Issues in Canadian Studies: Views from America Colloquium
May 8-9, 2013 University of California, Berkeley
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF CANADA State University of New York College at Plattsburgh 133 Court Street Plattsburgh, NY 12901-2732 Tel: 518.564.2086 Fax: 518.564.2112 canada@plattsburgh.edu
Foundation for Educational Exchange between Canada and the United States of America 2015-350 Albert Street Ottawa, ON, Canada K1R1A4 Tel: 613.688.5540 Fax: 613.237.2029 info@fulbright.ca www.fulbrightcanada.com
Presents Issues in Canadian Studies: Views from America COLLOQUIUM PROGRAM
Co-conveners: Dr. Michael K. Hawes & Dr. Christopher Kirkey May 8-9, 2013 University of California, Berkeley
Canadian Studies Program University of California at Berkeley
UC at Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-2324 Tel/Fax: 510.642.0531 canada@berkeley.edu www.canada.berkeley.edu
May 8
6:30-8:30 pm
May 9
Colloquium Welcoming Reception Hotel Shattuck Plaza Boiler Room Section B 2086 Allston Way Phone: 510.984.1545
University of California, Berkeley Moses Hall, Room 223 (Institute of International Studies Conference Room) 8:00-8:30 am
Breakfast Welcome Remarks Dr. Irene Bloemraad, Thomas Garden Barnes Chair in Canadian Studies, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley Dr. Rita Ross, Assistant Director, Canadian Studies Program, University of California, Berkeley Introductions Dr. Michael K. Hawes, CEO, Fulbright Canada & Professor, Political Science, (on leave), Queen’s University Dr. Christopher Kirkey, Director, Center for the Study of Canada, State University of New York College at Plattsburgh
May 9 8:30-10:30 am
Panel One
“Lines of Demarcation: Voting, Race, Ethnicity and Language” Alan Steinberg, PhD, Political Science, University of Houston “Is a Sense of Duty to Vote Really a Sense of Duty to Change Government?” Brendan Shanahan, Doctoral candidate, History, University of California, Berkeley “Enforcing the Colorline and Counting White Races: Race and Consensus in North America, 1900-1945” Asiya Malik, PhD, Fulbright Scholar (2005-2006), Anthropology, University of Virginia “Remembering Colonial Pasts: Nostalgia, Memory, and the Making of a Diasporan Community” Eva Valenti, Fulbright Scholar (2012-2013), B.A., Comparative Linguistics, Scripps College “Code-switching and linguistic displacement among bilingual Montreal students” Senior Scholar: Dr. Irene Bloemraad, Thomas Garden Barnes Chair in Candian Studies, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley 10:30 - 10:45 am
Break
10:45 am - 12:15 pm Panel Two “Social Realities and Policies of Contemporary Canada” Jason Pierceson, Fulbright Scholar (2011-2012), Professor, Political Science, University of Illinois Springfield “Same-Sex Marriage Diffusion in North America: Litigation in Varied National Contexts” Denver Lewellen, Fulbright Scholar (2011-2012), Post Doctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, & Research Associate, Dalhousie University “Still Alive: Understanding the Experiences of HIV-Patients in Nova Scotia” Alexandra Wood, Doctoral candidate, History, New York University “Rebuild or Reconcile: American and Canadian Approaches to Redress for WWII Confinement” Senior Scholar: Dr. Drew Halfmann, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of California, Davis
12:15 - 1:30 pm
Lunch
May 9 Panel Three 1:30 - 3:30 pm “Water, Waste, Politics, Rights, Laws and Friendship – Canadian Style” Yichuan Wang, Fulbright Scholar (2012-2013), LLM candidate, University of California, Berkeley, J.D., University of British Columbia “Modernizing British Columbia’s water law for sustainability: Learning from California’s experiences” Owen Toews, Fulbright Scholar (2009-2010), Doctoral candidate, Earth and Environmental Sciences, City University of New York “Regimes of Disappearance: Wasteland Policy and Anti-Indigenous Violence in Winnipeg, Canada 1999-2012” Kirsten Matoy Carlson, Professor, Wayne State University Law School “Political Failure, Judicial Opportunity: The Supreme Court of Canada and Aboriginal and Treaty Rights” Janey Lew, Doctoral candidate, Comparative Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley “A Politics of Friendship: Meeting Aboriginal and Asian Canadian Women in Lee Maracle’s Sojourners and Sundogs” Senior Scholar: Dr.Christopher MacLennan, Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, Canadian International Development Agency (on leave) 3:30 - 3:45 pm
Break
Panel Four 3:45 - 5:15 pm “The Affirmation of Identity and Borders” Susan E. Maguire, Fulbright Scholar (2004-2005), Professor, Anthropology, Buffalo State “Planting the seeds of Canadian national identity: Upper Canada in the early 19th century” Robert Gee, Fulbright Scholar (2011-2012), Doctoral candidate, History, University of Maine “Headlands and Harbours, Fishermen and Flake Stuff: Contested Access, Jurisdiction, and Negotiated Management in the Nineteenth Century Fisheries of the Maritimes” Neel Baumgardner, Doctoral candidate, History, University of Texas at Austin “Waterton Lakes: The Business of Parks and Preservation in the North American Borderlands” Senior Scholar: Dr. Andrew Holman, Professor, History, Bridgewater State University 5:15 - 5:30 pm
