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Programme
Canadian Ethnic Studies Association (CESA)
Société Canadienne D’Études Ethniques (SCEE)
Sixteenth Biennial Conference/Seizième congrès biennal
Friday, 2 November 2001/le vendredi 2 novembre 2001
9:00 am: REGISTRATION/INSCRIPTION
Baronet Hallway, 8th Floor—DELTA HALIFAX HOTEL
Coffee Service in the Baronet Hallway (8th Floor)
12:15 –1:30 pm: Inaugural Lunch/Déjeuner inaugural:
Baronet Ballroom, 8th Floor
1:30—2:15 pm: CESA/SCEE Board Meeting:
Empress Room, 8th Floor
2:15 pm: Concurrent paper sessions/Sessions parallèles
Atlantic Region and Ethnicity (1):
McNab Room, 1st Floor
Chair: To Be Announced
James D. Cameron. Department of History, St. Francis Xavier University: Ethnicizing Atlantic
Canadian Universities: Regional Impact of Canadian Ethnic Studies Program: 1973-1997
Sheila Andrew. Department of History, St. Thomas University: Beyond Deportation: Acadian
Historical Sites in the Maritimes and the Creation of Memory
Ken Donovan. Parks Canada: Slavery in Cape Breton: 1713-1810
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MacKay Room, 1st Floor
Chair: Carl Thorpe. Executive Director, Multicultural History Society of Ontario
Laverne Lewycky. Communication Studies, Atlantic Baptist University: Ethnicizing the Nation: Memory, Place and Politics
Gerald P. Kernerman. Department of Political Science, University of Toronto: Theorizing PostMulticulturalism
Youth, Immigration and Identity (1): MacDonald Room, 1st Floor
Chair: Helen Ralston. Department of Sociology, Saint Mary’s University
Vanaja Dhruvarajan. Department of Sociology, University of Winnipeg: Second Generation
Indo-Canadians: Change, Resistance and Adaptation
Sonal Pathak. School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University: Daughters of Indian Immigrants
in Canada: Second –Generation Indo-Canadian Women in Halifax and Ottawa, 1970-1990
Helen Ralston. Department of Sociology, Saint Mary’s University: Working Towards a Theory
of Identity Construction Among Daughters of Canadian Immigrant Women of South Asian
Origin
Language and Identity:
Bluenose Room, 8th Floor
Chair: Michael Lanphier. Centre for Refugee Studies, York University
Peter S. Li. Department of Sociology, University of Saskatchewan: The Economics of Minority
Language Identity
Henry P.H. Chow. Department of Sociology and Social Studies, University of Regina: The
Challenge of Diversity: Identities and Languages in the Canadian Mosaic
Darlene Abreu-Ferreira. Department of History, University of Winnipeg: The Queen’s English
to the Rescue: Language and Identity in Canadian Portuguese-Speaking Households
3:45 pm: Break/Pause:
Baronet Hallway, 8th Floor
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Concurrent paper sessions/Sessions parallèles
Atlantic Region and Ethnicity (2):
Mayflower Room, 1st Floor
Chair: To Be Announced
Leslie Bella and Sharon Taylor. School of Social Work, Memorial University: Denying Newfoundland Ethnicity
Sharon Myers. Department of History, University of Prince Edward Island: A Derelict Cradle:
The New Brunswick Child Welfare Survey, 1927-33, and the Construction of Acadian Parenting
Gerald Gold. Department of Anthropology, York University: France in Louisiana: A Sociocultural Perspective of Transnational Cultural Assistance
Canadian Identity:
McNab Room, 1st Floor
Chair: Daphne Winland. Department of Anthropology, York University
Ratiba Hadj-Moussa and Elke Winter. Department of Sociology, York University: Ethnicizing
Canada? The Paradoxes of a Scattered Modernity
Michael D. Levin. Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto: Marking and Dissolving Boundaries in the Canadian Nation
Brian S. Osborne. Department of Geography. Queen’s University: Landscape, Memory, and
Commemoration: the Place of Identity
Ethnicite et Transnationalite (1):
MacKay Room, 1st Floor
Chair: George J. Sefa Dei. Department of Sociology and Equity Studies, Ontario Institute for
Studies in Education/University of Toronto
Mamadou Cellou Barry. INRS-Urbanisation, Culture et Société: Diaspora et transnationalité:
L’expérience de migrante(e)s d’Afrique subsaharienne à Montréal
Ibrahima Amadou Dia. Sociologie, Institut. Universitaire d’Études du Developpement, Geneve:
Le Sénégal: entre co-ethnicité et wolofisation
Andre-Marie Yinda Yinda. African Association of Political Science (AAPS), Universite de
Yaoundé-Cameroun: Pour un Etat-Nation transethnique ouvert au monde: l’expérience africaine
George J. Sefa Dei. Department of Sociology and Equity Studies, Ontario Institute For Studies
in Education/University of Toronto: Theorizing Social Difference and Education in the Context
of Schooling in Africa
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Media and Communications:
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MacDonald Room, 1st Floor
Chair: Lillian Petroff. Coordinator of Education and Community Outreach, Multicultural History Society of Ontario
Ann Denis and Michèle Ollivier. Department of Sociology, University of Ottawa: Uses of the
New Information and Communication Technologies and Cultural Repertoires of Young Francophone Ontarians
Cynthia Alexander. Department of Political Science, Acadia University: Federal Citizenship in
a Wired World
Minelle Mahtani. Department of Geography, University of British Columbia: Representing
Ethnic Minorities: Examining the Literature on Media and Minority Relations in Canada
6:00 to 9:00 pm: PIER 21 Reception/Réception
A one-hour shuttle bus service from the Delta Halifax Hotel to Pier 21 will be provided
from 5:30 to 6:30 pm.
