Workshop Schedule
Language Institute (LI), 2nd Floor, Room 215 and La Rotonde, Room 216
University of Regina
Free parking available in Lot 3M
Friday October 7, 2011 | |
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Opening Address: Dr. Vianne Timmons, President and Vice-Chancellor, University of Regina and the Organizing Committee La Rotonde, Language Institute, 2nd Floor, Room 216 |
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Session 1: University Linkages |
10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. | Panel 1: General Discussion |
10:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. | Break |
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Session 2: Historical Currents and Connections |
12:00 p.m. – 12:45 p.m. | Panel 2: General Discussion |
12:45 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. | Lunch Break |
1:45 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. | Keynote Speaker: Dr. Paul Evans La Rotonde, LI 216, 2nd Floor Language Institute |
2:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Break |
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Session 3: Image, Perception and Art |
4:00 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. | Panel 3: General Discussion |
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. | Workshop Banquet |
Saturday October 8, 2011 | |
9:15 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Session 4: Health and Science |
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | Panel 4: General Discussion |
10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. | Break |
10:45 a.m. – 11:45 p.m. | Session 5: Foreign Policy |
11:45 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Panel 5: General Discussion |
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. | Lunch Break |
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. | Session 6: Migration and Chinese Immigrants in Canada |
2:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. | Panel 6: General Discussion |
3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. | Break |
3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Session 7: Non-diplomatic Relations |
4:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. | Panel 7: General Discussion |
5:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. | Closing Remarks |
Keynote Speaker Dr. Paul Evans - "Beyond Engagement: Canada and China 2020"
The recent turn around in the Harper government's China policy ended the period of "cool politics and warm economics" and has set the dial back to where the relationship was in the summer of 2005 when the "strategic partnership" was forged. With a positive tone re-established, the challenge ahead is now substantive.
The presentation will focus on three dimensions of a China policy consonant with the rise of China as a global force. The first is the definition of a new strategic rationale for the relationship that extends beyond immediate commercial advantage. The second is the creation of a new narrative for explaining what engagement with China is expected to achieve. And the third is an outline of concrete actions to better link Canadians to China and to prepare for an era of hyper-competition and turbulent geo-strategic and geo-economic change.
The presentation will focus on three dimensions of a China policy consonant with the rise of China as a global force. The first is the definition of a new strategic rationale for the relationship that extends beyond immediate commercial advantage. The second is the creation of a new narrative for explaining what engagement with China is expected to achieve. And the third is an outline of concrete actions to better link Canadians to China and to prepare for an era of hyper-competition and turbulent geo-strategic and geo-economic change.
Dr. Paul Evans Biography:
Director, Institute for Asian Research / Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia. Former Co-CEO and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. Visiting professor, Asia Center, Harvard University, 1991-99.
Dr. Evans has held visiting fellowships at the Australian National University (1998); National Chengchi University (1989); Chulalongkorn University (1989); the East-West Center (1995); and the national Institute for Global Research Advancement in Tokyo (1999). His current writings focuses on east Asian regionalism and Canada’s Asia policy.
Workshop Overview
Presentations: Language Institute, 2nd Floor, Room 215
Friday October 7, 2011
8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Opening Remarks:
Dr. Vianne Timmons, University of Regina President and Vice-Chancellor
9:00 a.m. - 10:00a.m. Session 1: University Linkages
This session examines the growth in university-to-university linkages between Canada and China, exploring the evolution and development of relations. It uses the University of Regina’s pioneering 1981 agreement as a case study for larger themes, assesses the university linkage experience, and includes consideration of the role of Confucius Institutes as a form of Chinese “soft power.”
“The University of Regina and China: Three Decades of Partnership”
Dongyan Blachford (Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina) and Ken Leyton-Brown (Department of History, Faculty of Arts, University of Regina)
“Building the University of Regina’s Presence in the PRC”
Garth Pickard and George Richert (Faculty of Education, University of Regina)
“Rehabilitating the Old Teacher for a Brighter Future: Confucius and the Role of Confucius Institutes in Contemporary Sino-Canadian Relations”
George A. Keyworth, Assistant Professor of East Asian Religions, Department of Religion and Culture, University of Saskatchewan
“Historical Reflection on Canada-China University Linkages”
Julia Pan (OISE/University of Toronto), Qiang Zha (York University), and Ruth Hayhoe (OISE-University of Toronto)
(Presented by Julia Pan and Qiang Zha)
10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Panel 1: General Discussion
10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Session 2: Historical Currents and Connections
Canadian relations with China did not spring from nothing in 1971; they had a longstanding pedigree, stretching back into the 19th century and before. This session combines two general looks at early relations – one in trade, and one in personal and diplomatic ties – and two closer case studies. In examining the role of Canadian diplomacy in the Quemoy and Matsu crisis, and the role of one Member of Parliament who pressed for recognition of China, the pre-recognition years are shown to be a period of Canadian activity, not of silence between Canada and China.
