Coming this fall...
Stephen R. Kelly, US Foreign Service Officer in Residence hosted by the Center for International Studies.
With a career that spans over 25 years, Mr. Kelly is a member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister Counselor. He is currently the U.S. Department of State Diplomat in Residence at Duke University.
Prior to this assignment Mr. Kelly was Director of the Senior Level Assignments Division at the State Department in Washington, D.C., where he oversaw the counseling and assignments of the most experienced and high-ranking career officers in the U.S. diplomatic service, including Ambassadors, Deputy Chiefs of Mission and Deputy Assistant Secretaries.
From 2004 to 2006, Mr. Kelly was Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Mission to Mexico. With a huge Embassy in Mexico City and nine consulates around the country, Mission Mexico counts more than 2,000 employees, making it one of the largest U.S. Missions in the world. Mr. Kelly focused in particular on the myriad border issues with Mexico, growing law enforcement and immigration problems, and on efforts to further North American integration under the banner of the Security and Prosperity Partnership between the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
From 2000-2004 Mr. Kelly was Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Mission to Canada, which includes the Embassy and seven consulates from Halifax to Vancouver. Border issues again were one of Mr. Kelly’s key interests, especially after September 11, and he participated in the drafting of the U.S.-Canada Smart Border Accord in late 2001. Mr. Kelly also served as Consul General in Quebec City from 1995-1998, where he was the chief U.S. reporting officer on the Quebec Sovereignty Referendum of October 1995.
Other overseas postings include the Netherlands as political counselor, Indonesia as human rights officer, Belgium as a political and consular officer, and Mali, in West Africa, as a management officer. His early domestic assignments included the State Department Operations Center, special assistant to the Deputy Secretary, and desk officer for Senegal, Mauritania and The Gambia.
Mr. Kelly has received four Senior Performance Awards, two Superior Honor Awards, one Meritorious Honor Award, and the Charles E. Cobb Award for Innovation and Success in Trade Promotion for his work in opening a commercial section at the U.S. Consulate General in Quebec City. He is a graduate of Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, and holds a master’s degree in National Security Strategy from the National War College in Washington, D.C. His foreign languages are French, Spanish, Dutch and Indonesian. He served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Zaire and as a journalist for various U.S. newspapers before joining the Foreign Service, notably the Charlotte Observer, for whom he was the Raleigh and later Washington correspondent.
In addition to his Foreign Service commitments while in residence, Mr. Kelly has enthusiastically agreed to develop and teach a course on North American integration as Canadian Studies' undergraduate special topics course: CAN150: *Issues in North American Studies. (*Exact title to be determined.) This course will be offered in spring 2009.
We are pleased to announce Joan Sangster, Ph.D., Trent University as our newest Fulbright Visiting Chair in Canadian Studies. She is slated to arrive in January 2009. A professor of History and Women's Studies, including courses on Canadian Women's History and Working-Class History; she is currently Director of the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Native Studies where she teaches in the doctoral Canadian Studies program. She is currently researching a book on women and paid labour from the end of World War II to the 1970s, as well as pursuing a project on 'Modernizing Colonialism', examining images of the First Nations in the post World War II period. She will arrive in January 2009 for the spring semester and maintain an office in the John Hope Franklin Center.
Special Events
BLACK COMMUNITIES IN CANADA series
Monday, October 6
KAROLYN SMARDZ FROST, YORK UNIVERSITY on
BLACK COMMUNITIES IN CANADA
Smardz Frost is a Toronto-born archeologist and historian whose work on Thornton and Lucie Blackburn, fugitive slaves who escaped to Canada on the Underground Railroad, led to a book I've Got a Home in Glory Land (Thomas Allen Publishers), which won the 2007 Governor General's Prize for history. This fascinating book follows Thornton Blackburn and his wife Lucie as they escape to Canada on the Underground Railroad. Thornton plans a successful daylight escape once he learns that his new bride is to be sold “down the river”. The couple reach Michigan, only to be caught by slave catchers. Once the Black community in Detroit heard of the Blackburns plight, the first racial uprising in Detroit’s history occurred. The couple was able to escape again, this time to Canada, where they settled in Toronto and started the city’s first taxi business. Then the US government insists that they be extradited back to the States. This was the first serious legal dispute between Canada and the US regarding slavery. Ultimately Canada’s Lieutenant Governor’s impassioned defense saves the Blackburns from the US. Thorton and Lucie resolved to assist as many other slaves as possible and made their home a refuge for escaped slaves. Smardz Frost spent two decades piecing together this incredible story from artifacts that are almost two centuries old. I enjoyed reading Smardz Frost book not only for the Blackburn's story but also for the wealth of information regarding the Underground Railroad. (Bronwyn Addico).
Monday, November 3
GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
(Title is forthcoming.)
