Canadian Studies past events

Colloquia and symposia, Spring 2009

DATE: THU          JAN 22, 2009         lecture followed by reception
TITLE: Transforming Afghanistan from a Failed to a  Viable State

SPEAKER:  ARIF Z. LALANI  (Senior Visiting Fellow, Munk Centre for  International Studies, University of Toronto;  
Former Canadian Ambassador to Afghanistan,  Iraq, and Jordan) 

Time: 4 pm

Place: Seaborg  Room,  Berkeley Faculty Club (upstairs)

 (Map: http://berkeley.edu/map/maps/CD56.html)

 Sponsored by: IIS (Institute of International  Studies)

Co-sponsored by the Canadian Studies Program, The  Religion, Politics and Globalization Program, The Human Rights   Center, and International  House

DATE: THU FEB 12, 2009 colloquium lunch - RSVP
TITLE: Canada's innovation system and its global linkages
SPEAKER: THIERRY WEISSENBURGER (Trade Commissioner, Consulate General of Canada, San Francisco/Silicon Valley)
Time: 12 noon
Place: 2223 Fulton St., 6th floor conference room

DATE: THU FEB 19, 2009 no talk this week – WCSA symposium at UC Davis

DATE: THU FEB 26, 2009 bag lunch talk
TITLE: Experiments in Inuit Tourism: the Eastern Canadian Arctic
SPEAKER: NELSON GRABURN (Professor of Anthropology, emeritus and Professor of the Graduate Program; Curator, North American Ethnology, Hearst Museum of Anthropology; Thomas Garden Barnes Chair of Canadian Studies)
Time: 12 noon
Place: 2223 Fulton St., 6th floor conference room

DATE: THU MAR 05, 2009 bag lunch talk
TITLE: The Franklin Relics in the Arctic Archive
SPEAKER: ADRIANA CRACIUN (Professor of English, UC Riverside)
Time: 12 noon
Place: 2223 Fulton St., 6th floor conference room

DATE: THU MAR 12, 2009 bag lunch talk
TITLE: The Continental Divide: The US-Canada Border
SPEAKER: GLYNN CUSTRED
Time: 12 noon
Place: 2223 Fulton St., 6th floor conference room
DATE: THU MAR 19, 2009
SPEAKERS: KATHLEEN HILL and GERALD HILL - POSTPONED UNTIL Fall 2009

DATE: THU APR 09, 2009 bag lunch talk
TITLE: More on the Alberta Oil Sands
SPEAKER: GREG CROFT (Energy consultant; Ph.D. candidate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering)
Time: 12 noon
Place: 2223 Fulton St., 6th floor conference room

DATE: THU APR 16, 2009 WSSA in Albuquerque – no bag lunch talk this week

DATE: THU APR 23, 2009
TITLE: A distinctively Canadian take on international relations? An assessment of the origins, strengths and weaknesses of Responsibility to Protect
SPEAKER: DAVID TRIM (Pacific Union College; Visiting Scholar, Canadian Studies Program)
Time: 12 noon
Place: 2223 Fulton St., 6th floor conference room
Sponsored by: the Canadian Studies Program
Co-sponsored by: the Human Rights Center and the and the Religion, Politics and Globalization Program

DATE: THU APR 30 2009 Thomas Garden Barnes Colloquium Lecture **RSVP**
TITLE: Canada’s ‘Rights Revolution’: Populist or Elitist, 1960-1982
SPEAKER: MICHAEL D. BEHIELS (Visiting Scholar and John A. Sproul Research Fellow, Canadian Studies Program)
Time: 12 noon
Place: 2223 Fulton St., 6th floor conference room
Luncheon followed by lecture. RSVP: Please reply to Rita Ross only if you will be attending:
510-642-0531 or canada@berkeley.edu, ASAP but no later than Monday, April 27.

