Quebec English-Speaking Communities Research Network (QUESCREN) Newsletter February 28, 2011

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1 Quebec English-Speaking Communities Research Network (QUESCREN) Newsletter February 28, ) Update: QUESCREN activities Completed: Seminar on Anglophones and Quebec history QUESCREN co-organized a seminar entitled "What place should Anglophones have in Quebec s collective narrative?" It took place February 11 at Concordia University and was a success with lively discussion and many viewpoints from ten speakers and discussants and 90 audience members. Program: < a/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=402&itemid=133>. Media reports: < m/news/lost+anglo/ /story.html> and 240&sponsor< = In progress: Lunch & Learn Quebec Community Groups Network and QUESCREN are co-organizing a pilot knowledge transfer project. Researchers Marie-Odile Magnan of Université de Montréal, Don de Guerre of Concordia University and Brigitte Chavez of Statistics Canada are informally presenting their latest work to QCGN member groups and staff using internet technology. In progress: QUESCREN's online bibliography There are now 2,500 new titles on many topics listed in our bibliography of sources on the Englishspeaking communities of Quebec, thanks to the efforts of volunteer Brendan O'Donnell. Please visit it and let us know what you think: < Upcoming: conference on Montreal's English-speaking heritage The "Ways of Memory: The Montreal Experience" conference organized by QAHN and partners including QUESCREN takes place March 26. See the event listing below. Upcoming: interdisciplinary conference at Acfas QUESCREN and partners are organizing an interdisciplinary conference on May See the event listing below. 2. Summer school "English Encounters with the Americas, " summer school at MIT

2 Application deadline: March 1. < ex.html> 3. Post-doctoral fellowship The Centre for Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University has a fellowship related to the Centre's interests in "gender, ethnicity, linguistics, social class, and regionalism, among others." Application deadline: March Call for papers Poverty conference Danielle Gauvreau of Concordia University invites fellow QUESCREN members to send paper proposals for an upcoming Quebec Inter-University Centre for Social Statistics conference entitled "Social Statistics, Poverty and Social Exclusion: perspectives from Quebec, Canada and Abroad." Deadline: 21 March Call for participation Mature workers survey The Community Economic Development and Employability Corporation (CEDEC) seeks underemployed and unemployed English-speaking Montrealers age 45 and up for a survey on employability: 6. Research projects Health of ESCQ The Community Health and Social Services Network and the Institut national de santé publique du Québec have a project underway entitled "Enhancing Knowledge of the Health Status and Well-Being of English-speaking Quebecers." < Knowledge/index.html> "Talking about Pain" Norman Segalowitz of Concordia University is examining communication between patients and health professionals, where the health professional has to use a second language. Site/Res_Pain.html <

3 Language and health access Jan Warnke is in a research team funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research examining access to health professionals with official language minority linguistic capacity. Information: Jan Warnke at jwarnke@total.net <mailto:jwarnke@total.net> Health insurance and inequity Amélie Quesnel-Vallée and other researchers are including the ESCQ in their study entitled Private health insurance as a contributing factor to socioeconomic inequities in health: Cross-national comparisons of Canada, Germany, the U.K. and the U.S. Information: Townships health and culture Dale Stout of Bishop s University is coordinating two studies subsidized by the Eastern Townships Resource Centre: 1) Mental Health Needs Assessment of the Anglophone Community in the Estrie Region; 2) Cultural Vulnerability, Social Distance, and Reasonable Accommodation in the Eastern Townships. Information: Sylvie Côté, scote@ubishops.ca. 7. Publications and resources --General Community Vitality Survey Results of a Community Health and Social Services Network survey on topic including sociodemographics, language/literacy, culture, mobility, use of technology, health and social services, community issues, education, economics and employment. < Reminder: Bibliography Bibliographies by Brendan O'Donnell of sources on English-speaking Quebec: < --Diversity Alfie Roberts Institute website of resources on Montreal communities of African and Caribbean descent, including podcasts, audiotour, historical photos etc.

