In This Issue:

Upcoming Events

• ACB-FGC: A Culturally Responsive Program to Support Black Families Involved with the Ontario Child Welfare System
• 6th Annual Canadian Thanksgiving Dinner

Academic Opportunities

• The Donner Medal in Canadian Studies
• William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellowship

External Events

• Canadian films at the San Francisco Dance Film Festival
• Canada Seminar: “Fire and Ice Revisited: The Evolution of Social Values in Canada and the United States”
• Human Impact on Life Below the Arctic Ocean and Climate Change: How Exploration, Restoration and Policy Protect Species and Climate

EVENT TOMORROW

ACB-FGC: A Culturally Responsive Program to Support Black Families Involved With the Ontario Child Welfare System

Tues., Sept. 26 | 12:30 pm | 223 Philosophy Hall | RSVP

The disparate treatment of African American families in the American child welfare system is well documented, but researchers are only just beginning to examine the experiences of African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) Canadian families in Canada. In the province of Ontario, recent studies find that Black families are represented in the child welfare system at disproportionate rates. Experiences of Black youth, caregivers, and workers also highlight differential and punitive treatment within the system. These findings have given rise to the development of the African, Caribbean, Black Family Group Conferencing Project (ACB-FGC), a restorative, culturally responsive innovation to support Black families at risk of, or already engaged in, the child welfare system in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). In this presentation, Dr. Lance T. McCready, co-director of ACB-FGC, describes the community-based research that led to the development of the program and implications of ACB-FGC for provincial policies to address anti-Black racism in the child welfare system and among partner institutions.

Dr. Lance McCready is the lead researcher for the Making Spaces Lab, and an associate professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. He holds a B.A. in psychology and an M.A. and Ph.D. in education, all from UC Berkeley. He is the recipient of the 2017 Ludwik and Estelle Jus Memorial Human Rights Prize from the University of Toronto, and the 2018 Distinguished Research Scholar Award from the Ontario Education Research Symposium. Dr. McCready held a Sproul Fellowship with Canadian Studies at Berkeley in Spring 2023, where he worked on several projects related to the health and welfare of Black families, youth, and GBT/MSM individuals in Canada.

This event is cosponsored by the Berkeley School of Education, the Center for Race and Gender, and the Department of African American Studies & African Diaspora Studies.

UPCOMING EVENTS

6th Annual Canadian Thanksgiving Dinner

Sunday, Oct. 8 | 4:30 pm | Alumni House | Buy tickets

Canadian Studies is proud to partner with the Digital Moose Lounge for our sixth annual Canadian Thanksgiving! Join your fellow Bay Area Canadians for this annual Thanksgiving tradition. Share a delicious turkey dinner as you connect with friends old and new.

Tickets may be purchased through the Digital Moose Lounge.

ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES

The Donner Medal in Canadian Studies

Deadline: October 1, 2023

The Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS) is seeking nominations for its Donner Medal in Canadian Studies. The award recognizes distinguished achievement, scholarship, and program innovation in the area of Canadian Studies in the United States. The recipient shall have been active in and made contributions in at least one of the following categories: teaching, scholarship, administration, and public affairs. Please submit nominations to info@acsus.org.

Deadline: December 1, 2023

The Canada Program at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs invites applications for the William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellowship. The two available fellowships are open to postdoctoral scholars in all disciplines who are engaged in Canadian studies broadly defined. Scholars working on comparative US-Canada research may receive preference.

The fellowships provide an annual stipend of $68,000, which is supplemented by funding for research and for individual health insurance coverage, plus a dependent care stipend. This is a two-year position beginning August 1, 2024. Candidates must have received their PhD no earlier than July 31, 2019.

Learn more and apply here.

EXTERNAL EVENTS

Canadian Films at the SF Dance Film Festival

Sept. 22-Oct. 15 | San Francisco, CA | Buy tickets

Four Canadian short films will be screened at this year’s 14th annual San Francisco Dance Film Festival. A highlight is Just Short of Reality, a series of interlocking shorts that show the mundane serendipities of everyday life through the genres of surrealism, silent film, and dance (Screendance 2: What’s the Story?, October 7; also on streaming). Other Canadian entries include Beyond the Off-Screen and Future Futures – Walter’s Very Bad Day (Narrative Shorts, October 5) and Branché (Raising Voices, October 8; also on streaming).

Canada Seminar: “Fire and Ice Revisited: The Evolution of Social Values in Canada and the United States”

Sept. 26 | 9:00 am PT | Online | RSVP

The Weatherhead Canada Program at Harvard University will host a talk with Michael Adams, founder and president of the Environics Institute for Survey Research. Dr. Adams is the author of seven books, including Fire and Ice: The United States, Canada and the Myth of Converging Values (2003) which won the Donner Prize as best book on public policy, American Backlash (2005), and Could It Happen Here? Canada in the Age of Trump and Brexit (2017). In 2023, University of Toronto Press will publish his chapter entitled “American Backlash, Canadian Compromise,” in the edited collection, Canada and the United States: Differences that Count (fifth edition).

Michael Adams is a former member of the external advisory committee for Berkeley’s Canadian Studies Program. He holds an Honours B.A. in Political Studies from Queen’s University and a M.A. in Sociology from the University of Toronto. In 2009, he received an honorary Doctor of Letters from Ryerson University and in 2016, he was awarded the Order of Canada, the country’s highest domestic honour.

Sept. 30 | 12:00 pm | San Francisco, CA | Get tickets

The United Nations Association of San Francisco will host an important discussion climate change and the future of the Arctic at the Veteran’s Memorial in San Francisco. Marine biologist, ocean explorer, and conservation leader Dr. Sylvia Earle will deliver the keynote address. Two panels will follow: one on the United Nations Treaty on the High Seas, and a “Meet the Aquanauts” panel featuring cave diver Jill Heinerth, explorer-in-residence for the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.

This event will be webcast for those who cannot attend in person. However, please note that the discussion with Ms. Heinerth will not be webcast.

This event is co-sponsored by the Consulate General of Canada in San Francisco.

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