Events Archives
2010
- April 9: Public lecture by Patrick Leblond on "Do not panic! The Greek debt crisis does not imperil the euro" (bilingual)
- March 29: The Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and The Telfer School of Management invite you to a Breakfast Discussion with Frank Koller, author of “Spark” - How Old-Fashioned Values Drive a Twenty-First Century Corporation: Lessons from Lincoln Electric’s Unique Guaranteed Employment Program.
- March 25-26: Second annual Center for International Policy Studies (CIPS) Graduate Student Conference on "Breaking Down Barriers: Challenges of Security and Development"- Call for Submissions
- March 22 : Conference by Amjad Atallah and Daniel Levy on "Achieving Peace: Both Sides of the Negotiating Table"
- March 18: Conference by Michael Molly on " Canada and the Palestian refugees issue"
- March 12: Conference by the Honourables Senators Art Eggleton and Hugh Segal on "In from the Margins: A Call to Action to End Poverty"
- March 12: Discussion Forum on "Freedom of Speech in China. A Global Problem?"
- March 4: Conference by Robin Higham, Senior Fellow at the GSPIA, on "Foreign Policy and Canadian Identity" (lecture in English/ bilingual discussion)
- March 3: Conference by Eliot Cohen on "Bush's Wars, Obama's Choices?"
- March 1 : Conference by François Boutin-Dufresne of the International Monetary Fund on "Le rôle du Fonds monétaire international dans l'économie mondiale : perspectives pour 2010" (French only)
- February 26: Conference by Christina Hellmich on "Fighting Al-Qaeda in Yemen: Re-thinking the Islamist Threat"
- February 25 : Conference by Will Reno (Nortwestern University) on "Evolution of Warfare in Independent Africa"
- February 9: Conference by Sheridan Scott on "The Civil War in Canadian Television" (bilingual)
- February 4: Conference by Margaret Biggs, President of the Canadian International Development Agency. (bilingual)
- February 2: Conference by Louis W. Pauly on “India and China in the World Economy: Conflict, Competition or Collaboration?”
- January 27: Roundtable organized by the Federalism and Institutions Study and Research Laboratory (FEDLAB) on "La réforme du nombre de sièges à la Chambre des communes :uniquement une question de nombre ?" (French only)
- January 26: Conference by Christian Navarre, professor at the Telfer School of Management, on "The Auto Industry: Restructuring or Revolution?"
- January 21: Conference by Gaetan Lavertu, senior fellow at the GSPIA, on "Canada's Policy Towards the Americas" (bilingual)
- January 20: Conference by Margaret Henoch, Former Senior Operations Officer, CIA Clandestine Service, on "Reform of the US Intelligence Community: What Was Intended, and How Well Has It Worked?
- January 14: Conference by Frank Milne (Queen's School of Business) on "Regulatory Failure and Failure to Regulate: Are We wasting a Good Crisis?"
- January 7: Conference by Michael Kergin, Canada's former ambassador to the United States and Senior Fellow at the GSPIA, on "The Future of Canada-US Relations"
2009
- November 24: In the series The Ottawa Roundtable on Security and Intelligence, conference by Paul Kennedy on " The RCMP and Terrorism: Have we Come Full Circle?"
- November 20: Lecture by Professor Sir Adam Roberts, President of the British Academy and Senior Research Fellow of the Centre for International Studies in Oxford University's Department of Politics and International Relations entitled "Civil Resistance and Power Politics: Reflections on the Collapse of European Communist Regimes in 1989"
- November 20: In the series The Ottawa Roundtable on Security and Intelligence, conference by Margaret Purdy on "Climate Change: A Mainstream Security Issue for Canada?"
- November 19: Lecture Series on Canada's Foreign Policy " Canada's Policy Crisis: the Foreign policy implications ". Conference by Dan Livermore, Senior Fellow at GSPIA.
- November 18: Conference by Nur Batur, political editor at the Sabah newspaper and lecturer at the Gazi University on "New Dimensions in Turkish Foreign Policy: Regional Actor or Leading Power?"
- November 11: Conference by professor David Tal (University of Calgary) on “The Foundations of Israeli Security Conceptions”.
