<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">On
Wednesday, September 10, 2025, at 12 noon, we will be hosting a Welcoming
Luncheon for the 2025-26 Institute on Quebec Studies Distinguished Chair, Dr. </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Jocelyn
Létourneau</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">. 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"> Studies,
102 Broad Street, Conference Room (#102).</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dr. </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Jocelyn
Létourneau</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">, who will be with us at SUNY Plattsburgh for the fall 2025
semester, </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">is professor emeritus at
Université Laval, Quebec City. Over his career he has held fellowships from </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">from the Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton, N.J., two Fulbright scholarships (UC Berkeley/Stanford and Yale,
respectively) as well as grants from the Collegium de Lyon and the Zentrum for
interdisziplinäre Forschung (University of Bielefeld, Germany). He was elected to
the Royal Society of Canada in 2004 and awarded the Trudeau Foundation Prize
(2006) in recognition of his outstanding achievement in research and
participation in public life. In 2018, he was honoured with the Prix Actas
André-Laurendeau for the excellence of his scholarly work and his many
contributions to the social sciences and humanities.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The focus of </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dr. </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Létourneau’s</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">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">Silent Revolution: Mapping and Conceptualizing societal changes in
Quebec today.”</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">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">Jocelyn
Létourneau</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">to our campus.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Please
send your kind RSVP via email to </span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:canadarsvp@plattsburgh.edu" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">canadarsvp@plattsburgh.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> no
later than <b>Wednesday, September 3, 2025</b>, to help us confirm our catering needs.</span></p></div>