Conferences

Steve McCaffery was a speaker at “Living Literacies,” a conference that took place in Toronto at York University in November of 2002. This is the text of his presentation at the conference.

Peter Calamai addressed the Second Canadian Conference on Literacy and Health on October 19, 2004 in Ottawa. In his address, he discussed adult literacy, including literacy levels Canada, literacy and health relationships and the importance of forging partnerships between the public health field and the literacy movement.

This is the conference report for the College Sector Committee Provincial Conference, an event for managers and practitioners involved with the Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) Program at all Ontario colleges, held June 3-4, 2004. The title of the conference was Moooving Forward.

On May 3 and 4, 2002 nearly eighty practitioners came together for the first Native Literacy and Learning, Aboriginal Perspectives Symposium held at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto (OISE/UT). There were fourteen presenters on a broad range of topics on the barriers and supports in literacy, ranging from "Healing the Spirit" to "Deaf Literacy."

This article is about the second Ms. Infinity conference, in Whitehorse, Yukon. Over 120 women were involved, with a full third of students coming to Whitehorse from rural communities.

Joan McFarland participated in both the 1985 Forward Looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women to the Year 2000 conference in Nairobi, Kenya and the 1995 Platform for Action conference in Beijing. In this article, she is interested in trying to compare what was happening in 1985 and in 1995 in the International Women's Movement.

At the Canada Tomorrow Conference held in Ottawa in 1983 under the auspices of the federal Ministry of Science and Economic Development, Heather Menzies was theme coordinator for the topic "Concerns about the Consequence of Change". The other three themes dealt with technology. This article contains an edited version of Mrs. Menzies' report to the final plenary session

In this article, the author describes a U.N. women's conference which took place at the University in Nairobi.

Robert K. Logan was a speaker at “Living Literacies,” a conference that took place in Toronto at York University in November of 2002. This is the text of his presentation at the conference.

Christopher Dewdney was a speaker at “Living Literacies,” a conference that took place in Toronto at York University in November of 2002. This is the text of his presentation at the conference.