A one-hour return shuttle service from Pier 21 to the Delta Halifax will be provided from
8:00 to 9:00 pm.
On Site Coordinators will be available in the Main Lobby of the Delta Halifax and at Pier
21.
Saturday, 3 November/le Samedi 3 novembre 2001
8:15 – 10 am:
Plenary Breakfast/Petit déjeuner plenière:
Baronet Ballroom, 8th Floor
(1) Michael Lanphier, President Canadian Ethnic Studies Association
(2) Book Launch:
James Frideres, Editor. Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal
Jo-Ann Cleaver, Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal
Canadian Ethnic Studies/Études ethniques au Canada is pleased to announce the recent
publication of Educating Citizens for a Pluralistic Society, edited by Rosa Bruno-Jofré and
Natalia Aponiuk. This 251 page, hardcover edition brings together 11 articles which divide naturally into four principle themes: historical and philosophical perspectives on the
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impact of globalization on citizenship education; group rights and schooling; multicultural and anti-racist education; and decoding cultural images in the classroom. Meet the editors.
10:15 – 11:45 am: Concurrent paper sessions/Sessions parallèles
Aboriginality: Mayflower Room, 1st Floor
Chair: To Be Announced
Gerhard Bassler. Memorial University of Newfoundland: German Culture and the Inuit:
Agenda of the Moravian Mission in Labrador since 1752
Michael Ripmeester. Department of Geography, Brock University and Brian S. Osborne. Department of Geography, Queen’s University: Homeplace, Memory and Identity: The Landscape of the Alderville Mississaugas
Janet E. Chute. Research Associate, School for Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University: Alan Macdonnell and Simon Dawson: Visionaries Ahead of Their Time
Ethnicity and Elections: McNab Room, 1st Floor
Chair: Lillian Petroff. Coordinator, Education and Community Outreach, Multicultural History
Society of Ontario
Miriam Lapp, Department of Political Science, University of Western Ontario: Coverage of the
2000 Canadian Election Campaign in the Ethnic Print Media
Livianna Tossutti. Department of Political Science, University of Calgary and T. P. Najem,
Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Durham, UK: Ethnic Minority
Representation in a New Party System
Sébastien Arcand. Doctoral Candidate and Research Assistant, Chair in Ethnic Relations, Université de Montréal: From Consent to Protest: Association of Ethnic Minority Groups and the
State in Quebec
John Biles. Canadian Identity (Department of Canadian Heritage)/Metropolis Prject Team (Citizenship and Immigration, Canada): Myth and Malapropisms: Multiculturalism in Canada
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The Groupe de recherché ethnicité et société (GRES) (Research Group on Ethnicity and
Society), Centre d’études ethniques des universités montrealaises (Centre for Ethnic
Studies of Montreal Universities) at the Sixteenth Biennial Conference: Ethnicizing the
Nation, November 2-4, 2001.
Two complete 90-minute sessions composed of four presentations. Fifteen minutes per
presentation followed by a thirty-minute discussion.