Concluding Remarks “The Road Ahead” Dr. Michael K. Hawes, CEO, Fulbright Canada & Professor, Political Science, (on leave), Queen’s University Dr. Christopher Kirkey, Director, Center for the Study of Canada, State University of New York College at Plattsburgh
7:00 pm
Dinner Revival Bar & Kitchen, 2102 Shattuck Avenue Phone: 510.549.9950
The Center for the Study of Canada at the State University of New York College at Plattsburgh is dedicated to promoting and providing comprehensive scholarly professional development programs on Canada to academic, government and business constituents in the United States. Recognized as a Title VI National Resource Center on Canada by the U.S. Department of Education since 1983, the Center is at the forefront of innovative Canadian-focused curricular, research and program initiatives. The Center is pleased to sponsor the most comprehensive undergraduate Canadian Studies program in the U.S. The Center also sponsors and manages a rich variety of scholarly outreach programs, including: CONNECT, the Fulbright-SUNY Plattsburgh Visiting Chair in Canadian Studies, the Distinguished Canadian Address, the Distinguished Canada-United States Address, the Center Scholar-in-Residence, and the Canada Speakers Series, as well as numerous K-12 initiatives.
Fulbright is a scholarship program created to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries, through the medium of educational and cultural exchange. The program was conceived by Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright, a Rhodes Scholar and one of the great statesmen of the 20th Century. It was carried forward by the Fulbright Act of 1946, and expanded in the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 (the Fulbright-Hays Act). Today, the Fulbright Program has become the largest and most prestigious academic exchange program in the world. Operating in more than 150 countries, the Fulbright Program is a highly competitive scholarship program, and has produced over 300,000 extraordinary alumni.
A unique private sector-public sector partnership, the Foundation for Educational Exchange between Canada and the United States of America was founded in February 1990 through an executive agreement between the Government of Canada and the Government of the United States. Established with a mandate to enhance mutual understanding between the two countries, the Foundation engages students, researchers, teachers, and scholars from both countries in high-level academic exchange; encourages scholarship on issues of primary importance to the two countries; promotes and supports public discourse and public participation; and facilitates the development of long-term institutional partnerships.
The Canadian Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley is one of the leading centers of research and public engagement with Canada and Canadian-American relations in the United States. Founded by the late Tom Barnes and Victor Jones in 1982, the program has run a continuous series of conferences and colloquia ever since, covering issues as diverse as the artistic expression of the Inuit to energy policy and trade relations. The program supports graduate student research on Canada and welcomes visiting scholars through the Sproul Fellowship. We are proud to be celebrating our thirtieth anniversary during the 2012-2013 academic year, an event marked by the creation of a new Fulbright Visiting Chair in Canadian Studies at Berkeley. Further information about the Program and its activities may be found on its website, canada.berkeley.edu
Fulbright Visiting Research Chair at UC Berkeley Laverne Jacobs is a recognized legal scholar who joined Windsor’s Faculty of Law in 2007. Her research interests include the independence and impartiality of administrative actors; human rights law; disability rights; access to information and privacy; comparative administrative law; and empirical research methodology. Dr. Jacobs’ research has used ethnography to explore meanings of the concept of tribunal independence within Canadian access to information and privacy commissions, and has examined, through qualitative data analysis, the effectiveness of ombuds oversight for regulating freedom of information. Dr. Jacobs recently completed an edited collection on comparative administrative process, which brings together global perspectives on polyjuralism in the administrative state. In 2011, she co-organized an international research workshop on these issues at Windsor Law which was funded by SSHRC. Dr. Jacobs’ current research focuses on disability rights. Laverne is the 2013-14 Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Canadian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. “The United States has significant experience with both regulations and their use as an antidiscrimination tool to restrain disability discrimination, whereas Ontario is attempting a new legal experiment to combat disability discrimination” states Laverne. Her research will examine the efficacy of regulation-making processes in providing those with disabilities a participatory voice. This project will help to further dialogue on a new and emerging contemporary public policy area that exists in Canada and the United States - law and disability.