Past Events
2009
February 24th, 2009
Workshop: The Hidden Places of Law: Exploring Legal Geographies
Presenters: Nick Blomley, Geography, Simon Fraser University; David Delaney, Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought, Amherst College; Alexander Kedar, Law, Haifa University; visiting at University of Michigan; Irus Braverman, UB Law (organizer).
Comments by Rosemary Coombe, Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Cultural Studies, York University; Don Mitchell, Geography, Syracuse University; Shelley Gavigan, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University; Lisa Freeman, Geography, University of Toronto; Peer Zumbansen, Canada Research Chair; Director, Critical Research Laboratory in Law & Society, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University.
See http://www.law.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/pdfs/LegalGeogflyerFeb09.pdf
March 20th, 2009
Guest speaker: Professor Patrick James
Director, Center for International Studies, University of South California;
President, Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS).
Constitutional Politics in Canada After the Charter
2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
University at Buffalo
280 Park Hall - Amherst Campus
Free event
Download the flyer for more details.
March 26th and 27th, 2009
Crossing Borders 2009 in St. Catharines, Ontario
A multi-disciplinary student conference on the United States, Canada and Border Issues, hosted by Brock University, St. Catharines. Please review the website for more details.
April 7th, 2009
Hon. Don Boudria and Dr. H. Lorraine Oak, Assoc. Dean, UB
Hon. Don Boudria, long-serving former MP for the eastern Ontario federal constituency of Glengarry-Prescott-Russell, visited UB on April 7th to give a public talk on “Responsible Government – The Canadian Experience.” He served in the House of Commons between 1984 before retiring in 2006. Over that period he he served as Minister for International Cooperation and Minister responsible for La Francophonie, and Minister of Public Works and Government Services and Receiver General for Canada as well as Minister of State and Leader of the Government in the House of Commons. Between January and March of this year he served as part of newly selected Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff’s transition team. Despite his distinguished service, however, Hon. Mr. Boudria is perhaps best remembered as a member (along with Sheila Copps, Brian Tobin, and John Nunziata) of the famous "rat pack" that hounded the government of Brian Mulroney during "question period" in the 1984-1988 period.
May 19th, 2009
Regional Sociolegal Studies Conference "Pro Bono, Lawyers, and the State: Cross-Border Perspectives of Governance" at UB
This one-day, informal conference will provide an opportunity for scholars and scholar/practictioners on both sides of the Canada-US border to explore the changing role of pro bono in comparative perspective. This year's specialized mini-conference on pro bono follows up from a larger conference in 2008 on the evolving role of pro bono in the legal profession. This mini-conference has relevance to all scholars interested in the role of the legal profession and the state in issues related to access to justice and social justice. Organized by Bob Granfield, Sociology, University at Buffalo, and Lorne Sossin, Law, University of Toronto. See program and registration details.
May 20th to 23rd, 2009
Canadian Biomaterials Society (CBS)
27th annual Conference in Quebec City. This congress is a privileged occasion for Canadian researchers, clinicians, industrial partners, and students working in the fields of biomaterials to share their most recent studies in diverse areas of biomaterials such as orthopaedics, cardiovascular, tissue engineering, drug delivery, etc. More details can be found here.
June 12th, 2009
Great Lakes Connecting Channels
Organized by the UB Boundary Waters Treaty Centennial Committee: Professor Joseph Atkinson and Ms. Helen Domske, Great Lakes Program; Professor Barry Boyer, School of Law; Dr. Lorraine Oak, Canadian American Studies Committee/College of Arts and Sciences; and Professor Lynda Schneekloth, School of Architecture. The Conference was held as part of the Boundary Waters Week, June 5 - 14, 2009 when the Niagara River Corridor will be host to water-themed events -- culminating with the official celebration of the Boundary Waters Treaty 100th Anniversary celebrations on Saturday, June 13, 2009 at Niagara Falls. More information can be found: http://www.law.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/events.htm or email info@oursharedwaters.com
Laura Mangan, Deputy Director, Baldy Center and
Robert Berger, Director, Canada-US Legal Studies Center,
Professor, Law School
Helen Domske, Associate Director, Great Lakes Program at UB and
Alan Radibeau, Director of the Environment & Society Institute and
Director of the Ecosystem Restoration through Interdisciplinary Exchange (ERIE) at UB.
Stephen Dunnett, Vice Provost for International Education at UB Lorraine Oak, Chair, Canadian-American Studies Committee
and Jane Koustas, Associate Dean of Humanities, Professor, and Helen Domske Associate Director, Great Lakes Program at UB
Department of Modern Languages, Brock University.