General Theme: Interethnic Dynamics in Montreal: Moving Boundaries, Changing Pluralisms:
MacKay Room, 1st Floor
Two complete sessions organized by the Groupe de recherche ethnicité et société (GRES)
(Research Group on Ethnicity and Society)
(1) Ethnic and Institutional Boundaries: Policies, Ideologies and Practices of Social Insertion
Deirdre Meintel. Department of Anthropology, Université de Montréal, Director of the Groupe
de recherche ethnicité et société (GRES): Opening Remarks
Bruno Ramirez. Department of History, Université de Montréal: Multiculturalist Politics and
Practices of Insertion: The Italians of Québec as Case Study
Gladys Symons. École Nationale d’Administration Publique (ENAP): The State and Pluralism
in Québec: Structural and Discoursive Change in the Department of Immigration
Linda Pietrantonio. Post Doctoral Fellow: Towards a Pluralist Heritage? Examining the Notion
of Majority
Danielle Juteau. Department of Sociology, Université de Montréal: Pluralism in Québec:
Changing Forms and Intersections
Culture and Performativity:
MacDonald Room, 1st Floor
Chair: Lillian Petroff. Coordinator, Education and Community Outreach. Multicultural History
Society of Ontario
Paul Bramadat. Department of Religious Studies, University of Winnipeg: Shows, Selves and
Solidarity: Ethnic Identity and Cultural Spectacles in Canada
Liane Curtis, Dipti Gupta and Will Straw. Art History and Communication Studies, McGill
University: Multiculturalism, Identity and Cultural Production.
Lara Sarbit. Department of History and Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies, University
of Toronto: The Presentation of Aboriginal/White Relations in the Calgary Stampede
Noel Dyck. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University: Immigration, Integration and Sport in Canada: Premises, Practices and Possibilities
Judy Young. No Longer “apart”? Multiculturalism Policy and the Arts in Canada
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Workshop: Unpacking the Ethnic Background of Canadians: The
Ethnic Diversity Survey 2002:
Bluenose Room, 8th Floor
Workshop organized jointly by Statistics Canada and the Multiculturalism Programme, Department of Canadian Heritage, Government of Canada
Chair: Joanna (Anneke) Rummens. Culture, Community and Health Studies, Department of
Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto & Clarke Division, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Presenters include: Fernando Mata. Multiculturalism Programme, Department of Canadian
Heritage, Andrea Levett. Statistics Canada; and Brian Gilhuly. Director General, Strategic Policy and Resource Management, Department of Canadian Heritage.
12:15 pm: Lifetime Achievement Award Lunch In Honour of Professor Jean Burnet/Déjeuner d’honneur – Prix d’excellence pour
l’achèvement vivant: à décerner à Professeure Jean Burnet:
Baronet Ballroom, 8th Floor
2:00-3:30 pm: Concurrent paper sessions/Sessions parallèles
General Theme: Interethnic Dynamics in Montreal: Moving Boundaries, Changing Pluralisms continued… MacKay Room, 8th Floor
(2) Ethnic Boundaries and Ethnic Markers: Social Insertion, Networks and the Transmission of Identities in Everyday Life
Victor Piché. Department of Demography, Université de Montréal and Jean Renaud. Department of Sociology, Université de Montréal: Ten Years Later: National Origin and Integration
into the Labour Market
Sylvie Fortin. Doctoral Student, Université de Montréal: Immigration and Citizenship: Paths
and Belongings
Deirdre Meintel. Department of Anthropology, Université de Montréal: Multiple Identities in
Montréal: Mixed Marriages and the Transmission of Identities
Marie Nathalie Leblanc. Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Concordia University :
West African Trans-National Networks in North America, Europe and Africa : The Case of Individuals of Malian Origin in Montréal
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State Policies, Numeration and Regulation (1): Mayflower Room, 1st
Floor
Chair: Lillian Petroff. Coordinator, Education and Community Outreach. Multicultural History
Society of Ontario
Philippe Couton. Department of Sociology, McGill University: The Institutional Impact of
Flemish Workers in 19th Century France
Greg Marquis. Department of History and Politics, University of New Brunswick, Alcohol and
Ethnicity: The Case of 20th Century Canada
Mustafa Koc. Department of Sociology, and Jennifer Welsh. Nutrition, Ryerson Polytechnic
University: Food, Foodways and Immigrant Experience
Frances Henry and Carol Tator. Department of Anthropology, York University: Discrediting
The Minister and Her Message: What the Media Did to Hedy Fry!
