A Primer on Canadian Culture, Friday Oct. 16 @ 7:00pm

Will Straw is Professor in the Department of Art History and Communications Studies at McGill University.He is a co-editor of the Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock and of the forthcoming anthology "Circulation and the City: Essays on Urban Culture," and the author of "Cyanide and Sin: Visualizing Crime in 50s America", and over seventy articles on film, music, urban culture and visuality. At present, Dr. Straw is the director of a new research project entitled "Média et vie urbaine à Montréal," with colleagues from the Université de Montréal and Université du Québec à Montréal. A former cultural correspondent on CBC television and The Women's Television Network, Will Straw comments regularlyon culture and media for a wide range of media.

Dr. David J. Plazek is teaching Canadian politics this autumn. The course includes presentations by Richard Shultz, Chair of McGill University's Political Science Department, and Neil Burnham, Consul and Head of Political/Economic Relations and Public Affairs, Consulate General of Canada in Boston. In addition, the class will travel to McGill University for a presentation by Antonia Maioni, Director of McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, and a visit to McCord Museum.

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New England Political Science Association's annual meeting, May 8-9, 2009
Dr. David J.Plazek, Chair of the Institute of Canadian Studies at LSC, will be the discussant for the "Canadian Politics" section of the New England Political Science Association's annual meeting in Portland, ME (May 8-9, 2009).

McGill University Institute for the Study of Canada Annual Conference, March 26-27, 2009.
Institute of Canadian Study at LSC is sponsoring a field trip to McGill Institute for the Study of Canada's Annual Conference on March 27. Room is still available for students who are interested. Please contact Dr David Plazak at David.Plazek@lyndonstate.edu or 802-626-6241.

McGill University Institute for the Study of Canada

With the new term, the Lyndon State campus has come to life and work calendars have become full as they do on campuses everywhere this time of year. We at the Institute, like many others, are paying close attention to electoral developments in Canada. Work continues on building a Canadian Internship program for Lyndon State students. We are also working on developing a speaker’s series on Canadian politics and will be announcing our presenters when the schedule shores up.
As we move forward, I would like to take the opportunity to recommend that you join Connect2Canada to keep up to date and build professional networks. This can be done by going to Connect2Canada.com and registering. The network is growing and offers multiple benefits so consider taking the time to join. I wish all the best in continuing the work of enhancing US understanding of Canada and cultivating relationships with our northern neighbors.

David J. Plazek
Institute of Canadian Studies at Lyndon State College
Fall 2008
 

The Institute of Canadian Studies at Lyndon State College ended a successful Spring 2008 semester when I meet with Marc Jacque from the Canadian Consulate in Boston on our campus. Present at the meeting were LSC’s President Carol Moore and Dean of Academics Donna Dalton. The discussions were another part of our effort to build bridges and networks with our northern neighbor. As we move into the summer, these processes continue.

At the beginning of June, I will travel to Ottawa to meet and build relations with Canadian politicians and academics. The trip is possible due to generous support from Lyndon State College. The short term goals are to (1) develop a list of politicians that would be interested in having Lyndon State students as interns in their offices and (2) make inquiries about bringing people to LSC’s campus for speaking engagements. In addition, I will be writing a grant proposal for a program grant from the Canadian government largely designed to support the aforementioned internship position. The institute will also celebrate its first anniversary this July.

What else the summer holds will reveal itself as the season unfolds. I would like to thank all those on both sides of the border who have made the Institute possible and contributed to a banner first year. In particular, I would like to thank Lyndon State College for financial support. As we move into our second year, we look to build on our success. Feel free to contact us if we can help you or you feel you can help us in the task to improve our understanding of Canada. I wish everyone a wonderful summer.

Sincerely,

David J. Plazek
Chair, Institute of Canadian Studies 

Monday, March 10, 1pm, Burke Mountain Room

Canadian Senator is coming to Lyndon State College.

Honourable Hugh D. Segal, C.M.

A graduate of the University of Ottawa in Canadian history, the Senator also studied international trade economics at the graduate level at Carleton University; his former roles include president of the Institute for Research on Public Policy (Montreal), Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister of Canada and Associate Cabinet Secretary in Ontario.  In the private sector he has had senior executive roles in the food and alcohol beverage, advertising and public affairs and financial services sectors.  He is a member of  various not for profit, public company, and international boards including the Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Science, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the Institute for Democratic and Electoral Assistance (Stockholm),  the Kingston General Hospital, and the Conference of Defence Associations. His private sector boards are in the engineering and construction, financial service, energy marketing, electronics and automobile sectors. He was appointed to the Senate of Canada as a Conservative by Prime Minister Martin, a Liberal.  Since his appointment, Senator Segal has chaired the Foreign Affairs and International Trade Committee, as well as serving on Agriculture and Aboriginal Affairs committees.  In the decade before coming to the Senate, the Senator was awarded the Order of Canada, an Honorary Doctorate of Law from the Royal Military College, and appointed an Honorary Captain of the Canadian Navy.  He has written four books on Canadian politics and government, co-authored a fifth and edited a monograph on foreign and defence policy. 

Senior Fellow  and Adjunct Professor at Queen’s School of Policy Studies, in Kingston, since 1993, Hugh Segal is also an Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at the Queen’s School of Business.  He teaches in both faculties and has lectured at the University of Toronto Law School, the Canadian Forces Staff College and given guest lectures at Harvard, McGill, Western, York and the University of Toronto-Rotman Business School.  Hugh Segal is the Non-Executive Chair of both the Walter Duncan Gordon Foundation and the Canadian Institute for Strategic Studies.

He and his family make their home in Kingston, Ontario.

 

Thursday, April 3, 7:00pm, Alexander Twilight Theater
 
Action: The October Crisis of 1970/Reaction: A Portrait of a Society in Crisis
 
Directed by Robin Spry
 
This film provides perspective to the October Crisis of 1970 when the Quebec seperatist movement took a violent turn.  The "action" informs us of the historic background and details the events of that October while the "reaction" voices personal reactions to this politically significant time, which changed the face of the seperatist movement and Quebec forever.  
 
Sponsored by the Institute of Canadian Studies at LSC