Regional Spotlight Sessions | Regional Spotlight Tours
The location of the Annual Meeting in Montreal affords meeting attendees a special opportunity to see interesting sites and discuss political and cultural issues bubbling in this historical city.
President Cynthia Fuchs Epstein appointed a local support committee chaired by Michele Ollivier, (Université d'Ottawa)and Christopher McAll, (Université de Montréal) to develop a series of regionally-focused sessions for presentation at the Annual Meeting.
In addition, the ASA has partnered with the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association (CSAA) and the Canadian Association of the Sociologists and Anthropologists of French language (ACSALF) to offer a series of sessions that examine the variying regional influences on transgress boundaries. The roster of sessions is listed below.
**Dates and times will be added to the listings when the program schedule becomes available at the end of May.**
Regional Session. Doing Sociology in Quebec: Influences and Contributions (co-sponsored with ACSALF)
Friday, August 11 | 4:30pm - 6:10pm
Session Organizer and Presider: Jean-Philippe Warren, Concordia University
Marcel Rioux and the National Question(Greg Nielsen, Concordia University)
Dialectical Sociology: Problems and Prospects (Jean-François Côté, Uqam)
Societies Dream Too: Fernand Dumont (Jean-Philippe Warren, Concordia University)
Trends in Quebec Sociology (Yves Gingras, Uqam )
Regional Session. Acadia: Maintaining Cultural Identity and Transnationalism
Friday, August 11 | 10:30am - 12:10pm
Session Organizer and Presider: Ronald Babin, Université de Moncton
Gino LeBlanc, Université de Moncton (Panelist)
Pierre Foucher, Université de Moncton (Panelist)
Ronald Babin, Université de Moncton (Panelist)
Chedley Belkhodja, Université de Moncton (Panelist)
Maurice Basque, Université de Moncton/Études acadiennes et du Musée acadien/l’Association des études canadiennes (Panelist)
Regional Session. Bread (session will be held off-site)
Friday, August 11 | 10:30am - 12:10pm
Session Organizer and Presider: Michele Ollivier, University of Ottawa
Grass-Roots Law-Making : The Strange Case of Quebec’s Anti-Poverty Law (Pascale Dufour, Université de Montréal)
Challenging the New Workplace: Immigrant Workers in Montreal (Eric Shragge, Concordia University)
Resistance and Recognition : Sex Workers Organising(Frances Shaver, Concordia University)
Down and Out : Sociology in the City (Christopher McAll)
Regional Session. Canadian Social Movements in Comparative Perspective
Sunday, August 13 | 10:30am - 12:10pm
Organizer and Presider: Suzanne Staggenborg, McGill University
Social Movement Diffusion and the Rise of the New Left in Canada (Jeffrey Cormier)
What’s Happened to the Canadian Women’s Movement? (Suzanne Staggenborg, McGill University; Judith Taylor, University of Toronto)
Political Institutions and Policy Discourse: Comparing Lesbian and Gay Social Movements in Canada and the U.S. (Miriam Smith, Trent University)
Opportunity for Whom? Assessing the Effects of Political Opportunity and Critical Events on Canadian Aboriginal Mobilization, 1951-2000 (Howard Ramos, Dalhousie University)
Changing the Climate: Environmental Activism and Institutions in a Post-Kyoto World (Anna-Liisa Aunio)
Regional Session. Circuses (session will be held off-site)
Friday, August 11 | 2:30pm - 4:10pm
Session Organizer and Presider: Christopher McAll
News and Soaps: Why TV Omnivores in Quebec are Not Where They Should Be (Michele Ollivier, University of Ottawa; Guy Gauthier, Independent)
Cover Stories : Poverty and the Press in Toronto and Montreal (Greg Nielsen, Concordia University)
Changing the Rules: The Artists, the Public, and the Creative Culture of Multimedia City (Louis Jacob, Université du Québec à Montréal)
Contesting Chinatown, Contesting Citizenship (Yon Hsu, Concordia University)
Doing it in the Street : The Social Mission of Montreal’s Cirque du soleil (Nicole Ollivier, Cirque du soleil)
Regional Session. Cities, Space and State Restructuring
Satuday, August 12 | 12:30pm - 2:10pm
Session Organizer and Presider: Paul Leduc Brown
Guy Chiasson, Université du Québec en Outaouais (Panelist)
Jean-Marc Fontan, Université du Québec à Montréal (Panelist)
Laurence Bherer, Université de Montréal (Panelist)
Regional Session. Escape to Canada or Canadian Experience as Cautionary Tale: Making Sense of Conflicting American Perceptions of Canadian Society (co-sponsored with CSAA)
Saturday, August 12 | 2:30pm - 4:10pm
Session Organizer and Presider: Roberta Hamilton, Queen's University
What about the children? Deconstructing the rhetoric of opposition to same-sex marriage rights in the United States and Canada (Katherine Arnup, Carleton University)
I Want to Start Making Some Reservations’: American Perceptions of Canadian Indian Policies (Denys Delage; Jean-Philippe Warren, Concordia University)
A Haven from Racism? Interracial Adoption since the 1950s (Karen Dubinsky, Queen's University)
Too Big for their Britches': Right Wing Images of Canada in American Media (Vincent Sacco)
Regional Session. First Nations, Immigration and Diversity in Quebec (co-sponsored with ACSALF)
Sunday, August 13 | 2:30pm - 4:10pm
Session Organizer: Micheline Labelle labelleca
Presider: Christopher McCall, Université de Montréal
Studying Arabs and Muslims in Canada and the US : Power and Paradigms in the Context of Globalization (Rachad Antonius)
Immigrants, First Nations and Québécois anthropologists: Encounters and Missed Encounters (Pierre Beaucage, Université de Montréal)
Protest Politics and Transnationalism from Below: The Case of Ethnic and Racialized Minorities (Micheline Labelle)
Discussant: Meir Amor, Concordia University
Regional Session. Myths and Realities: Canadian Health Care in Practice (co-sponsored with CSAA)
Monday, August 14 | 10:30am - 12:10pm
Session Organizer and Presider: Pat Armstrong,York University
Hugh Armstrong Carleton University (Panelist)
Lorraine Greaves, B.C. Centre of Excellence for Women's Health (Panelist)
Joel Lexchin, University of Toronto (Panelist)
Regional Session. Social Capital and Policy-Making in Canada
Sunday, August 13 | 4:30pm - 6:10pm
Session Organizer and Presider: Jack Jedwab, Association for Canadian Studies
Howard Duncan, Metropolis Canada (Panelist)
Jean-Pierre Voyer, Policy Research Initiative (Panelist)
Jack Jedwab, Association for Canadian Studies (Panelist)
Regional Session. The Greatest Divide? Health Care in Canada and the United States
Friday, August 11 | 2:30pm - 4:10pm
Session Organizer and Presider: Amelie Quesnel-Vallee, McGill University
Antonia Maioni, McGill University (Panelist)
John Myles, University of Toronto (Panelist)
Theodore Marmor, Yale University (Panelist)
Donald Light, University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey (Panelist)
Alain Poirier, Quebec Ministry of Health and Social Services (Panelist)
