Guest Lecture: The Unknown History of Blacks in Québec, Greg Robinson
Lucienne-Cnockaert Chair Lecture
Departments of History, Bishop’s University and UdeS
Monday, February 15th, 2010 at 3:00 p.m.
MCGreer 100, Bishop’s University
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
THE UNKNOWN HISTORY OF BLACKS IN QUEBEC
From the 17th century, when they were brought as slaves to New France, to the appointment of Michaelle Jean as Governor-General of Canada in 2005, the presence of Black men and women has marked the landscape of Quebec. The story of their experience, including their labour history, family life, social and artistic contributions, and struggle for equality, forms a compelling chapter of the history of la Belle Province.
Greg ROBINSON, PhD
Department of History, UQAM
Greg Robinson is professor in the department of History of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). His fields of specialisation are the history the United States of America and the history of visible minorities. He is the author of BY ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT: FDR AND THE INTERNMENT OF JAPANESE AMERICANS (Harvard University Press, 2001) and A TRAGEDY OF DEMOCRACY: JAPANESE CONFINEMENT IN NORTH AMERICA (ColumbiaUniversity Press, 2009). Professor Robinson is also co-editor of THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE AND HISTORY (Gale/McMillan, 1995-2000)
XXIst Meeting on Representation Theory of Algebras
The meeting will be held on October 2 and 3, 2009 at Bishop’s University.
For information: http://ubishops.ca/algebra/activite.htm
Conference on Learning Environments and Teaching Strategies at Bishop’s
On June 1 and 2, 2009 the Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance will hold its annual mini-conference and retreat at Bishop’s. Dr. Eva Mary Bures in the School of Education is a member of this multi-institutional research centre established in 1988 and based at Concordia University. The CSLP has led a variety of innovative research and development projects, involving hundreds of students from elementary, secondary and postsecondary educational institutions, in partnership with the Quebec Ministry of Education and school boards.
Jane Austen Comes to Bishop’s
The Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Symposium will take place on March 14th and 15th, 2009 at Bishop’s. Although written in the early 19th century Jane Austen’s novels are popular to this day and thanks to the many film adaptations popularity has increased as the story has reached more than the Jane Austen readership. The symposium will welcome students, community, scholars and several Jane Austen Societies from Montreal and New England.
Seminars in Computational Topology 2008-2009
1968, Societies in Crisis: A Global Perspective
November 13-14, 2008
History professors Dr. Patrick Dramé and Dr. Michael Childs are members of the organizing committee of the international conference 1968, Societies in Crisis: A Global Perspective, to be held at Concordia University, Montreal on November 13-14, 2008.
The ‘crisis of 68’ represents the apogee of the aspiration to freedom and change in societies exasperated by the status quo and respect for social and ethical codes considered obsolete. These general protest movements also found an echo because of their global dimension: they swept Quebec, the United States, Europe, Africa and Latin America. The conference will seek, on the one hand, to analyse the interconnections, influences or distinctive characteristics of the crisis associated with 1968 and on the other, to compare these crises by placing them in the sociopolitical perspective of the Sixties (decolonization in Africa, thaw in the Cold War, Vietnam War and, in Quebec, Quiet Revolution, among other factors).
Conference on Brain Plasticity and Reorganization
April 4-5, 2008
Dr. Bacon from the Psychology department is organizing the 17th Scientific retreat of the Centre de Recherche en Neuropsychologie et Cognition (CERNEC). The annual meeting will take place in St-Sauveur on April 4-5, 2008. The theme will be Brain Plasticity and Reorganization and the keynote speaker will be Krish Sathian (Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA). Over 60 talks and posters will be presented and 150 participants are expected to attend.
 COLLOQUIUM OF NON COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA
June 9 - 14, 2008
This meeting lies within the
framework a series of colloquia of non commutative algebra,
in which take part mathematicians from France, South America
and Québec. These colloquia are being held approximately
twice a year in France, Argentina or Uruguay. For the first
time, one of these conferences will take place at the
universities of Sherbrooke and Bishop’s.
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