News from Connect2Canada
Ambassador Wilson was in Buffalo, New York on June 12, 2009 for a day of outreach in advance of the 100th anniversary of the Canada–U.S. Boundary Waters Treaty celebrated in Niagara Falls on June 13. During his visit to Buffalo, the Ambassador met with the local media and gave a speech at the Great Lakes Connecting Channels Conference hosted by SUNY Buffalo. Read the full story
June 21st - 28th, 2009
Arts Management Program at UB Summer School at the Venice Biennale
Arts Management Program students in front of the Canadian pavilion at the Venice Biennale
June 30th, 2009
UB says farewell to Canadian Consul General, Stephen Brereton
(L-R) Stephen Dunnett, Vice Provost for International Education at UB,
Kerry Mitchell, Public Affairs Manager at Canadian Consulate General,
Stephen Brereton, Consul General of the Consulate General for Canada in Buffalo,
John B. Simpson, President, University at Buffalo
Lorraine Oak, Chair, Canadian-American Studies Committee at UB,
reads a letter from John Nay, Consul General, U.S. Consulate General in Toronto
September 9th at UB
The University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning will open its fall lecture series Sept. 9 with an illustrated talk by Stephanie Forsythe and Todd McAllen of Molo Design, the critically acclaimed Vancouver-based collaborative design and production studio that designs both buildings and products.
The talk is free and open to the public, and will take place at 5:30 p.m. in the school's lecture hall, 301 Crosby Hall on the South (Main Street) Campus. Read more about the event here.
September 10th to 13th, 2009 at UB Urbanités Littéraires / Cityscapes - Literary Escapes
The goal of the conference is to study the relationship between writing and the urban environment, and specify interactive engagements between literature, architecture, and urbanism. Eight academic panels include the following themes: Wandering ; Windows/Doors/Entrances/Corridors; Utopia and Dream Cities; Streets/Boulevards/Avenues; Towns/Suburbs/Slums/Countrysides; Silos/Warehouses/Industrial Wasteland; Writing the City; Bridges/Arcades/Underground. Please send an e-mail at Urbanites.Buffalo@gmail.com if you have questions.
September 17th, 2009
World Trade Center Buffalo Niagara's 2009 Traders Series: Trading and Investing with Canada. Guest speaker: Dr. Kathryn Friedman, Deputy Director and Director of Research at the University at Buffalo Regional Institute. Location: Harry's Harbour Place Grille, Buffalo, NY.
September 23rd
TRUN Steering Committee Meeting,York University.
September 30th, 2009
The Haudenosaunee-Native American Research Group is honored to welcome Dr. Susan M. Hill. Her talk is Yohyatonhiyo – “It Is Written Well”: The Challenges of Writing Haudenosaunee History that meets Community and Academic Standards. Dr. Hill will be at UB, 1004 Clemens from 2:00 to 5:00 pm.
October 3rd to 4th
The 2nd Eastern Great Lakes Theory of Computation Workshop at UB's Center for Tomorrow
October 23rd to 24th
The Working Group on Reconceptualizing Sociality
Vered Amit, Professor of Anthropology, Concordia University (Montreal) and
Virginia Caputo, Associate Professor and Director, Pauline Jewitt Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies, Carleton University (Ottawa). Organized by Professor Deborah Reed-Danahay, Department of Anthropology, UB.
2008
January 28, 2008
Great Decisions - U.S. China Trade Relations
Dr. Jessie Poon, UB's Department of Geography and Researcher in the Canada-U.S. Trade Center, gave a presentation titled "Great Decisions - U.S. China Trade Relations". More details can be found here:
www.iibuff.org
February 6, 2008
UB's Architecture and Planning Lecture Series presents:
Renowned French-Canadian architect Pierre Thibault from Quebec
Pierre Thibault, a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Canadian Architects, is primarily active in landscaping and cultural and institutional design. His projects have won several awards including the Award of Excellence from the Architect Order of Quebec for both landscaping and residential projects. This event was supported by the Quebec Government Office in New York under their education program.
http://www.ap.buffalo.edu
February 8, 2008
PRÉSENCE FRANCOPHONES: LA NOUVELLE FRANCE DEPUIS SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN
University at Buffalo, 904 Clemens Hall, North Campus.
In honor of the 400th anniversary of the founding of Quebec by Samuel de Champlain, this bilingual round table in French and English explores the francophone presence in Canada during the early modern period. Scholars from France, Canada and the US will examine questions of travel, the encounter, ethnology and writing.
Speaker(s): included Frank Lestringant (Sorbonne), Andreas Motsch (University of Toronto), Janet Ritch (York University), Scott M. Stevens (University at Buffalo) and Grégoire Holtz (University of Toronto).
This event is sponsored by Canadian-American Studies and the Melodia E Jones Chair. For more information: Amy Graves or presencesfrancophones.
April 3 to 4, 2008
Crossing Borders 2008
A Multi-Disciplinary Student Conference on the United States, Canada and Border Issues. Hosted by the University at Buffalo – The State University of New York in association with the Consulate General of Canada (Buffalo) and the Consulate General of the United States (Toronto).
http://www.canadianstudies.buffalo.edu/crossing_borders/
April 18, 2008
Dr. Lynda Corkum
Professor of Biology, University of Windsor
"Chemical control as a management strategy for an invasive fish, the round goby"
Environmental Engineering and Science Seminar Sponsored by
Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior (EEB) program, ERIE IGERT
Canadian-American Studies Committee, Sevenson Environmental
Department of Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering
April 30, 2008
University at Buffalo, 509 O’Brian Hall. Free event.
