ACSUS 40th Anniversary Biennial Conference Program

Heather Smith, UNBCBrand Canada and Promoting Canadian Studies AbroadRichard Nimijean, Carleton UniversityECO2Policy Responses to Economic DistressResponding to Economic Crises: Reform Approaches within Three FederationsBrendan Burke, Suffolk UniversityU.S. Financial Stress: When and For Whom Does it Matter in Canada?David Yerger, Indiana University of PennsylvaniaWhy Can’t the U.S. be More Like Canada? The Origins of U.S. and Canadian Monetary PoliciesJoseph M. Santos, South Dakota State UniversityENG2History, the Ottawa Gothic, and CanadianismCHAIR: Andrew Holman, Bridgewater State UniversityIn the New Capital: A 19th Century Vision of Ottawa in the Twenty First CenturyR. Douglas Francis, University of CalgaryWriting Historical Fiction about Canada for American audiences: The Case of James de Mille's"The Lily and the Cross."Michael Peterman, Trent UniversityCapital Letters: Ottawa Gothic and the Spirit of Canadianism from Jane Urquhart to Paul GrossCynthia Sugars, University of OttawaFPOL2The “French Fact” and Canadian Foreign PolicyCHAIR: Stéphane Roussel, Université du Québec à MontréalThe National Unity Prism: Conceptualizing Canadian Foreign PolicyDavid Morin, Université Sherbrooke(Mis)Perceptions in Ottawa: Assessing Quebec's Indirect Influence on Canadian Foreign PolicyJean-Christophe Boucher, Université LavalThe (Re)Normalization of Canada-France RelationsJérémie Cornut, Université du Québec à MontréalDISCUSSANT: Justin Massie, University of OttawaFRANCO1North American Francophone Religious Practices: Sacred and ProfaneReligion and Folklore in Cajun French rural Mardi Gras in Southwest LouisianaLuc D. Guglielmi, Kennesaw State UniversityFrench Canadian Predestination and the End Times: Examining the Role of UltramontaneHistoriographyPaul Gareau, University of Ottawa

Government of Canada/ACSUS Awards Plenary featuring His Excellency the Right HonourableDavid Johnston, Governor General of Canada (invited)Thursday, November 172:15pm—3:45pmCOMP2Canada in Comparative: Multiple Vantage PointsCHAIR: Anne Griffin, The Cooper UnionWater governance in Mexico and Quebec: Lessons that contribute to regional water governanceDelia Montreo, UAM-IztapalapaInternal Security System Administration: Canada and IndiaSnehalata Panda, Berhampur UniversityCanada – Europe: Transatlantic Regional Cooperation in a Globalized WorldUlla Kriebernegg, University of Graz and Roberta Maierhofer, University of GrazA “Worldwide Rights’ Culture:” Decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada as a ModelGianluca Gentili, (University of Siena), “DISCUSSANT: TBAECO3W[h]ither North American Integration? Business, Trade and EconomicsCHAIR: Jon Allen, DFAIT, Government of CanadaFreight Transportation and North American DisintegrationStephen Blank, Pace UniversityEnergy Relations on the Continent: Test-bed for North American Policy-Making?Monica Gattinger, University of OttawaNorth America in Transmission: A Multi-Speed EnvironmentGeoffrey Hale, University of LethbridgeDISCUSSANT: Stephen Kelly, Duke UniversityEDU1Canada and the America Curriculum: Formulating a National Approach to CanadianStudies K-12 Outreach EducationCHAIR: Christopher Kirkey, SUNY PlattsburghGeographic Analysis of Where Canada is Taught in the American K-16 CurriculumBetsy Arntzen, University of MaineCommon Methods & Best Practices of Teaching Canada in Elementary, Middle and High SchoolClassroomsAmy Sotherden, SUNY PlattsburghDeveloping Models to Augment Canadian Content in K-12 CurriculumTina Storer, Western Washington University

DISCUSSANT: Nadine Fabbi, University of WashingtonFRE3Utopia, Science Fiction, Fantasy and le fantastique from QuébecCHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Amy J. Ransom, Central Michigan UniversityChanging Landscapes, Moving Boundaries: Re-envisioning Individual Identity in Utopian ScienceFiction by Québec Women WritersSharon Taylor, Washington & Jefferson CollegeSe souvenir de ce qui sera : mémoire et cicatrisation dans Reine de Mémoire d’ÉlisabethVonarburgSophie Beaulé, St. Mary’s UniversityVonarburg’s Chroniques du pays des mères: A Feminist Linguistic Utopia?Lorie Sauble-Otto, University of Northern ColoradoLe venin du fantastique: Sur le Seuil de Patrick SenécalVoichita-Maria Sasu, Université Babes-Bolyai de Cluj-NapocaGEN2Negotiating Masculinities and Femininities in Domestic , National and TransnationalSpheresCHAIR/ DISCUSSANT: Pauline Rankin, Carleton UniversityAu nom du pere: Reflections on the History of Fatherhood in Quebec, English Canada, and theU.S.Peter Gossage, Concordia UniversityTransnational Womanhood: The President’s Commission on the Status of Women and the RoyalCommission on the Status of WomenJane Arscott, Athabasca UniversityFemales or Feminists: Assessing Gender-Related Cases in the Supreme Court of CanadaSusan Johnson, University of North Carolina at GreensboroA Comparative History of Sex Ed and Teen Pregnancy in Canada and the USAMorna McEachern, University of WashingtonGEO2Geography of the Canadian WestCHAIR: Sara Beth Keough, Saginaw Valley State UniversityFirst Approaches: Constructing a Colonial Wilderness on Vancouver, BC’s North ShoreDavid Rossiter, Western Washington UniversityGlobalization and Regional Development in Canada: A Case Study of Northern British ColumbiaGary Wilson, University of Northern British ColumbiaThe State We’re In: Washington and British ColumbiaJon Lampman and David Thomas, Vancouver Island UniversityDISCUSSANT: Lawrence Taylor, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte

