"Comparing Inequality in Canada and the US"

Speaker:

Krishna Pendakur, William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Canada Program. Professor, Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University.

Please note RSVP required:
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Documentary Film Screening: "After the Last River"

Followed by a conversation with Director Victoria Lean and Producer Jade Blair

About:

In the shadow of a De Beers mine, the remote community of Attawapiskat lurches from crisis to crisis, as their homeland transforms into a modern frontier. Filmed over five years, this feature length film follows the First Nation’s journey from relative obscurity and into the international spotlight.

"Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy in the Twenty-First Century"

Speaker:

Jo Walton, Author.

Contact:

Helen Clayton
canada@wcfia.harvard.edu... Read more about Canada Seminar

"In the Climate Policy Trenches: Lessons from the British Columbia Carbon Tax and other Climate Policies"

Speaker:

Mark Jaccard, Professor, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University

Contact:

canadawcfia@gmail.com... Read more about Canada Seminar

“Lawren Harris and the Idea of North: A Conversation”

Speakers

Andrew Hunter, Fredrik S. Eaton Curator, Canadian Art, Art Gallery of Ontario.

Matthew Teitelbaum, Ann and Graham Gund Director, Museum of Fine Arts.

Alison Mountz, William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Canada Program, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Professor of Geography and Canada Research Chair of Global Migration, Wilfrid Laurier University.

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"Live from Canada! The Emergence of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation"

Speaker:

Sean G. Graham, William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow, Canada Program. Lecturer, Department of History, University of Ottawa.

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Helen Clayton
Canada@wcfia.harvard.edu... Read more about Canada Program Lunchtime Talk

"Disaster Citizenship: Survivors, Solidarity, and Power in the Progressive Era"

Speaker:

Jacob Remes, Assistant Professor of Public Affairs and History, SUNY Empire State College, Brooklyn.

Please RSVP To:

Helen Clayton
hclayton@wcfia.harvard.edu... Read more about Canada Program Lunchtime Talk

"Aeroplanes and Deportation in Britain and Canada"

Speaker:

William Walters, Professor of Political Sociology, Carleton University.

Contact:

Helen Clayton
hclayton@wcfia.harvard.edu... Read more about Canada Seminar

"A New Canadian Foreign Policy?"

Speaker:

Stephen Toope, Director, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto.

Contact:

Helen Clayton
Canada@wcfia.harvard.edu... Read more about Canada Seminar

"Remaking the Rust Belt: The Postindustrial Transformation of North America"

Speaker:

Tracy Neumann, William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow, Canada Program. Assistant Professor, Department of History, Wayne State University.

Please RSVP To:

Helen Clayton
Canada@wcfia.harvard.edu... Read more about Canada Program Lunchtime Talk

"Small Differences That Matter: Growing Labour Relations, US and Canada"

Speaker:

Elaine Bernard, Executive Director, The Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School.

Please RSVP To:

Helen Clayton
Canada@wcfia.harvard.edu... Read more about Canada Program Lunchtime Talk

"Unsettling and Resettling Canada"

Speaker:

Audrey Macklin, Professor of Law; Chair, International Human Rights, University of Toronto.

Contact:

Helen Clayton
hclayton@wcfia.harvard.edu... Read more about Canada Seminar

"Soho and the Canadian Avant-Garde: Cultural Diplomacy as a Means to Bridge the 49th Parallel"

Speaker:

Sarah E. K. Smith, Postdoctoral Fellow. Affiliated Faculty, Department of Art History and Art Conservation, and Cultural Studies Program, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada.

Please RSVP to: hclayton@wcfia.harvard.edu... Read more about Canada Program Lunchtime Talk

"Canada-New England Relations"

Speaker:

David Alward, Consul General, Canadian Consulate, Boston.

Please RSVP to: hclayton@wcfia.harvard.edu... Read more about Canada Program Lunchtime Talk

"Why Geography Matters"

Speakers:

Alison Mountz, William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Canada Program. Canada Research Chair of Global Migration, Balsillie School of International Affairs; Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University.

Peter K. Bol, Faculty Associate (on leave spring 2016). Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Director, Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University; Harvard College Professor.

Tim Cresswell, Professor of History and International Affairs, Northeastern University.

Mona Domosh, Professor of Geography, Department of Geography, Dartmouth University.

Richard Wright, Professor of Geography, Department of Geography, Dartmouth University.

Contact:

Helen Clayton
hclayton@wcfia.harvard.edu