4 Jedwab, Jack. "Quebec Identity in 2011: Attachments, Identity and Diversity." [Montreal:] Association for Canadian Studies, Pocock, Joanne and Jan Warnke. Demographic Profile of the English-speaking Black Communities of Select CSSS Territories of Montréal. In press. Information: with Jan/Joanne --Economic situation CHSSN Socio-Economic Profiles of Québec s English-speaking Communities (2010). It looks at poverty, low income, employment and education. Warnke, Jan. Eastern Québec Learning Centre Clientele Service Area and Regional Occupational Profile Looks at access to English language technical and professional education in the Central Québec School Board. Information: jwarnke@total.net. Verify with Jan --Education Centrale des syndicats du Québec, Analyse des facteurs orientant les francophones et les Allophones dans le choix d un cégep sur l Île de montréal, Community Health and Social Services Network, Socio-Economic Profiles of Québec s English-speaking Communities (2010). It looks at poverty, low income, employment and education. Magnan, M.-O. (2009), «L orientation universitaire chez les jeunes de l école anglaise: l importance des dimensions linguistique et identitaire», La VIE de Recherche au Centre de recherche et d intervention sur l éducation et la vie au travail, décembre 2009, vol. 3, no 6, p <htt p:// Pilote, A., Magnan, M.-O. et K. Vieux-Fort (2010). "L identité linguistique et le poids des langues: étude comparative entre des jeunes de milieu scolaire francophone au Nouveau-Brunswick et anglophone au Québec." Nouvelles perspectives en sciences sociales 6, 1, Various. Theory and other resources for the PÉLIQ-AN language exchange project of the Ministère de l'éducation, du Loisir et du Sport. See the "From theory to practice" section of <

5 Warnke, Jan. Eastern Québec Learning Centre Clientele Service Area and Regional Occupational Profile Looks at access to English language technical and professional education in the Central Québec School Board. Information: Verify with Jan --Health and social services Pocock, Joanne. Working Age Caregivers of Québec s English-speaking Elderly: A Profile of 4 CSSS Territories in the Montréal Region. Cummings Centre, Information:Joanne_Pocock@hotmail.com VERIFY WITH JOANNE --History Alfie Roberts Institute website of resources on Montreal communities of African and Caribbean descent, including podcasts, audiotour, historical photos etc. Jolivet, Simon. "Entre nationalismes irlandais et canadien-français : Les intrigues québécoises de la Self Determination for Ireland League of Canada and Newfoundland," Canadian Historical Review 92, 1 (March 2011): NOTE: the author indicated that "l'article traite beaucoup des anglophones du Québec (surtout des Irlandais catholiques de Montréal et de Québec) et de la fondation de la SDIL." --Identity Jedwab, Jack. "Quebec Identity in 2011: Attachments, Identity and Diversity." [Montreal:] Association for Canadian Studies, Language Angus Reid survey on bilingualism and language use. February Poulin-Dubois, D., et al. The effects of bilingualism on toddlers executive functioning. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology (2010). Dubois%20et%20al.2010.pdf < Dubois%20et%20al.2010.pdf> --Literature Reid, Malcolm. Deep café. Une jeunesse avec la poésie de Leonard Cohen. Québec: PUL, Information: html<

6 --Regions Pocock, Joanne and Brenda Hartwell. Profile of the English-speaking Community in the Eastern Townships. In press. Information: px?eventid=105> VERIFY WITH JOANNE 8. Events New listing: February-March, various locations: media literacy workshops Training by CitizenShift and partners for ESCQ members and groups. Information obtained can contribute to knowledge transfer. o Feb. 28, Lennoxville: < om/> o March 3, Grosse-Île (Îles de la Madeleine): < acy.eventbrite.com/> o March 4, Gaspé: < com/> New listing: March 1, Montreal: talk on Anglophone community history Lorraine O'Donnell will speak on "Presence, place and realities of English speakers in a new Quebec history." / New listing: March 4, Montreal: lecture on the Irish diaspora Joe Lee will give a talk entitled "Reflection on the History of the Irish Diaspora." tp://cdnirish.concordia.ca/index.php option=com_content&task=view&id=17&itemid=37> New listing: March 8, Montreal: talk on adult learning in farm communities Hugh Maynard will speak on "The evolution of adult learning in the farm community." <

