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中国加拿大研究会会员通讯 The Association for Canadian Studies in China Newsletter 　=>1.  2008年“亚太加拿大研究论坛”以及澳大利亚新西兰加拿大研究双年会于2008年7月1日至4日在澳大利亚布里斯班的昆士兰大学隆重举行（PANCS 2008 Postgraduate Seminar and 2008 Biennial Conference for Canadian Studies Association in Australia and New Zealand Held in University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia from July 1st to July 4th , 2008）  由亚太加拿大研究会、澳大利亚新西兰加拿大研究会以及加拿大政府联合主办的2008年“亚太加拿大研究论坛”以及澳大利亚新西兰加拿大研究双年会于2008年7月1日至4日在澳大利亚布里斯班的昆士兰大学隆重举行。这次活动得到了加拿大政府的大力资助，加拿大外交部官员、驻澳高级专员，以及来自澳大利亚、新西兰、中国大陆、中国台湾、日本、韩国、印度、以色列等国家和地区的学者、博士生100多人参加了此次会议。7月1日上午，论坛拉开了帷幕。首先是这次会议的主办者之一的昆士兰大学曼纽尔学院院长Steward Gill教授致欢迎辞。接下来的博士生论坛按照不同领域，文学、经济、政治、社会，分为四个时段进行：第一时段是由印度加研会会长、新德里大学的R.. K. Dhawan教授主持。新德里大学Harpreet Kaur Arora研究员首先做了“The role that memory plays in shaping women’s fiction and female identity”的发言。接着是来自台湾世兴大学的研究生Sharon Chen以“Performing a Japanese Housewife in Ruth L. Ozeki’s My Year of Meats”为题进行了发言。第二时段的主持者是中国台湾加研会会长、国立宜兰大学的Andy Leung教授，两位发言人分别是印度孟买Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women's University 的Putul Sathe 研究员和来自世兴大学的研究生Claire Chen，他们依次进行了题为“Reading South-Asian Diaspora Women’s Narratives”和“Electra Complex as Presented in The English Patient”的演讲。第三时段是由中国加研会会长、山东大学的郭继德教授主持。来自北京外国语大学的博士生董宜坤和日本关西大学Prof. Guo Jide and Ms. Dong Yikun   的Koji Utsunomiya博士分别做了“Canada’s “Chinese hinking” in  the Tide of Globalization”和“A Study of Japan’s Pre-War Economic Research on Canada - An Analysis of the Japan’s Consular Reports”的演讲。两位发言人都从政治经济的角度、立足于加拿大与其在亚洲的两大贸易伙伴的政治经济关系，着眼于加拿大对华政治经济决策和日本对加拿大的贸易投资政策，与大家分享了研究成果，得到与会者的好评。第四阶段是由日本神户国际大学的Yuki Shimomura教授主持，发言人是来自澳大利亚Griffith University的博士生 Heather Anderson和以色列Haifa大学的博士生Dan Gottlieb，他们依次做了“Prisoners Radio in Canada and Australia”以及“Ecological footprint as policy tool in Canada and Israel”的发言，发言者以崭新的研究视角与扎实的实证研究给在场的学者留下深刻的印象。来自北京外国语大学的博士生董宜坤在发言之后还接受了PANCS颁发的证书，作为对她在加拿大研究道路上继续前进的鼓励。7月1日晚，与会者参加了在布里斯班Customs House举行了“加拿大日”的庆祝酒会。到会的有加拿大政府代表、澳大利亚政府代表、昆士兰大学校长、澳新加拿大研究会负责人及成员等，主办方邀请了著名的国际问题专家、畅销书作家、来自牛津大学的Margaret MacMillan教授进行主旨发言，题目为“The Old Dominions and the Dragon: Australia, Canada and China”。她从历史的角度追溯了加拿大和澳大利亚两国的政治经济文化渊源，并针对两者的亚太政策，尤其是面对全球化崛起的中国，各自政策的制定和执行进行了精彩的发言。7月2、3日，参加亚太博士生论坛的教授和博士生又出席了于昆士兰大学举行的澳大利亚和新西兰加拿大研究双年会。这是澳新两国在加拿大研究领域两年以来级别最高、最权威的大会。在两天的会议上，发言学者们从政治经济文化社会等多角度多方面与大家分享了最新的研究成果，令与会者受益匪浅。 整个会议在7月4日上午亚太加研会常务会议之后落下了帷幕，并一致通过下一届论坛将于2009年11月于日本大阪召开。纵观本届亚太论坛各位与会者的发言，可以看出亚太地区加拿大研究的队伍正在不断壮大，年轻学者快速地成长，他们在各自的研究领域不断深入，不仅仅局限在传统的文学、文化，并扩展到经济、社会、政治、外交等各个方面，研究大多代表了现今加拿大研究的前沿课题。                                  Ms. Dong Yikun awarded a Certificate of现    通过澳新双年会这个平台，我们掌握了大洋洲加                   Presentation by PANCS               拿大研究的最新动态，结识了新朋友，汲取了许多宝贵经验，与会的亚太地区的教授和年轻学者们把这些宝贵经验带回自己的国家，必将对亚太地区各国的加拿大研究事业起到很大的推动作用。最后要特别感谢加拿大北京大使馆的大力支持，感谢中国加拿大研究会郭继德会长、李巍秘书长的辛苦工作，祝福中国加拿大研究队伍不断壮大，中国加拿大研究事业明天更美好！(北京外国语大学加拿大研究中心 董宜坤供稿)   Co-organized by PANCS, Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand and Canadian government, PANCS 2008 Postgraduate Seminar and 2008 Biennial Conference for Canadian Studies Association in Australia and New Zealand was held in University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia from July 1st to July 4th . Officials from Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs,    Canadian High Commissioner in Australia, more than 100  Canadianists from Australia, New Zealand, Mainland of China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, India, Israel and other regions and countries attend the two conferences. On July 1st, the Postgraduate Seminar began with the welcome speech delivered by Professor Steward Gill, organizer of this seminar. The seminar has four sessions with different field studies, say, literature, economy, politics and society.The first session was chaired by Professor RK Dhawan from University of Delhi. Ms Harpreet Kaur Arora, an independent research scholar currently teaching in the department of English at Kamala Nehru College, University of Delhi, gave the first presentation. She attempted to investigate the role that memory plays in shaping women's fiction and female identity, along with the interface between personal and cultural memory. The second speaker was Ms Sharon Chen, a postgraduate student