Centre for Canadian Studies 2013-2014 Year-End Report "1 ! Centre for ! Canadian Studies Word fom the Director I am delighted to report another Chiasson, celebrating the Elizabeth outstanding year of activity in the Bishop Centenary. Cultural events Centre for Canadian Studies at continued in October, with readings Mount Allison University, thanks to by Canadian writers Julie Bruck, the participation and contribution of Susan Glickman, and Janice Kulyk students, colleagues, and visitors to Keefer, and in November by Miranda the Centre, to the institutional Hill. Fall term also featured the commitment of the University much-anticipated annual trip to through the offices of the President, Charlottetown, PEI, for the Symons the Provost, and the Dean of Arts, Lecture on the State of Dr. Christl Verduyn, Director and to ongoing support from the Confederation. This year’s lecturer Harold Crabtree Foundation. This was the Right Honorable Paul Alice Walker. March also featured report presents some of the highlights Martin, whom Mount Allison the Centre’s collaboration with of the Centre’s activities in students had the opportunity to meet Mount Allison’s graduating class of 2013-2014. and speak with in person following 2014 for a wonderful evening with ! the lecture. Closing Fall term Jowi Taylor, former CBC radio The year was off to an exciting start activities, the Centre welcomed The broadcaster and creator of the with the highly successful Walrus magazine co-publishers, fabulous “Six String Nation” event. international Canadian Studies Shelley Ambrose and Douglas Winter term 2014 closed with the conference, “Meeting Places,” Knight, for a public panel discussion first annual Faculty of Arts Student September 18-21, 2013. Co-hosted of “the business of culture.” Research Symposium, in which with St. Mary’s University’s ! Canadian Studies was very well Gorsebrook Research Institute, the Winter term 2014 continued lively represented with presentations by conference got underway in Halifax and active, beginning with the annual five Canadian Studies students Kylie and continued to Mount Allison in Stanley lecture, which was delivered de Chastelain, Stephanie Davis, Sackville, with participants bussed by Mount Allison professor of Miranda Gouchie, Piper Riley between the two locations as part of Economics Dr. Craig Brett on Thompson, and Ryan Vandenberg. the program. Just days after the January 15. The following week, ! conference, the Centre hosted the Curve Lake First Nations playwright The 2013-2014 academic year drew remarkable “Acadian Soprano,” Drew Hayden Taylor packed Mount to a celebratory end with the Suzie LeBlanc, in a performance Allison’s Owens gallery as students tremendous news that Canadian accompanied by pianist Nhat Viet and members of the public turned out Studies major, Kylie de Chastelain Phi, documentary artist Linda Rae in droves to hear the award-winning had received a Rhodes scholarship. Dornan, and poet Herménégilde author talk about Aboriginal theatre In other news and recognition of production in Canada. February Canadian Studies as one of Mount featured the first of what is hoped to Allison University’s dynamic Inside this issue: be a yearly Canadian Studies student academic programs, I am proud to trip to Ottawa to attend the annual have had the honour of receiving this Word from the Director 1! Vickers-Verduyn lecture in Canadian year’s Herbert and Leota Tucker Studies at Carleton University and to Teaching Award. This caps the Major Annual Events 2! visit the nation’s capital. In March, honour I have enjoyed these past four Events in 2013-2014 3 ! the Centre for Canadian Studies years of serving as Director of Mount Collaboration and Outreach 7! collaborated with the Mount Allison Allison’s Centre for Canadian student groups Roots and Mosaic to Studies. I look forward to continue People! & Places & Appreciation 8 host Evelyn White, official serving in 2014-2015. biographer of the celebrated writer Centre for Canadian Studies 2013-2014 Year-End Report 2 Major ! Annual Events ! Mount Alison’s Centre for Canadian Studies o$ers two major annual public lectures, which have become highlights of the intelectual landscape at Mount Alison University. The Edgar and Dorothy “Davidson Lecture” in Canadian Studies Saly Armstrong “The Malala Lesson - A Canadian Connection” ! 