Guest Speakers

Yadh BEN ACHOUR 

Yadh BEN ACHOUR : Tunisian, a specialist of Islamic history and international law, he is a professor and former Dean at the Faculty of law, political science and social sciences, Université de Tunis II (University of Carthage). He is also a founding member of the Tunis International Academy of Constitutional Law, a member of the International Law Institute and a former member of The Tunisian Constitutional Court. He is an adjunct professor at Laurentian University of Sudbury (Ontario, Canada).




Pierre FOUCHER


Professor Pierre FOUCHER earned his law degree from the University of Montreal and his Master’s in administrative law from Queen’s University. Before becoming a full professor in the Faculty of Law at the Université de Moncton, he worked as a lawyer in private practice and as a researcher for the federal government. As well as being an invited professor and speaker at several Canadian institutions, M. Foucher has extensive experience as a judicial analyst and consultant. He is also the author of numerous publications pertaining to minority language right, human rights and freedoms, and public law. Since 2008, Pierre Foucher is a full professor at the University of Ottawa.


Conrad OUELLON


Since 2005, Conrad OUELLON is the president of the Conseil supérieur de la langue française.
A linguist by formation, he has extensive university teaching, research and administrative experience. He holds a Ph.D. in linguistic and has spent the majority of his career at Laval University where he has held several appointments including Chair and Vice-Dean of the Département de langues et linguistique de la Faculté des Lettres, director of CIRAL (Centre international de recherche sur les activités langagières), and chair-founder of the Master’s program in Speech pathology

 



Pascal ROGGERO


Pascal ROGGERO
is a professor of sociology at the Université Toulouse 1-Capitole where he co-chairs and leads a team of sociologists of the Laboratoire d’études et de recherche sur l’économie, les politiques et les systèmes sociaux (LEREPS). He also created and currently directs the Master recherche “Systémique complexe appliquée aux territoires” at the Université Toulouse 1-Capitole. Pascal Roggero is the author of numerous books and articles in the field of sociology and his co-founder of the international journal Nouvelles Perspectives en Sciences Sociales.




Joseph Yvon THÉRIAULT


Joseph Yvon THÉRIAULT
has been a full professor in the Department of Sociology at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) since 2008. He is the Canada Research Chair in Globalization, Citizenship and Democracy. Previously, he was a full professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Ottawa where he was the founder and director of the Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche sur la citoyenneté et les minorities (CIRCEM) from 2000 to 2007 and research chair in Identité et Francophonie. His research focuses on the relationship between collective identities and democracy in the context of Quebec society, Acadie and minority francophones in Canada. His principal publications include L’identité à l’épreuve de la modernité (1996), Critique de l’américanité, mémoire et démocratie au Québec (2003) and Faire société, société civile et espaces francophones (2007). Joseph Yvon Thériault is a member of the Royal Society of Canada (2004) and a laureate of the Trudeau Foundation (2007).



Graham SMITH


Professor Graham SMITH is a prominent Māori educationalist and advocate who has been at the forefront of alternative Māori initiatives in the education field and beyond. His academic background is within the disciplines of Education, Social Anthropology and Cultural and Policy Studies. More specifically, his academic work has centered on developing theoretically informed transformative strategies related to intervening in Māori cultural, political, social, educational and economic crises.

 

Professor Smith has been an influential contributor to the Māori educational revolution which consists of the development of a range of alternative educational strategies by Māori communities, beginning with Māori Language pre-school initiative, through the Māori Immersion elementary school development, Māori Secondary Schools and the emerging tertiary option of Wānanga. He has had a ‘hands-on’ approach with respect to his participation and commitment with these initiatives. Professor Smith was the foundation chairperson of the Council for the indigenous-university in Whakatāne.

 

He has also contributed on a broad front to the New Zealand education as a whole; he remains a leading voice in the challenge for the legitimate inclusion of Māori theorizing within the traditional academy; he has lead a concentrated effort focused on producing increased numbers of Māori students at Master’s and Doctoral level; he has built a broad-based international network of indigenous scholars who work with Māori and his theoretical leadership has informed the emergence of Māori Education studies as a distinct entity within Education Faculties within New Zealand universities. Professor Smith was Pro Vice Chancellor (Māori) at the University of Auckland (this was the first University to establish such a position and led the way for all Universities to follow suit). Following this he was invited to take up a Visiting Chair as the Universitas 21 Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of British Columbia.

 

Professor Smith has made significant contributions to the political, social, economic and cultural advancement of indigenous Māori communities. He has published widely and his work is influential in the national and international arenas. Professor Smith is one of the most influential indigenous educators today. 


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