George Elliott Clarke was recently named officer of the Order of Canada by Governor General Michaëlle Jean with the following citation:
"For his contributions as a poet, professor and volunteer who has brought his original voice and his perspective on the Black experience to contemporary Canadian literature, and who has generously shared his time and talents with young and emerging writers."
We are thrilled that George Elliott Clarke will be returning to Durham. He was a highly popular Professor of English and Canadian Studies while at Duke from 1994-1999.
Monday, November 24
JANE MOSS, DUKE UNIVERSITY
"FRANCOPHONE AFRO-CANADIAN HISTORY AND CULTURE"
Jane Moss is Visiting Professor and Director of the Center for Canadian Studies at Duke. She is editor of Québec Studies, and winner of the 2002 Prix du Québec.
Canadian Studies is a proud supporter of this year's American Council for Québec Studies (ACQS) biennial conference, November 13-16, 2008 to be held in Québec City, Québec. This will be a joint conference with the Association for Canadian Studies in the US (ACSUS)
SPRING 2009
4TH Annual Québec Cinema Festival
March 23 and 25
March 30 and April 1
Details are forthcoming
The Canadian Jewish Experience series
February 24
MORTON WEINFELD, PhD,
McGILL UNIVERSITY
Canadian Jewish History
Professor Weinfeld holds the Chair in Canadian Ethnic Studies and is the Chair of the Sociology Department at McGill. Among his recent publications are Like Everyone Else But Different: The Paradoxical Success of Canadian Jews (McClelland and Stewart, 2001), Still Moving: Recent Jewish Migration in Comparative Perspective, with Daniel Elazar (Transaction, 2000); Ethnicity, Politics, and Public Policy, with Harold Troper (University of Toronto Press, 1999), and Who Speaks for Canada? with Desmond Morton (McClelland and Stewart, 1998). He has published Old Wounds: Jews, Ukrainians and the Hunt for Nazi War Criminals in Canada with Harold Troper (Viking/Penguin, 1988), a case study of ethnicity and public policy. In 1989 he published Trauma and Rebirth: Intergenerational Effects of the Holocaust (with John J. Sigal), Praeger. In 1993 he co-edited The Jews in Canada (Oxford University Press, Canada).
March 19
NORM RAVVIN, Ph.D.,
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY
"The Myths of Montreal: Leonard Cohen, A.M. Klein and the Rest of the Canadian Jewish Writers"
Norman Ravvin is a writer, critic and teacher. He presently Chairs the Concordia University Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies. His publications include A House of Words: Jewish Writing, Identity and Memory, the novel Lola by Night, which was recently published in Serbian translation, the story collection Sex, Skyscrapers and Standard Yiddish, and Hidden Canada: An Intimate Travelogue. He is the editor of Not Quite Mainstream: Canadian Jewish Short Stories and he co-edited, with Richard Menkis, The Canadian Jewish Studies Reader. He is a native of Calgary who has also made his home in Vancouver, Toronto and Fredericton before moving to Montreal. Present projects include a novel set in contemporary Poland entitled The Typewriter Girl, edited volumes on Mordecai Richler and A.M. Klein, and a book length study on Canadian Jewish writing lives.
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Spring 2008
DISTINGUISHED GUEST SPEAKERS
LOUIS BALTHAZAR, PhD
February 26, 2008ALAN TAYLOR, PhD
APRIL 14, 2008
Co-sponsor:
Duke Dept. of HistoryGILBERT GAGNE, PhD
May 1, 2008
Fall 2007
A two part event with filmmaker and photographer Elle Flanders, director of the award winning film
Zero Degrees of Separation.WHAT: Screening of Zero Degrees of Separation with a reception (Q&A with the director to follow)
WHEN: October 2, 2007
TIME: 6:30 PM reception, 7:00 PM screening, and a discussion to follow
WHERE: 104 Howell Building at UNC-Chapel HillWHAT: Contextualizing Representations of Sexual Politics in the Middle East, a panel discussion and reception with Elle Flanders, Rebecca Stein (Duke Anthropology), and Negar Mottahedeh (Duke Literature), moderated by Ara Wilson (Duke Sexuality Studies)
WHEN: October 3, 2007
TIME: 4:30PM reception, with panel to follow
WHERE: East Duke Building Parlors
A comic, yet troubling look at the world of celebrities. Stardom focuses on Tina Menzhal (Pare), a model who hits it big and grows dependent on the media hype surrounding her every move.
GAZ BAR BLUES (2003)
LOST AND DELIRIOUS (2001) Léa Pool, Director
Lost and Delirious is about the friendship of three teenagers and how they experience it in a private school. Throughout the film, the lost girls question their relationships with one another and the authority of others, while desperately attempting to seek out true love and meaningful emotional connections in their confused adolescent life.
