MONDAY, MAY 25, 12:15 TO 13:20 - Kailash Mital Theatre, Southam Hall
Siila Watt-Cloutier & John Ralston Saul
SPECIAL LECTURE:
Northern Reflections - A New Narrative for Canada's Arctic
On May 29 in Iqaluit Siila Watt-Cloutier, a world leader on global climate change and human rights, will deliver the 9th LaFontaine Baldwin Lecture. For the first time a leading national lecture will be held in the Arctic. This presentation will add to the voice of people in the North and potentially change the nature of future debates on Northern issues.

As a special lead-up to the LaFontaine-Baldwin Lecture, award-winning essayist and novelist John Ralston Saul engages Siila Watt-Cloutier in a dialogue on the critical issues facing the Arctic and the people of Canada's North. Join two of Canada's leading voices for this special Congress event organized in collaboration with the Institute for Canadian Citizenship and the Dominion Institute, and in partnership with Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.

TUESDAY, MAY 26, 12:15 TO 13:20 - 360 Tory Building (The Egg)
Joseph Yvon Thériault
Is Canada Really a Cosmopolitan Society?
Is cosmopolitanism incompatible with the idea of nationhood, and perhaps even with the idea of society? Over 40 years ago, in Lament for a Nation, Georges P. Grant pronounced the theoretical impossibility of Canada in the face of continental integration and the advent of the technological age. Since this pessimistic statement was penned, Canada has evolved in the exact directions that Grant perceived as the root of its impossibility. Paradoxically, a number of contemporary analysts of Canadian and even Quebec society see these transformations as ingredients in a new Canadian identity that set it apart even from the United States. Eminent sociology professor and Trudeau Fellow Joseph Yvon Thériault will draw on the central questions raised by Grant to trace the evolution of this country for this special Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation - Federation Research in Society lecture.