Report - Conseil international d`études canadiennes

ASSOCIATION FOR CANADIAN STUDIES IN IRELAND
2015
1) President / Président
Michael Brophy
2) # of Canadian Studies Centres /
# des Centres d’études canadiennes
2 (University College Dublin and Queen’s University Belfast)
3) # of Members / # des Membres
90
4) Web site / Site Web
www.canadianstudiesireland.com
5) Activities (including dates) / Activités (avec
dates)
One-day Canadian Studies symposium, co-organised by ACSI and the Craig
Dobbin Chair in Canadian Studies, Bridging Divides: Art & Design in Canada,
UCD, Newman House, Friday 8 May 2015 (Poster and programme attached)
ACSI collaborates regularly with the UCD Craig Dobbin Chair and the UCD
Centre for Canadian Studies in organising guest lectures, for example visit of
Catherine Khordoc, Carleton University, UCD, 30 March 2015, “Transnational
Writing in Quebec: Not Just an Immigrant Affair”
Distinguished Visitor, Professor David Ley, Department of Geography, University
of British Columbia to the School of Geography, Archaeology & Palaeoecology /
Centre of Canadian Studies at Queen’s University Belfast, May 2015
Visit of President of the AIEQ, Robert Laliberté, Plenary Session, National
Conference for French Teachers in Ireland, Maynooth, October 2014
Papers
MARJURY, Niall, “Speculating on nature’s worth: science, enterprise and their
governance”, invited paper at Workshop on Marketizing Nature, University of
Durham, January 2015
Bridging Divides: Art & Design in Canada
10:00-16:00, Friday May 8th 2015
MARJURY, Niall, “Mining money: science, legal technologies and working the
borderlands of global finance, invited paper at special sessions on ‘New
Economic Geographies of Resources and the Environment”, at the Annual
Meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, London, August 2014
O’ NEILL, Helen, “Helping others or helping themselves? Comparing and
contrasting the Irish and Canadian official aid programmes”, McGill University,
Montreal, Institute for the Study of International Development, 24 September
2014; Waterford Institute of Technology, Graduate Business School, 24 October
2014; UCD, Distinguished Lectures in Canadian Studies Series, 3 November
2014
LAWREN HARRIS, ABOVE
LAKE SUPERIOR (C. 1922)
PARRIS, David, “Archéologie de la littérature gay au Québec: Orage sur mon
corps (1944) et Journal d’un prisonnier (1948-1978) d’André Béland”, ACQS,
19th Biennial Conference, Montreal, 18 October 2014
RODGERS, Julie, “Voluntary Childnessness in Lucie Joubert’s L’Envers du
landau”, Centre for Contemporary Women’s Writing, Institute for Modern
Languages Research, University of London, 21 February 2015
PAUL BEAU, COFFEE SERVICE (C. 1910)
6) Publications
BROPHY, Michael (ed.) (2015), Ineffacer: l’œuvre et ses fins. Esthétiques et
poétiques des XXe et XXIe siècles, Paris : Hermann. (M. Brophy on Hélène
Dorion, A. Caumartin on Raymond Bock, N. Watteyne on Jacques Brault)
ROYLE, Stephen (2014) Islands: Nature and Culture, London: Reaktion Books
SMYTH, William J. (2015), Toronto, the Belfast of Canada. The Orange Order
and the Shaping of Municipal Culture, Toronto: University of Toronto Press
Articles
CRANN, C. A., Patterson, R. T., Macumber, A. L., Galloway, J. M., Roe, H. M.,
Blaauw, M., Swindles, G. T. & Falck, H. (2015), “Sediment accumulation rates in
subarctic lakes: insights into age-depth modeling from 22 dated lake records
from the Northwest Territories, Canada”, Quaternary Geochronology, 27, p. 131144
Toronto, The Belfast of Canada
By William Smyth
MARJURY, Niall (2014), “Trusting the numbers: mineral prospecting, raising
finance and the governance of knowledge”, Transactions of the Institute of British
Geographers, 39(4), p.545-558
UPITER, L., Vermaire, J., Patterson, R.T., Crann, C., Galloway, J.M., Macumber,
A., Neville, L.A., Swindles, G.T., Roe, H. M., Falck, H. & Pisaric, M. (2014).
Middle to late Holocene chironomid-inferred July temperatures for the central
Northwest Territories, Canada. Journal of Paleolimnology, 52, p.11-26.
Forthcoming:
BROPHY, M., “ ‘Ciel d’aujourd’hui’: ruine et réinvention du sacré chez
Herménégilde Chiasson et Hélène Dorion”, Dalhousie French Studies
RODGERS, J., “Ying Chen and Nomadic Figurations of the Subject”, Quebec
Studies.
7) Grants awarded by the association. Awards
& prizes received by members / Bourses
offertes par l’association. Prix reçus par les
membres de l’association
On a biennial basis, ACSI nominates a candidate for the Prix du Québec,
administered by the Délégation Générale du Québec à Londres. The prize was
awarded to Dr Julie Rodgers, NUI Maynooth, in 2014.
8) Research / Recherches
Ongoing research and forthcoming publications by members in the area of
literature, second language studies, geography, history, art history and politics.
9) What has been cut from your association
activities since 2012/Quelles activités ont été
coupées depuis 2012?
10) Up-coming activities & events /
Activités & événements à venir
The principal event of the Association is the biennial international conference.
Despite financial uncertainty, plans are already in train for the next conference.
ACSI 18th Biennial Conference, May 2016