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
International Canadian Studies: A Contemporary View of the Field
The 2025 Winter Eakin Lecture, International Canadian Studies: A Contemporary View of the Field, by Jean Michel Montsion.
March 27, 2025
