsibility for Living
in Existential Literature
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Thank
You, Merci, Migwetch
to the Following for
their Support
in Making the 2002 Conference
a Success:
The Canadian Studies Centre,
Michigan State University
The Midwest Association
for Canadian Studies
The Canadian Consulate
Office in Detroit
The Quebec Trade Office
in Chicago
The College of Arts and
Letters, Michigan State University
The American Indian Studies
Program, Michigan State University
College of Agriculture
and Natural Resources, Office of Diversity and Pluralism, Michigan State
University
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