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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">On Wednesday, September 6, 2023, at 12 noon, we will be hosting a Welcoming Luncheon for the 2023-24 Institute on Quebec Studies Fulbright Distinguished Chair, Dr. </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Kristine Plouffe-Malette</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">. This event will take place at the Center for the Study of Canada & Institute on </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Québec</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"> Studies, 133 Court Street, Conference Room (#103).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Dr. </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Kristine Plouffe-Malette</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">, who will be with us at SUNY Plattsburgh for the fall 2023 semester, </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">is an assistant professor at the University of Sherbrooke, and Director of the Master's degree program in applied international law and international politics (DIPIA). She is also an associate professor at Université du </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Québec</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> á Montréal and associate researcher at the École nationale d'administration publique (ENAP), and a member of the Groupe d'étude et de recherche sur l'international et le Québec (GERIQ), the Centre of Studies on Integration and Globalisation (CEIM), and the Jean Monnet Chair on European integration (Université Laval).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The focus of Dr. </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Plouffe-Malette</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">’s research project, while in residence at the Institute on Québec Studies, is titled “</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The Quebec-New York border crisis: what remains of the orderly processing of asylum claims at Roxham Road?”</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">We would be most delighted if you could join us in welcoming Dr. </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Plouffe-Malette</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"> </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">to our campus.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Please send your kind RSVP either via email to me at </span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:lbeda001@plattsburgh.edu"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">lbeda001@plattsburgh.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"> or via telephone by calling 518-564-2383 by Wednesday, August 30, 2023, to help us confirm our catering needs.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">LIZA BEDARD</p><p class="MsoNormal">Office Assistant II</p><p class="MsoNormal">SUNY Plattsburgh</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1d2228">Center for the Study of Canada & Institute on Quebec Studies</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">(o) 518-564-2383</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:lbeda001@plattsburgh.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">lbeda001@plattsburgh.edu</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#4472c4"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>