The 42nd Annual Conference of the Japanese Association for CanadianStudies (JACS)
Venue: Seminar Room 4, the 2nd floor, National Museum of Ethnology
Access map：
http://www.minpaku.ac.jp/english/museum/information/access<Day 1> Saturday, September 99:30 Registration (Seminar Room 4, the 2nd floor)
10:00 Opening Address: Yuki Shimomura (President of JACS / KobeInternational University)
10:10-11:15

Session I: Open Topics
Chair: Toshihiro Tanaka (Reitaku University)(1) “Deaf in Canada vs. Deaf in Japan: What Language is Essential forJapanese Deaf People?”
Yasuko Ito (Nagoya Gakuin University)(2) “Current State of Research on E. Herbert Norman: From Rare Books andSpecial Collections of UBC Library”
Masahiro Nakano (Aoyama Gakuin University)
11:25ー12：30 Session II: Current Issues of Indigenous Sovereignty
Chair: Kenichiro Hirose (Kagoshima Immaculate Heart University)(3) “How Could ‘Canadian Indian’ Become ‘American Indian’?: Chippewa andMetis in the North American Borderlands
Yoshitaka Iwasaki (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science/Rikkyo University)(4) Language Situation and Language Policy at Iqaluit, Nunavut in CanadaMizuho Hasegawa (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
12:30-14:00

Lunch / Board Meeting (Seminar Room 6, the 2nd floor)*********************************************************************International Symposium: History and the Current Status of IndigenousPeople in Canada
Organized by JACS and National Museum of Ethnology＊Simultaneous translation (Japanese-English) provided

Chair: Nobuhiro Kishigami (National Museumof Ethnology and SOKENDAI)
14:00～14:40 Keynote Speech(5) Indigenous Peoples in Canada: Diverse Histories and Modern Issues
Alan D. McMillan (Simon Frazer University)
14:40～15:20(6) “Natives and Non-natives in the Maritimes, Canada : What the Burnt
Church Incident Reveals”
Kazuko Ohta (Kyoritsu Women’s University)(7) “Historical Changes and the Present Condition of Kaska First Nations,with an Emphasis on Subsistence”
Mikako Yamaguchi (Gifu University)
15:20～15:40

Break

15:40～16:20(8) “Historical Changes and the Current Situation in Inuit Society in Canada”
Nobuhiro Kishigami (National Museum ofEthnology and SOKENDAI)(9) “Cultural Exchange between First Nations of Canada and Ainu People”
Reiko Saito (National Museum of Ethnologyand SOKENDAI)
16:20～16:40

Questions / Replies and Discussion*********************************************************************
16:50-17:50 General Meeting
18:00-20:00

Reception (Restaurant Minpaku)<Day 2> Sunday, September 10
10:00-11:50 Session III: New and Diverse Approaches to the Post-War
Japanese Canadian History
Chair：Masako Iino（Tsuda College）
Discussant：Hiroko Takamura (Toyo Gakuen University)(10) “Japanese-Canadian History and Community Records”

Eiji Okawa (University of Victoria)(11) “The Japanese Canadians Who Were ‘Repatriated’ to Japan Immediately
after WWII: Several Unknown Facts Based on the Newly DiscoveredDocuments”
Kunihiro Haraguchi (Diplomatic Archives of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan)(12) “Historic Development of Canadian Japanese Gardener”
Norifumi Kawahara (Ritsumeikan University)
11:50-13:10

Lunch /
Program Committee Meeting (Seminar Room 6, the 2nd floor)

13:10-14:20

Memorial Speech on Ramsay Cook (1931-2016)

Introduction: Norie Yazu (Kanda University of International Studies)(13)“A Rare Bird on the Earth: Identities and Nationalisms in Ramsay Cook'sCanada”
Marcel Martel (York University)
14:30-16:20 Symposium: Reflecting on the 150th Anniversary of Canadian
Confederation: Past, Present and Future
Chair & Discussant: Sayoko Iizasa (Aoyama Gakuin University)(14) “Canada 150: ‘A Greatness of the Imagination’, eh?”
Yutaka Takenaka (Caritas College)(15) “The Evolution of Canadian Constitutionalism: Two Solitudes, First
Nations, and the Shift from Federalism to Multinational Democracy”
Jackie F. Steele (The University of Tokyo)(16) “Laïcité in Canada and Quebec: Difference or Convergence?”
Takashi Niwa (Kinjo Gakuin University)
16:30 Closing Address: Nobuyuki Sato (Vice-President of JACS / ChuoUniversity)