"Tropes, Treaties and Trials: Indigenous Peoples and Access to Justice in Canada"

Speaker:

L. Jane McMillan, Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia.

Contact:

Helen Clayton
hclayton@wcfia.harvard.edu

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"Everyday Transgressions: Domestic Workers’ Transnational Challenge to International Labor Law"

Speaker:

Adelle Blackett, Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labour Law and Development, Faculty of Law, McGill University.

Chair:

Ronald Niezen, William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Canada Program. Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Civil Society and Public Policy, Faculties of Law and of Arts, McGill University.

Please register for this event here.

Contact:

Helen Clayton
hclayton@wcfia.harvard.edu

"Enslaved Females in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Nova Scotia & Quebec: Examining the Canadian Fugitive Slave Archive"

Speaker:

Charmaine Nelson, William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Canada Program. Professor of Art History, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University.

Co-sponsored by the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexulaity, and the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University.

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"Centering the Voices of Indigenous Women: Self-Determination and Decolonization through Literature, Scholarship, and Action"

In conversation with Dr. Kim Tallbear, Associate Professor, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta; Erica Violet Lee; and Emily Riddle.

Moderator

Adrienne Keene, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies, Brown University.

Cosponsored by the Harvard University Native American Program, the Radcliffe...

"A Pivot Toward Justice and Inclusion"

Speaker:

David Shelton, Battalion Chief, City of Montreal Fire Department.

Chair:

Charmaine Nelson, William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Canada Program. Professor of Art History, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University.

Contact:

Helen Clayton
canada@wcfia.harvard.edu

"The Road to Marriage Inequality for Same-Sex Couples in Canada"

Speaker:

Madame Justice Cynthia Petersen, Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Brampton.

Contact:

Helen Clayton
hclayton@wcfia.harvard.edu

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"'Everybody Loves Canada' Features and Ambiguities of the Canadian Model of Integration"

Speaker:

Paul May, William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow, Canada Program. PhD, Political Science, Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

Contact:

Helen Clayton
hclayton@wcfia.harvard.edu

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"Can Nationalism Help Immigrants? The Limits of Rights Claims-making on Behalf of Noncitizens"

Speaker:

Irene Bloemraad, Professor of Sociology and Thomas Garden Barnes Chair of Canadian Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

Contact:

Helen Clayton
hclayton@wcfia.harvard.edu

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"Bureaucrats and Immigration Policymaking: The Case of Quebec, Canada"

Speaker:

Mireille Paquet, William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow, Canada Program. Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Concordia University.

Contact:

Helen Clayton
hclayton@wcfia.harvard.edu

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Keynote Lunch Address

Speaker:

Jody Wilson-Raybould, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada.

Co-sponsored by the Women's Law Association, Harvard University Law School.

Contact:

Ali Remick
aremick@jd19.law.harvard.edu

"'Everybody Loves Canada': Features and Ambiguities of the Canadian Model of Immigration"

Speaker:

Paul May, William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow, Canada Program. PhD, Political Science, Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

Contact:

Helen Clayton
hclayton@wcfia.harvard.edu

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"'Every. Now. Then: Reframing Nationhood' An Illustrated Lecture"

Speakers:

Anique Jordan, Artist, Writer, Scholar.

Andrew Hunter, Senior Curator, Art Gallery of Guelph.

Contact:

Helen Clayton
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Film Screening: Colonization Road

In conversation with Ryan McMahon, Anishinaabe comedian, writer, media maker, and community activator.
With Charmaine Nelson, William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Canada Program. Professor of Art History, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University and Eli Nelson, Graduate Student Associate. PhD Candidate, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University. 

Cosponsored by the...

"'For this they Fight': Canadians in the Spanish Civil War"

Speaker:

Michael Petrou, 2018 Martin Wise Goodman Nieman Fellow, Nieman Foundation, Harvard University.

Contact:

Helen Clayton
canada@wcfia.harvard.edu

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"The Canadian Model of Diversity: Contemporary Challenges and Opportunities"

Canadian society has several aspects that make study of it crucial to understanding global challenges in the twenty-first century. These include migration issues, religious diversity, and the struggle of Aboriginal peoples and minority nations in quest for recognition. The aim of this conference is to analyze the Canadian experience through all its diversity, and to emphasize the decisive contributions of Canadian scholars in these different fields.

Please visit the conference website for additional details including the schedule and full list of speakers.

Conveners:

Paul May, William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow, Canada Program. PhD, Political Science, Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

Michèle Lamont, Center Director; Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion. Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies; Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies, Departments of Sociology and African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

Contact:

Helen Clayton
canada@wcfia.harvard.edu