Events-Collection
This panel takes a close look at the political and cultural framework of the upcoming Canadian federal election. Our guest Prof. Dr. Christoph Vatter will draw particular attention to Québec, its unique history and discuss how the federal Bloc Québécois Party is navigating its place amidst these unusual and uncertain times. As an entry into our debate, Prof. Dr. Trautsch engages in a short 101 on Canada’s electoral system and lays out how the race between Liberals and Conservatives has been radically altered by Trudeau’s resignation and threats from Trump. Dr. Sheedy addresses cultural politics in Canada, including the changing identities of different political parties and social media branding of party leaders.
California was conceived in slavery, as Prof. Jean Pfaelzer has argues in her book California, A Slave State (2023). Marked and marketed with “California dreamin,” the state nurtured slavery in regimes that for 250 years sunder its true history from its utopian myth – that its people and land were there for the taking. Pfaelzer’s lecture turns to those who were enslaved to explore how California owes its origins and sunny prosperity, and its long tradition of resistance, rebellion, and revolt to those who were held in human bondage.
Join us for a lecture on "From NAFTA to USMCA: Economic Integration in North America" with Dr. Sine Kontbay Busun.
Join us for a lecture on "Making Kin: Contesting Extractivism in Contemporary Indigenous Literature" with Dr. Katharina Fackler.
Join us for a lecture on "Getting it Past the Adults: Children’s Books and Queer Kinship in Mid-Twentieth Century America" with Dr. Sarah Pyke
Join us for a lecture on "Red Power Partisans: Native American Activism and the "New Indian Wars"" with Prof. Robert Nichols.
To discuss current events and developments on the other side of the Atlantic in an interactive and open environment, the North American Studies Program is introducing a new brown-bag lunch series. Attendees are encouraged to bring their packed lunch, participate in the conversation, and exchange thoughts and ideas about what is happening in the U.S.