Friday 14th May
Registration from 9.30 am in the TL Building (see map)
Buffet Lunch: 12-1.15 (Gallery)
Session One: 1.15-2.30
A. Chair: Seamus O Diolluin (WIT)
Venue: TL225
“Language policy and immersion schools in Canada: teaching
and learning of ethnic languages” (Elena Castellari, University College
Dublin)
“La législation visiolinguistique” (Declan Webb, National University
of Ireland, Galway)
B. Chair: David Parris (Trinity College Dublin)
Venue: TL158
“Robert Lepage’s The Image Mill: projecting the past” (Jane Koustas,
Brock University)
"The Ireland Canada Story, We Go Way Back’:
the potential for consolidating and maximising a heritage tourism network
through an interactive multimedia initiative” (Lynne Reece Loftus)
C. Chair: Felicity Kelleher (WIT)
Venue: TL221
“Changing rural tourism heritage landscapes as countryside capital
in south west Ontario, Canada” (Barbara Carmichael and Kelley McClinchey,
Wilfred Laurier University)
“Cultural and heritage experiences: a case
study of the Guinness storehouse” (Rosaline Dalton, WIT)
Coffee: 2.30-3.30 and
Book Launch of:
Patrick O’Connor, Behold the Enchanting
Country: Poems on Canada
(Book launched by Professor Seamus Smyth)
And:
Presentation of the Prix du Québec
First Plenary Session: 3.30-5.00 (Venue: TLG21)
Chair: Elizabeth Tilley (NUIG)
Professor Raymond Blake (Craig Dobbin Chair of Canadian Studies, University
College Dublin/Department of History, University of Regina)
“Selling a new Canada: ‘Discover
Canada’: the rights and responsibilities of Canadian citizenship”
Professor Raymond B. Blake is Craig Dobbin Chair of Canadian Studies
at University College Dublin. He is also professor of history at the
University of Regina. He has written and edited several books and numerous
articles, including From Rights to Needs. A History
of Family Allowances in Canada (2009) and Beyond
National Dreams? Essays on Canadian Nationalism, Citizenship, and Identity with Andrew Nurse (2009).
Official Opening of the Conference 5.00-6.00
Venue: TLG21
Welcome address by Dr Kieran Byrne, President of Waterford Institute
of Technology
Official Opening of ACSI Conference by His Excellency,
Ambassador Binns, Canadian Ambassador to Ireland
Presentation by Ambassador
Binns of Faculty Research Awards to:
Mark Boyle, National University
of Ireland, Maynooth
Dervila Cooke, St Patrick's College, Drumcondra
Martin Howard, University College Cork
Lee Komito, University College
Dublin
Brian O'Neill, Dublin Institute of Technology
6.00-6.45
Reception
hosted by the Canadian Embassy in Ireland (Gallery Building)
6.45:
Conference Dinner (Gallery)
Saturday 15th May
Session Two: 9.30-10.45
A. Chair: TBA
Venue: TL225
“Southeast Asian refugees to Ottawa in the 1970s: a retrospective”
(Margaret Moriarty and Theresa Wallace, University of Ottawa)
“The
cognitive self within Canadian, Irish, Palestinian and Israeli national
identity” (Lily Polliack, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
“Polish Migrants’
identity construction in Canada and Ireland” (Ewa Kobialka, University
College Dublin)
B. Chair: TBA
Venue: TL228
“Nineteenth-century political
violence in Ireland: a contemporary Canadian fictional point of view”
(Padraig O Gormaile, National University of Ireland, Galway)
“Canada,
the United States, and homeland defence since 9/11” (Joseph Jockel,
St Lawrence University, New York)
C. Chair: Christine O’Dowd-Smyth
(WIT)
Venue: TL221
“Linguistic representation and la féminisation
linguistique in
a corpus of articles from Châtelaine” (Maeve Conrick, University College
Cork/National University of Ireland, Cork)
“Il n’y a pas que la langue
qui compte: francisation and transculturation in Micone and Aloisio”
(Dervila Cooke, Dublin City University)
Coffee: 10.30-11.00
D. Chair: TBA
Venue TL158
“Food islands: a comparative study of GM
crop/food policy in Ireland and Prince Edward Island” (Shane Morris,
University College Cork)
“Irish Financial Regulation: lessons from
the Canadian experience” (John Maher, Waterford Institute of Technology)
Coffee: 10.45-11.00
Second Plenary Session: 11.00-12.00 (Venue:
TLG21)
Chair: Rev. Dr. Christine O’Dowd-Smyth
(Waterford Institute of Technology)
Professor Rhona Richman Kenneally
(Chair, Department of Design and Computation Arts, Concordia University)
“Food, culture, and domestic space: women’s agency and identity in
Mid-twentieth-century Canada”
Rhona Richman Kenneally is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department
of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University. She holds a
B.A. in English literature, an M.A. in social history, and both a professional
degree and Ph.D. in architecture. Her research and publications are
highly interdisciplinary and follow two threads that have recently
intertwined. Her first SSHRC-funded project explored the relationship
between Canadian food, culture, and identity both today and historically
and is the subject of a manuscript under preparation for the University
of Toronto Press. A second research area addresses architecture, landscape,
and material culture as constructions of Irish and Canadian-Irish identity,
including Grosse Ile, Quebec and the Quiet Man Museum in County Mayo.
Her current SSHRC-funded project brings her focus to the food culture
of Ireland. It investigates food, architecture and design within the
built environment of the Irish home during the mid-twentieth century,
as a means to explore women’s agency and the practices of everyday
life. In addition, she is editor of the Canadian
Journal of Irish Studies,
and co-editor, with Johanne Sloan, of Expo 67:
Not Just a Souvenir,
a collection of essays that will appear in the fall of 2010 (University
of Toronto Press).
