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REAFFIRMING OR REFORMING 'CANADIAN' VALUES AFTER 9/11 Conference sponsored by Humanities Research Unit, University of Saskatchewan DELTA BESSBOROUGH HOTEL, SASKATOON, 11-13 September 2003 Registration: 7:00-8:00 pm Session 1: 8:00-9:15 pm: Haroon Siddiqui: “Terror and the Canadian Media Difference: Opening Reception: 9:15-10:30 pm Session 2: 9:00-10:30 am: Human Rights and Profiling: Coffee break: 10:30-11:00 am Session 3: 11:00-12:30 pm: Challenges and Instruments, National and International: Lunch on your own: 12:30-2:00pm Session 4: 2:00-3:30 pm: Dissent or Terror? Coffee: 3:30-4:00 pm Session 5: 4:00-5:30 Reading Media: Evening Options: Openings and Artist Colloquia at the Mendel Art Gallery, and at Tribe; showing on campus or at Session 6: 9:00-10:30 am: The View from There: Coffee: 10:30-11:00 am Session 7: 11:00-12:30 pm: Profiling and Policing Borders: Lunch: 12:30-2:00 pm Session 8: 2:00-3.30 pm: Envisioning Terror: Session 9: 3:30-5:00 pm: Representing Canadian Communities and Canadian Values: Conference Banquet: 7:00-10:00 pm Conference Registration: Before August 15: $120.00. After August 15: $150.00 Includes registration package, opening reception, and the conference lunch, as well as entry to all the conference sessions. Please make cheques payable to the University of Saskatchewan, and mail to Len Findlay, c/o English Department, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, S7N 5A5. Receipts will be issued at the conference. Banquet on Saturday, September 13: $25.00 Please indicate any special dietary needs you may have. ***All conference sessions are free for Canadian students. However, they must register by completing the form below, and pay $25.00 if they wish to attend the conference banquet on Saturday, September 13. Name: Affiliation: Mailing Address: Phone: E-mail: Accommodation: Please note: booking before August 11, 2003. Delta Rooms: $109.00 plus taxes (13%) per night. Please indicate that you are part of the U of S Humanities Research Unit conference. Delta Bessborough Hotel Unpacking the University The Humanities Research Unit at the University of Saskatchewan was established in 1990 and is now into its fourth three-year term as an agency reporting to the Vice-President (Research). It is one of over 60 members in North America, Europe, and Australia of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes. The HRU is funded principally by its host university, but this funding is regularly supplemented by grants from the Social Sciences Research Council of Canada and from organizations such as the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. The HRU is committed to raising the profile of the Humanities on and off campus, to stimulating and supporting research by Humanists through colloquia and various publishing initiatives, and to promoting multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary scholarship. It usually sponsors two major academic conferences annually, as well as a variety of visiting and resident speakers and plays an active role in developing research grant proposals and in reconceptualizing relations between the Humanities and their various publics. It has developed special emphases on Body Projects and on the Indigenous Humanities. It is also closely involved in the activities of the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada. As attested by recent developments in the College of Arts and Science and recent discussions at the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, there is something of a crisis in the humanities in Canadian universities. Some of the traditional humanities disciplines are especially stressed--classics and modern European languages perhaps most of all--and need broadly based support and significant new resources if they are to preserve their core values and activities and develop connections with the so-called 'new' humanities and with other disciplines inside and outside the humanities. The humanities community on this campus needs to build on its considerable strengths and in a variety of ways, and the Humanities Research Unit has considerable experience in this area. Please get
in touch with humanities.research@usask.ca
if you think the HRU can help develop or support a humanities research
initiative of any sort.
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