7 Reminder: March 9, Toronto: talk on multilingual community in health settings Dr. Jennifer Hartog, Institut fuer Germanistik, University of Hamburg will give a talk on "Le médecin, le patient, l'interprète. La communication institutionnelle en milieu multilingue." Centre de recherches en éducation franco-ontarienne (CREFO), University of Toronto: New listing: March 15-16, meeting on ESCQ health initiatives CHSSN and partners are hosting a two-day meeting entitled "Exchange Session: Health Initiatives for English-speaking individuals and communities in Québec." < mmunity_health/en/index.html> New listing: March 17-18, Montreal: conference on bilingualism Association for Canadian Studies conference entitled "The Quiet Evolution of Language and Cultural Relations in Canada: A Tribute to the Work of Wallace Lambert." Reminder: March 23-26, Vancouver: Conference on immigration National Metropolis Conference: "Immigration: Bringing the World to Canada." < New information: March 26, Montreal: conference on Montreal Anglophone heritage "Ways of Memory: the Montreal Experience conference organized by Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network, QUESCREN and partners. New listing: April 28-29, Ottawa: conference L2 learning/training/policies Conference title: Evaluation in a Context of Individual and Global Mobility. Reminder: May 10-11, Sherbrooke: QUESCREN and partners at Acfas QUESCREN and partners interdisciplinary conference on ESCQ research. See conference 641 on this link:

8 Reminder: May 12, Sherbrooke: Colloquium on Irish-Quebec identity Acfas colloquium entitled "Origines et appartenances : l identité irlandaise du Québec." congres/2011/pdf/appel_communications_colloque_621.pdf> Reminder: June 3-5, Montreal: Family history research conference The Quebec Family History Society is sponsoring "Roots An International Conference on Family History Research." < Reminder: July 6-9, Montreal: conference on Irish studies and texts The Canadian Association for Irish Studies annual conference is entitled "Text and Beyond Text in Irish Studies: New Visual, Material, & Spatial Perspectives." Information: < 9. Other newsletters available --Arts/culture Blue Metropolis Foundation mailing list: < p?section=financement&id=32> < English Language Arts Network: < --Community development (Quebec wide) Quebec Community Groups Network daily briefing (news clippings): < Centre for Community Organizations ebulletin: < Community Economic Development and Employability Corporation (CEDEC) newsletter: --Diversity New: Alfie Roberts Institute newsletter (communities of African and Caribbean descent): < html> Black Community Resource Centre's "Semaji" newsletter: Concordia University's School of Canadian Irish Studies newsletter: < Negro Community Centre newsletter. Sample: To subscribe, write info@nccmontreal.org or sagyles@sympatico.ca Nuacht: Community Newsletter of St. Patrick s Society. <

9 w.stpatricksociety.com/2008/en/view_page.php?idpage=18&amp;langue=en> --Economic development Community Table: < --Education Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance Learning Toolkit Newsletter: contact Anne Wade at --General Institut de la statistique du Québec: information on culture, health, demographics, economics, food sector, etc. --Heath Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) newsletter: subscribe on this link: < Community Health and Social Services Network Netlink: Community Health and Social Services Network Info-Link: contact --Heritage Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network's Heritageline: < --Immigration Metropolis Project newsletter "The Bridge." Comparative research and public policy development on migration, diversity, and immigrant integration: --Language Canadian Parents for French newsletter: cpf.qc.ca. --Law Éducaloi: < --Media Quebec Community Newspapers Association (QCNA) Connector: --Official Language Minority Communities Canadian Institute for Research on Linguistic Minorities "Infolettre:" < Infolettre du portail de la recherche sur la francophonie canadienne Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages: Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute (University of Ottawa): <file://localhost/ilob/forms/ebulleti n/registration.php>

10 --Regional community groups Netagamiou CLC reports -- write Ana Osborne, CLC coordinator, Eastern Townships Research Centre newsletter: < Heritage Lower Saint Lawrence Newsletter Regional Association of West Quebecers newsletter (for members): information Q2RC6&mid=41 < Q2RC6&mid=41> Voice of English-speaking Quebec (VEQ) newsletter: <