POL2Parties & ElectionsCHAIR: Howard Cody, University of Maine, OronoSelecting Leaders in North America: National Debates andthe American and Canadian Electionsof 2008Joseph Cobetto University of Missouri - ColumbiaConsistency of Party Identification: Uniformity of Federal and Provincial Party Choice AcrossSeveral ElectionsJames Endersby, University of Missouri - Columbia; Steven Galatas, Stephen F. Austin StateUniversity; & Matthew Newton, University of Missouri - ColumbiaThe Non-Obvious Effects of Public Funding of Elections on Political PartiesKeith Hamm, Rice UniversityExplaining Non-Duvergerian Party Systems: The Case of CanadaChristopher Raymond, University of Missouri - ColumbiaDISCUSSANT: Mildred Schwartz, New York (invited)Thursday, November 173:45pm—4:15pmRefreshment BreakThursday, November 174:15pm—5:45pmART3Cultural DiplomacyCHAIR: Michael Behiels, University of OttawaTrudeau's 'Third Option,' Cultural Diplomacy, and the National Ballet of Canada 1972-1973Allana C. Lindgren, University of VictoriaThe Politics of Perception: Cultural Diplomacy and Image-building in Cold War CanadaKailey Miller, Trent UniversityArtistic Strategies and Forgotten Histories: Examining the Cultural Construction of BlackExperienceBrianne Howard and Sarak E.K. Smith, Queen's UniversityEDU2Understanding Canada Program: Moving ForwardJean Labrie, Deputy Director, International Education and Youth (GLEA), DFAITENG3History and the Teaching of the LiteraryCHAIR: Steven Hayward, Colorado CollegeUS and Canadian Poets Laureate: A Literary and Cultural HistoryToni Holland, University of Alberta

Roughing it in the Twenty First Century: Ten New Canadian Novels You Should Be TeachingSteven Hayward, Colorado CollegeThe Great Scoop-Up, ContinuedFrances W. Kaye, University of Nebraska—LincolnFPOL3Silences in Canadian Foreign Policy and DefenceCHAIR: Claire Turenne Sjolander, University of OttawaBound and Determined: Indigenous Diplomacies beyond the Empire of Foreign PolicyMarshall Beier, McMaster UniversityChallenging the Silences: Indigenous Voices in Canadian Foreign PolicyHeather A. Smith, University of Northern British Columbia(How) Can we speak for the silenced in CFP?Nicole Wegner, McMaster UniversityFrom silencing to silences: a defense of critical quantitative study in Canadian Foreign PolicyJérémie Cornut, Université du Québec à MontréalAs if Death mattered (and could be discussed): Canadian Foreign Policy and AfghanistanClaire Turenne Sjolander, University of OttawaFRE4Mini-plenary with authors Elisabeth Vonarburg and Esther Rochon: Utopia, SF andFantasy from Quebec LiteratureMODERATORS: Miléna Santoro, Georgetown University & Amy J. Ransom, Central MichiganUniversityElisabeth Vonarburg, WriterEsther Rochon, WriterHIS3Tracking History Across the U.S.-Canada BoundaryCHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Andrew Holman, Bridgewater State UniversityLetting Furniture Speak for Itself: Tracking the Dissemination of Furniture Design from theNorthern United States to Lower Canada in the Early 19th CenturyRoss Fox, Royal Ontario Museum’She was treated with the greatest kindness’: Slaveholders’ Attitudes in Upper CanadaGregory Wigmore, University of California, DavisMourning the President: British North American Reactions to the Assassination of LincolnCheryl A. Wells, University of WyomingA Great Many Are Very Tashy: Anti-American Sentiment in Nineteenth-Century CanadianPeriodicalsSuzanne Bowness, University of OttawaNOR2

Past Impact and Future Potential in Arctic CommunitiesCHAIR: Lisa Koperqualuk, Makivik Corporation, MontréalRevisiting the Relocations: Comparing the Resolute and Grise Fiord ExperiencesP. Whitney Lackenbauer, St-Jerome’s University and Ryan Shackleton, CDCI ResearchThe Promise of Nunavut: Well Being of Inuit Women after the First DecadeJanet Mancini Billson, Group Dimensions InternationalMultitouch and Cultural Overlays: Enhancing Inuktitut Syllabics in Social Networkingtimothy J. Pasch, University of North Dakota.DISCUSSANT: Larry BagnellPOL3ROUNDTABLE: The 2011 Federal Election and Canada's FutureCHAIR: Howard Cody, University of MaineChristopher Kirkey, SUNY PlattsburghRichard Nimijean, Carleton UniversityJeffrey Ayres, St. Michael's College of VermontThursday, November 177:00pm-9:00pmACSUS 40 th Anniversary Reception, Museum of CivilizationFeaturing Ambassador David Jacobson (invited) and Jim Watson, Mayor of Ottawa (invited)Friday, November 187:00am—8:30amGovernment of Alberta Plenary BreakfastSpeakers TBASponsored by the Government of AlbertaFriday, November 188:30am—10:00amABO2Education, loss of tradition, and the futureCHAIR: Francis Kaye, University of Nebraska-Lincoln"The Great Scoop-Up," ContinuedFrancis Kaye, University of Nebraska-LincolnWhat Happens When a First Nations Child is Raised in a Monolingual Home? IndigenousLanguage LossEmma Elliott, University of WashingtonNew Vistas: First Nations Media in the Digital AgeJennifer Gauthier, Randolph CollegeDISCUSSANT: Ute Lischke, Wilfrid Laurier University