- November 5: Lecture Series on Canada's Foreign Policy "Canada and Europe of today and tomorrow". Conference by Claude Laverdure, Former Canada's Ambassador to France and Senior Fellow at GSPIA
- November 5: In the series The Ottawa Roundtable on Security and Intelligence, conference by Marie-Lucie Morin, National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, on "Canada’s National Security Challenges"
- November 3: Conference by Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada, on "The Unheard Truth – Poverty and Human Rights".
- November 2: Conference by professor Asher Susser, a leading authority on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, on "Israel, The palestinians and Barak Obama"
- October 26 to November 1st: The GSPIA will be hosting an exhibit of Darfur children drawings.
- October 26: Conference by Robinson Harris on "Tomorrow’s Navies: The Path Forward for Surface Combatants"
- October 14: Cocktail reception for the official launch of the CN – Paul M. Tellier Chair on Business and Public Policy with a keynote address by Paul M. Tellier: Bridging the gap – public and private sectors.
- October 8: Lecture Series on Canada's Foreign Policy " Development as part of Canada's Foreign Policy ". Conference by Carolyn McAskie, Former Deputy UN Secretary and Senior Fellow at GSPIA
- October 7: Conference by Karen Phillips on What a Way to Run a Railroad: Business, the Border and Transportation in the Post 9/11 Era
- October 6: Start of The Ottawa Roundtable on Security and Intelligence. The first conference The Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan: Obama’s Strategy will be presented by Bruce Riedel.
- September 24: Our New Lecture Series on Canada's Foreign Policy "Canada's Foreign Policy: The Past and the Future." Conference by Robert R. Fowler, Former Canada's UN Ambassador and Senior Fellow at the GSPIA
- May 20-22: International Conference, “The Politics of Community and Identity: Learning from one another”, research and dialogue on the on the identification, formation, and representation of ethnic, cultural, indigenous, religious and linguistic communities
- May 5: Conference by Dr. Thomas Boghardt on Soviet Bloc Intelligence and the Power of Disinformation:The AIDS Campaign
- April 2: Conference by Mohieddine Hadhri (Université de Tunis Manouba ) on La Méditerranée dans le nouvel ordre économique international March 26 : onference by Lee Windsor (University of New Brunswick) on Canada’s Task Force Kandahar, 2005-2008:Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
- March 25: Conference by Prof. Kemal Kirisci (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul) on A Critical Assessment of Turkey's 'New' Foreign Policy
- March 24: Policy Lunch Series: Public Lecture by Mr. Gordon Betcherman (World Bank) entitled “ Now it’s Everybody’s Crisis : The Social and Economic Challenges of the Spread of the Global Crisis to the Developing World”
- March 23: Conference by Michal Michlin-Friedlander on Democracy Dealing with Terrorism within Boundaries of the Law – Israel as a Case Study
- March 23: Conference by Giovanni Di Girolamo (Delegation of the European Commission to Canada) on The European Union and the Challenges of International Governance in the 21st Century
- March 13: Conference by Dr. Michael Warner on Change and Continuity in US Intelligence
- March 6: Conference by B.J.C McKercher ( Royal Military College of Canada) on British Foreign Policy and the Lethality of the German Threat, 1890-1939
- March 6: Conference by Frances Wood (UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office) on New risks to global security: climate change
- March 4: Conference by Professor R. Bruce Craig on And We Call This Justice: New Revelations in the Rosenberg Atomic Spy Case
- March 3: Policy Lunch Series: Professor John Myles (University of Toronto) "Social Policy for the Next Generation: Work, Incomes, Families and the Welfare State ”
- February 27: Conference by Dr. Tom Johnson on Gearing Up for the Cold War: How the National Security Agency (NSA) Confronted the Challenges of a new SIGINT Age
- February 25: Conference by Douglas L. Bland on Is Afghanistan Canada’s Last War?
- February 23: Conference by Allan Cain on Issues on post war urban poverty in Angola
- February 11: Public Lecture by the Right Honourable Paul Martin, Former Primer Minister of Canada, on Global Governance (co-sponsored by CIP)
- February 10: A talk by James Dobbins on Afghanistan (co-sponsored by CIPS)
- February 10: Policy Lunch Series: Professor Jack Mintz (University of Calgary) "Social and Tax Policy in uncertain times"
- February 6: Round Table on Security and Intelligence with Professor Jonathan Vance (University of Western)
- February 2: A talk by John Ibbitson, Globe and Mail Washington correspondent on the foreign policy challenges for the Obama administration (co-sponsored by CIPS)
- January 29: Panel discussion on BUDGET 2009: The Economics and Politics of a Recession with experts in Economics and Politics.
