Nordic Association for Canadian Studies / Association Nordique d

Nordic Association for Canadian Studies / Association Nordique d’Etudes Canadiennes
1) President / Président
Peter Bakker, Aarhus University
1984
2) Year of Foundation / Année de fondation
Year of ICCS Membership / Année d’adhésion au
CIEC
3) Canadian Studies Centres /
Centres d’études canadiennes
(number/nombre)
The Canadian Studies Centre in Aarhus cooperates closely with
NACS
4) Members / Membres
(number/nombre)
Individual/Individuel : 310
Institutional/Institutionnel : 15
5) Web site / Site Web
6) Activities / Activités
a) Academic / académiques
b) Outreach (Promotion and publicity) /
(Promotion et publicité parmi les nonspécialistes et les professionnels)
c) Cultural / culturelles
www.nacs-anec.org
Academic activities, organized or co-organized
(1) Finland (interdisciplinary: Aboriginal Studies, political science, literature,
etc.)
May 5-8, Helsinki.
THE 12th MAPLE LEAF AND EAGLE CONFERENCE
North America: Relations and Relationships
University of Helsinki, May 5-8, 2008
(2) Norway (political science, history, literature, aboriginal studies and many
more):
August 6-9, 2008, Tromsø.
NACS Triennial Conference, Norway, august 2008.
Organized in cooperation with the Center for Sami Studies, University of
Tromsø.
Selected papers are being prepared for publication.
More than 100 attendants.
http://www.sami.uit.no/nacs/
(3) Norway (Arctic studies, political science, anthropology)
October 31 - November 2, 2008, Bergen.
NACS-ASANOR Conference: “Atlantic Connections: Europe and Aspects of
the Americas”.
http://www.asanor.com/?artID=404
(4) Denmark (political science)
March 3, 2009, Aarhus
(participants from Norway and Canada)
Workshop “The North is Hot again”. Aarhus, March 2009.
Presentations and planning session for two books, one in English and one in
French (editors: Stéphane Roussel and John Erik Fossum).
(5) Denmark (history, culture studies)
March 17, 2009, Aarhus.
Public lecture by M. Daniel Chartier, Directeur du Laboratoire de l'Imaginaire
du Nord à l'Université du Québec à Montréal : « De circumpolaire au
particulier: la nordicité culturelle du Québec », in cooperation with the dept.
of French, Aarhus University, and the Embassy.
(6) Norway (political science)
March 20-21, Oslo.
Workshop (organized in cooperation with Arena)
Lessons from Europe's and Canada's constitutional experiences
WP 2 - Constitutional politics
Oslo, 20-21 March 2009
(7) Iceland (history, literature, social science)
April 24, 2009, Reykjavik.
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Events around visit of George Elliot Clarke to Reykjavik
A.o. lecture: The Canadian Author George Elliott Clarke: Canada: The
Invisible Empire?
(8) Denmark
May 14-15, Aarhus
(main organizer: Canadian Studies Centre)
"Stories of Nationhood in Plural Societies".
(9) Denmark.
Several public lectures on Aboriginal linguistics: Pakki Chipps (Beecher Bay
First Nation) on the Nitinaht language; Peter Bakker on Michif; Peter Bakker
on connections between Salish and Algonquian language families.
OUTREACH
Media appearances (selected)
Robert Chr. Thomsen on Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic (P1 radio,
Denmark)
Peter Bakker on endangered indigenous languages in Canada (Metroexpress,
dec. 4 2008)
March 27th, 2009, Aarhus
Reception new Director Michael Böss of the Centre for Canadian Studies,
Aarhus University.
Organized by CSC; NACS assisted with publicizing the event.
http://www.canadianstudies.dk/index.php?page=home&hl=en
WIDER PUBLIC
Denmark (film, strategic studies).
February 5, 2009, Aarhus.
Screening of film ”Afghanistan: Between Hope and Fear by Canadian Film
maker Dominic Morissette.
Initiative of the Embassy. NACS organised the location, negotiations with the
cinema, publicity, discussion afterwards.
7) Publications
(books, journals, proceedings, etc./
livres, revues, actes, etc.)
A number of articles was published.
Several books are forthcoming later this year.
NACS published on average one book length publication annually.
8) Youth Activities
(Events, teaching areas and resource
development, theses, student exchanges, etc.)
Activités des jeunes
Students exchanges between Denmark and Canada (ca. 30 annually) are
handled by the Canadian Studies Centre, Aarhus University
9) Collaborative activities between
associations / centres / local Canadian
Government mission
Several activities (see under 6) are organized together with the local Embassy
10) Grants awarded by the association /
Awards & prizes received by members
(including student grants / awards)
NACS-ANEC grants two or three student grants for M.A. thesis research in
Canada ; three were awarded in the past year.
11) Research / Recherches
a) principal areas and projects /domaines de
recherches principaux et projets
b) aims and strategies / objectifs et stratégies
c) outcomes / résultats
NACS-ANEC has no precise overview over publications by members; board
members publish in the areas of political science, history, linguistics,
Aboriginal Studies, literature, social science.
An overview of earlier publications by NACS members was published in
spring 2008:
Mai Klærke Mikkelsen, Robert Chr. Thomsen & Peter Bakker. 2008.
NACS/ANEC Chronicle of Activities and Publications, 1997-2007. Aarhus:
Nordic Association of Canadian Studies. 128 pp.
12) Up-coming activities & events /
Activités & événements à venir
Plans for workshops on migration, constitutions, multiculturalism
ASANOR / NACS 2009 Conference;16 – 18 October, 2009 Kristiansand,
Norway: "Post-war North America in Politics, Culture, and Literature 19502000"
All NACS events are open to the public, including students
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