After serving 10 years for killing her lover Marco, Annie regains custody of her daughter, but the girl wants nothing to do with her. Desperate and haunted by memories of Marco, Annie sinks into growing confusion between past and present. Surprises await when she returns to the island where the murder took place.
Le goûT des jeunes filles
Based on the autobiographical novel by Dany Laferrière, Le goût des jeunes filles is the story of 15-year-old Haitian Fanfan (played by Lansana Kourouma) and his unforgettable weekend. Montreal director John L'Ecuyer had only a $1.5-million budget to bring this story to the screen and, in his own words, was shooting with "broken equipment" in a foreign country (Guadeloupe substituting for Haiti) with a cast and crew who largely spoke different dialects of French. The result is like the little cousin of City of God, clumsier but obviously heartfelt and very evocative of a specific time and a place. The year is 1971 and "Papa Doc" Duvalier's death is causing social unrest, awaking old pains in Fanfan's mother (Mireille Métellus). Her husband was murdered by government thugs, making her overprotective of her son. One night, trouble finds Fanfan anyway, when he and his hoodlum friend Gégé (Uly Darly) butt heads with some Tontons-Macoutes militia soldiers, forcing the boys into hiding. But sometimes bad things can lead to good fortune, as Fanfan finds out when he takes refuge at his neighbour's house and discovers the world of sexy young women. BON COP/BAD COP Bon Cop, Bad Cop is a Canadian comedy-thriller buddy cop film about English Canadian and French Canadian police officers who reluctantly join forces. The dialogue is a mixture of English and French. The title is a translation word play on the phrase "Good cop/Bad cop", and the film's tagline is "Shoot First, Translate Later."
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(2006) SPRING 2007
January
The Center is pleased to welcome Jonathan Malloy, Ph.D., our 2007 Canadian Fulbright Visiting Scholar. He is assistant professor of political science and Associate Chair of the Department of Political Science at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario. Specializing in public administration and legislatures, he has a particular interest in the relationships between state institutions and social movements. His current research focuses on the politics of evangelical Christians in Canada and their relationship with Canadian political institutions, funded by a SSHRC grant. He also has continuing interests in parliamentary reform and e-government. He will focus on his academic research as well as contribute to the intellectual climate within the John Hope Franklin Center where he will be located.
Feb. 21 ......
Debora VanNijnatten, Duke's Canadian 2005 Fulbright Visiting Scholar will return for a lecture:"New Environmental Policy Actors? Cross-Border Regions in North America."
Associate Professor of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University.
John Hope Franklin Center,
2204 Erwin Road, Durham, NC (Room 240)
Feb. 28Jonathan Malloy
FULBRIGHT VISITING CHAIR IN CANADIAN STUDIES
Associate Professor of Political Science
Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario
February 28 (Wednesday) at 5:00 PM
Breedlove Room/Perkins Library
Jesusland North?
The Christian Right in Canadian Politics
With a new Conservative government and pressures to roll back the legalization of same-sex marrige, Canadian politics seems to be moving closer to the red-state religious rhetoric of American politics. Is Canada the new frontier of the religious right?March 26
Gerald Baier, Ph.D.
Department of Political Science
University of British Columbia
Vancouver
Currently on academic leave as Bicentennial Professor,
The Macmillan Center,
Yale University
"ANTI-TERROR LEGISLATION & RIGHTS AND THE SUPREME COURT OF CANADA"
Monday, March 26, 2007
4:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center
Room 240
Refreshments will be served.His teaching and research interests are in Canadian politics with a focus on the Constitution, federalism and public law. He is a regular commentator on federal politics in national and local media. His past research has explored the role of judicial decision-making in the shaping of federalism in Canada, Australia and the United States. He is presently investigating how national standards emerge outside of areas of national jurisidiction in those same three federations.
Les Voix Humaines
Friday, November 3 at 8:00 pm
Goodson Chapel, Westbrook Building, Divinity School
Tickets: $15 General Admission
Susie Napper and Margaret Little have been thrilling audiences with their performances of exotic masterpieces of the 17th and 18th centuries for over two decades. The Montreal-based duo are renowned for their passionate performances offering fresh insight into music that is shrouded by the mists of time. Their program will include music by the two greatest French masters who wrote for the viol, Sieur de Sainte-Colombe and his brilliant pupil Marin Marais, the most influential gambist at the court of Louis XIV. French chamber music of this time reveals an intimacy in musical expression and makes use of a language at once moving and discreet, evoking a world where freedom and intimacy go hand in hand. Cosponsored by the Duke Centers for French and Francophone Studies, and Canadian Studies, DUMIC (Duke University Musical Instrument Collections), and by the French Consul in North Carolina