Town and Country: Exploring Urban and Rural Issues in New June 22 nd & 23 rd, 2007 St. Thomas University Fredericton, New Friday, June 22 nd 8:45 9:45 Registration and coffee/tea Brian Mulroney Hall lower concourse Brian Mulroney Hall room 101 Brian Mulroney Hall room 102 9:45 10:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks Dr. Michael Higgins (President, St. Thomas 10:00 11:30 Session 1A Before Equal Opportunity: A Regional Profile of Early Social Work in New chair Joan McFarland (St. Thomas 10:00 10:20 Linda Turner (St. Thomas New as the first professionally trained social workers knew it 10:20 10:40 Louis Richard (Université de The First Acadian Social Workers 10:40 11:00 Laurel Lewey (St. Thomas Natural helping and Aboriginal child welfare in New 11:00 11:30 discussion discussion 11:30 12:15 Lunch (provided) Session 1B - Education in Rural New chair Michael Boudreau (St. Thomas Hillary Casey (St. Thomas Communities in Schools Dorothy Turner (Cambridge- Narrows Parent School Support Committee) & Marilyn Ball (New School District 17) Place-Based Policy Options Randy Nason (New School District 17) & Rosalie McLaughlin (Cambridge-Narrows School) Hard Questions from the Vantage of Reflective Practice
12:15 1:45 Session 2 Greater Moncton at the Crossroads chair Mary-Lou Babineau (St. Thomas 12:15 12:35 Greg Allain (Université de & Guy Chiasson (Université du Québec en Outaouais) La compétitivité interurbaine à l'intérieur d'une aire métropolitaine de recensement en pleine expansion: élites urbaines, stratégies différentielles de développement et gouvernance municipale comparée à Dieppe et Moncton 12:35 12:55 Matthieu LeBlanc (Université de La place du français et des francophones dans un milieu de travail bilingue de Moncton 12:55 1:15 Guy Vincent (Université de Migration importante et hybridation de la forme urbaine dans la région du Moncton métro? 1:15 1:45 Discussion 1:45 3:15 Session 3 Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Health and Medicine chair Jane Jenkins (St. Thomas 1:45 2:05 Sheila Andrew (St. Thomas Image and the Urbanization of Acadian Medicine 2:05 2:25 Corrine Hersey (University of New Fighting Childhood Obesity in Rural Communities Through Government Legislated School Nutrition Policies
2:25 2:45 Marilyn Hodgins (University of New Accessing Care for Less-Urgent Health Problems in Rural and Urban Communities 2:45 3:15 Discussion 3:15 3:30 Coffee & tea 3:30 4:45 Keynote Address The Honourable Herménégilde Chiasson (Lieutenant-Governor, Province of New From Rurality to Urbanity 5:00 7:00 Conference BBQ Dinner lower courtyard (between James Dunn Hall and Edmund Casey Hall) Saturday, June 23 rd In the event of inclement weather, the BBQ will be held indoors in the James Dunn Hall cafeteria. The conference dinner will feature a reading by our special guest, New writer Wayne Curtis. 8:30 9:00 Registration and coffee/tea 9:00 10:30 Poster Presentation Amanda Marlin (Mount Allison Building Adaptive Capacity in New for Climate Change and Sea Level Rise Session 4A Cultural Identity in New Literature chair Tony Tremblay (St. Thomas 9:00 9:20 Jo-Anne Elder (St. Thomas Reading the Others: How New Anglophones View the Space of Acadians and First Nation Cultures 9:20 9:40 David Creelman (University of New, Saint John) There s Worse Places to Be: The Rural-Urban Divide in the Post-War Fiction of New Session 4B Urban and Rural New in Transition chair Mary-Lou Babineau (St. Thomas Greg Marquis (University of New, Saint John) Re-Imag[in]ing the Post Industrial City: Contemporary Saint John Michelle Landry (Université du Québec a Rimouski) Disparités rurales-urbaines : l organisation du territoire, encore le talon d Achille du N.-B?
9:40 10:00 Erin Whitmore (University of New Narrating Nature: Gender and Environment in Nineteenth-Century New Literature 10:00 10:30 Discussion 10:30 10:45 Nutrition Break Discussion 10:45 12:30 Poster Presentation Amanda Marlin (Mount Allison Building Adaptive Capacity in New for Climate Change and Sea Level Rise Session 5A Migration: Urban and Rural chair Jo-Anne Elder (St. Thomas 10:45 11:05 Maurice Beaudin (Université de Effets structurels et migratoires dans les Maritimes : vers une plus grande dichotomie rurale-urbaine? 11:05 11:25 Josée Guignard (Université de Les migrants francophones de l écosystème rural du nord du Nouveau- dans l écosystème urbain de Moncton-Dieppe : réseaux sociaux et vitalité ethnolinguistique 11:25 11:45 Ibrahim Ouattara (Université de & Carole Tranchant (Université de La migration vers des zones rurales : un phénomène singulier et singulièrement prometteur (until 11 :55) 11:45 12:30 Discussion (from 11:55) Discussion 12:30 1:30 Lunch (provided) Session 5B Equality, Advocacy, and Identity chair James Morrison (St. Mary s Will van den Hoonaard (University of New & Deborah van den Hoonaard (St. Thomas The Poignant Accomplishments of Baha I Newcomers from Iran Cathy Holtmann (St. Thomas Resistance is Beautiful: The Emergence of the Catholic Network for Women s Equality in New Josephine Savarese (St. Thomas The Influence of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms on Anti-Poverty Advocates in New
1:30 3:00 Session 6A Development, Industry, and Post-Industry chair Peter Toner (St. Thomas 1:30 1:50 Michael Fleming (St. Thomas Strait Talk about Freight Ferries: A Critical Political Economic Analysis of Intermodal Transportation in New and Newfoundland and Labrador 1:50 2:10 Joan McFarland (St. Thomas An Update on the Call Centre Industry in New : Preliminary Findings 2:10 2:30 Susan Machum (St. Thomas 30 Years On and the Debate Still Continues: Is There a Future for Agriculture in Rural New? 2:30 3:00 Discussion Discussion 3:00 5:00 Closing Remarks, Wine & Cheese Reception Session 6B Historical Perspectives on Urban and Rural New chair Nathan Hoyt (University of New Jane Jenkins (St. Thomas Perfect Food or White Poison? The Naturalizing Myth and Milk Pasteurization in Early 20th-Century New Koral LaVorgna (University of New Taking His French Leave: William Scarr and Bankruptcy in the Fredericton Building Trade Timothy Lewis (Malaspina University-College) Selling New Farmers a New Bill of Goods: Advertising Messages in the Maritime Farmer and Co-operative Dairyman, 1895-1929