- January 29: Round table on Security and Intelligence with Stewart Bell , Senior Reporter at the National Post .
- January 22: Roundtable discussion: The Obama Presidency: What it means for Canada and the World.(organized by the GSPIA Student Council)
- January 22: Round table on Security and Intelligence with Jim Judd, Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).
- January 13: Conference by Economist David Laidler on Coping with financial crises: monetary cures and others.
- January 13: Conferency by journalist Michelle Shephard on Omar Khadr: Guantanamo’s Child
- December 8: Monique Bégin, Commissioner, WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health and Professor Emeritus University of Ottawa, will speak on "The Black Hole of Social Equity".
2008
- December 3: From Allies to Partners: The EU and NATO in a Multipolar World. Public lecture by Sven Biscop, Senior Research Fellow, Royal Institute for International Relations (Brussels) and Visiting Fellow, College of Europe.
- November 28: Panel Discussion: Challenges for the New President of the United States with Michael Kergin, Jeffrey Simpson and Peter Harder.
- November 27: Dr Gilles Kepel (Science Po, Paris) will discuss the relation between Islam and the West.
- November 25: Special Event: A Conversation with a former Prime Minister of Canada, The Right Honourable John Turner.
- November 20: Andrew Mack, School for International Studies à la Simon Fraser University prononcera une conférence intitulée A Less Violent World? Explaining the decline in Global Conflict and Terrorism (en anglais seulement).
- November 20: Wesley Wark, Visiting Research Professor at the University of Ottawa will host a public lecture on Never Say Never Again: Canada's Foreign Intelligence Needs.
- November 14: Is There Hope for Peace in Afghanistan? Presentations by Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, Former Foreign Minister of Afghanistan and Professor Ali Ahmad Jalali, Former Minister of Interior of Afghanistan.
- November 14: Annual Symposium: The Cultures of War and Peace with keynote speakers Lieutenant-General the Honourable Roméo A. Dallaire and Dr. Jonathan Vance
- November 4: Dr Cindy Williams, Principal Research Scientist, Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will talk on the American Defense budget
- September 29: Herbert Wechsler Professor of Jurisprudence at Columbia University and Former Associate Counsel to President Carter, Dr Phillip Bobbitt, will give a lecture entitled "Terror and Consent".
- September 22:GSPIA and CIPS will be co-sponsoring a panel discussion on the US Presidential election. Peter Harder, former Deputy Minister at Foreign Affairs, Michael Kergin, former Ambassador of Canada in the US, and Jeffrey Simpson, national columnist at the Globe and Mail, will be the panelists.
- September 17: Acclaimed author Margaret MacMillan, who is also Warden of St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, will give a lecture on Western relations with China.
- May 28: Karl Inderfurth, Professor at George Washington University, gave a public lecture entitled A Regional Compact for Afganistan. clip
- May 26: Professor Keith Jeffery will hold a lecture: Writing the History of the British Secret Intelligence Service
- April 23: Denis Thompson, Brigadier-général, Forces canadiennes et Commandant, Force opérationnelle interarmées en Afghanistan prononcera un discours intitulé Réflexions sur la province de Kandahar
- April 16: La Gestion internationale des produits chimiques toxiques : La convention de Stockholm sur les polluants organiques persistants (POPs) et la convention de Rotterdam sur la procédure de consentement préalable en connaissance de cause (PIC)
- John G. Ruggie, United Nations Special Representative for Business & Human Rights and Professor of International Affairs at Harvard will deliver a Public Lecture entitled Tackling Global Business & Human Rights Challenges on April 3rd at 5pm, 4th floor Desmarais Building.
- March 31: The Faculty of Social Sciences and the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs cordially invite you to a round table on United Nations Reform : The UN in the Era of Globalization
- March 7: Dr. Seyed Kazem Sajjadpour, former Ambassador of Iran to the United Nations in Geneva, will discuss Iran’s Foreign Policy.
- March 6: Ambassador James A. Larocco, Director General, Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) will hold a lecture: The MFO in the Middle East: A Model for Peacekeeping in the 21st Century.
