Building Liberty. Canada and world peace, 1945-2005

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THURSDAY June 2, 2005

15.00	Registration, Roosevelt Academy in the old City Hall, Middelburg
17.00	Official opening Conny Steenman-Marcusse, President of the ACSN Hans Adriaansens, Dean of the Roosevelt Academy Serge April, Canadian Ambassador to The Netherlands
17.30	Session I: Introduction Chair: Aritha van Herk, University of Calgary, Alberta
	Ko Colijn (Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Defense and Foreign Affairs correspondent Vrij Nederland Weekly and TV) Security Issues in Canada and the Netherlands Christl Verduyn (Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON - Dept. of English and Film Studies, Canadian Studies) A Piece of the Picture: Krijn Taconis, Dutch-Canadian Photojournalist (1918-1979)
19.00	Reception hosted by the Canadian Embassy
20.00	Speakers' Dinner, co-hosted by the Province of Zeeland

FRIDAY June 3, 2005

9.00-10.30	Parallel sessions
	Session II: Human intervention and human rights Chair: Lea Zuyderhoudt, University of Leiden Session III: Canadian multiculturalism Chair: Fred Toppen, Utrecht University James Walker (University of Waterloo, ON - History) The Impact of the War on Canada´s Human Rights Movement. Ross Lambertson (Camosun College, Victoria, B.C. - Political science) The Development of Human Rights Activism during the Second World War. Stephanie Bangarth (University of Guelph, ON - History) Canada´s First Human Rights Campaign: Protesting the Deportation of Japanese Canadians, 1945-1949. Evelyn Ersanilli (Free University, Amsterdam - Social sciences) Canada and its multiculturalism: preventing an internal 'clash of civilizations' Paul Dube (University of Calgary, Edmonton - Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies) Multiculturalism in the context of Francophone minorities in Canada Constantine Passaris (University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, N.B. - Economics) Canadian Multiculturalism and the New Global Economy
10.30	Coffee/Tea break
11.00	Keynote speaker Chair: Danielle Schaub, University of Haifa, Israel
	Richard Menkis (University of British Columbia, Vancouver - Religion and History) "But you can´t see the fear that people lived through". Canadian soldiers, the liberation of the Netherlands, and Dutch survivors.
11.30	Session IV: The role of liberators and peacekeepers Chair: Chair: Ko Colijn, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
	Doeko Bosscher (University of Groningen, Groningen - History) Canadians in the Netherlands: heroes, liberators, and more Houchang Hassan-Yari (Royal Military College, Kingston, ON) A Diminishing Middle Power? Canada´s National Security and Peacekeeping
12.30	Lunch
14.00	Guided city tour on foot through the medieval centre of Middelburg
15.00	Keynote speaker on Gender and Liberation: Canadian and Dutch women at war and peace Chair: Conny Steenman-Marcusse
	Janice Kulyk Keefer (University of Guelph, ON - novelist, poet, critic) Canadian and Dutch women at war and peace. The interrelated writings of Etty Hillesum and Naomi Klein
15.30	Coffee/Tea break
16.00-17.00	Session V: Representations of war and peace in Canadian literature Chair: Nina van Gessel, Free University, Amsterdam
	Frank Davey (University of Western Ontario, London, ON - poet and critic) Earle Birney's 'The Road to Nijmegen' in Canadian Second World War Literature Danielle Schaub (University of Haifa, Israel - English) Caught between anxiety and sense of duty: trauma in Alan Cumyn's 'The Sojourn'
18.00	Reception hosted by the City of Middelburg
19.00	Dinner and pre-dinner poetry readings

SATURDAY, June 4, 2005

9.00-10.30	Parallel sessions
	Session VI: Canada. Peacekeeper to the world Chair: Joyce Goggin, University of Amsterdam Session VII. Canada and the media: an invisible country Chair: Leen d'Haenens, University of Leuven, Belgium Massimo Rubboli (University of Genoa, Italy - History) Challenging the Myth of Canada as a "peacekeeper to the world". Barbara Hocking (University of Brisbane, Australia - Faculty of Law) A tale of three roads to peace: Canada, Netherlands, Australia: What have they done about biological weapons and warfare? Hugh Barrie McCullough (Okanagan University College, B.C. - Political Sciences) The end of a foreign policy era: constraining influences on Canada's foreign policy in the matter of peace and liberty. Stephen A. Longstaff and Patricia Williams (York University, Toronto - Sociology) Canada in American Eyes: Taking Stock of Canada´s New Visibility Ruben Vroegop (Roosevelt Study Centre - Am. Studies) The Avro Arrow Jet Fighter program Lea Zuyderhoudt (University of Leidne, The Netherlands - Anthropology) Native veterans, The war in Blackfoot cultural memory
10.30	Coffee/Tea break
11.00	Keynote speaker Chair: Conny Steenman-Marcusse
	George Elliott Clarke (University of Toronto - poet, critic, playwright, librettist) Domestic dissenters in the Peacable Kingdom Poetry readings
12.30	Lunch
14.00	Session VIII: Getting out. Dutch postwar emigration to Canada Chair: Christl Verduy, Wilfrid Laurier University
	Michiel Horn (York University, Toronto - History) Dutch immigration to Canada: the children's view Timothy Nijhof (policy consultant - Province of Manitoba, Winnipeg) How Dutch perceptions of the Canadian army influenced the decision to emigrate
15.30	Coffee/tea break
15.00	Keynote speaker
	Chair: Cornelius Remie, European Network for Canadian Studies Aritha van Herk (University of Calgary, Alberta - writer, critic) Inventing a Family Tree: Is it possible to be a Dutch-Canadian?
15.30-16.00	Closing ceremony
16.30-19.00	Optional bus tour on the island of Walcheren.

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