The Summer 2008 ACQS newsletter is now available.
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.
* Currently only contributions from U.S. citizens are tax deductible.
* Contributions are solicited in any amount.
* Requests for contributions will be incorporated into the annual dues statement.
* Contributions are accepted at any time by the organization's Treasurer, Samuel H. Fisher III; checks should be made out to ACQS with a notation that if is for the Fund and mailed to:
Dr. Sam Fisher
Dept. of Political Science and Criminal Justice
University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL 36688
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All contributions will be acknowledged by the President of the association and the names of contributors will appear on publications of the ACQS and on its Web site unless otherwise requested.
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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