Buffet Lunch 12.00-1.00 (Gallery)
Session Three:
1.00-2.30
A. Chair: Raymond Blake (University of Regina/UCD)
Venue: TL225
“Vancouver island and the world: yesterday, not
today” (Steve Royle, Queen’s University, Belfast)
“Ireland and Canada
at the imperial conferences of the 1920s and 1930s” (Thomas Mohr, University
College Dublin)
B. Chair: Helen O’Neill (UCD)
Venue: TL158
“Sending out Ireland’s female paupers: the
poor law and assisted female emigration to Canada in the 1850s” (Gerard
Moran, National University of Ireland, Galway)
“Canada and the Gallows”
(Ged Martin, National University of Ireland, Galway)
“Des luttes nationales
au Québec: les orangistes et les coreligionnaires irlandais et canadiens-français,
1875-1925 (Simon Jolivet, Université d’Ottawa)
C. Chair: Riana O’Dwyer (NUIG)
Venue: TL228
“Strategies
of subversion (Kate O’Brien’s That Lady and Annamarie Beckel’s Silence
of Stone” (Katie Donovan, IADT Dun Laoghaire)
“Traumatic landscapes
and the problematic of identity in Atlantic Canada and France: A comparative
cinematic study of ‘La Veuve de St Pierre’ and ‘The Shipping News’
(Christine O’Dowd-Smyth, Waterford Institute of Technology)
“Irish tenant yesterday, Canadian landowner today: myths of indigenization
in Jack Hodgins’s The Invention of the World and Jane Urquhart’s Away
(Katrin Urschel, National University of Ireland, Galway)
Coffee:
2.30-3.00
Session Four: 3.00-4.00
A. Chair: Elizabeth Tilley (NUIG)
Venue: TL225
“Cultural
and academic publishing and the arts in Canada” (Al Valleau, Kwantlen
College)
TĖVIŠKĖS ŽIBURIAI [THE LIGHTS OF HOMELAND] – Lithuanian weekly in Canada
(Regina Kvašytė, Šiauliai University, Lithuania)
B. Chair: Maíre Áine Ní Mhainnín (NUIG)
Venue: TL228
“Modern Canadian poetry: How the Light Gets In” (John Ennis, Waterford
Institute of Technology)
“Canadian regionalism in poetry” (Patrick
O’Connor, University of Limerick)
“Perspectives on Spirituality in
Irish and Canadian Philosophies” (Joan Whitman Hoff, Lock Haven University)
Third
Plenary Session: 4.00-5.00 (Venue: TLG21)
Chair: Professor Seamus Smyth
Professor
Peter Toner (Professor Emeritus, University of New Brunswick)
“The
problem of being ‘Irish:’ the concept of identity in Ireland and in
the diaspora”
Professor Peter M. Toner has academic degrees from St Thomas University
(Chatham, NB), the University of New Brunswick, and the National University
of Ireland, Galway. He is Professor Emeritus at UNB, Adjunct Professor
in Irish Studies at St Thomas University, and Fredericton International
Research Fellow, Institute of Ulster Scots Studies. His research interests
include Irish Nationalism in Canada, and the historical demography
of the Irish in Canada. His recent research centers on the survival
of the Irish language in Canada.
Association for Canadian Studies Annual General Meeting:
5.45-6.30 (Venue—Ramada Hotel
Dinner: 7.30 in Chez K’s at the Fitzwilton Hotel (Waterford)
Sunday 16th May
Excursion to Dunbrody Famine Ship and Hook Head Lighthouse, (guided
tour) coach departing from the Ramada at 9.30am
The Association for Canadian Studies in Ireland would like to thank
the following for their support:
CONFERENCE INFORMATION
The conference will take place at the main campus of the Waterford
Institute of Technology in Waterford City. The Institute’s website
at www.wit.ie includes maps of
the campus.
Information about travel
to Waterford (air, rail, road) is available at
http://www.waterfordtourism.org
The Waterford/Dublin train schedule is pasted below.


The conference
organisers have negotiated reduced rates for accommodation with
the Ramada Viking Hotel:
Date |
Single Occupancy Room |
Twin/Double Occupancy Room |
| Thursday 13th May 2010 |
€55.00 per night |
€75.00 per night |
| Friday 14th May 2010 |
€55.00 per night |
€75.00 per night |
| Saturday 15th May 2010 |
€65.00 per night |
€85.00 per night |
| Sunday 16th May 2010 |
€55.00 per night |
€75.00 per night |
Ramada Viking Hotel provides ample FREE Car/Coach
Parking and is located just 3 minutes
drive (900m) from Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT).
All rooms offer FREE Broadband & FREE Sky
Movies. Complimentary Wi-Fi is also available in
the public areas of the hotel. In addition all guests staying at
the hotel receive complimentary
access to a local health & fitness club; located just
12 minutes drive from the hotel. Facilities include a 20m pool,
kiddies’ pool, sauna, steam room, jacuzzi and a fully equipped
gym.
- To make a reservation
please ask delegates to phone the hotel on +353 51 33 69
04 or +353 51 33 69 33 and quote Event
# 55671 to avail of the above rates.
- Guests can also email Clodagh O’Connell
or Laura McCarthy at reservations@vikinghotel.ie to enquire about
availability and to make a reservation; again please quote Event
# 55671 in the email.
- A credit card number will be required
to guarantee the reservation at the time of booking.
Other hotel
options are:
The Tower Hotel (www.towerhotelwaterford.com)
The
Waterford Marina Hotel (www.waterfordmarinahotel.com)
Dooley’s
Hotel (www.dooleys-hotel.ie)
B&B options are listed on the
Waterford Tourism site (http://www.waterfordtourism.org).
Click here to
download registration form. |
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