Practicing Law in both Ontario and the U.S.: A Students’ Guide to U.S. and Canadian Practice.
Discussion led by Ms. Rita Nischal, Esq., Watson, Bennett, Colligan, Johnson & Schechter, LLP Contact: Harvey Asiedu-Akrofi at hva@buffalo.edu
May 8, 2008
13th Annual Regional Sociolegal Studies Conference
Centre for Criminology
University of Toronto, Canadiana Building, 14 Queen's Park Crescent West
ROUNDTABLE: LAW, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, AND ANTI-DISCRIMINATION
Research on social movements has usually focused on issues around emergence and mobilization, and has paid less attention to the social, political and legal effects (intended and unintended) of certain anti-discrimination policies and practices. This panel will highlight socio-legal research on the characteristics and consequences of various movements organized around issues such as anti-racism, mental illness and LGBT rights, and will open up discussions about anti-stigma/discrimination policies, comparative legal frameworks, framing, narrative, and citizenship.
ROUNDTABLE: CONSTRUCTING KNOWLEDGES OF RISK
Legal processes are in part shaped by knowledges of non-legal origin -- not only traditional kinds of expertise, such as forensic psychiatry, child welfare, economics, or science, but also information about public opinion, affidavits from advocacy groups, and reports on individuals or on issues provided for legal purposes by community agencies. What extra-legal knowledges often have in common is that they are increasingly concerned with measuring and evaluating risks (not only risk to the public or to potential victims but also risks to institutions). This panel showcases some of the work being done by socio-legal scholars on the role played by various knowledges of risk and danger in legal proceedings and in the construction of legal policy.
Flier:
Regional 08
May 15, 2008
Building Connections: U.S. - Canadian Seminar on Race and Transnationalism
Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3K7 Canada
This interdisciplinary seminar will consist of a formal panel, a discussion of methods of transnational study, and a social hour. The goal is to lay the foundations for a network of scholars interested in racial justice research in our region.
RSVP: Theresa Runstedtler, American Studies, University at Buffalo
Organized by the Buffalo Seminar for Racial Justice (UB) and the Centre for the Study of the United States (U of T). The formal panel will feature scholars from UB and U of T.
2007
On April 20th 2007, we welcomed Dr. Debora VanNijnatten, Coordinator of the North American Studies Program and Associate Professor of Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario. She met with Canadian Studies colleagues at UB, and presented an insightful and thought-provoking lecture on "A Greener Shade of (Tory) Blue: The Politics of Climate Change in Stephen Harper's Canada."
From left to right are: Robert Berger (Director, Canada-U.S. Legal Studies Centre), Deborah VanNijnatten, Lorraine Oak (Canadian-American Studies Committee Chair), and Munroe Eagles (Director, Canadian Studies Academic Program).
The Canadian-American Studies Committee was pleased to welcome Dan Abele, Academic Relations Officer, from the Canadian Embassy in Washington. This is the first of what we hope will be more visits to the University at Buffalo. Dr. Abele stated that over the past 27 years the Canadian government support for our Canada-related activities at UB has totaled $502,000. We are one of the preeminent programs in the U.S.
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Crossing Borders 2007
A Multi-Disciplinary
Student Conference on the U.S., Canada and Border Issues
For more information
please click Crossing Borders.
Binational Tourism Alliance (BTA) Summit 2007
The summit focused on "capitalizing on cross-border connections" was held March 4-6, 2007 at the Sheraton Fallsview Hotel and Conference Center in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Details can be found here.
2006
Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. visits UB
The Hon. Michael H. Wilson, O.C., Canadian Ambassador
to the United States, delivered an address on October 25, 2006 at the University
at Buffalo. Wilson -- who also has served as Canada's Minister of finance, Minister
of industry, science and technology, and Minister for international trade --
discussed "Canada's Commitment to a Continental and Global Agenda"
in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. His address was
followed a question-and-answer period and a reception. Mr. Wilson was introduced
to the UB community by President John Simpson..
Wilson assumed his responsibilities as ambassador on March 13, 2006, becoming
the 22nd representative of Canada to the United States. He previously was chairman
of UBS Canada, an operating division of UBS AG, one of the world's leading financial
institutions. He oversaw all UBS operations in Canada, including the investment
bank, pension fund management and wealth management businesses.
Prior to joining UBS in July 2001, he was responsible for RBC Financial Group's
institutional asset management business. He also served as vice chairman of
RBC Dominion Securities, responsible for senior client relationships and advice
to both Canadian and international companies and governments.
In 1979, Wilson was elected to Canada's House of Commons. In September 1984,
he was appointed Canada's Minister of finance and remained in that role until
May 1991. He then became Minister of industry, science and technology, and Minister
for international trade.
Prior to his career in public life, Wilson was in investment banking with responsibilities
in corporate, government and international finance. He was director of a number
of companies, including BP P.L.C. and Manulife Financial.
He is active in a number of professional and community organizations, including
NeuroScience, Canada Partnership, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health,
the Canadian Consul for Public-Private Partnerships and the Canadian Coalition
for Good Governance.
An officer of the Order of Canada, Wilson holds honorary degrees from the University
of Toronto and York University.