{"id":24306,"date":"2013-09-10T10:35:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T15:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=24306"},"modified":"2018-12-20T13:09:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T18:09:06","slug":"brocks-centre-for-canadian-studies-launches-public-lecture-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2013\/09\/brocks-centre-for-canadian-studies-launches-public-lecture-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock’s Centre for Canadian Studies launches public lecture series"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Centre for Canadian Studies<\/a> at Brock has launched a new public lecture series.<\/p>\n

All talks – except for the Ken Dryden talk on Nov. 7 – take place Wednesdays from 2 to 3 p.m. at 573 Glenridge Ave. in room 201.<\/p>\n

Lectures are free, open to the public and include a post-talk question and answer period.<\/p>\n

* Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2 to 3 p.m., GL201<\/strong>
\nBlayne Haggart (assistant professor, Political Science): “North American Politics: What Room to Manoeuvre?”
\nAnalyzing developments in North American governance in the post-9\/11 period, Haggart argues that Canada still enjoys significant policy autonomy, should the government choose to exercise it.<\/p>\n

* Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2 to 3 p.m., GL201 <\/strong>
\nDerek Foster (assistant professor, Communication, Popular Culture and Film): “The war of words over commemorating Canada’s war dead: The battle over a \u2018Highway of Heroes'”<\/p>\n

* Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2 to 3 p.m., GL201<\/strong>
\nJane Koustas (professor, Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures): “(Mis)Translating Canada”<\/p>\n

* Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2 to 3 p.m., GL201<\/strong>
\nJeff Boggs (associate professor, Geography): “After the Internet: does Canada’s book trade still need a cultural policy?”<\/p>\n

* Wednesday, Oct. 9, <\/strong>2 to 3 p.m., GL201<\/strong> <\/strong>
\nTheresa McCarthy (Transnational Studies, SUNY-Buffalo): “In-Divided Unity: Haudenosaunee Reclamation at Grand River”<\/p>\n

* Wednesday, Oct. 23<\/strong>, 2 to 3 p.m., GL201<\/strong>
\nMarilyn Rose (professor, English Language and Literature): “Emotion, Empathy, Ethics and Literature: the Neocognitive Turn”<\/p>\n

* Wednesday, Oct. 30, <\/strong>2 to 3 p.m., GL201
\n<\/strong>David T. Brown (associate professor, Tourism and Environment): “Using Digital Technology to Promote Niche Marketing in Niagara”<\/p>\n

* Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2 to 3 p.m., GL201
\n<\/strong>Neta Gordon (associate professor, English Language and Literature): “Reterritorialization and the Return Story: Reaffirming White Masculinity in Alexander MacLeod’s \u2018The Number Three'”<\/p>\n

* Thursday, Nov. 7, 2 to 3 p.m., GL201
\n<\/strong>Ken Dryden (Canadian Studies, McGill): “Making the Future: Canada 2017 and Beyond”
\nKeynote Address at the 27th annual Two Days of Canada conference at Brock from Nov. 7 to 8.<\/p>\n

* Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2 to 3 p.m., GL201<\/strong>
\nKaren Fricker (assistant professor, Dramatic Arts): “The Dragon’s Trilogy: Robert Lepage’s postcolonial epic”<\/p>\n

* Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2 to 3 p.m., GL201
\n<\/strong>Jim Leach (professor, Communication, Popular Culture and Film): “Beyond the National-Realist Text: Imagining the Impossible Nation in Contemporary Canadian Cinema.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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