Francis Lévesque

UQAT

Participates in 4 items

Sessions in which Francis Lévesque participates

Saturday 5 October, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

10:00 AM

“They are very shy and wild”: Encounters between British Royal Navy explorers and Inuit dogs, 1818-1844 - Francis Lévesque & Danny Baril

30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Part of: Dogs 1 (Relations between humans and dogs in Northern Canada: an interdisciplinary outlook)

Talk

Danny Baril (Participant)

Francis Lévesque, UQAT (Participant)

Between 1818 and 1844, the period during which Sir John Barrow was Second Secretary of the Admiralty, the British Government renew polar exploratio...

3:00 PM

Inuit and dogs in a multicultural and (post)colonial Arctic city: an examination of dogs in Iqaluit, Nunavut (Canada) - Francis Lévesque

30 minutes, 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Part of: Dogs 2 (Relations between humans and dogs in Northern Canada: an interdisciplinary outlook)

Talk

Francis Lévesque, UQAT (Participant)

Iqaluit is home to a population of around 8,000 people, a majority of whom are Inuit. Before settling in the community in the late 1950s-early 1960...

Sunday 6 October, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

9:00 AM

At-risk interaction of children and dogs in Kuujjuaq (Nunavik) - Géraldine-G. Gouin, Cécile Aenishaenslin, Francis Lévesque & André Ravel

30 minutes, 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Part of: Dogs 4 (Relations between humans and dogs in Northern Canada: an interdisciplinary outlook)

Talk

Cécile Aenishaenslin, Université de Montréal (Participant)

Francis Lévesque, UQAT (Participant)

Andre Ravel (Participant)

Dogs in Inuit villages present a public health risk regarding dog bites and zoonotic diseases such as rabies, with children being the most at risk....

9:30 AM

Tackling the complexity of the “dog situation” in the North: challenges and pathways to success - Johanne Saint-Charles, Cécile Aenishaenslin, Audrey Simon, Francis Lévesque & André Ravel

30 minutes, 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Part of: Dogs 4 (Relations between humans and dogs in Northern Canada: an interdisciplinary outlook)

Talk

Johanne Saint-Charles, UQAM (Participant)

Cécile Aenishaenslin, Université de Montréal (Participant)

Audrey Simon, Audrey Simon (Participant)

Francis Lévesque, UQAT (Participant)

Andre Ravel (Participant)

The research- action project “Mitigating Diseases and Raising Wellness at the Human-Dog Interface in Northern Canada” brings together a transdiscip...