ECO4North America in Question I: North American Problems without North AmericanGovernanceCHAIR: Jeffrey Ayres, Saint Michael's CollegeEnergy and the Environment: Prospects for New Forms of Continental GovernanceDebora van Nijnatten, Wilfrid Laurier UniversityThe North American Financial Crisis and its Impact on the North American EconomyRandall Germain, Carleton UniversityContinental Governance, Post Crisis: Where is North America Going?Stephen Clarkson, University of TorontoBorders and Security in North AmericaEmily Gilbert, University of TorontoDISCUSSANT: Stephanie Golob, Baruch College—CUNYEDU3Canadian Studies 2.0: Friending, Following and Blogging.CHAIR: Dan Abele, Canadian Embassy WashingtonDigital Fieldwork: Using the Internet to Add an Immersive Experience to Canadian StudiesCoursesSammy Basu, Willamette UniversitySocial media and Canadian StudiesPaul Martin, University of VermontSocial Media and the New Generation in Canadian StudiesThe International Council for Canadian Studies,Entry Points for Use of Social Media in Canadian StudiesDan Abele, Canadian Embassy WashingtonENG4Away and Home: Migrant Diasporas and Travellers’ ExperiencesCHAIR: Michael Peterman, Trent UniversitySinging to Ourselves: MacLeod, Urquhart and Canadian IdentityJeanne Minahan McGinn, Curtis Institute of MusicCultural Parallelism in the fiction of Hiromi GotoRobyn Morris, University of Wollongong, AustraliaTraveling subjects' Geographical Displacements in Aritha van Herk's Places Far From EllesmereJ'nan Morse Sellery, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont University ConsortiumFRANCO2Marriage on the BorderThe Language of Love: French-Speaking Wives and Cultural Boundaries in the Saint John RiverValleyMolly Burns Gallaher, University of New Hampshire

North American Borderland Métissage: Maine-Canada Intermarriage & Language Practices,1880-1930Carla Mendiola, Southern Methodist UniversityFRE5Reading Space, Class, and Gender in Canadian and Québécois Texts; a Roundtable byVersUS, the Groupe de recherche en études littéraires et culturelles comparées au Canadaet au Québec / Research Group for Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies in Canadaand QuebecSpectral Spaces in Franco-Canadian Theater/ Espaces spectraux dans le théâtre francocanadienNicole Côté, Université de SherbrookeThe Dialectic of Space & Class in Contemporary Canadian and Québécois Fiction: What'sGramsci Got To Do With It?David Leahy, Université de SherbrookeA Space for Organic Intellectuals?: Utopic Longing in Canadian CriticismRoxanne Rimstead, Université de SherbrookeGEN3Gender, Sex and BodiesCHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Patrizia Gentile, Carleton UniversityTerrains of Struggle: Lesbian Body Politics in Canada and the United States, 1979-1994Jennifer Ellison, Trent UniversityThe way the Canada game was meant to be? Ice Girls and Cheerleaders in the NHLLynne Perras, University of CalgaryCitizen Queer: The Deployment of Homonationalism in the Canadian ContextPéter Balogh, Carleton UniversityFriday, November 1810:00am—10:30amRefreshment BreakFriday, November 1810:30am—12:00pmABO3Iconography and IdentityCHAIR: Brittney Bos, Queen's UniversityImperial Loyalties of the Noble Savage: Visual Representations and Remembrances of JosephBrantBrittney Bos, Queen's UniversityA New Look at the Costs of the Cultural Appropriation of Canada’s Traditional Totem PolesChisato Dubreuil, St. Bonaventure UniversityDISCUSSANT: Eric Weeks, Bowling Green State University

ART4The Past in the PresentCHAIR: Zachary Abram, University of Ottawa (invited)Letting Furniture Speak for Itself: Tracking the Dissemination of Furniture Design from theNorthern United States to Lower Canada in the Early Nineteenth CenturyRoss Fox, Royal Ontario MuseumOttawa, the Holland Brothers, and Movie Exhibition in CanadaTamara Seiler, University of CalgaryCanada's Golgotha and the Canadian Collective Memory of the First World WarJonathan Weier, University of Western OntarioCOMP3Roundtable on Teaching Canadian Studies/Teaching Canada IICHAIR: Heather Smith, UNBCTeaching Canada From A Mexican PerspectiveSalvador Cervantes, UNIVACommunicating Canada in CaliforniaPatrick James, University of Southern CaliforniaIncluding Canada?: The Place of Canadian Studies in a Global StudiesPauline Rankin, Carleton UniversityECO5North America in Question II: New Actors and Responses to the CrisisCHAIR: Laura Macdonald, Carleton UniversityDual Bilateralism and the Demise of TrilateralismStephanie Golob, Baruch College-CUNYDemocratic Deficits: the Role of Civil SocietyJeffrey Ayres, Saint Michael's College and Laura Macdonald, Carleton UniversityParadiplomacy: States and Provinces in the Emerging Governance Structure of North AmericaRichard Vengroff, Kennesaw State University and James Allan, Wittenburg UniversityContinental Dissonance: the Politics of Migration in North AmericaChristina Gabriel, Carleton UniversityDISCUSSANT: Emily Gilbert, University of TorontoFPOL4Canada's Role in the Americas: Toward deeper Engagement?CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: TBDFederalism: Center and Peripheries, Canada and Argentina. A Vision from the SouthSilvia Senen, UNSAMCanada and the Inter American System in the Last Ten Years