One in a lecture series honoring Thomas Garden Barnes, Professor of History and Law, emeritus,
and Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Canadian Studies Program at UC Berkeley

Colloquia and symposia, Fall 2008
DATE: THU SEP 11, 2008
TITLE: Toronto Schools: Integration through Diversity
SPEAKER: RANU BASU (Geography, York University; Visiting Scholar with the Center for Cities and Schools, Institute of Urban and Regional Development, UC Berkeley, and John A. Sproul Research Fellow in Canadian Studies, Fall 2008)
Time: 2 pm
Place: 316 Wurster Hall
Sponsored by: IURD
Co-sponsored by: Canadian Studies Program

DATE: FRI-SAT SEP 26-27, 2008 Two day conference
TITLE: Symposium on Indigenous Tourism
SPEAKERS: see website
Several speakers on Canada – see online agenda
Time: 9 am start on Friday (full day) and Saturday (half day)
Place: Gifford Room, 221 Kroeber Hall
Sponsored by: Tourism Studies Working Group
Co-sponsored by: Canadian Studies Program and other campus units
Website: http://www.tourismstudies.org/Events/Indigenous_Tourism_2008.htm

DATE: THU           OCT 02, 2008   bag lunch talk
TITLE: The Future of California’s Oil Supply: the Canadian Connection
SPEAKER: GREGORY CROFT (Energy consultant; Ph.D. candidate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering)
Time: 12 noon
Place: 2223 Fulton St., 6th floor conference room

DATE: THU           OCT 09, 2008   bag lunch talk
TITLE: Finding Freedom over the River: The Demise of Slavery in Upper Canada
SPEAKER: GREGORY WIGMORE (Ph.D. candidate in History, UC Davis)
Time: 12 noon
Place: 2223 Fulton St., 6th floor conference room
DATE: THU           OCT 16, 2008   bag lunch talk
TITLE: Beyond the Revenge of the Cradle: Quebec Families in Historical Perspective
SPEAKER: PETER GOSSAGE (Université de Sherbrooke; Visiting Scholar with Canadian Studies Program 2007-2008)
Time: 12 noon
Place: 2223 Fulton St., 6th floor conference room

DATE: THU   OCT 23, 2008   bag lunch talk
Title: 21st Century Poetry
SPEAKER: FRANK DAVEY (Canadian poet, editor, small magazine publisher, literary critic, and cultural critic)
Time: 12 noon
Place: 2223 Fulton St., 6th floor conference room
Time: 12 noon
Place: 2223 Fulton St., 6th floor conference room (may be changed)
DATE: FRI      NOV 07, 2008             SYMPOSIUM            RSVP
TITLE: Québec and the seventeenth-century Atlantic World: Quatercentennial perspectives
For participants, agenda, and registration details please see conference webpage:
http://canada.berkeley.edu/atlantic%20world/atlantichome.html
Time: 9 am – 5 pm, reception following 5-6
Place: History Department Conference Room, 3335 Dwinelle Hall

DATE: THU NOV 13, 2008     bag lunch talk
TITLE: Mapping the Urban Landscape of Education Reform in the Toronto Region
SPEAKER: RANU BASU (Geography, York University; Visiting Scholar with the Center for Cities and Schools, Institute of Urban and Regional Development, UC Berkeley, and John A. Sproul Research Fellow in Canadian Studies, Fall 2008)
Time: 12 noon
Place: 2223 Fulton St., 6th floor conference room

DATE: THU NOV 20, 2008      lecture followed by reception    RSVP
TITLE: The West and Russia after Georgia
SPEAKER: JEREMY KINSMAN (retired Canadian diplomat)
Time: 4 pm
Place: IGS Library, 109 Moses Hall
Sponsored by: IIS (Institute of International Studies)
Co-sponsored by: Canadian Studies Program and IGS (Institute of Governmental Studies)
Jeremy Kinsman was Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (2000-02), Canadian Ambassador to the European Union (2002-06), and is now a Diplomat-in-Residence at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Colloquia and Symposia, Spring 2008

DATE: WED JAN 30, 2008 lecture, reception to follow
TITLE: Stranger in a Surprisingly Strange Land: A Canadian Lawyer Defends Lord Conrad Black in U.S. Federal Court in Chicago
SPEAKER: EDWARD GREENSPAN, Q.C. (Senior Partner, Greenspan, White)
Time: 4 pm
Place: Goldberg Room, Simon Hall, Boalt School of Law. Reception to follow at 2240 Piedmont
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Law and Society, Boalt School of Law.Co-sponsored by the Canadian Studies Program, Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy, Institute for Legal Research, and the Institute of Governmental Studies

FEB 14, 2008        bag lunch talk       
TITLE: Jim Houston and the Discovery of Inuit Art: Con-man or Genius?
SPEAKER: NELSON GRABURN (Professor of Anthropology, emeritus
and Professor of the Graduate Program; Curator, North American Ethnology,
Hearst Museum of Anthropology; Thomas Garden Barnes Chair of Canadian Studies)
Time: 12 noon
Place: 2223 Fulton St.,6th floor conference room