Transnationalism and Ethnicity (2):
McNab Room, 1st Floor
Session Moderator: Lorena M. Gajardo. Ontario Institute For Studies In Education
(OISE)/University of Toronto
Monica Escobar. OISE/University of Toronto: Deconstructing a Nation: Chilean Women Narratives After Two Decades of Exile and Post-exile in Canada
Jane Ku. OISE/University of Toronto: Theorizing Transnationalism: Nationalism and Depoliticized Multicultural Politics
R. Magaly San Martin. OISE/University of Toronto: Undocumented Workers and Transnational Processes of Nation Building
Lorena M. Gajardo . OISE/University of Toronto: Processes of Othering in the Making of Nation—Transnational and Peripheral Articulations
Identity, Discrimination and Anti-racism: MacDonald Room, 1st
Floor
Chair: Mustafa Chowdhury. Portfolio Analyst, Strategic Planning and Analysis Division, Human Resources Branch, Treasury Board of Canada
James W. St.G. Walker. Department of History, University of Waterloo: Routes of Diversity;
Directions in Canadian Multiculturalism Since 1945
Fernando Nunes. Portuguese-Canadian National Congress and Brock University: Challenging
the Anti-Racism Perspective: Making a Case For Class and Cultural Factors
Ross Lambertson. Department of Political Science, Camosun College: Responses to Racism –
Vancouver in the 1950s
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3:30 pm: Break/Pause: Baronet Hallway, 8th Floor
3:45-5:15pm: Concurrent paper sessions/Sessions parallèles
Literature and Narrative: Mayflower Room, 1st Floor
Chair: Tamara Palmer Seiler. Faculty of Communication and Culture, University of Calgary
Manju Varma. Canadian Heritage and Andrew Nurse. Department of History and Canadian
Studies, Mount Allison University: Becoming Canadian: Memory, Nation, Identity and the
Immigration Experience
Natalia Aponiuk. Centre for Ukrainian Canadian Studies, University of Manitoba: Intersecting
Ethnicities: A Reassessment of Vera Lysenko’s ‘Yellow boots’
Mélanie Knight and Rosalin Krieger. Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, Ontario Institute For Studies In Education: Des six pates and the knish: Reflections and
Refractions through the prism of the Canadian ideal
State Policies, Numeration and Regulation (2): McNab Room, 1st
Floor
Chair: Lillian Petroff. Coordinator, Education and Community Outreach. Multicultural History
Society of Ontario
Jack Jedwab. McGill Institute for the Study of Canada and the Association of Canadian Studies: Community Leadership and Identity Formation: the Case of Canada’s Ethnocultural
Communities.
Ravi Pendakur. Strategic Research and Analysis, Department of Canadian Heritage, Government of Canada and Krishna Pendakur. Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University:
How has the Gap Changed? Earnings Differentials Across Ethnic Groups in Canada, 19711996
Religion and Ethnization: MacKay Room, 1st Floor
Chair: Daphne Winland, Department of Anthropology, York University
Roslyn Thomas. Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, Ontario Institute
For Studies In Education/University of Toronto and Alana Butler. Department of Adult Education, Ontario Institute For Studies In Education/University of Toronto: Catching the Spirit: An
Anti-colonial View of Women in African-Caribbean Religions
Janet McLellan. Wilfrid Laurier University and Michael Lanphier. Centre for Refugee Studies,
York University: Growing Old In Multicultural Canada: Religious Organizations and the Elderly
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Paul William Reid Bowlby. Department of Religious Studies, Saint Mary’s University: Between Memory and Present Aspirations: Canadian Identities and Religious Diversity
Youth, Immigration and Identity (2): MacDonald Room, 1st Floor
Chair: Kenise Murphy Kilbride. School of Early Childhood Education, Ryerson Polytechnic
University
Madeline A. Kalbach, Warren E. Kalbach and James Frideres. Department of Sociology, University of Calgary: Ethnic-Identity Retention in Canada at the beginning of the 21st Century
Mustafa Chowdhury. Multiculturalism Programme, Department of Canadian Heritage, Government of Canada: Ethnicity And Identity: Case Of Bangladeshi War-Babies in Canada
Michèle Byers. Department of Sociology and Criminology, St Mary’s University: Diversity
and Popular Culture: The Case of Degrassi (Junior)High
Joan Marshall. Department of Agricultural Economics, Macdonald Campus, McGill University: “Our son shows us how” and “Keeping our culture”: Two Views of Shared Immigrant Experiences for Youth in Scouting
5:30 pm: Annual General Meeting: Bluenose Room, 8th Floor
7:00 pm: In the Spirit of the Maritimes DINNER/BANQUET—
L’ambiance maritime:
Baronet Ballroom, 8th Floor
Keynote Address:
The Honourable Hedy Fry, P.C., M.P.