Carlos A. Arguelles, Universidad Del Mar, MexicoCanada Cuba Relations: Defining the Rules of Engagement 1959-1962Raul Rodriguez Rodriguez, Universidad de la HabanaFRE6Perspectives on Québécois LiteratureCHAIR: Susan Ireland, Grinnell CollegeLa rencontre dans la nouvelle québécoise contemporaineMarie Cusson, SUNY PlattsburgLieux de mémoire, lieux d’accueil: Collective memory and diasporic identity in Dany Laferrière’sTout bouge autour de moi, L’Énigme du retour, and Je suis un écrivain japonaisAmy Baram Reid, New College of FloridaL’Altérité dans Bouche-à-Bouche de Mauricio SeguraHeather West, Samford UniversityGEN4Diasporic SpacesCHAIR: James Milner, Carleton UniversityAfrican-Caribbean Immigrants in Canada and the United StatesAmoaba Gooden, Kent State UniversityThe Meaning of Place for the Displaced Refugee: The Case of Somali-Canadian Refugees inCanadaFowsia Abdulkadir, Carleton UniversityThe Implementation of C-11 -- Reform of the Canadian Convention Refugee SystemMichael J Churgin, University of Texas School of LawDISCUSSANT: James Milner, Carleton UniversityGEO3The Capital Question I: An Inroads Roundtable on Governance and DesignCHAIR: Henry Milner, Inroads, Umea University and University of MontrealGilles Paquet, University of OttawaDavid Gordon, Queen's UniversityRupak Chattopadhyay, Forum of FederationsHIS4Canadian-American Relations Across the 19th-20th CenturiesCHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Michael Behiels, University of OttawaRevolt and Constitution Making Up North: John Quincy Adams and the Canadian Revolts of1837-1838Thomas Murphy, Seattle University‘I am Sir, Your Obedient Servant’: U.S. Consular Activities in Port Hope and Rat Portage, OntarioDuring the Late 1800s and early 1900sMarsha Tate, Tate Research and Consulting Services

The Mysterious Case of the Beryl G: Murder and Honor in the Pacific Northwest BorderlandsStephen T. Moore, Central Washington UniversityRemembering the treaty: An analysis of competing interpretations of the Columbia River TreatyJeremy Mouat, University of AlbertaFEATURED ROUNDTABLECanada-US Border Policy: The New Border Vision AgreementSue Saarnio, US Embassy, OttawaTBA, CBSA-OttawaDonald Alper, Western Washington UniversityKatherine Friedman, University at BuffaloChristopher Sands, Hudson InstituteGeoffrey Hale, University of LethbridgeDan UczoSponsored by the Border Policy Research Institute, Western Washington University and theRegional Institute, University at BuffaloFriday, November 1812:00pm—2:15pmLunch Plenary: Digging into Data ChallengeSponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of CanadaIn 2009, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; the NationalEndowment for the Humanities of the United States, the National Science Foundation of theUnited States, and the Joint Information Systems Committee of the United Kingdom, collaboratedto launch the Digging into Data Challenge. The challenge promotes innovative humanities andsocial science research using large-scale data analysis and challenges the research communityto help create the new research infrastructure needed for the 21st century. The changingresearch landscape in our digital age has called for new techniques to better search, analyze,and understand the vast array of research materials being used and created, including digitizedbooks, newspapers, and music as well as transactional data such as web searches, sensor dataor cell phone records. Close to 90 international research teams competed in the 2009 challengeand eight remarkable projects comprised of Canadians, British and American scholars wereawarded research grants. In 2011, the Digging into Data Challenge has grown to include fundingfrom eight international research agencies among four countries, namely Canada, theNetherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States.Moderated by Dr. Chad Gaffield, President of the Social Sciences and Humanities ResearchCouncil of Canada.Friday, November 202:15pm—3:45pmABO4Contexts of First Nations FilmCHAIR: Miléna SantoroDecolonization, Empowerment, and Activism. Is Indigenous Cinema the new National Cinema?

Ute Lischke, Wilfrid Laurier UniversityDecolonizing Documentary: Indigenous Women’s Film and Video in CanadaMarian Bredin, Brock UniversityAmerican Contexts for Quebec First Nations FilmMiléna Santoro, Georgetown UniversityDISCUSSANT: Jennifer Gauthier, Randolph CollegeEDU4Creating Worldly Graduates: Experiential Learning Opportunities.CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Christa Olson, American Council on EducationA Student Teaching Abroad- An American/Canadian Educational and Cultural ExperienceRobert Macmillan, BridgewaterBecoming More Canadian in our (USA) OutlookNels H. Granholm, South Dakota State UniversityENG5The Importance of PlaceCHAIR: Ulla Kriebernegg, University of GrazThe Titanic, the Moon Landing, and Ontario LakesCarol Beran, Saint Mary's CollegeUrban Solitudes: Canadian Cities in Female Narratives of ImmigrationOrly Lael Netzer, Tel Aviv UniversityLocation, Location: Barney's Version and the Montreal of Mordecai RichlerBruce Butterfield and Matthew Smith, SUNY PlattsburghFRANCO3Religion, laicité et accommodements raisonnables au Quebec: où en est-on?CHAIR: Samia I. Spencer, Auburn UniversityLe contexte historique: une mise au pointSamia I. Spencer, Auburn UniversityL'avenir de la laicite au QuebecLouise Beaudoin (To be confirmed), Quebec National Assembly“Peut-on resister par l'ecriture" Retour sur une experienceDjemila Benhabib, Auteure de ""Ma vie a contre-Coran""L'accommodement raisonnable ou le symptome d'autres maux?Patricia Rimok, Conseil des relations interculturellesFRE7Recent Research in Canadian/Québec Literature and Film

CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Patrick Coleman, UCLA“Flattening the World Around Her: Surface and Narrative in Gail Scott’s Héroine and CindySherman’s Untitled Film Stills”Ruth Jones, UCLAYoung Quebec Filmmaker Breaks from Tradition in Les Amours imaginariesHannah Vaughan, UCLALe Multiculturalisme dans la science fiction québécoiseIsabelle Fournier, SUNY at BuffaloGEN5Identifying Canada: Cultural Borders and Borderless CulturesCHAIR: Paul Litt, Carleton UniversityThe Massey Report and the ‘Problem’ of Canadian National IdentitySarah Dillard, Indiana UniversityFinding Ourselves in the Music: Explorations of Canada-as-North in Contemporary CanadianMusicPauline Minevich, University of ReginaNow See the Border, Now You Don’t: The Disappearing and Re-Appearing U.S./Canadian BorderTomas Cunningham, University of Missouri – ColumbiaDISCUSSANT: Peter Thompson, Carleton UniversityGEO4The Capital Question II: Urban Planning and Community BuildingCHAIR: Caroline Andrew, University of OttawaAnna Hercz, City of OttawaFrançois Lapointe, CCNBrian Carter, SUNY BuffaloHIS5Canada and the World in the Twentieth CenturyCHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Stephanie Bangarth, King’s College University, UWOMarianna O'Gallagher, 1929-2010: Québec's Champion of Irish-Canadian Historyand CultureMarjorie A. Fitzpatrick, Dickinson CollegeThe Russians are Coming: Cold War Détente and the United Church of CanadaGayle Thrift, St. Mary’s University College, CalgaryOttawa and the Six Day WarZachariah Kay, Hebrew University of JerusalemNOR3The Geopolitics of the North American ArcticCHAIR: Jessica Shadian, U. of Nordland, NorwayCanada/US Arctic Agenda

Andrea Charron, Carleton University.The Final Frontier: Oil and Gas Development in the North American ArcticAdam Lajeunesse, University of Calgary.Canada and non-Arctic states: Balancing Perceptions and StrategiesJoël Plouffe, Université du Québec à MontréalDISCUSSANT: P. Whitney Lackenbauer, St-Jerome’s University and Ryan Shackleton, CDCIResearchPOL4Partisan Economic Strategies for North America: American Parties, Presidents, andCanadian Prime MinistersCHAIR: Gary Sawchuk, Policy Research Initiative, Government of CanadaRepublican Strategies in Bilateral Economic Policy: Parties and Presidents From Reagan toGeorge W. BushGreg Anderson, University of AlbertaDemocratic Strategies in Bilateral Economic Policy: Parties and Presidents From Clinton toObamaChristopher Sands, Hudson InstituteParties, Politics, and Prime Ministers: Navigating Economic Partisanship Across the 49th ParallelMaureen Molot, Carleton UniversityDISCUSSANT: Kent Shigetomi, Office of the United States Trade RepresentativeFriday, November 183:45pm—4:15pmRefreshment BreakFriday, November 184:15pm—5:45pmPlenary featuring writer Elizabeth HayModerated by David Staines, University of OttawaFriday, November 186:00pm—7:00pmPlenary featuring writers Marie Claire Blais and Madeleine MonetteModerator/Organizer: Myrna Delson Karan, Vice President ACSUS, and Conference ProgramChairWith the support of le Gouvernement du QuébecFriday, November 187:30pm—9:00pmGovernment of Quebec Plenary, Westin OttawaSpeaker TBASponsored by le Gouvernement du Québec

Saturday, November 197:30am—8:30amBreakfast Plenary: CONNECTModerated by Christopher Kirkey, SUNY PlattsburghSponsored by CONNECTSaturday, November 198:30am—10:00amART5New Canadian Film and Music TalentsReal Men Play Hockey: Masculinity and National Identity in Quebec's Les Boys FilmsAmy J. Ransom, Central Michigan UniversityDefining a Canadian Jazz Sound: Failure to Launch in the USALeslie Sabina - St Bonaventure UniversityBOR2Borders, Borderlands and ConsequencesCHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Tamara M Woroby, SAIS- Johns Hopkins UniversityDefining the Intangible Infrastructure of Border Crossings: A Case Study of the Canadian –USBorderDonna Davis, Texas Tech UniversityCanada US Borderlands: Thunder Bay, Duluth, and Sault Ste. MarieLeslie R. Alm and Ross. E. Burkhart, Boise State UniversityThe Unruly Kingdom: Canada, Crime, and the International Border in Contemporary Culture,Albert Braz, University of AlbertaFarm Impacts of Remittances From Canada’s Seasonal Workers ProgramLidia Carvajal, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico, and Thomas Johnson, University ofMissouriEDU5Maximizing North American International Educational ConnectionsA Canadian Lens on Facilitating Factors for North American PartnershipsChrista Olson, American Council on EducationTitle: TBAMichael Hawes and Graeme Cunningham, Canada-US Fulbright FoundationFPOL5Forgotten Partnership RevisitedCHAIR: Greg Anderson, University of AlbertaStructural Realism and Transaction Costs in the U.S.-Canadian PartnershipPatrick James, University of Southern California