DATE: MON MAR 03, 2008 Western Canadian Studies Association - Symposium
TITLE: Canadian Studies: On the Edge symposium and lunch
Faculty and graduate student papers from around the West. Also film and discussion: Nelson Graburn (UC Berkeley) will introduce and discuss the recent documentary film Ullumi, made by the Inuit, about life in Quebec's Arctic town of Nunavik – please see http://www.ias.berkeley.edu/canada/WCSA2008.html for participants, agenda, and registration details
Time: 9:30 - 4
Place: 2223 Fulton St., 6th floor conference room

DATE: WED MAR 05, 2008 bag lunch talk
TITLE: Quebecers and their Pasts
SPEAKER: JOCELYN LÉTOURNEAU (History, Université Laval)
Time: 12 noon
Place: 2223 Fulton St., 6th floor conference room

DATE: FRI MAR 07, 2008 FULL-DAY CONFERENCE
TITLE: The Ice Is Melting: Climate Change in the Canadian North
Place: Clark Kerr Conference Center
Co-sponsored by The Law of the Sea Institute
Please see conference webpage for participants, agenda, and registration details http://www.ias.berkeley.edu/canada/icemelting/icemeltinghome.html

DATE: THU MAR 13, 2008 bag lunch talk
TITLE: Pausing a Moment for a Backward Glance: The Origins of the North America in
Which We Live
SPEAKER: GLYNN CUSTRED (Anthropology, California State University East Bay)
Time: 12 noon
Place: 2223 Fulton St., 6th floor

DATE: week of MAR 24-28, 2008, no bag lunch talk this week – Spring break

DATE: TUE    APR 01, 2008            buffet lunch followed by symposium  
Co-sponsored by the Government of Quebec, Los Angeles. Presented on the occasion of the 
400th anniversary of Québec City.
SPEAKERS: DR. DEAN LOUDER, “Franco-America,La Franco-Amérique : Reminder, Testimony, Idea” 
and  DR. CLAUDINE CHALMERS, "French San Francisco"
Time: 12 noon
Place: 2223 Fulton St.,
6th floor conference room

DATE: WED APR 02, 2008 bag lunch talk
TITLE: The nomadic loup-garou: from Quebec to the Canadian and American Far West
SPEAKER: PAMELA SING (University of Alberta)
Time: 12 noon
Place: 2223 Fulton St., 6th floor seminar room

DATE: THU APR 10, 2008 lecture
TITLE: Architecture Is Murder: the Redpath Murders in Montreal
SPEAKER: ANNMARIE ADAMS (William C. Macdonald Professor of Architecture, McGill University;
Visiting Scholar with the Institute of Urban and Regional Development at Berkeley, 2007-2008)
Time: 2 pm
Place: 316 Wurster Hall (Architecture Building)
Part of the “Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History” project, http://canadianmysteries.ca/mysteries/indexen.html
Sponsored by: The Institute of Urban and Regional Development (IURD)
Co-sponsored by The Canadian Studies Program

DATE: THU APR 24, 2008 bag lunch talk
TITLE: Nationhood and Manhood Vindicated in Mud and Blood: the Canadian and Australian Experience of the Western Front in World War I
SPEAKER: DAVID TRIM (Department of Humanities, Newbold College, Bracknell, England;
Visiting Scholar with Canadian Studies, 2008)
Time: 12 noon
Place: 2223 Fulton St., 6th floor conference room

DATE: THU MAY 01, 2008 bag lunch talk
TITLE: Putting Canada's Last Press Baron Behind Bars: The American Trial of Lord Black of Crossharbour
SPEAKER: GEORGE TOMBS (Journalism, Athabasca University; author of Robber Baron: Lord Black of Crossharbour, ECW Press and the French version Le baron Black, Les Éditions de l'Homme)
Time: 12 noon
Place: 2223 Fulton St., 6th floor seminar room

Colloquia and Symposia, Fall 2007

DATE: THU SEP 20 2007 colloquium luncheon talk
TITLE: Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History
SPEAKER: PETER GOSSAGE (Professor of History, Université de Sherbrooke; Visiting Scholar and Sproul Fellow with the Canadian Studies Program at Berkeley, 2007-2008)
Time: 12 noon
Place: 2223 Fulton St., 6th floor conference room

DATE: THU SEP 27 2007 bag lunch talk
TITLE: Three Eighteenth Century Decisive Battles: Fontenoy, Culloden, Quebec
SPEAKER: THOMAS G. BARNES (Co-Director of the Canadian Studies Program and Professor Emeritus of History and Law)
Time: 12 noon
Place: 2223 Fulton St., 6th floor, Numata seminar room

