About La Fondation Aubin
Established by Stanley Bréhaut Ryerson and Mildred Helfand Ryerson in 1970, La Fondation Aubin works to advance progressive thinking in the humanities and social sciences in Québec and Canada. It was named after Napoléon Aubin (1812-1890), a democrat, journalist and inventor, a teacher who popularized science through lectures and writings, and an author of controversial works.
|
|
Stanley Bréhaut Ryerson (1911-1998), a scholar working in numerous fields, a writer and activist, had a Marxist approach to history. His reputation earned him many followers in the new generation of left-wing and labour historians. His wife, Mildred Helfand Ryerson (1913-2003), received the Order of Canada in 1987 for her pioneering role in community-based occupational therapy and for her work with the disadvantaged, especially women and Native people. |
Sociétaires émérites:
Madeleine Parent
Kari Levitt
Alfred Dubuc
Andrée Lévesque
Board of Directors:
President: Georges A. LeBel, Advocate, Professor of Law, UQAM
Secretary: Élise Boyer, Certified translator, O.T.T.I.A.Q.
Treasurer: Marguerite Taillefer, Retired teacher
Mandate
La Fondation Aubin intends to make its contribution to opening up spaces where progressive thinking and knowledge can flourish. Its Stanley Bréhaut Ryerson Research Centre encourages academic and activist research in social science and the humanities in Canada/Québec. It tries to foster a closer connection between places of intellectual production and the concrete realities of workers and basic human needs.
Many problems rooted in the founders’ areas of research are of interest to La Fondation Aubin: Capitalist globalization and imperialism; Canadian confederation, its past and political future; First Nations, rights, conditions and struggles; French Canadians and Quebecers, language issues, the national question and independence; Culture, integration, marginalization, ethnicity and immigration; Links of nationalism with civil society and popular movements; History of the labour movement in Québec and Canada, and its situation in North America; Theories on political action and ideology in Québec; Anatomy, forms and structures of Canadian and Québec capitalism; Québec, Canada and imperialism; Status of women and political struggles; Secularism, socialism and religions; Socialist strategies in peripheral countries and dialectics of international and transnational relations; The state of research and other academic questions in Canada and Québec; Science, technology and social change, etc.