Institutions and Environmental Politics: Or Why the Keystone XL Pipeline Is So Controversial

Colloquium: Lunch Talk | March 6 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Moses Hall, IIS Conference Room, 223

Speaker: Ian URQUHART, Political Science, University of Alberta

Sponsor: Canadian Studies Program (CAN))

Colloquium lunch followed by talk at approximately 12:30. RSVP. This paper explores the politics surrounding the proposed Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta, Canada to the US Gulf Coast. It highlights the importance of political institutions and the failure of those institutions to include environmental opponents to oil/tar sands exploitation in decision-making.

RSVP required

RSVP info: SPACE IS LIMITED. RSVP by March 3 by calling Rita Ross at 510-642-0531, or by emailing Rita Ross at rjross@berkeley.edu.

Annette Boudreau (Université de Moncton), "Que veut dire être francophone au Canada?"

Lecture | March 14 | 2-3 p.m. | Dwinelle Hall, 4104 (Comparative Literature Conference Room)

Speaker: Annette Boudreau, Professeure, Département d'études françaises, secteur linguistique, Université de Moncton

Sponsors: Townsend Center for the Humanities, Francophone Studies Working Group, Romance Linguistics Group, Canadian Studies Program (CAN)), Department of French, Consulate General of Canada in San Francisco

Annette Boudreau est professeure titulaire de sociolinguistique à l’Université de Moncton.

Singing Through Tears: Canada's Truth And Reconciliation Commission on the Indian Residential Schools

Colloquium: Lunch Talk | March 20 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Moses Hall, IIS Conference Room, 223

Speaker: Dylan ROBINSON, Banting Fellow, First Nations Studies Program, University of British Columbia

Sponsor: Canadian Studies Program (CAN))

Colloquium lunch followed by talk at approximately 12:30. RSVP.

RSVP required

RSVP info: RSVP by March 17 by calling Rita Ross at 510-642-0531, or by emailing Rita Ross at rjross@berkeley.edu.