The WCFIA Canada Program Seminar is off the record, free and open to the public, and chaired by Professor Ruth Phillips, the 2009–2010 William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies. The seminars listed below are subject to change.
All seminars, unless otherwise noted, will be held in the Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138.
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- Canada Program Seminar
- Date: September 21, 2009
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"Thinking About Canada, While Imagining a New Art Gallery of Ontario with Frank Gehry"
- Speakers
- Teitelbaum, Matthew
Michael and Sonja Koerner Director and CEO, Art Gallery of Ontario.
- Canada Program Seminar
- Date: October 19, 2009
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"Winners' History: Exhibiting the Group of Seven"
Please read Lynda Jessup's bio.
- Speakers
- Jessup, Lynda
Professor of Canadian Art History and Museum Representation, Queen's University.
- Canada Program Seminar
- Date: November 9, 2009
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"The Canadian War Museum, and the Military Identity of an Unmilitary People"
Please read Norman Hillmer's bio.
- Speakers
- Hillmer, Norman
Professor of History and International Relations, Carleton University.
- Canada Program Author Reading
- Date: November 18, 2009
- Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
- Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy St., Room 2
- This is open to the public.
"Guerilla Diplomacy: Rethinking International Relations"
Daryl Copeland
Author.
"Branding Canada: Projecting Canada's Soft Power through Public Diplomacy"
Evan Potter
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Ottawa.
- Speakers
- Copeland, Daryl
Author.
- Potter, Evan
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Ottawa.
- Canada Program Seminar
- Date: February 22, 2010
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., Belfer Case Study Room (S020)
- This is open to the public.
"Windigos and the Law: Living Indigenous Legal Traditions"
Respondent:
Joseph William Singer
Bussey Professor of Law, Harvard Law School.
- Speakers
- Borrows, John
Professor of Aboriginal Justice and Governance, University of Victoria.
- Johnston, Darlene
Professor of Law, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
- Canada Program Seminar
- Date: March 8, 2010
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"Property and Dispossession among Northern Hunter-Gatherers: The Case of the Innu/Montagnais, 1608-1705"
- Speakers
- Greer, Allan
Professor of History, McGill University.
- Canada Program Seminar
- Date: April 12, 2010
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"My Road Trip with Mr. Curtis"
- Speakers
- Thomas, Jeff
Urban Iroquois, member of the Onondaga, artist, and photographer.