DATE: WED OCT 03, 2007 bag lunch talk
TITLE: Canada’s Cities: Stepchildren of Canada's Federalism
SPEAKER: H. PETER OBERLANDER (Professor Emeritus, Community & Regional Planning, University of British Columbia
Time: 12 noon
Place: 2223 Fulton St., 6th floor, Numata seminar room

DATE: THU OCT 25, 2007 bag lunch talk
TITLE: Man and Whose Worlds? RevisitingThe Architecture of Expo 67
SPEAKER: ANNMARIE ADAMS (Professor of Architecture, McGill University; Visiting Scholar with the Institute of Urban and Regional Development at Berkeley, 2007-2008)
Time: 12 noon
Place: 2223 Fulton St., 6th floor conference room

DATE: THU NOV 08, 2007 bag lunch talk
TITLE: Canada's Role in the World Oil Supply
SPEAKER: GREGORY CROFT (Energy consultant; Ph.D. student, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering)
Time: 12 noon
Place: 2223 Fulton St., 6th floor conference room

DATE: THU NOV 29, 2007 colloquium lunch talk
TITLE: Canada’s Role in Afghanistan
SPEAKER: NADIA SCIPIO DEL CAMPO (Consul, Political/Economic Relations and Public Affairs, Consulate General of Canada, San Francisco/Silicon Valley)
Time: 12 noon
Place: 2223 Fulton St., 6th floor seminar room

DATE: WED DEC 05, 2007 book talk
TITLE: Unlikely Utopia: The Surprising Triumph of Canadian Pluralism
SPEAKER: MICHAEL ADAMS (founding President of the Environics polling firm and
author of the bestselling Fire and Ice) See http://www.michaeladams.ca/books/utopia/
Time: 2 - 3:15 pm
Place: Barrows 420
Co-sponsor: The Interdisciplinary Immigration Workshop

Colloquia and Symposia, Spring 2007
DATE: THU JAN 18, 2007 bag lunch lecture
TITLE: “The directions of SSHRC (Social Science and Humanities Research Council)”
SPEAKER: KEREN RICE (Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Aboriginal Studies Program, University of Toronto; Board member SSHRC
Time: 12 noon
Place: 2223 Fulton St., 6th floor, IEAS Conference Room

DATE: WED JAN 31, 2007 lecture
TITLE: '”Willing Paradises”
SPEAKER: BRIAN MACKAY-LYONS (Architecture, Dalhousie University; Nova Scotia Architect)
Time: 7 pm
Place: 112 Wurster Hall
Co-sponsored by the College of Environmental Design, School of Architecture

A recent book about the speaker's work is Plain Modern: The Architecture of Brian MacKay-Lyons.
For more on the work of his architectural firm, see http://www.mlsarchitects.ca/

DATE: THU FEB 08, 2007 bag lunch – film showing & discussion
TITLE: film: Pay Dirt: Making the Unconventional Conventional (on Alberta’s oil sands), 48 minutes
Time: 12 noon
Place: 2223 Fulton St., 6th floor

"The documentary guides the viewer through a fascinating and compelling investigation of the how's and why's of oil sands,
including new technologies, environmental concerns (water, natural gas use, greenhouse gas emissions) social concerns
regarding local Aboriginal communities, and infrastructure issues due to the tremendous growth."

DATE: THU FEB 15, 2007 bag lunch lecture
TITLE: “The Canada California Strategic Innovation Partnership”
SPEAKER: BARBARA GIACOMIN (Senior Trade Commissioner, Consulate General of Canada, San Francisco)
Time: 12 noon
Place: 2223 Fulton St., 6th floor

DATE: THU FEB 22, 2007 colloquium - buffet followed by slide lecture
TITLE: "Canadian artist, globalisation and creativity"
SPEAKER: MAXINE HEPPNER (Canadian choreographer, performer, director, and teacher of dance;
founder and director of Across Oceans: international collaborations in contemporary arts)
Time: 12 noon
Place: 2223 Fulton St., 6th floor
Maxine Heppner’s visit is being partially supported by the ACSUS Fund for the Arts, with the support of the Department of Foreign Affairs Canada.
RSVP only if you will be coming, to Rita Ross at canada@berkeley.edu or (510) 642-0531, ASAP but no later than Monday, February 19.