“The March Toward Prosperity”: Selling Canada in the Treaty Ports, Businessmen and Bureaucrats, 1920-1941”
Stephen Salmon, Senior Business Archivist, Canadian Archives and Special Collections Branch, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa
“At the Outer Limits of Influence: Canada and the Quemoy-Matsu Crisis, 1954-55”
Greg Donaghy, Head of Historical Section and General Editor of Documents on Canadian External Relations, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
“Pacific Promise: Canada's Early Relations with China”
John Meehan, Department of History, Campion College, University of Regina
“Bringing China In: F. Andrew Brewin, China, and Multilateralism”
Stephanie Bangarth, Department of History, King’s University College, University of Western Ontario
12:00 p.m. - 12:45 p.m. Panel 2: General Discussion
12:45 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. Lunch Break
1:45 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Keynote: Dr. Paul Evans
“Beyond Engagement: Canada and China 2020"
Dr. Paul Evans, Director, Institute for Asian Research / Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia. Former Co-CEO and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Session 3: Image, Perception and Art
Canada-China relations are refracted through prisms of perception, in which each side sees the other though its own images and imagination of the other. This panel looks at the image of Canada in China, including the echoes of the missionary enterprise, before turning to case studies in art and literature that help to form evolving images.
“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” Canada’s Public Image in China –Forty Years After Diplomatic Relations”
Yuchao Zhu, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, University of Regina
“Literary Interactions between China and Canada: the Role of Chinese-Canadian Literary Associations”
Laifong Leung, Professor Emerita, Asian Studies, University of Alberta
“Creating from Ashes: The Art of Huang Zhongyang”
Gail Chin, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Regina
4:00 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. Panel 3: General Discussion
Saturday October 8, 2011
9:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Session 4: Health and Science
Canada-China relations are dynamic and multi-faceted. This session examines vital but little studied aspects of the relationship, taking close looks at health, energy and environmental connections in order to paint a broader and more complete picture of trans-Pacific linkages.
“Energy and Environmental Issues in Sino-Canadian Relationships in 21st Century”
Olga V. Alexeeva, Department of Geography, Université du Québec à Montréal
“The Canada-China Project: A Multi-Sector Approach to Develop and Pilot Evidence-Based Interventions”
Liviana Calzavara, Director, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, CIHR Centre in HIV Prevention Social Research Deputy Director, HIV Social, Behavioural and Epidemiological Studies Unit, University of Toronto
10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Panel 4: General Discussion
10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. - 11:45 p.m. Session 5: Foreign Policy
Direct government-to-government relations and diplomacy, of course, are vital to an understanding of Canada-China relations. This session features two leading authorities on the bilateral relationship. Alongside those papers are two more which offer a theoretical approach to understanding relations, and a consideration of the role of the provinces.
“40 Years of Canada-China Relations”
B. Michael Frolic, Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, York University
“La politique étrangère du Canada envers la République Populaire de Chine / Canada’s Foreign Policy Towards the People’s Republic of China”
Eric Lefrancois, Science Politique, Université de Montréal
“The Soft Power in the Relations of the Canadian Provinces with China”
Frédéric Mayer, École Nationale d'Administration Publique-Montréal
“Canada’s Future in the Shadow of China’s Rise”
Jeremy Paltiel, Department of Political Science at Carleton University in Ottawa and visiting professor at the Department of International Relations at Tsinghua University in Beijing in 2009
(Presented by Wayne Zhu, Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Regina)
11:45 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. Panel 5: General Discussion
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch Break
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Session 6: Migration and the Chinese in Canada
Just as Canada-China relations are longstanding, so too is the presence of the Chinese in Canada. This session offers two broad looks, one on the role of Canadian perceptions of China on shaping immigration policy, and one on the long presence of the Chinese in Saskatchewan, a province usually not seen in studies of the Chinese in Canada. It also offers two case studies from emerging scholars, which look at racism and immigration agreements at particular historical moments to shed light on the broader themes.
“Perceptions of China and Immigration Policy”
Patricia E. Roy, Professor Emerita, Department of History, University of Victoria
“H.H. Stevens and the Chinese in Canada, 1907-1945”
Julie F. Gilmour, Department of History, Glendon College, York University
“China and the Chinese in Early Saskatchewan”
Ken Leyton-Brown, Department of History, Faculty of Arts, University of Regina
“Recognizing China, Reuniting Families: The 1974 Immigration Agreement between Canada and the People’s Republic of China”
Laura Madokoro, Department of History, University of British Columbia
2:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Panel 6: General Discussion
3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Session 7: Non-diplomatic Relations
The final session takes the insights that diplomacy and migration are interlinked and builds on it by examining less traditional aspects of Canada-China connections, in the realm of media, nongovernmental organizations, culture and perception.
“Xinhua Net and the Canadian Federal Elections”
Sen Lin, Department of Anthropology, Economics and Political Science, Grant MacEwan University
“French Canada’s Quiet Obsession with China”
Serge Granger, Department of Political Science, Université de Sherbrooke
“Human rights NGOs in Canadian Relations with China”
David Webster, International Studies Program, Faculty of Arts, University of Regina
“Culture and Cultural Diplomacy of Canada and China: A Comparative Study”
Yue Hu, Department of Political Science, University of South Carolina
4:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. Panel 7: General Discussion
5:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Closing Remarks