from the Department of English of Shih Hsin University of Taiwan, having a speech, “Performing a Japanese Housewife in Ruth L. Ozeki’s My Year of Meats”.The chairman of the second session was Professor Andy Group photo of some participants                                  Leung from National Tsing Hua University. The two speakers in this part were Mrs Putul Sathe and Ms Claire Wang with two interesting topics, “Reading South-Asian Diaspora Women’s Narratives” and “Electra Complex as Presented in The English Patient” respectively.Professor Guo Jide from Shandong University of China presided the third session. Dong Yikun, a Ph.D. candidate at American and Canadian Studies Center of Beijing Foreign Studies of China, shared with audience her recent study on Canadian China policy making, “Canada’s ‘Chinese thinking’ in the Tide of Globalization”. And Dr. Koji Utsunomiya from Kansai University of Japan talked about his study of Japan’s pre-war economic research on Canada - an analysis of the Japan’s Consular Reports. These two presentations got lots of applause. At the end of this session, Dong Yikun was awarded the Certificate of Presentation by PANCS.The last two presentations were “Prisoners Radio in Canada and Australia” and “Ecological footprint as policy tool in Canada and Israel”made by Ms Heather Anderson from Griffith University of Australia and Mr. Dan Gottlieb from Haifa University of Israel. On the evening of July 1st, all participants were invited to attend the Opening of ACSANZ Conference and celebration of Canada Day. Professor Margaret MacMillan, the famous international studies expert, delivered a keynote speech, “The Old Dominions and the Dragon: Australia, Canada and China”.On July 2nd and 3rd, “Canada in the Asia Pacific” ACSANZ biennial conference was held in University of Queensland. This is the highest-level Canadian studies conference in Australia and New Zealand. The participants shared their latest studies on Canada with audience. And many of them made a comparative study of Canada and Australia. These two countries are both middle powers with British origins, similar cultures and similar political systems, so they have much to share. These analyses open up a new approach to the Canadian Studies.All the presidents of the associations for Canadian Studies in the Asia Pacific region had a meeting on July 4th. On this meeting Osaka was chosen as the host of next PANCS postgraduate seminar. Looking back to three days postgraduate seminar and ACSANZ biennial conference, it’s very exciting that the PANCS is growing with young and vigor. More and more Canadianists are joining in this big family. On the one hand, these students further their studies in the traditional areas—literature and culture; on the other hand, they open up new areas for study, say, politics, economy and society. Most of them represent the forefront studies on Canada.The three-day conference is a meaningful and productive one, an event of great significance. What we’ve seen, what we’ve got, what we’ve learnt from it will serve as a great impetus to the growth of young Canadianists around the Asia Pacific region, and to the prosperity of Canadian Studies.At the very end, sincere gratitude is given to Canadian Embassy Beijing, Association for Canadian Studies in China. Without their assistance, such a greatly successful event couldn’t possibly have happened.(Reported by Dong Yikun, Canadian Studies Center of Beijing Foreign Studies University)  　=>2.  麦吉尔大学加拉提教授一行于2008年6月访问中国社会科学院（McGill University Professors visiting CASS in June, 2008）  2008年6月8日，加拿大麦吉尔大学社会科技和发展研究中心主任、人类学教授加拉提（John Galaty）先生一行三人，应邀到中国社会科学院民族学与人类学研究所（简称“社科院民族所”）访问并讲座。陪同加拉提教授来访的有：麦吉尔大学神经外科学系教授芭芭拉（Barbara J. Galaty）和马丽（Mary McConnell）女士。加拉提教授在中国社科院民族所作了题为《当前非洲东部游牧的现代性：所有权、流动性和新领地》的学术演讲。他首先介绍了非洲东部的游牧/畜牧体系的多样性。在非洲东部，协作的形式和领土的组织随着社团的核心机构和群体而变化，诸如努尔人和索马里人这样以分叉世系组织为特征的群体、以代际系统为特征的奥罗莫人、以年龄体系为特征的马萨人和其他尼罗河社区。讲座还探讨几个人类学领域的主要视角，如何理解非洲干旱地区社会变迁的当代动态，尤其是牧民和现代性文化的关系。加拉提教授指出，非洲东部牧民在草场利用、保护、市场和向全球开放的趋向方面的适应理性是相当现代的。但是牧民由于失去草场最易受威胁，这反过来刺激了冲突的增加。他认为，现代性的概念在非洲语境中过于频繁使用，很少作为生产产  Prof. John G. Galaty addressing the lecture  力增长、经济发展的一种科学观念，更多受到非洲干旱土地上的牧民的怀疑。因此，牧民不应仅看作为生计方式特征的社会，而且是一个为保留土地基地而战的乡村阶层。             来自社科院民族所、社会学研究所、研究生院的学者和研究生20余人参加了座谈会。