ACSN Canada Cahiers No. 11
Building Liberty. Canada and world peace, 1945-2005
The Association for Canadian Studies organized a three-day international conference in June at the Roosevelt Academy in Middelburg. The conference was entitled Building Liberty. Canada and World Peace, 1945 - 2005, to address and, where appropriate, reassess the role of Canada as a force for liberty and peace in the Netherlands and the world since 1945.
Speakers included Ko Colijn on Security Issues in Canada and the Netherlands, Aritha van Herk on Is it possible to be a Dutch-Canadian?, Christl Verduyn on Resistance Photographer Krijn Taconis, Dutch-Canadian Photojournalist (1918-1979), George Elliott Clarke on Domestic Dissenters in the Peaceable Kingdom, Janice Kulyk Keefer on the writings of Etty Hillesum and Naomi Klein and Frank Davey on Earle Birneyės The Road to Nijmegen in Canadian Second World War literature.
These and other presentations have been published after being edited by Conny Steenman-Marcusse and Aritha van Herk. If you wish to order this book before July 1, 2005, please submit your order directly to Barkhuis Publishing: www.barkhuis.nl or send them an e-mail: info@barkhuis.nl.