The Summer 2009 ACQS newsletter is now available.
Karen Gould, has been appointed President of Brooklyn College and will assume her new post August 15th. Karen is well known to the Canadian-Quebec Studies community. She served as editor of Québec Studies, President of ACSUS, and President of the International Council for Canadian Studies. For her work, she has been awarded both the Donner Medal and the Governor General's Prize. She taught at Bucknell, Virginia Polytech, and Bowling Green State before beginning her administrative career. She was a Dean at Bowling Green State, Old Dominion University, and the University of Cincinnati prior to becoming Provost at California State Long Beach in 2007. Members of ACQS will, of course, know Karen for her ground-breaking scholarship on Quebec women writers, including her book, Writing in the Feminine, and her many articles on Nicole Brossard, France Théoret, Madeleine Gagnon, and others.
Prof. Julie Rogers, President, ACQS; Prof. Robert Whelan; Mr. Marc Boucher, Head of Post, Québec Office, Chicago
The recipient of the 2008 Prix du Québec from the Gouvernement du Québec and the American Council for Québec Studies is Robert K. Whelan.
Whelan is the Freeport McMoran Professor Emeritus of Urban and Regional Planning and Public Administration at the University of New Orleans and Visiting Professor of Urban and Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Arlington. He taught previously at the Georgia Institute of Technology and at the University of North Florida.
Professor Whelan received his Ph.D. in 1971 from the University of Maryland with a dissertation on the decision-making that governed urban renewal in Baltimore. Since that time, he has specialized in the study of urban planning, city government, and local economic development in areas as distinct as the New Orleans metropolis, rural Louisiana, coastal Florida, and the smaller municipalities of Quebec. He is an expert on such disparate topics as the physical impact of natural disasters on urban centers (an interest prompted in part as a response to the crippling effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans) and the economic impact of professional baseball franchises on their host cities.
His many publications in the field of Quebec Studies include analyses of the controversial program of municipal fusion throughout Quebec and of urban government and politics in Montreal. In his own field of public administration, he is co-author of Urban Politics and Policy in a Bureaucratic Age (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1979, 1986).
Professor Whelan has devoted many years of able service to the cause of Quebec Studies in the United States generally, and to the ACQS in particular. He has held the offices of Treasurer, President, and Past President of the ACQS and has been a member of the Council of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States and of the editorial boards of Quebec Studies and the International Journal of Canadian Studies. But his contributions to leadership do not stop there. He served his institution's College of Urban and Public Affairs as an interim dean and his city of Slidell, Louisiana, as chair of its Planning and Zoning Commission.
At its summer meeting that was held in Boston, Massachusetts on July 13 and 14, the Executive Board voted to establish a FUND for ACQS. Contributions made to this fund would be set aside and invested by the association's treasurer. The FUND would initially contribute to the financial stability of the organization and, in time, would produce dividends that would allow ACQS to expand its mission and its ability to undertake more for a greater number of researchers and institutions.
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Dr. Sam Fisher
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University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL 36688
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The American Council for Québec Studies is a recepient of the Prix du 3-Juillet-1608. Below is the sculpture presented to the organization. The sculpture is on display at the University of Maine, Orono.
Prix du 3 Juillet 1608 Sculpture
Artiste : Sylvia Safdie
Madame Sylvia Safdie est née à Aley, au Liban. Elle a vécu les premières années de sa vie en Isra�l et s'est installée au Canada avec sa famille en 1953. Elle est titulaire d'un baccalauréat en art de l'Université Concordia. Elle travaille et vit à Montréal.
Madame Safdie est une artiste de renommée internationale. Elle a participé à des expositions bien sûr au Canada, aux États-Unis, mais aussi en Europe et en Asie de l'Est.
Ses œuvres sont inspirées de la terre, élément à l'état brut, qu'elle comprend et interprète avec un regard touchant. On raconte que très jeune, elle observait la nature avec fascination et collectionnait les coquillages, les roches et le bois façonnés par la mer.
L'oeuvre qu'on voit ici, intitulée Semis, représente la mémoire du passé et les possibilités de l'avenir. Les deux formes qui reposent sur le socle sont d'une part, une grenade blanche et lisse et, d'autre part, une cosse de bronze rugueuse et r�che. La texture de la grenade a ici une signification importante puisqu'elle symbolise la réconciliation du multiple et de la diversité, dans une apparente unité. La vitre située au centre permet le reflet d'une forme dans l'autre, illustrant la relation symbiotique dans laquelle ces éléments se transforment mutuellement, dans leur interaction.
Artist : Sylvia Safdie
Syvia Safdie was born in Aley, Lebanon. She lived the first years of her life in Israel and came to Canada with her family in 1953. She received a Bachelor of Arts from Concordia University. She lives and works in Montreal.
Sylvia Sadie is an internationally-know artist. She has shown her work in Canada, in the United States, in Europe and in East Asia.
Her works are inspired from the earth, elements of the natural state that she understands and interprets with a caring eye. It is said about her that, very young, she was fascinated with nature, studied it and collected shells, rocks, and wood altered by the sea.
This work, entitled Semis, represents memories from the past and the promise of the future. The forms that rest on the pedestal are a white and smooth pomegranate and a rough, prickly husk. The texture of the pomegranate is important in this work in that it symbolizes the reconciliation of the multiple and the diverse in an apparent unity. The glass that separates the two allows for the reflection of one shape into the other, illustrating the symbiotic relationship in which these elements transform one another by their interaction.
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