学者们除了与加拉提教授比较非洲和中国在游牧、环境问题外，还对加拿大的原住民、环境保护、医疗体系、魁北克问题等进行了交流。中国加拿大研究会副秘书长杜发春主持了座谈会，并宴请了加拿大学者。加拉提教授一行还访问了设在中国社科院民族所的国际人类学民族学联合会第十六届世界大会筹备委员会学术工作委员会办公室，与大会筹委会副秘书长张继焦教授、中国社会科学院社会学研究所农村与产业社会学研究室主任王晓毅教授、张倩博士等就世界大会推迟后的形势以及如何进一步筹备好世界大会进行探讨。加拉提教授曾任麦吉尔大学人文学院副院长、院长。他的主要研究领域是非洲东部的游牧民族，包括肯尼亚、坦桑尼亚、乌干达和埃塞俄比亚。现为麦吉尔大学社会科技和发展研究中心主任、加拿大非洲研究会会长。（中国社科院民族所加拿大研究中心 杜发春 供稿）On July 8th of 2008, three prestigious Professors from McGill University visited the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Chinese Academic of Social Sciences (IEA/ CASS). Prof. John G. Galaty, Department of Anthropology, Prof. Barbara J. Galaty, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, and Ms. Mary McConnell. In a seminar organized by IEA/ CASS, Prof. John G. Galaty addressed a lecture on The Modernity of Pastoralism in East Africa Today: Property, Mobility and the New Territoriality. He addressed that the Pastoralism is an adaptation to arid lands, and in Africa pastoral patterns of mobility, settlement, and land use is shaped by the degree of aridity.  Pastoral mobility varies along a continuum from very frequent movement to only seasonal mobility to almost sedentary husbandry.  In CASS scholars and graduated students at the seminar   East Africa, forms of cooperation and territorial organization vary with a society’s core institutions, with groups such as the Nuer and the Somali characterized by segmentary lineage organization, Oromo by a generation-grading system, and the Maasai and other Nilotic societies by an age-set system.After examining diversity in pastoral systems in East Africa, he pointed out several broader perspectives in anthropology that bear on our understanding of contemporary dynamics of social change in Africa’s arid lands, especially the relationship of pastoralists and the culture of modernity. The first question addresses recent attempts to see processes of globalization, including increased trans-national mobility, migration, refugee flows and cultural exchanges, as challenging understanding of societies as bounded and territorialized.  The second question focuses on the related but quite different assumption, which advocates sedentarization, that continuing mobility threatens the modernization of pastoralists.  The third question focuses on the discursive “construction” of the pastoral image in “anti-modern” terms (as having a supposed anti-market mentality, an irrational perspective on herd management, and a pre-modern approach to land ownership), which from the perspective of the State and the development industry serves to undermine pastoral land rights.  Countering these positions, the paper proposes that pastoralists are quite modern in following adaptive rationality in land use, conservation, markets and openness to global trends, but are most threatened by land loss, which in turn stimulates increasing conflict.  On the conclusion, Prof. John G. Galaty  mentioned that the notion of modernity is too often used in the African context less as a scientific construct defined by increasing productivity and economic progress and more to discredit arid-land pastoralists.  In this regard, pastoralists should be seen not just as a society characterized by a form of livelihood but also as a rural class fighting to retain its land base.More than 20 scholars and graduated students from CASS attended this roundtable seminar. Besides the discussion of Pastoralism, they also exchanged views with Canadian scholars on the environmental issues, First Nations studies and medical system in Canada.       Prof. Du Fachun, Vice Secretary-General of the Association of Canadian Studies in China, chaired the seminar and hosted a welcome dinner to McGill University Professors.     Prof. Du Fachun (right) and Canadian scholars            Prof. John G. Galaty’s research  focuses on East Africa, with primary emphasis on Kenya and Tanzania, secondarily Uganda and Ethiopia. He served as Secretary of the Commission on Nomadic Peoples at its inception, and later as President of the Canadian Association of African Studies. He also served as Associate Dean and Dean of   the Faculty of Arts, and now is the Director of the Centre for Society, Technology and Development, McGill University.