ACSN News archive 2007
Sharing Knowledge & Cultural Heritage First Nations of the America's Workshop and Expert Meeting
Date: 28-30 November 2007
Place: Museum voor Volkenkunde (National Museum of Ethnology), Leiden, the Netherlands
Steenstraat 1 Leiden
071-5168800
Organisatoren: Dr. Laura van Broekhoven en Dr. Cunera Buijs (conservatoren)
E-mail: Laura@volkenkunde.nl en
cunera.buijs@volkenkunde.nl
Sprekers en participanten die hiervoor met steun van de ACSN naar Nederland komen zijn:
Bernadette Driscolle, independant researcher en Canadian Inuit Specialist. Zij schreef een groot aantal werken over Canadese Inuit kleding. Zij zette enige jaren geleden een project op voor Inuit om collecties van hun regio in Amerikaanse musea te bezoeken.
Bernadette Dean, Social Development Coordinator for the Kivalliq Inuit Association in Rankin Inlet. Een van haar voorouders, Angutimarik, en zijn familie gaven Knud Rasmussen and the Fifth Thule Expedition onderdak toen zij voor het eerst in de Canadian Arctic arriveerden. Bernadette Dean was een van de Inuit die participeerden in een tour langs Amerikaanse Museum collecties op zoek naar objecten uit eigen cultuur.
We are happy to announce that many people have responded to the call for presentations for the ACSN Seminar 2007. The program will be posted shortly, but we will do our best to still include proposals as they arrive. Please note that the date has changed. To accommodate for those who wish to take the opportunity to attend several meetings and seminars on their trip we have moved the date of the ACSN Seminar to 1 December 2007.
We now know that the National Museum of Ethnology (RMV) in Leiden will be the venue of the Seminar. In collaboration with Dr. Pieter Hovens we have been able to arrange this. Participants and visitors will thus be able to take full advantage of their visit to Leiden and enjoy ongoing exhibits and a tour of the Museum!
For further information see the ACSN website or contact Lea Zuyderhoudt: L.M.Zuyderhoudt@let.leidenuniv.nl
Graham Smith
After the successful Sentient Creatures lectures series in De Waag in 2003, Graham Smith is organizing another series at the Theatrum Anatomicum of the De Waag Society for New Media in Amsterdam.
In 2007, Sixteenth European Seminar for Graduate Students in Canadian Studies to be held in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 27 – 29 September 2007, and hosted by the European Network for Canadian Studies and the Russian Association for Canadian Studies.
European students working on Master’s or PhD theses in Canadian Studies are invited to present their current research. The proposed papers may be linked to the following areas: Canadian History, Society, Economy, Trade and Foreign Relations, Culture and Literature, Ethnicities and Languages, Political Science.
Seminar working languages: English and French. Maximum 26 participants.
Deadline : 30 June 2007, include abstract (maximum 400 words) and short CV.
Contact: ENCS Conference,
c/o Dr Vassili Sokolov,
Institute for US and Canadian Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences,
Khlebny per. 2/3, Moscow 123995 Russia.
E-mail: racs@yandex.ru.
For more information see http://www.ulb.ac.be/encs-reec/EN/conferences.htm#seminar
Sentient Creatures series in Amsterdam
After the successful Sentient Creatures lectures series in De Waag in 2003, Graham Smith is organizing another series at the Theatrum Anatomicum of the De Waag Society for New Media in Amsterdam.
In 2007, Smith is introducing a new series of 8 lectures given by presenters from around the world, who will respond to new developments in the arts and sciences, and especially the interaction between the two. Using advanced telepresence technology, lectures and commentators will be transported into the Waag on the specially designed Presence Chair which puts together a videoconferencing display with a chair to create a unique and powerful way to project human presence from a distance over the internet. This year two Canadian artists are invited.
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Simone Jones, creative artist and lecturer at Ryerson University, Toronto, gave a presentation on May 10, 2007. She talked about her work in which electrical, mechanical and electronic science is combined with art. She has exhibited her installation art in various places in North America. She cannot perceive something until she can conceive it. Lately she has used video in her career as it is quicker than kinetic art. In her video art she tries to liberate the frame as frame has become too much of a construction design. Especially her 1996 Wave Machine and her recent development of a specially designed gizmo car propelled by the artist's heart beat have drawn attention to her work.
Cyril Dabydeen in Nijmegen and Groningen
Nijmegen: May 22, 2007
Reading from his books and talking about the "Immigrant Consciousness in Canadian Writng: A Personal Response."
Groningen: May 29, 2007
Reading from and talking about "The Enigma of Departure: A Literary Response" and speaking on "Aspects of Canadian Multiculturalism: Practical Approaches."
Cyril Dabydeen is an acclaimed poet and short story writer whose work has appeared in about 60 periodicals and anthologized in over 20 volumes in seven countries, including Canada, the US, UK and Europe, Australia, New Zealand, India, Malaysia, and the Caribbean. He has published over 15 books in Canada and the UK, his latest being Imaginary Origins: Selected Poems (Peepal Tree Press, UK), Play a Song Somebody: Selected Short Stories (Mosaic Press), and Drums of my Flesh, novel (TSAR Publications), nominated for the IMPAC/Dublin Prize. He also edited two key anthologies: A Shapely Fire: Changing the Literary Landscape (Mosaic Press) and Another Way to Dance: Contemporary Asian Poets in Canada and the USA (TSAR, Toronto).
ACSN Seminar 2007: Old Knowledge in New Ways
Date: 18-19 November 2007
Place: Leiden
Applying Indigenous Knowledge in Canadian Communities Today
Old knowledge is applied in new ways throughout indigenous communities in Canada. Indigenous
knowledge has gained a place in formal education, in programs for healthcare and social services and is also in many other ways part of people's daily lives.
New: International Student Networking Program
ACSN has started a new program in the spring of 2006, entitled the International Student Networking Program. Its aim is to support students who wish to travel to Canada to enrol in courses with Canadian content for their degree and meet with Canadian experts in their discipline in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Canada Cahiers 11
"Building Liberty. Canada and world peace, 1945-2005" is the eleventh issue of the ACSN's Canada Cahiers. For more information, please click here. Alternatively, click here to order your copy immediately.