29 October 2013 The annual “Davidson Lecture” brings a of the 2013-2014 President’s Speakers Series for the distinguished Canadianist to campus to speak on a year of global engagement, and Armstong’s lecture, topic of interest and importance to Canadians. Past “The Malala Lesson $ a Canadian Connection”, Davidson lecturers have included Edward concerned Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old in Goldenberg, formerly chief of sta# to Prime Pakistan who defied the Taliban by going to school Minister Jean Chretien; Kevin Lynch, former Chief and was shot. Armstrong has covered stories in Clerk of the Privy Council of Canada and Secretary zones of conflict all over the world. From Bosnia and to the Federal Cabinet; political scientist Professor Somalia to Rwanda and Afghanistan her eyewitness Janice Gross Stein; past UN Ambassador Stephen reports have earned her the Amnesty International Lewis; noted journalist Graham Fraser; political Media Award three times, as well as global acclaim. activist and academic Judy Rebick; Aboriginal In addition to her journalism, Armstrong is the novelist and short story writer, Thomas King; author of several books, including 2013’s Ascent of environmental activist and academic, Dr. David Women: Our turn, our way % a remarkable story of Schindler; and the Honorable Stéphane Dion. ! world-wide change. Armstrong is a former ! member of the International Women’s Commission The 2013-2014 Davidson Lecture in Canadian at the UN and has received honorary degrees from Studies was delivered by human rights activist and several Canadian universities including Mount journalist Sally Armstrong on October 29, 2013. Allison in 2009.! Once again this year, the Davidson Lecture was part ! The George F. G. “Stanley Lecture” in Canadian Studies Dr. Craig Brett “Wil Globalization Kil the Canadian Welfare State?” ! 15 January 2014 The annual “Stanley Lecture” is given each year by a The 2013-2014 Stanley Lecture in Canadian studies distinguished Mount Allison Canadianist. This was presented by Dr. Craig Brett of Mount Allison’s lecture was established in honour of the first Department of Economics on January 15, 2014. His Director (from 1969-1975) of the Centre for lecture“Will Globalization Kill the Canadian Welfare Canadian Studies, Dr. George F.G. Stanley State?” explored the impact of globalization on the (1907-2002). Well known for his role in the design of Canadian welfare state and concluded that the the Canadian flag and for his distinction as overall level of Canadian welfare state activity has lieutenant governor of New Brunswick from changed very little over the past three decades 1982-1987, Dr. Stanley was also an accomplished despite sizable increases in the openness of the academic, a Rhodes scholar, a member of the Royal Canadian economy.! Society, and the author or editor of some 18 books.! ! ! Centre for Canadian Studies 2013-2014 Year-End Report 3 Events ! in 2013 - 2014 ! In addition to its signature named public lectures & the annual Davidson and Stanley lectures & and as part of its commitment to outreach and research dissemination, the Centre for Canadian Studies regularly co-sponsors and co-hosts numerous speaker events and other special activities with di$erent departments and organizations, both at the university and community level, as wel as on the wider national level. Highlights of this community colaboration during 2013-2014 are included below. September 2013 Acadian poet Meeting Places: an international Canadian Studies Herménégilde conference - September 18-21, 2013" Chiasson reading Co-organized by the Centre for Canadian Studies at Mount Allison and the Gorsebrook Research Institute at St. Mary’s University, this conference explored place- based communities and cultures. It brought together academic, cultural, and artistic constituencies from two “places,” Halifax, Nova Scotia and Sackville, New Brunswick. Discussions began at St. Mary’s University in Halifax, ! Keynote Speaker following which conference participants travelled together Andrea Bear across the provincial borders and the Cobequid Pass to Mount Nicholas Allison University in Sackville, with stops along the way at the Glooscap Heritage Centre and Mi’kmaw Museum in Millbrook, Nova Scotia, and Fort Beauséjour in Aulac, New Brunswick. Keynote speakers during the conference included Andrea Bear Nicholas, Maliseet from Tobique, New Brunswick and Chair in Native Studies at St. Thomas University; Cole Harris, award-winning author of Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Conference participants at Columbia (2003) and The Reluctant Land: Society, Space, and the Glooscap Heritage Environment in Canada before Confederation (2009) and Centre & Mi’kmaw professor emeritus of the Department of Geography at Museum in Milbrook, NS. the University of British Columbia; Tania Martin, Canada Research Chair in Built Religious Heritage and assistant professor in the School of Architecture at ! Université Laval in Quebec City and an expert in the history Conference of North-American vernacular architecture and cultural participants at landscapes; and Graeme Wynn, historical geographer and Fort Beauséjour- pioneer in the interdisciplinary