- March 3: Patrick Bond, professor at the School of Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, will speak on “Global Governance and Climate Change: What Scale, What Solutions?”
- February 28: GSPIA and the Department of History presents a conference by Hugh Roberts, President of the Society for Algerian Studies:
“Facade parties, tribune parties and pseudo-parties and the impasse of political reform in Algeria and Egypt” - February 26: Erna Paris will discuss "Politics vs. Justice: The surprising birth of the international criminal court"
- February 22: Lt. General Talat Masood retired Secretary for Defence Production in the Ministry of Defence of Pakistan will give a public lecture on Pakistan and the Regional Situation.
- February 13: join us for a discussion "Kenya: Behind the headlines"
- February 7: Discussion on The race for the US presidency
- February 5: Dr. Peter Konecy will discuss “How Intelligence Analysis Has Changed since 9/11…Or has it”
- February 5: Join us for a discussion on The Reconstruction and Development of Afghanistan Challenges and Perspectives
- February 4: Walter Kalin on When Displacement Ends - How to achieve durable solutions
- January 30: The Leader of the NDP, Mr. Jack Layton, will deliver a speech entitled “NATO in Afghanistan: From Bad to Worse: The wrong role for Canada”
- January 29: The Federalism and Institutions Research Studies Laboratory (FIRSL) invites you to a public round table " Fiscal Imbalance: a question resolved?"
2007
- November 29: FORUM on Canadian Democracy: Legacies and Legends: Prime Ministers and their Memoirs
- November 28: John Adams will give a public lecture entitled “The Communications Security Establishment: Role, Mandate and Challenges for Signals Intelligence in a post 9/11 World”
- November 27: Ellis Matheus and Marek Grela from the Council of the European Union will discuss the European Union Foreign Policy.
- November 16: Dr Eugene Rogan, Director of the Middle East Centre at Oxford University will hold a lecture: The Tyranny of Strangers: Approaches to the Modern History of the Arabs
- November 14: Erica Feller, Assistant High Commissioner for Refugees (Protection) at the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, will give a public lecture on peacebuilding and protracted refugees situations . A reception will follow.
- November 15: Hosham Dawod, a scholar at the CNRS in Paris, will give a public lecture entitled «Où va l’Irak? La dimension ethnique, tribale et confessionnelle du conflit irakien » .
- The Graduate School of Public and International Affairs is proud to host the launch of the Aga Khan Foundation Canada University and College Seminar Series. The 2007 University Seminar Series will explore the role of education in international development on November 3rd.
- From work in Sierra Leone and Burundi, Dr. Milner will discuss how peacebuilding is shaped by armed elements within camps, the potential of early and forced repatriation, and refugees' own experience of exile on the 25th of October.
- October 25: Mr. Joseph Caron, Canada’s Ambassador to Japan, will give a lecture at the School on the political situation in Japan and the current geopolitical context in Asia.
- October 26: Mr. Andrew Podger, President of the Institute of Public Administration of Australia and former Public Service Commissioner of Australia, will give a talk on Public Service reform in Australia.
- October 11: On the occasion of the publication of his latest book Hot Air: Meeting Canada’s Climate Change Challenge, Jeffrey Simpson, national columnist at The Globe and Mail and senior fellow at the School, will give a public lecture on the future of Canada’s climate change policy.
- Jim Corcoran, who advised Hans Blix and was responsible for intelligence liaison for the UN mission on weapons inspection in Iraq between 2002 and 2005, will give a public lecture on this controversial on October 17.
- October 3: Professor Michael Byers, author of Intent for a Nation: What is Canada for?, discussed the implications of a changing Arctic for Canada’s future. Intent for a Nation: Canada’s Arctic Future was the first event of the School’s Roundtable on Intelligence and Security, a series of public lectures organized in association with the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies.
- Two of the world’s leading thinkers on postwar state-building, Robert Rotberg and Astri Suhrke, offered their thoughts on the progress – and perils – of the state-building enterprise in Afghanistan at the Statebuilding in Afghanistan: Is International Assistance Working? conference on September 28th.
- The Graduate School of Public and International Affairs welcomes His Excellency Franco Marini, President of the Senate of the Italian Republic on September 5th.