The WCFIA Canada Program Seminar is off the record, free and open to the public, and chaired by Professor Richard Simeon, the 2007-08 William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies. The seminars listed below are subject to change, and more may be added at a later date.

Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will be held in the Bowie Vernon Room (2nd Floor), WCFIA, CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Spring 2008

Monday, March 3, 4:30-6 p.m.
Elizabeth May [bio]
Leader of the Green Party of Canada
Canada’s Role in a Changing World

Thursday, March 13, 4:30-6 p.m.
The Hon. Michael Wilson [bio]
Canadian Ambassador to the United States
Title: TBA
Please note: This event will be held in the Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS South S020
1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Co-sponsored by the Canadian Consulate, Boston

Monday, April 14, 4-6 p.m.
George Thomson
Chair of the Ontario Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform
Karen Cohl
Former Executive Director for Ontario’s Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform
Citizen Engagement in Public Policy: Reflections on Ontario’s Citizens’

Fall 2007

Monday, September 24, 4 p.m.
John Higginbotham
Principal Advisor, Asia Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative, Transport Canada
China and Canada's Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative

Monday, October 15, 4 p.m.
Professor Miriam Smith
School of Public Policy and Administration, Atkinson Faculty, York University
Beyond Morality Politics: Historical Institutionalism and Lesbian and Gay Rights in the United States and Canada

Monday, October 29, 4 p.m.
Alex Neve
Secretary General, Amnesty International Canada
The Insecurity of Human Rights: Canadian Law and Practice in the ‘War on Terror’

Monday, November 5, 4 p.m.
Marc Shell
Irving Babbit Professor of Comparative Literature, and Professor of English
Jason Kaufman
John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences
Different Trajectories: Two Harvard Scholars Explore Differences in Culture and Politics Between Canada and the United States

Monday, November 26, 4 p.m.
Chantal Hébert
The Toronto Star
Canada and Quebec: Does the Right’s New Frontier Foreshadow a more Conservative Canada?

Monday, December 10, 4 p.m.
Alain-G. Gagnon
Professor Université du Québec à Montréal
Engineering Language in Quebec: Bill 101 at 30

Contact Information

Clayton, Helen