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What’s New: Summer Festival of Learning

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From conferences and institutes to workshops and special public lectures — it’s all at The University of Winnipeg this summer

The Department of History is pleased to announce a special Summer Institute Public Lecture Series:Pearson to Martin: History of Canadian Foreign Relations,
1963 – 2004

Date: Monday, July 25 – Friday, July 29, 2005
Time: 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Location: 3D01 (3rd Floor Duckworth Centre)
Cost: $10.00 per lecture (Payable at the door, pre-registration not required)

Instructor: Dr. Lloyd Axworthy, President, University of Winnipeg, former Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, and author of Navigating A New World: Canada’s Global Future.

This lecture series examines significant developments in Canadian foreign affairs and international relations in the period that spans some of Canada’s greatest innovations in terms of human rights and global policy. The discussions will center on Canadian foreign policy from Pearson to Martin with a special focus on the Chrétien years when Dr. Axworthy was Minister of Foreign Affairs. This course will include special guest lectures. Dr. Tom Axworthy, former Principal Secretary to the late Prime Minister Trudeau, will also participate in the course.

Website: http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/Summer_Institute_Pearson_Martin

Oral History in Canada conference
Date:
 August 18 – 20, 2005

The Oral History in Canada conference is hosted by the Department of History and the Chair in German-Canadian Studies at The University of Winnipeg and brings together scholars from around the world who work with oral history and oral tradition.

Oral history, including the collecting of oral tradition, has become a major research method of historians and other scholars as well as community activists and local historians in Canada. This conference seeks to bring these practitioners from various fields together to assess the state of oral history in Canada and the directions it may take in the future.

About half of the participants are coming from outside of Canada. This will be the first oral history conference in several years that brings together Canadian and international oral historians to learn about each others’ approaches and experiences. One major focus of the conference will be on video technology as a new medium for oral history. Other foci include oral tradition in various cultures and Aboriginal oral history and tradition.

Contact:
Alexander Freund
204.786.9009
a.freund@uwinnipeg.ca

or:

Nolan Reilly
204.786.9012
n.reilly@uwinnipeg.ca

Websitehttp://www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/Oral_History_Conference