A First For Canada
UNBC To Host Inaugural "Trudeau Lecture"
October 21, 2008
The effects of globalization will be the topic of a presentation this
Thursday evening that will mark the first-ever “Trudeau Lecture”
presented by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.
The Foundation was established in 2002 and selects leading scholars to be Trudeau Fellows examining public policy issues related to the environment, globalization, social justice, and citizenship. This year, for the first time, the Foundation is presenting one talk from each of its five Fellows in communities across Canada. Collectively, they will be the first Trudeau Lectures and they will be published in Canada’s two official languages. The lectures will be presented between October and May, and the first one will be at UNBC’s Prince George campus.
The presentation – Globalization and British Columbia: A Long History? – will be presented at UNBC by Dr. William Coleman, a Trudeau Fellow and a Canada Research Chair on Globalization Studies and Public Policy at McMaster University in Hamilton. Dr. Coleman grew up in Penticton and will speak about how British Columbia is influenced by global forces and what it can do to shape these forces.
His talk will be Thursday, October 23, at 6:30pm in the Weldwood Theare (7-238), which is located between the Bookstore and the Canfor Winter Garden.
“UNBC is honoured to have been selected as the host for the first Trudeau Lecture,” says John Young, Acting Dean of Arts, Social and Health Sciences at UNBC and a professor of Political Science at the University. “The timing of this presentation couldn’t be any better, coming on the heels of the global financial crisis. At the same time, communities such as Prince George know all about the effects of globalization and the dependence we have on foreign customers for our natural resources.”
Dr. Coleman will be arriving in Prince George on October 22nd and will be available for media interviews on October 23rd.
The other 2008-09 Trudeau Lectures will be in Lethbridge, St. John’s, Moncton, and Ottawa.
Contact:
Rob van Adrichem, Director of Media and Public Relations, UNBC – 250.960.5622
The Foundation was established in 2002 and selects leading scholars to be Trudeau Fellows examining public policy issues related to the environment, globalization, social justice, and citizenship. This year, for the first time, the Foundation is presenting one talk from each of its five Fellows in communities across Canada. Collectively, they will be the first Trudeau Lectures and they will be published in Canada’s two official languages. The lectures will be presented between October and May, and the first one will be at UNBC’s Prince George campus.
The presentation – Globalization and British Columbia: A Long History? – will be presented at UNBC by Dr. William Coleman, a Trudeau Fellow and a Canada Research Chair on Globalization Studies and Public Policy at McMaster University in Hamilton. Dr. Coleman grew up in Penticton and will speak about how British Columbia is influenced by global forces and what it can do to shape these forces.
His talk will be Thursday, October 23, at 6:30pm in the Weldwood Theare (7-238), which is located between the Bookstore and the Canfor Winter Garden.
“UNBC is honoured to have been selected as the host for the first Trudeau Lecture,” says John Young, Acting Dean of Arts, Social and Health Sciences at UNBC and a professor of Political Science at the University. “The timing of this presentation couldn’t be any better, coming on the heels of the global financial crisis. At the same time, communities such as Prince George know all about the effects of globalization and the dependence we have on foreign customers for our natural resources.”
Dr. Coleman will be arriving in Prince George on October 22nd and will be available for media interviews on October 23rd.
The other 2008-09 Trudeau Lectures will be in Lethbridge, St. John’s, Moncton, and Ottawa.
Contact:
Rob van Adrichem, Director of Media and Public Relations, UNBC – 250.960.5622