DATE: FRI MAR 02, 2007
TITLE: "On 'sharing culture': the political economy of intercultural display and the Kwakwaka'wakw
(Kwakiutl) Hamat'sa dance"
SPEAKER: AARON GLASS (Killam Postdoctoral fellow, University of British Columbia)
Time: 4 pmPlace: Gifford Room, 2^nd floor Kroeber Hall
Co-sponsored by the Tourism Working Group

DATE: FRI MAR 09, 2007
TITLE: “The Alberta-California Energy Conference”
Time: 9 am – 5 pm
Place: Clark Kerr Campus, UC Berkeley (2601 Warring St. at Parker)
Conference sessions are all free and open to the campus community, public, and press. http://www.ias.berkeley.edu/canada/energyconf.html

DATE: TUES, MAR 13, 2007 SOLD OUT
TITLE: "The Failure of Humanity in Preventing Genocides"
SPEAKER: LIEUTENANT GENERAL ROMÉO DALLAIRE
Time: 7 PM to 8:30 PM
Place: International House, Chevron Auditorium
Free admission, tickets required.
This speech will open the conference “Stopping Mass Atrocities: An International Conference on the Responsibility to Protect.”
Sponsored by the Human Rights Center of IAS:
Co-sponsored by the Canadian Studies program and many other on- and off-campus groups

DATE: THU MAR 15, 2007 bag lunch book talk
TITLE: The Friends of Meager Fortune
SPEAKER: DAVID ADAMS RICHARDS (Canadian author)
Time: 12 noon
Place: 2223 Fulton St., 6th floor
A recent book review from the Washington Post - warning, spoilers!
Co-sponsored by the Department of English

DATE: THU MAR 22, 2007 bag lunch talk
TITLE: “Softwood Lumber and the American Assault on Canada's Domestic Policy Sovereignty”
SPEAKER: GEORGE HOBERG (Department of Forest Resources Management, University of British Columbia, and Visiting Scholar, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, U.C. Berkeley; John A. Sproul Research Fellow, Canadian Studies Program)
Time: 12 noon
Place: 2223 Fulton St., 6th floo

DATE: THU APR 05, 2007 bag lunch talk
TITLE: “Names in Acadia”
SPEAKER: RITA ROSS (Assistant Director, Canadian Studies Program)
Time: 12 noon
Place: 2223 Fulton St., 6th floor

DATE: THU APR 19, 2007 bag lunch talk
TITLE: “The Proposal Economy: neoliberalism and community development in a northern Ontario town”
SPEAKER: PAMELA STERN (Centre for Sustainable Community Development, Simon Fraser University)
Time: 12 noon
Place: 2223 Fulton St., 6th floor

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DATE: MON APR 23, 2007 BOOK TALK
TITLE: Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things: An Impossible Journey from Kabul to Chiapas
SPEAKER: GARY GEDDES (Canadian poet, writier, editor, and critic)
Time: 7 pm
Place: Book Passage (The Ferry Building, Market & Embaracdero) San Francisco

GARY GEDDES is a poet, writer, editor and critic. He has written and edited more than 30 books, including the bestselling Sailing Home, and won over a dozen national and international awards, among them the Americas Best Book Award and the Gabriela Mistral Prize. Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things was published in the US in Spring 2007 by Sterling Books. For more on the new book see http://www.harpercollins.ca/global_scripts/product_catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=0002001004

DATE: FRI APR 27, 2007 Inuit film and buffet lunch
FILM TITLE: Qallunaanik Piusiqsiuriniq [or, Why White Men Are Funny]. Script by Zebedie Nungak, Produced by Mark Sandiford. Beachwalker Films, Toronto. (2007)
SPEAKER: NELSON GRABURN (Professor of Anthropology, Co-Director of the Canadian Studies Program)
Time: 12 noon
Place: 221 Kroeber Hall (the Gifford Room)
Please join us for an end-of the year celebration in honor of Nelson Graburn, who is retiring at the end of the semester.

DATE: MON APR 30, 2007 lecture
TITLE: “The Botanical Imagery of Samuel de Champlain: French Botanical Collection, Religious Doctrine, and the Plants of Canada”
SPEAKER: CHANDRA MUKERJI (Communication, UC San Diego)
Time: 4 pm
Place: 140 Barrows Hall
Sponsored by the Office for History of Science and Technology (UC Berkeley).
Co-sponsored by the Canadian Studies Program (Berkeley), and the History of Health Sciences Program (UCSF)

Colloquia and Symposia, Fall 2006