TUESDAY JULY 1ST

9:00am - 4.00pm

Registrations Open All Day

9:15am - 4.00pm

Pacific Asian Network of Canadian Studies (PANCS)

Graduate Student Forum

Riverview

6.00pm - 8.00pm

Opening Keynote Address and Canada Day Reception:

The Old Dominions and the Dragon: Australia, Canada and China

Margaret MacMillan

Sponsored by ACSANZ, the Brisbane Institute and the Canadian High Commission.

Brisbane Insitute

Customs House

WEDNESDAY JULY 2ND

9.20am -10.35am

Canadian and Australian Hinterland Politics

Peter Jull

Riverview

10.40am -12.05pm

Concurrent Sessions

Panel Discussion: Residental Schools and Forced Assimilation

David MacDonald, JR Miller, Roger Nichols

Riverview

Planning Comparisons: Vancouver and Melbourne

Paul Mees

SBR

Comparing Secularisms: Faith and Secularism in Australian and Canadian Popular Media

Sophie Sunderland

Kyle

1.05pm - 2.20pm

Concurrent Sessions

Panel Discussion: War and Society

KR Nossal, Piper Rodd

Riverview

Canada Revisited Through Environmental History

Graeme Wynn

SBR

Comparison of Three Historical Novels (by Rushdie, Scott and Wiebe)

Satva Brat Singh

Kyle

2.25pm - 3.40pm

Concurrent Sessions

Chinese, Canadian and Australasian Histories

Riverview

Law, Juvenile Justice, Parental Responsibility

Terry Hutchinson, Russell Smandych

SBR

Newfoundland in the British Empire

James Hiller

Kyle

3.50pm - 5.05pm

Open to the public

Federation Dialogue

The Pursuit of Security: Canada and Australia's Shared Concerns and Common Agenda

Margaret MacMillan and Alex Bellamy

Sponsored by the Canadian High Commission.

Riverview

7.00pm (time TBC)

Conference Dinner

THURSDAY JULY 3RD

9.00am - 10.15am

The Quest for New Caledonia: Scots on the Pacific Slope

Ted Cowan

Riverview

10.20am - 11.35am

Concurrent Sessions

Panel Discussion: Indigenous Justice

Catherine Iorns-Magallenes, Margaret Stephenson

Riverview

Canadian Government/ ICCS Programs

Tony McKittrick, Martin Howard

SBR

South Asian Women Writers in Australia and Canada

RK Dhawan, Usha Dhawan, Robyn Morris

Kyle

11.40am-12.25pm

Lunch

12.30pm - 1.15pm

ACSANZ Biennial General Meeting

Open to all ACSANZ members (including all conference delegates)

Riverview

1.20pm - 2.35pm

Concurrent Sessions

Panel Discussion: Trade, Development, and Political Economy

Barbara Hocking, Bruce Muirhead

Riverview

Black Slavery in Canada/French North America

Afua Copper

SBR

National Literature Anthologies and the Making of the Canadian Canon

Robert Lecker

Kyle

2.40pm - 3.55pm

Concurrent Sessions

Postgraduate Panel Discussion

Susanne Fernau, Helena Kajlich, Dan Gottlieb

Riverview

Clean Development: Canada and the Asia-Pacific

AS Narang

SBR

Indigenous Early Childhood Education: Canada, Australia, NZ

Beverley Hall

Kyle

4.05pm - 5.20pm

Concurrent Sessions

Panel Discussion: Literature and Resistance

Suman Bala, Debra Dudek, Kimberley McMahon-Coleman

Riverview

Ethics of Payday Loans

Chris Robinson

SBR

Aboriginal Human Rights and Self-Determination: Arts, Culture, Territory

Robert Joseph, Rocque Berthiaume

5.30pm

Conference Close