America’s ‘Most Reliable Ally’? Canada and the Evanescence of the Culture of PartnershipKim Richard Nossal, Queens UniversitySpecial But Not Especially Important: Looking at U.S.-Canada Defence Relations Through theDoran LensJoseph Jockel, St. Lawrence UniversityDISCUSSANT: David Haglund, Queens UniversityFRANCO4Marketing North-American Francophones: Acadians, Québécois, and Franco-AmericansEvangeline and Tourism in AcadiaRita Ross, University of California, BerkeleyLa Sagouine: The Literary and Cultural PhenomenonDebra K. Nicholson, Terra State Community CollegeFRE8Editing, Anthologizing, and Teaching Quebec and Franco-Canadian StudiesChair: Patrick James, USC, President of ICCSTeaching the Nation? Francophone Canadian Literature in the Classroom”Rosemary Chapman, University of NottinghamTitle TBAChris Kirkey, State University of New York College at PlattsburghEditing Quebec Questions: Quebec Studies for the Twenty-first CenturyMichel Biron, McGill UniversityGEN6Nationalist Movements and MomentsCHAIR: Eric M. Uslaner, University of Maryland – College ParkGenerational Change and Support for a Sovereign QuebecScott Piroth, Bowling Green State UniversityConstructing Canadian identity: Scandal and Inquiry in the MilitaryJanis Goldie, Huntington University/Laurentian UniversityOttawa, une Capitale contestéeKenza Benali, University of OttawaLe Chantier Ottawa: memoires de la vie francaise dans la Capitale nationaleAnne Gilbert, University of OttawaDISCUSANT: Richard Nimijean, Carleton UniversityHIS6Resisting or Embracing the Future in Canadian HistoryCHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Thomas Murphy, Seattle UniversityThe Presence of Anti-federalists’ Ideas in Canadian History: Not Even a Footnote Yet!

Marie-Christine Gilbert, University of Ottawa’There is land, land everywhere’: Back to the Land Policies in Early 20th-Century CanadaRebecca Mancuso, Bowling Green State UniversityEarly Twentieth Century Patterns of Consumer Research in Canadian Business and RetailChristopher Adams, University of ManitobaPOL5From the Good to the Better Society: Ethics and Social PolicyCHAIR: Joseph Cobetto, University of Missouri - ColumbiaLong Term Care: Policies for the Elderly in Canadian Provinces, Ontario, Quebec and AlbertaHoward Palley, University of MarylandCanadian Morality Policy in Comparative PerspectiveDonley Studlar, West Virginia UniversityAdministrative Malady: The Implementation of Canada’s Public Servants Disclosure ProtectionActGeorge Sulzner, University of Massachusetts—AmherstDiversity and Trust in CanadaEric M. Uslaner, University of Maryland--College ParkDISCUSSANT: TBASaturday, November 1910:30am—12:00pmABO5Humor as a political toolCHAIR: Pamela V. Sing, University of Alberta“Métis Humour”: Upending stereotypes in the graphic book, Bufflo & SprucegumPamela V. Sing, University of AlbertaJesters, Tricksters, and Decolonizing Discourses: Indigenous and Canadian Political CartooningAmanda Murphey, Carleton UniversityDISCUSSANT: Carol Lazzaro-Weis, University of MissouriART6Communications in CanadaCHAIR: Carolyn James, Pepperdine University'A Sexy Issue for the Left': The Great Canadian Theatre Company's Sandinista!Karina Smith, Victoria UniversityAnother Piece of the Mosaic: Jewish Canadian TheatreJane Moss, Duke UniversityMaterializing 'The Voice of Canada': Architecture, Radio, and International ServiceMichael Windover, McGill University

COMP4Round Table on "Voting and Non-voting in Canada and the USA" (to address the questionposed in Henry Milner's 2010 book: The Internet Generation: Engaged citizens or Politicaldropouts? )CHAIR: Martin Lubin, SUNY PlattsburghYouth Political Drop-Outs in Canada & the USAHenry Milner, University of MontrealAdditional speakers TBAECO6Canadian Trade and Investment PerformanceCanada's Recent Integrative Trade Performance: An Examination of Eight Key IndicatorsJean-Francois Lamoureux, Export Development CanadaCanadian Outward Foreign Direct Investment and Exports: An empirical investigation using theHausman-Taylor method for a gravity modelExport Development CanadaResearch & Development: A Key Input for Enhancing Canadian Export CapacityTodd Evans, Export Development CanadaENG6Literature, Place, and HistoryCHAIR: Frances W. Kaye, University of Nebraska—LincolnMutiny on the Atlantic SeashoreJessica Woodman, Carleton UniversityPersonal and Collective Traumas: History’s Cartography in Michael Ondaatje’s The EnglishPatientJohn Van Rys, Redeemer University CollegeEnvironmental Crisis and Economic Growth in Canada: A Study of Carol Shields’ Larry’s PartyAmrit Kaur,Memory on The Guthrie RoadLaura Ferri, Centro Siena UniversityFPOL6Forgotten Partnership Revisited 1CHAIR: Christopher Sands, Hudson InstituteAmerica's Soft Power Partnership with Canada in a Multipolar WorldJohn Kirton, University of TorontoThe Forgotten Partnership and the Evolving U.S.-Canada Trade, Investment, and CommercialRelationshipEarl Fry, Brigham Young UniversityRenewing the Canadian-American PartnershipColin Robertson, McKenna, Long and Aldridge LLP