Secretary of State (Multiculturalism-Status of Women)
Sunday, November 4/le demanche 4 novembre 2001
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9:00 am: Plenary Breakfast/Petit déjeuner plenière;
Ballroom, 8th Floor
Baronet
Author Lawrence Hill will speak about and read excerpts from his new book, Black Berry,
Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada (HarperCollins, 2001)
10:15- 11:45 am: Concurrent paper sessions/Sessions parallèles
Gender, Institutions and Discrimination:
Floor
Mayflower Room, 1st
Chair of the Racializing and Gendering the Professions session: Carolyn Fowler, Regional Diversity and Employment Equity Co-ordinator, Health Canada
Shahnaz Khan. Department of Sociology, St. Francis Xavier University: Cultural ReProduction of Zina Laws in Canada
Agnes Calliste. Department of Sociology, St. Francis Xavier University: Between a Rack and a
Hard Place: Women of Colour in Academe and in Nursing
Multiracial Worlds: McNab Room, 1st Floor
Joanna (Anneke) Rummens. Culture, Community and Health Studies, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto & Clarke Division, centre for Addiction and
Mental Health: Who ARE I? Formation and Negotiation Among Mixed Heritage Children and
Youth
Leanne Taylor. Faculty of Education, York University: Searching for the” Exotic”: An Exploration of Multiraciality in the Academy
Andrew Walsh. Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Mount Allison University,
“Nouvelles Frontières”: Gender and Construction of Transnational Identities
Henry P.H. Chow. Department of Sociology and Social Studies, University of Regina: Ethnic
Self-Identification and Ethnic Language Learning: A Study of Chinese-Canadian Adolescents
in Calgary
Generations:
MacKay Room, 1st Floor
Chair: Lillian Petroff. Coordinator, Education and Community Outreach, Multicultural History
Society of Ontario
Kenise Murphy Kilbride, School of Early Childhood Education, Ryerson Polytechnic University: Whose Children in Canada? Comments of Immigrant Parents
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Rosemary Clews. Social Work, St Thomas University, and Laura Taylor. Social Work, University of Windsor: Inter-generational Learning About Resettlement: Canadian War-Brides
Teaching Refugees Half a Century Later
12:00 Noon: Plenary Lunch/Déjeuner plenière: Baronet Ballroom,
8th Floor
2:00-3:30 pm: Concurrent paper sessions/Sessions parallèles
Health, Race and Multiculturalism: MacDonald Room, 1st Floor
Panel Discussion on the Health of the African-Nova Scotian Community:
Black Women’s Health Network: Taking Action to Promote Health of the Black Community
Panelists include:
Susan Edmonds. Chair, Black Women’s Health Network, Halifax
Josephine Enang. Researcher, Black Women’s Health Network, Halifax
Carol Amaratunga. Executive Director, Maritime Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health
Yvonne Atwell. Policy Advisor, Maritime Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health
History, Memory and Imagination:
Bluenose Room, 8th Floor
Chair: Lillian Petroff. Coordinator, Education and Community Outreach, Multicultural History
Society of Ontario
Robin Ostow. Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto: Reimaging
Ravensbrück
Denis Wall. Department of Sociology, University of Toronto: Collective Memory and the
Struggle for Authenticity: Binjamin Wilkomirski, the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo and
Rigoberta Menchu
Evangelia Tastsoglou. Department of Sociology and Criminology, Saint Mary’s University: ReAppraising Immigration and Identities: A Synthesis and Directions for Future Research
Representation, Diversity and Education: Mayflower Room, 1st
Floor
Chair: Michael Lanphier, Centre of Refugee Studies, York University
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Cynthia Baker. École des Sciences Inprimieres, Université de Moncton: Representative Institutions
Marie McAndrew. Directrice, Immigration et metropoles, Université de Montréal: Institutional
Adaptation and Diversity in Schools: Policies and Debate in Canada, France and the United
States/ L’Adaptation institutionnelle à la diversité a l’école: politiques et débats au Canada, en
France et aux Étates-Unis
Note: Selon la langue des participants, la présentation pourra être donnée en français ou
en anglais, les questions et la discussion seront bilingues
Yvonne Hébert. Faculty of Education,University of Calgary and Christine Racicot. Multiculturalism Program, Department of Canadian Heritage: Identity, Diversity, and Education: A
Critical Review of the Literature