The WCFIA Canada Program Seminar is off the record, free and open to the public, and chaired by James R. Dunn, the 2011–2012 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: October 17, 2011
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"Amenities, Economic Development, and 'Ideas in the Air:' the Quest of Two Canadian Cities to Build Alfred Marshall's Places Where Wealth Develops"
- Speakers
- Rosentraub, Mark
Professor of Sport Management, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
- Canada Program Seminar
- Date: October 24, 2011
- Time: 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
- Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, MA
- This is open to the public.
"Death and Disparity on the 49th Parallel: Unpacking the Canadian–US Paradox of Income Equality and Population Health"
Co-sponsored by the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard
School of Public Health.
- Speakers
- Dunn, Jim
- William Lyon Mackenzie King
Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies. Associate Professor, Department
of Health, Aging, and Society, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
- Canada Program Seminar
- Date: October 31, 2011
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy St., East Dining Room
- This is open to the public.
"Blowing Snow: The Disinformation Campaign to Undermine Canada's Medicare"
- Speakers
- Evans, Robert G.
Professor of Economics, University of British Columbia.
- Canada Program Seminar
- Date: November 7, 2011
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"Hockey as Mirror: Finding a National Identity in a Game"
- Speakers
- Brunt, Stephen
Columnist and Feature Writer, Sportsnet Magazine.
- Canada Program Seminar
- Date: November 14, 2011
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"Election 2011: The Death Knell for Canada's Laurentian Consensus"
- Speakers
- Ibbitson, John
Ottawa Bureau Chief, the Globe and Mail.
- Canada Seminar - Special Event in Honor of Professor Paul Weiler
- Date: November 21, 2011
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy St., East Dining Room
- This is open to the public.
"How Finance Went Wrong, and How to Fix It—Some Worthwhile Canadian Initiatives"
A seminar to mark the publishing of a Festschrift Volume in honor of Paul C. Weiler, Henry J. Friendly Professor of Law, Emeritus, Harvard Law School.
- Speakers
- Morck, Randall
Stephen A. Jarislowsky Distinguished Chair in Finance and University Professor, University of Alberta.
- Canada Program Seminar
- Date: November 28, 2011
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"The North American Idea"
- Speakers
- Pastor, Robert
Professor and Director for North American Studies, American University.
- Panel Discussion: Canada Program and Harvard Law School
- Date: February 2, 2012
- Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Hauser Hall 105, Harvard Law School
- This is open to the public.
Are Law Schools in Crisis? The New York Times Editorial and its Discontents
A panel discussion with Alfred C. Aman, Jr., Professor of Law, Indiana University, I. Glenn Cohen, Asistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, and Peer Zumbansen, Professor of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University.
Link: Harvard Law School Event Page
Co-sponsored by the Harvard Law School Graduate Program; The Canada Program at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Convened by the Harvard Law School SJD Association
- Speakers
- Aman, Alfred C., Jr.
Professor of Law, Indiana University
- Cohen, I. Glenn
Asistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
- Zumbansen, Peer
Professor of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
- Canada Program Seminar
- Date: February 6, 2012
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"The Science and Politics of Insite: Vancouver's Supervised Injection Site"
- Speakers
- Kerr, Thomas
Professor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
- Canada Program Seminar
- Date: February 13, 2012
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- Wasserstein Hall, Room 2036, Harvard Law School
- This is open to the public.
"How Finance Went Wrong, and How to Fixt It—Some Worthwhile Canadian Initiatives"
Co-sponsored by the Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School.
- Speakers
- Morck, Randall
Stephen A. Jarislowsky Distinguished Chair in Finance and University Professor, University of Alberta.
- Canada Program Seminar
- Date: March 19, 2012
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy St., Theatre Room
- This is open to the public.
"Outsourced: Neoliberalism and the Fate of Our Hospitals, Healthcare Systems, and Societies"
- Speakers
- Zuberi, Daniyal
- William Lyon Mackenzie King
Research Fellow, Canada Program. Assistant Professor, Department of
Sociology, University of British Columbia.
- Canada Program Seminar
- Date: March 26, 2012
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy St., Room 2
- This is open to the public.
"Municipal Challenges in Canada"
- Speakers
- Nenshi, Naheed
Mayor of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
- Canada Program Seminar
- Date: April 2, 2012
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"Living Forward, Understanding Backward: Transforming Public Health in the 21st Century"
- Speakers
- Butler-Jones, David
Chief Public Health Officer, Canada.
- Canada Program Seminar
- Date: April 9, 2012
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy St., East Dining Room
- This is open to the public.
"The Continuing Resonance of the Liberal Idea in North America"
- Speakers
- Rae, Robert Keith
Member of Parliament (Toronto Centre), and Interim Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.
- Canada Program Seminar
- Date: April 16, 2012
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"Losing our Balance? Trends in Imprisonment Policies in Canada"
- Speakers
- Webster, Cheryl
Associate Professor, Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa.
