Conference Presentations



“Selling Canada to Ourselves: The Evolution of Citizenship and Immigration Canada’s
A Look at Canada.” Canadian Political Science Association 82nd Annual
Conference. Concordia University, Montreal (2 June 2010).

“On Writing Canada’s Voice: The Public Life of John Wendell Holmes.” Canadian
Historical Association 89th Annual General Meeting. Concordia University,
Montreal (1 June 2010).

“Telling Canada’s National Story: The Evolution of Citizenship and Immigration
Canada’s A Look at Canada.” Canadian Historical Association 89th Annual
General Meeting. Concordia University, Montreal (30 May 2010).

“Ensuring Reliable and Stable Funding for Canada’s International Development
Priorities.” International Development Roundtable. Parliament Hill, Ottawa

(2 February 2010).

“Victims of their own Success? Canadians and their Foreign Policy at the Onset of

the Cold War.” Global Change and Canada: 30th Annual Conference of the
GKS. Grainau, Germany (13-15 February 2009).


“The Department of External Affairs and the UN Idea, 1943-1965.” Serving the

National Interest: Canada’s Department of External Affairs and International

Trade, 1909-2009. University of Calgary (29 January 2009).


“The Golden Age of Canadian Foreign Policy Exposed.” Canada Exposed:

Conference of the International Council For Canadian Studies. Ottawa (27-29

May 2008).


“The Pressures of Making Canadian Foreign Policy in a Minority Government.”

Minority Report: The Effects of Minority Government in Canada Since 2004.
Wilfrid Laurier University (8 February 2008).


“Popular Attitudes Towards the United Nations in Canada and the United States:

The Leadership of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and William Lyon Mackenzie

King.” Association for Canadian Studies in the United States 2007. [Toronto]

(15-18 November 2007).


“Canadian Foreign Policy? Canadian Independence in History.” 76th Congress of

the Humanities and Social Sciences [Meeting of the Canadian Political Science

Association]. University of Saskatchewan [Saskatoon] (30 May - 1 June 2007).


“Reflections on Canadian / International History.” Canada on Display: Teaching

History at Trent University. Trent University [Peterborough] (13-14 April
2007).


“The Gray Lecture and Canadian Citizenship in History.” The Gray Lecture: 60

Years After. Bishop’s University [Lennoxville] (19-21 January 2007).


“Lester Pearson and the Concept of Peace.” Lester B. Pearson’s Legacy: 50 Years

of Peace Operations. Research Network on Peace Operations [Montreal] (3-4

November 2006).


“The Conservatives and Multilateralism: Same Old, Same Old.” Foreign Policy
Under a Conservative Government: An Interim Report Card. Canadian

Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute [Ottawa] (30 October 2006).


“Reforming the United Nations: A New Canadian Approach?” CIGI, CFP, NPSIA:

Canadian Foreign Policy Under Review. Centre for International Governance

and Innovation [Waterloo] (3-4 November 2005).


“‘A Question of Degree: The Prime Minister, Political Leadership, and Canadian

Foreign Policy.” The World in Canada: Demographics, Diversity and Domestic

Politics in Canadian Foreign Policy. Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs
Institute [Ottawa] (31 October – 1 November 2005).


“Shaping History: Remembering Canada at the San Francisco Conference on

International Organization, 1945.” 2005 Congress of the Humanities and
Social Sciences. University of Western Ontario (30 May - 1 June 2005).


“Cherishing Illusions: Canada at the San Francisco Conference on International

Organization, 1945.” International Council For Canadian Studies: Canada
from the Outside in: Images, Perceptions, Comparisons. University of

Ottawa/Carleton University (25-27 May 2005).


“Conflict and Cooperation Collide: The Writing of Canadian-American Relations.”

2004 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. University of Manitoba

(3-6 June 2004).


“Non-Subject Once Again? Reflections on the Writing of Canadian-American

Relations.” Organization for the History of Canada: Canadian-American
Relations: Do Borders Matter? Ottawa Conference Centre (13-16 May 2004).


“Making Wrong Right: The North Atlantic Treaty Negotiations and the Coming

of Age of Canadian Diplomacy, 1947-1949.” Organization for the History of
Canada: Canada from 1900 to 1950: A Country Comes of Age. Concordia
University (3-4 October 2002).


“Inevitable Co-dependency: The Grandy Report on Canadian-American Relations,

1951-?” Association for Canadian Studies in the United States 2001. San
Antonio, TX (14-18 November 2001).


“Inevitable Co-dependency: The Grandy Report on Canadian-American Relations,

1951-?” Canadian Centre for Foreign Policy Development Graduate Student
Seminar 2001: Canada-U.S. Relations. Department of Foreign Affairs and
International Trade, Ottawa (30 April – 4 May 2001).


“Canada First? Canadian Nationalisms: Past, Present and Future.” Twentieth

Century Canadian Nationalisms. Massey College, Toronto (16 – 18 March
2001).


“Perhaps Better Never than Late? The Benefits and Drawbacks of ICC

Ratification.” Osgoode Hall 3rd Annual Graduate Students’ Conference. York

University (11-12 May 2000).


“Just Who is in the Middle? What Does Middle Power Mean?” New Frontiers in

Graduate History: 4th Annual Graduate Student History Conference. York
University (17-18 March 2000).


“Middlepowerhood: Canadian Identity or Canadian Myth?” History in the Making VI

Conference. Concordia University (11 March 2000).


“Identity Crisis: What is a Middle Power?” Underhill Graduate Student Colloquium:

An Interdisciplinary Symposium in History. Carleton University (3-4 March
2000).


“Human Security and the Canadian Middle Power Myth.” Human Security: Policy

Implications for the 21st Century. Carleton University (17-19 September
1999).


“The End of Anwar? An Assessment of Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir

Mohamad’s Motivations for Firing Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.”

1999 Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. Boise State
University. (17-18 September 1999).


“The Translator’s Lament: What Gets Lost When We Translate Old English Poetry.”

Champlain College Conference. Trent University (20 March 1998).


“Canadian Theatre: Are We There Yet?” New Visions of a Nation: Re-examining

Canadian Culture(s). Trent University (27-28 February 1998).


“Canada and the Human Security Agenda: The Case of Malaysia.” 12th Annual

Educational Conference on World Issues. Carleton University (24 February
1999).

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