The Changing Function of Memorials in Canada: From Hot to Cold, Controversial to Neutral
The 2025 BMP Lecture by Eric Weeks, examining how monuments in Canada can be perceived as either “cold” sites that fade into the background and are not given a second thought, or “hot” locations that can stir up protest and debate, as well as the events and circumstances that can produce such change.
February 12, 2025
Reimagining Borders
The second event of the series Conversations: sponsored by Charles Bronfman, featuring Peter Altmaier, Former Member of German Government and Parliament, coordinator of Germany's response to the 2015 "refugee crisis; Julián Castro, CEO, Latino Community Foundation - the US's largest Latino-serving foundation, former mayor of San Antonio, Texas, and author of An Unlikely Journey: Waking Up from My American Dream; Ayelet Shachar, Professor of Law, Political Science & Global Affairs, University of Toronto, and author of The Shifting Border and The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality; moderated by Nahlah Ayed, award-winning foreign correspondent and host of CBC Radio One’s IDEAS.
March 18, 2025
Winter 2025 Eakin Lecture: International Canadian Studies: A Contemporary View of the Field
The Winter 2025 Eakin Lecture, International Canadian Studies: A Contemporary View of the Field, by Jean Michel Montsion.
March 27, 2025
Elections in Troubled Times: The 2025 Canadian Election in Historical Perspective Webinar
How did the 2025 election compare with past "turning point" contests? MISC brought together several authors, Patrice Dutil, Barbara Messamore, David MacKenzie, Tom Flanagan and Ken Carty, who have recently written books on the 1867, 1921, 1945 and 1993 elections, to discuss this.
May 20, 2025
The Prime Ministers: Canada’s Leaders and the Nation They Shaped - book launch
Author J.D.M. Stewart's new book set out to bring the country’s history to a new generation. The result isThe Prime Ministers, a lively, accessible chronicle of Canada’s leaders, from Sir John A. Macdonald in 1867 to Mark Carney in 2025.
September 22, 2025
Where the Light Gets In - Why Canada’s Global Engagement Matters
Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations, Bob Rae, gave a lecture on Canada’s engagement with the world and how we can respond to global challenges with purpose: promoting peace, defending human rights, and building sustainable societies.
October 6, 2025
2025 Mallory Lecture: Back to the Future - presented by Chantal Hébert
At a time when the leading provincial party in Quebec and the ruling Alberta party were both looking at holding votes on secession, Chantal Hébert took a look-back at the 1995 referendum and the 30-year constitutional peace that followed.
October 29, 2025
Fall 2025 Eakin Lecture: Robert Lepage and the ROC: Forty Years of "Circulations"
Professor Jane Koustas delivered the Fall 2025 Eakin Lecture on Robert Lepage's "Circulations". Lepage’s success in the ROC lies in his work’s power to negotiate difference and otherness, not through the depiction of conflict or division, but through the imaginary and visual presentation of shared space and ideas, and through the broadening and fusing of horizons.
November 17, 2025
