鈥�91亚色 is delighted to see that professors Girard, Hyndman, Johnson, Petrowska Quilico and Heffernan have been recognized by the Royal Society of Canada,鈥� said Amir Asif, vice-president research and innovation. 鈥淭hese exceptional researchers embody our vision to enhance our impact on the social, economic, culture and overall well-being of the communities we serve.鈥�

Royal Society Fellows

Philip Girard
Osgoode Hall Law School

Philip Girard鈥檚 prize-winning work on the legal history of Canada has shaped the field and redefined its agenda for the 21st century. Tracing the roots of today鈥檚 legal pluralism to the historic encounter of two European empires with Indigenous peoples in northern North America, he stresses how this pluralism allowed Quebec civil law to flourish on a continent of common law and now creates space for the renaissance of Indigenous law.

Jennifer Hyndman
Centre for Refugee Studies
Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change
Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

Jennifer Hyndman studies geographies of forced migration, ethnography of the international refugee regime, feminist geopolitics, critical refugee studies and extended exile. Her research addresses violence in relation to diaspora and displacement among Tamils and other people on the move, international humanitarianism in war zones, as well as refugee and migrant inclusion in Canada.

Michele Johnson
Department of History
Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

An international leader in Black history, Michele Johnson is esteemed for rigorous and methodologically innovative studies of cultural production and performance, race and racialization, gender relations and labour among persons of African descent in the Caribbean and Canada. Equally committed to networking and communicating with multiple audiences, Johnson has employed her global prominence to benefit students and scholars around the world, and to promote wider community engagement with Black history.

Christina Petrowska Quilico听颁.惭.
Department of Music
School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design

Appointed to the Order of Canada 鈥渇or her celebrated career as a classical and contemporary pianist and for championing Canadian music,鈥� Christina Petrowska Quilico, professor of musicology and piano performance at 91亚色, has opened the ears of students and audiences with numerous premieres of music of our time, featuring many women composers and repertoire ranging from baroque to the present in solos, chamber works, 45 concertos and on over 50 internationally acclaimed CDs.

RSC College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists

Jane Heffernan
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Faculty of Science

Jane Heffernan is a recognized international leader in infectious disease modelling. Her Modelling Infection and Immunity Lab tackles important questions in mathematical epidemiology and in-host pathogen dynamics, using mathematical and computational modelling to ascertain key characteristics of pathogens, individual hosts, and populations that allow for disease spread and to determine public health and medical intervention strategies that will be needed to contain or eradicate an infectious disease.

These 91亚色 faculty are among 89 new Fellows who have been elected by their peers for their outstanding scholarly, scientific and artistic achievement, and 51 new members of the RSC College. Recognition by the RSC for career achievement is the highest honour an individual can achieve in the arts, social sciences and sciences. The RSC College consists of mid-career leaders who provide the RSC with a multigenerational capacity to help Canada and the world address major challenges and seize new opportunities, including those identified in emerging fields.

鈥淭his year, the Royal Society of Canada welcomes an outstanding cohort of artists, scholars and scientists, all of whom have excelled in their respective disciplines and are a real credit to Canada,鈥� says RSC President Jeremy McNeil.

On Friday, Nov. 19, the RSC will welcome the Class of 2021 new RSC Fellows and new members of the RSC College and present awards for outstanding research and scholarly achievement.

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The conference will take place Thursday, May 5, from 8am to 8pm,聽and Friday, May 6, from 8am to 8:30pm, in the Assembly Hall, 152 Founders College, Keele campus. On Saturday, May 7, sessions will take place from 9:30am to 3:30pm in 001 Winters College, Dining Hall, Keele campus.

One of the round tables will look at revolutions in northern Africa, while another, chaired by Curto, will explore Angola under the Weight of the Slave Trade during the 18th and 19th centuries. 鈥淲e鈥檙e doing the past, but we鈥檙e also doing very contemporary issues,鈥� says Curto. The first session of the conference will be a round table via the web with presenters from Brazil looking at the present and future perspectives of African studies in Brazil.

The three plenary speakers will tackle a range of topics. Political science and Islamic studies Professor Khalid Mustafa Medani of McGill University will talk about 鈥淚nformal Institutions and Identity Politics: The Evolving Political Economy of Transnationalism in North East Africa鈥�, sociology Professor Imed Melliti of the Institut Sup茅rieur des Sciences Humaines at the University of Tunis el-Manar will address 鈥淛eunesses maghr茅bines: religiosit茅, enjeux identitaires et enjeux de reconnaissance鈥� and Donald G. Simpson, who leads Innovation Expedition, will speak about 鈥淎frica 鈥� Here and There in the Sixties: A Canadian Perspective鈥�.

Left: Khalid Mustafa Medani

Medani was named a Carnegie Scholar on Islam in 2007 by the Carnegie Corporation of New 91亚色, Melliti is the author of several books, while Simpson is the former director of the International Development Research Centre and the Centre for International Business at the Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. For more biographical information on the plenary speakers, visit the website.

The conference theme, Africa Here; Africa There, is in recognition of the United Nations General Assembly proclaiming 2011 as the International Year for People of African Descent. The meeting will be hosted by 91亚色鈥檚 and will have sessions in both French and English.

Right: Donald G. Simpson

鈥淲hat we are doing is not only focusing on the continent itself, but outside the continent,鈥� says Curto. 鈥淭hrough the conference we are highlighting the bridge we鈥檙e making between the diaspora and the homeland.鈥�

The second round table of the conference, Africa Here: Commemorating the Early African Canadian Experience, will be chaired by 91亚色 Professor Michele Johnson, co-author of the book They Do as They Please: The Jamaican Struggle for Cultural Freedom after Morant Bay (University of West Indies Press), which will as part of the conference. Taking part in this round table panel will be 91亚色 Distinguished Research Professor in African history Paul Lovejoy looking at 鈥淎frica Here: Itineraries of African Canadian Memory and the UNESCO Slave Route Project鈥�, Hilary Dawson of the Harriet Tubman Institute discussing 鈥淟ocating Sites of Memory: Tracing an Itinerary of Memory for the African Canadian Experience鈥� and Karolyn Smardz Frost, a research associate with the Harriet Tubman Institute, talking about 鈥淪lavery, Resistance and the Underground Railroad in Toronto鈥�.

There will be presenters from Canada, the United States, Australia and Africa at the conference. 91亚色 history PhD candidate Jeff Gunn will discuss 鈥淐hild Soldiers and Modern Slavery in the 21st Century鈥�, while 91亚色 Professor Emeritus John S. Saul will discuss a 鈥淣ew Counter-Hegemonic Project in Contemporary South Africa: Moeletsi Mbeki, Zwelinzima Vavi and the Democratic Left Forum. Some of the other sessions will examine topics such as: Africa in Canada, Border Security in African Contexts, Governance and Management of Natural Resources in Africa鈥檚 Great Lakes Region, Perspectives on Gender in Africa, Urban Unrest in South Africa and Africans on the Move.

Lovejoy, director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples, will also chair the sessions examining The Central Sudan in Nineteenth & Early Twentieth Centuries and Aspects of the Slave Trade in the Atlantic World. In addition, there will be screenings of several documentaries, including Behind the Rainbow by Jihan El-Tahri, Sembene! By Jason Silverman and Escape from Luanda by Phil Grabsky.

For more information, including a detailed listing of speakers and sessions, visit the conference website or the website.

Republished courtesy of YFile鈥� 91亚色鈥檚 daily e-bulletin.

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