Mexico and the Forgotten Partnership – Is it Better to Forget (or Learn to Love) Trilateralism?Isabel Studer, Tecnolgico de MonterreyDiscussant: Debora Van Nijnatten, Wilfrid Laurier UniversityFRE9Aspect de la vie et de l’oeuvre de Gabrielle RoyCHAIR: Chair: Myrna Delson-Karan, St. John's UniversitySouvenirs de ma tanteYolande Roy-Cyr, Niece of Gabrielle RoySur les pas de Gabrielle Roy: Visite aux lieux de ses romansMyrna Delson-Karan, St. John’s UniversityGabrielle Roy et Gérard Dion: La Révélation intérieurePaul Socken, University of WaterlooHIS7New Directions in Canadian Diplomatic History and Foreign PolicyCHAIR: Robert J. Bookmiller, Millersville University of PennsylvaniaFishing Troubled Waters: The Role of Canadian Fishermen in North Atlantic Diplomacy, 1818-1910Brian Payne, Bridgewater State UniversityCanadian Diplomatic Outreach to Latin America: Canadian-Colombian Diplomatic Relations1949-53Stefano Tijerina, University of MaineThe New Internationalist: F. Andrew Brewin and the Placing of Canada in the World, 1960-1979Stephanie Bangarth, King’s University College, UWOPOL6Politics and Policy across Scales: Federal-Subnational-Local-Cross BorderCHAIR: Neal Carter, Brigham Young UniversitySuccess in State and Provincial Capitals: Modeling Effective Careers for Governors andPremiersBrendan Burke, Suffolk UniversityThe U.S. and Quebec Compared: Attitudes Towards Political SymbolsMichael A. Morris, Clemson University; Robert W. Smith, Clemson University; and Jean Crête,Laval UniversityAutonomous Innovation: Policy Laboratories and the Politics of Health Policy Diffusion in Canadaand the U.S.Gwendolyn Sams, University of MissouriIntergovernmental Relations in Federal Capital Cities: Is Ottawa Still a Model?Caroline Van Wynsberghe, UC LouvainDISCUSSANT: TBASaturday, November 19

12:00pm—2:15pmRegional LunchesSaturday, November 192:15pm—3:45pmCOMP5Roundtable on Teaching Canadian Studies/Teaching Canada IIICHAIR: Richard Nimijean, Carleton UniversityTeaching Scholarship in a Digital AgeTracy Summerville, UNBCI really did think it was 'like' a 51st State: Teaching Canadian Politics to Students in the U.S.Jeffery Ayres, St. Michael's CollegeTeaching "Canadian" Foreign Policy: discipline? What disciplineClaire Turenne Sjolander, University of OttawaECO7Sectoral and Regional DevelopmentThe Softwood Lumber Dispute and U.S. Allegations of Improper Panel Review Under NAFTAGilbert Gagne, Bishop’s UniversityMarketing Dimensions and Economic Impacts of Provincial Tourism Website DesignRichard D. Parker, High Point UniversityThe Automotive Business in NAFTA after the Worldwide Financial Crisis: The Repercussions inCanadaFrancisco Navarette Baez, Universidad del valle de AtemajacEDU6Pedagogy of Identity(s) and Social CriticismCHAIR: Eileen M. Angelini, Canisius CollegeElizabeth Trott of Ryerson University will present “Education, Freedom of Speech and SocialCriticism”Maurice Richard: A Symbol of Unity for French-CanadiansEileen M. Angelini, Canisius CollegeTeaching Quebecois Literature in the U.S. South: Relations of Américanité, Hybridity andTransculturalHolly Collins, Baylor UniversityFPOL7Canadian Diplomacy in Flux: Middle Power or Global Player?CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: David Morin, Université de SherbrookeCanada and the Campaign for a 2011 2012 UN Security Council Seat: A Sober Second LookAdam Chapnick, Canadian Forces College / RMC

Globalization, Foreign Policy and Paradiplomacy: the Unlikely Cooperation of Québec andCanada in Attaining the UNESCO Convention on Cultural DiversityJody Neathery Castro, University of Nebraska OmahaCanada in the International Criminal Court: Myths, Realities, and the Case for RenewedCommitmentProsper Bernard, CUNYQuid Pro Quo? The Link between Middle Power Internationalism and International PrestigeNicolas Choquette Levy, University of CalgaryThe Broadening of Public Support for Foreign Policy: Canada's Domestic OutreachEllen Huijgh, Antwerp U-Clingendael and Carleton UniversityFRANCO5Ottawa: A Francophone Literary Crossroad / Ottawa au croisement des littératuresfrancophones Literary StudiesCHAIR: Francois Paré, University of WaterlooOttawa: capitale littéraire en deux tempsLucie Hotte, University of OttawaCroisement et métissage des monstres dans les contes de la vallée de l'OutaouaisCynthia Jones, State University of New York, BuffaloL'édition littéraire et pamphlétaire à Ottawa: conventions et innovationsFrancois Paré, University of WaterlooClaire Martin, entre la rébellion et l'amourAubrey Kubiak, State University of New York, BuffaloAutochtonie et migration dans les récits autobiographiques de Mila YounèsCarine Mardorossian, State University of New York, BuffaloBeding, Beddows, Bedang: Joël Beddows et le théâtre franco-ontarienStéphanie Nutting, University of GuelphGEN7Pluralism, Diversity and Multiculturalism in ActionCHAIR: Scott Piroth, Bowling Green State UniversityPluralism: Identifications and OutlookAfroza M. Nanji, University of CalgaryDiversity and Trust in CanadaEric M. Uslaner, University of Maryland – College ParkHeritage Speakers in Canada: Issues of Language Competence and Language EducationJuana M. Liceras, University of OttawaThe Ethics of Deep Diversity in Multicultural Societies: All Party Interfaith as a ModelMahmoud Masaeli, St. Paul UniversityDISCUSSANT: Mihaela Vieru, Carleton UniversityHIS8

