Richard Frucht Memorial Lecture Series
2011 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Monica Heller
The keynote speaker for this year's Frucht conference and student lecture series is Dr. Monica Heller from the Department of Anthropology and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.
Her teaching interests include: Franco-Ontario studies; linguistic anthropology of education; language, social inequality and social difference; sociology of language. More information about Dr. Heller can be found here.
Dr. Monica Heller's public lecture is titled: "Language, Identity, and Nation in the Globalized New Economy: the case of francophone Canada."
Abstract: The growth of the service economy, of tourism and of niche markets, and well as the sheer complexity of managing global flows of goods, information and people places new value on communication in general and multilingualism in particular. These processes also commodify communication as a technical skill and construct authentic identities as marketable products, in some frequently paradoxical ways. I will illustrate these processes based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in francophone Canada (mainly in Quebec, Acadie and Ontario, with some reference to the West), showing how political economic changes since the 1980s call into question dominant ideologies of what it means to be francophone and what it means to speak French. We will explore some new attempts to re-imagine francophone Canada in popular culture as plural and post-national, as they emerge alongside older forms of francite, both as labour category and as modernist nation.
Free and open to all. Coffee and tea, dessert squares and cookies will be served.
Wednesday March 2nd, 7:30 p.m. at the Tory Lecture Theatre Complex (a.k.a. 'Tory Turtle'), Room TL-B1.
Student Lecture Series
This year's Frucht events will run from March 2-4th. Locations and times are TBA shortly.
Are you interested in presenting? Click here for more information. We are accepting paper and poster submissions. The deadline for an abstract submission is February 26, 2011. 250 word abstracts can be submitted to agas@ualberta.ca.
Frucht Conference and Banquet
Thursday March 3rd, 6:30 p.m. at Chianti's Restaurant (10501-82 Avenue (780) 439-9829).
Tickets: $20 for the first 20 people to signup, $25 regular cost thereafter. Please note: cash only, and you must sign up with the Department of Anthropology's receptionist Erin Plume by Wednesday, March 2nd, 3:00 p.m. There is a set menu, and a fascimile of this menu can be seen at the receptionist's desk.
Dr. Richard Frucht
Richard Frucht was born in Brooklyn, New York and received his B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1958. He came to the University of Alberta in 1966 after receiving his Ph.D from Brandeis also in that year. At the time of his death in 1979, he was a full professor with the Department of Anthropology.
Dr. Frucht held a number of positions including: Vice-Presidency of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association (1975-1977), Member of the Executive Council of the Caribbean Studies Association (1975-1977), Editorship for Anthropology of the Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology (1975-1978), and Founding Editor of the Canadian Journal of Anthropology.
His courses were often extremely popular and he was known as an entertaining lecturer and a caring and giving friend to his colleagues.
(Michael Asch, Canadian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 2, Number 1, Spring 1981)