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G\u00e9rard Bouchard is a Professor in the Department of Human Sciences at the University of Qu\u00e9bec at Chicoutimi.\u00a0 He holds a Master’s degree in Sociology from Laval University (1968) and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Paris (1971).\u00a0 He is the founder of the BALSAC Project, created in 1971, of which he has been the director until June 2010.\u00a0 The goal of this project was to develop and exploit a computerized population database covering the whole population of Qu\u00e9bec from the 17th century to the present time.\u00a0 Through automatic family and genealogy reconstitution, a system developed by his research team, BALSAC allows for a large scope of scientific research projects, extending from history and sociology to population genetics and genetic epidemiology.\u00a0 The expansion of the database is still in progress.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prof. Bouchard was also Director and Founder of the SOREP Centre, launched in 1977.\u00a0 In May 1994, SOREP was transformed into IREP, an inter-university institute for population research (involving seven Qu\u00e9bec universities) that Prof. Bouchard headed until 1998.\u00a0 Under his direction, the Institute developed into an international institution made up of 50 researchers and more than 275 hundred professionals, assistants, and technicians.<\/p>\n

In the 1990s, Prof. Bouchard has initiated a new research program in the comparative history of new societies (or founding cultures).\u00a0 The objective was to study the formation of national identities and cultures in the New World (Americas, Australasia, some parts of Africa).\u00a0 The issues under investigation include: national myths, political emancipation, collective differentiation from the European mother countries, the growth of the State and of the national framework, the formation of collective imaginaries (identity, memory, utopia), the evolution of the relationship with the Natives, etc.\u00a0 Since February 2002, Prof. Bouchard has carried out this research as the holder of a Canada Research Chair in the Study of Collective Imaginaries.\u00a0 Prof. Bouchard was among the first members of CIFAR\u2019s Successful Societies Program, launched in Fall 2002.<\/p>\n

Prof. Bouchard has authored, co-authored, edited, or co-edited 40 books, and has published 297 papers in scientific journals. He also presented more than 660 communications and public lectures in Canada and abroad.\u00a0 His most recent books include:\u00a0 La pens\u00e9e impuissante. \u00c9checs et mythes nationaux canadiens-fran\u00e7ais, 1850-1960 (Montr\u00e9al, Bor\u00e9al, 2004); La culture qu\u00e9b\u00e9coise est-elle en crise? (with Alain Roy) (Montr\u00e9al, Bor\u00e9al, 2007); Mythes et soci\u00e9t\u00e9s des Am\u00e9riques (co-edited with Bernard Andr\u00e8s) (Montr\u00e9al, Qu\u00e9bec Am\u00e9rique, 2007); The Making of the Nations and Cultures of the New World. An Essay in Comparative History (Trans. of Gen\u00e8se des nations et cultures du Nouveau Monde: Essai d\u2019histoire compar\u00e9e) (Montr\u00e9al & Kingston, McGill Queen\u2019s University Press, 2008); Building the Future. A Time for Reconciliation (Report of the Consultation Commission on Accommodation Practices Related to Cultural Differences) (with Charles Taylor) (Quebec Government, 2008); Uashat (a novel) (Montr\u00e9al, Bor\u00e9al, 2009); L\u2019interculturalisme. Un point de vue qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois (Montr\u00e9al, Bor\u00e9al, 2012); National Myths. Constructed Pasts, Contested Presents, (edited) (London, Routledge, 2013). He has also published three novels: Mistouk (2002), Pikauba (2005), Uashat (2011).<\/p>\n

He has received numerous awards and distinctions, including the 2000 Literary Award of the Governor General of Canada for his book, Gen\u00e8se des nations et cultures du Nouveau Monde: Essai d\u2019histoire compar\u00e9e, the 2001 G\u00e9rard-Parizeau Prize for Qu\u00e9bec History, and honorary doctorates from McGill, New Brunswick and Guelph University.\u00a0 He was also appointed to the French Legion of Honour in October 2002 and became a member of the Acad\u00e9mie des lettres du Qu\u00e9bec in November 2003.\u00a0 His novel,\u00a0Uashat<\/i>, was chosen as one of the ten finalists for the Readers Prize (Montr\u00e9al Book Fair, November 2009). His book, The Making of the Nations and Cultures of the New World, was selected as one of the five best Qu\u00e9bec essays of the last decade (2000-2009). He was also the winner of the best lecture for The Next Big Question contest, organized by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) in Montreal (May 2010).<\/p>\n

In 2007, Prof. Bouchard was named, together with Charles Taylor, as Co-President of Quebec’s Commission de consultation sur les pratiques d’accommodement reli\u00e9es aux diff\u00e9rences culturelles (CCPARDC).<\/p>\n

In 2008-2009, Prof. Bouchard held the William Lyon Mackenzie King Research Chair of Canadian Studies (Weatherhead Center for International Affairs) at Harvard University. He was also visiting professor at Harvard University (Sociology) in 2008-2009.<\/p>\n

Most of his current research deals with issues related to politics of memory, the future of national cultures and identities, the social functions of myths, the management of ethnocultural diversity, and more generally the structure and functioning of collective imaginaries as informed by myths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

G\u00e9rard Bouchard is a Professor in the Department of Human Sciences at the University of Qu\u00e9bec at Chicoutimi.\u00a0 He holds a Master’s degree in Sociology from Laval University (1968) and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Paris (1971).\u00a0 He is the founder of the BALSAC Project, created in 1971, of which he has … Continuer la lecture de Profile<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.uqac.ca\/gerardboucharden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.uqac.ca\/gerardboucharden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.uqac.ca\/gerardboucharden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.uqac.ca\/gerardboucharden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.uqac.ca\/gerardboucharden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.uqac.ca\/gerardboucharden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.uqac.ca\/gerardboucharden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.uqac.ca\/gerardboucharden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.uqac.ca\/gerardboucharden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}