Chilean Association for Canadian Studies

Chilean Association for Canadian Studies
PROMOTION OF CANANDIAN STUDIES
ACHECA hosted Mr. JOEL GOOD presentation at local universities. Mr. Goos is a Canadian specialist in sustainable design,
partner at Rowan Williams Davies & Irwin Inc. (RWDI) Consultin Engineers & Scientists. He came to Santiago attending an
invitation of Cámara Chilena de la Construcción.
While in the city, in addition to this activitiy, ACHECA organized for him presentations at Universidad Mayor and Universidad
Central Schools for Architecture with the conference called “Wind simulation for sustainable building design: the Canadian
consulting experience. (November 2009)
Joel Good during his presentation
Students attending the presentation
PROMOTION OF THE ASSOCIATION
ACHECA members assisted regularly to conferences organized by te Chile- Canada Chamber of Commerce, where the
Association is a full member.
Among others , Mr. WALTER SCHROEDER´s conference called “Financial crisis: is it gone?. Mr Schroeder in president of
DRBS, an international rating agency located in Toronto (June 2009)
Or Mr. MERGEN REDDY´s conference called “The global economy: spring has arrived”. Mr. Reddy is Global Director at Hatch
Management Consulting (June 2009)
Or Mr. JIM FLAHERTY, Canada´s Finance Secretary conference called “The 2009 Latin American cities conference:
hemispheric response to the world economic crisis” (July 2009).
ACHECA´s president – in representation of Canadian Studies- was invited by
the Canadian Embassy to attend the Chile-Canada grants delivery ceremony.
Important authorities as well the Chilean Ambassador in Canada attended the
ceremony. Mr. Stange invited young Canadianists to join ACHECA (August
2009).
ACHECA brought a musical gift to Canada´s Day celebration party, hosting
Singkreis Santiago, a choral agrupation, to sing both Canada´s and Chile´s
national anthems (July 2009).
Singkreis during its perfomance
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REGULAR ACTIVITIES
As every year, ACHECA called their members for the annual meeting, ocassion in which the president makes a presentation of
the year activities and what is going to be done in the next future. Members also listened to the financial report.
At this opportunity, a new ACHECA´s directory had to be elected. After the process was finished, the results are as follows:
President for the next 2 years: SERGIO STANGE (reelected)
Vice president for the next 2 years: MARTIN MONTALVA (reelected)
Treasurer for the next 2 years: PATRICIO IGLESIAS (reelected)
General Secretary for the next 2 years: ASTRID ODDERSHEDE (her first period)
ACHECA´s directory would like to make a public recognition to VERONICA SCHLEGEL, who did not applied as a candidate at
this time (May 2009). But she was a loyal General Secretary.
ACHECA´s president attended RELEC´s annual meeting in Asunción. Paraguay (September 2009), which reunited
representants from all Latin American Canadian Studies associations.
The Centro Paraguayo de Estudios Canadienses was of great help in organizing the meeting.
BIANNUAL CANADIAN STUDIES CONGRESS
ACHECA´s main activity during 2009 was the 3 days lasting VI Chilean Congress for Canadian Studies. The congress was
called “From pole to pole: open dialogs”.
This activity was partialy sponsored by the Canadian Government via Canadian Studies Conference Grant. And with a significant
collaboration of the Canadian Embassy in Santiago and other sponsors like Air Canada, Universidad de Santiago de Chile
(USACH).
The strategy of the biannual congresses – which this one was not the exception- is to reunite Canadianists from all over the
country, inviting them to share their research, experience or know how within Canadian Studies.
The openening ceremony was presided by the Canadian Embassador, Mrs. Sarah Fountain.
The Congress was very succesfull in terms of local Canadianists listed as speakers, but also attending the auditorium. There
were also special guests form Canada, Mexico and Argentina who came to Santiago for this opportunity.
And for the first time there was a young Canadianists section, inviting students and researchers up to 30 years to present their
works. They received particular congratulations from the organizing committee.
The activities combined academic presentations, but also some amusemente, like a dinner and an invitation at the Canadian
Ambassador’s residence.
Diffusion material and two general views of the auditorium an attending people
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A singing group welcomes guests and participants
Young Canadianists during their presentations
Professor Richard Nimijean, U. Carleton
At Universidad de Santiago´s main patio,
Canadian Ambassador, Mrs. Sarah Fountain,
ACHECA´s President and Argentinian guests.
ACHECA´s Vice-president M. Montalva, Marianik
Tremblay from Canadian Embassy, ACHECA´s
president and Canadian Ambassador, Mrs. Sarah
Fountain
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