What’s in a Title?: “Transnationalism” and Canadian-American AffairsCHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Reginald C. Stuart, Mount Saint Vincent UniversityMichael Behiels, University of OttawaGeoffrey Hale, University of LethbridgeScott See, University of Maine OronoJason Bristow, Private ScholarNOR4Melting Boundaries: Rethinking Arctic Governance. Student panel from the University ofWashington Arctic Task Force 2011CHAIR: Nadine Fabbi, University of Washington.Québec and Nunavik, a Model for Arctic GovernanceDominic Maltais, University of Washington.Delimitation of the Lomonosov RidgeJeung Hwa (Victoria) Choe, University of Washington.Re-Evaluating the Role of Arctic SecurityGriffith Couser, University of Washington.Hunting, Fishing, Trapping and Gathering in Education Policies: For a Better Recognition ofMaqaittiiLisa Koperqualuk, Makivik Corporation, MontréalDISCUSSANT: Joël Plouffe, Université du Québec à Montréal.Saturday, November 193:45pm—4:15pmRefreshment BreakSaturday, November 194:15pm—5:45pmABO6Population movements, problems and categoriesCHAIR: James Saku, Frostburg State UniversityThe population characteristics of Aboriginal CanadiansJames Saku, Frostburg State UniversityHomelessness in Canada: An Exploratory PaperKim Mac Innis, Bridgewater State UniversityMigration and Social Rituals in Newfoundland and AlbertaCraig T. Palmer, University of MissouriAccommodating Difference & Diversity in a Globalized Economy: Is Canadian multiculturalismpolicy still relevant to socially just social work practice?Morna McEachern; Stan de Mello; Quinton Red Eagle Smith (University of Washington)DISCUSSANT: Andrea Olive, University of Michigan DearbornBOR3

Borderlines and Borderlands: Current Research on the Border between the United Statesand CanadaCHAIR: Heather Nicol, Trent UniversityThe Performance of the Canada – US Border, What and How Do We Assess?Don Alper, Western Washington UniversityThe Wall, The Fence and The Gate: Towards Cosmopolitan Society or ArrestedTransnationalismHeather Nicol, Trent UniversityCollaborative Research on Transboundary Water Resources in North America, a ComparativePerspectiveChris Brown, New Mexico State UniversityThe Search for Enabling Borders and Secured BoundariesVictor Konrad, Carleton UniversityECO8Labor Markets, Migration, and Socioeconomic ConditionsWork-Family Articulation in Various Professional SectorsDiane-Gabrielle Tremblay, Teluq-UQAMThe Relationship Between Job Satisfaction, Workplace Stress, and Unhealthy Lifestyle ChoicesAmong Canadian NursesKaren Buhr, University of MaineImmigrants and Economic Change in Canadian Urban AreasLaura Reese, Michigan State UniversityCoal, Snow, and Million Dollar Homes: Rural Economic Development in British ColumbiaPaul Ciccantrell, Western Michigan UniversityENG7Animals and Masks: Ways of CharacterizationCHAIR: Robert Thacker, St. Lawrence UniversityMargaret Laurence: The Woman and the MasksNora Foster Stovel, University of AlbertaFred Bodsworth's AchievementJanice Fiamengo, University of OttawaThe Sheppard Journals: Life Writing and Equestrianship as Acts of Governance on the CanadianPrairieShirley McDonald, University of AlbertaFRE10Quebec Questions : Quebec Studies for the 21st Century : Editors RoundtableStéphan Gervais, McGill UniversityChristopher Kirkey, SUNY Plattsburgh)Jarrett Rudy, McGill UniversityGEO5

Urban Geography and Planning in the US and CanadaCHAIR: Sara Beth Keough, Saginaw valley State UniversityThe Great Outdoors vs. the Dome World: Urban Planning Notions for Coping with the Cold inSouthern Canada and the Far NorthLawrence D. Taylor, El Colegio de la Frontera NorteFt. McMurray, Alberta: Considering Urban Development in a Boom TownSara Beth Keough, Saginaw Valley State UniversityCity Diplomacy: Canadian Soft PowerMaureen Waters O’Neill, University of Lyon and UQAMQuebec City as a Capital City: Planning in a Subnational Political CenterMartin Simard, UQAC, AND And Guy Mercier, University of LavalDISCUSSANT: David Gordon, Queen's UniversityHIS9The War of 1812: Telling History for TelevisionJohn Grant, Executive Producer, The War of 1812 and Chief Content Officer of WNED-TVPeter Twist, The War of 1812 Production Designer and Owner/Director of Military HeritageVictor Suthren, The War of 1812 Program ConsultantPOL7Legal StudiesCHAIR: James McHugh, University of AkronJudicial Responsiveness to Public Opinion: The Case of Immigration and the Federal CourtsJennifer Ann Dube, University of Missouri, ColumbiaThe Abrogation of Rights in Times of Crisis: Comparing Canada and the U.S. Post-9/11Carolyn Geiser, University of Denver/University of PhoenixPro Bono and the Public Good in Canada: Instituting the Public Interest in Private PracticeRobert Granfield, University at BuffaloThe Supreme Court and Reporters: Confidential Source Privilege in Canada and the U.S.William Green, Morehead State UniversityDISCUSSANT: Richard Kay, University of ConnecticutSaturday, November 196:00pm—7:00pmPlenary featuring Douglas Gibson, Editor of Douglas Gibson Books and former editor ofMcClelland and StewartModerated by Robert Thacker, St. Lawrence UniversitySunday, November 209:00am—10:00am

ACSUS Business Meeting