In This Issue:

Event Tomorrow

• Canadian Studies Student Meet-and-Greet

Program News

• New Hildebrand Fellow Britt Leake seeks keys to successful multicultural democracy

Upcoming Events

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

Academic Opportunities

• The Thomas O. Enders Distinguished Dissertation Award
• Call for Papers: Liminal Spaces: Two Days of Rural Canada

EVENT TOMORROW

Canadian Studies Student Meet-and-Greet

Wed., Sept. 6 | 12:00-2:00 pm | Class of 1925 Courtyard | RSVP

The Canadian Studies Program invites you to kick off the fall semester with a back-to-school meet-and-greet for students! Get to know more about our program and meet fellow students while enjoying a complimentary lunch on us.

Please RSVP here if you plan to attend.

PROGRAM NEWS

New Hildebrand Fellow Britt Leake Seeks Keys to Successful Multicultural Democracy

Canadian Studies is pleased to announce that Britt Leake has been awarded an Edward E. Hildebrand Graduate Research Fellowship for Fall 2023.

Britt is a PhD candidate in the Travers Department of Political Science. His research focuses on understanding the conditions under which democracy succeeds or fails in societies with extensive ethnolinguistic or religious diversity. His dissertation project uses John Rawls’s theory of public reason as a frame through which to examine historical cases from four countries (Canada, India, Lebanon, and Spain) in which different cultural groups tried to make compromises on the terms of a social contract that would be legitimate in the eyes of each group.

Britt’s research on Canada will focus on the late twentieth century, when the Canadian state tried with mixed success to renegotiate its relationships with Francophone and Indigenous minorities. His Hildebrand Fellowship will support his travel to Canada, where he will conduct archival research in Ottawa, Quebec City, and Montreal.

Britt holds a BA and MA in international studies and BAs in Arabic and French from the University of Oklahoma.

UPCOMING EVENTS

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.

ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES

The Thomas O. Enders Distinguished Dissertation Award

Deadline: September 15, 2023

The Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS) is seeking nominations for its Thomas O. Enders Distinguished Dissertation Award. The award recognizes original work that makes a significant contribution to the nominee’s discipline and to the study of Canada.

The award consists of an honorarium of $5,000, a certificate of citation, and complimentary two-year membership in ACSUS. The awardee will be expected to attend the ACSUS Biennial Conference in November 2023, where the award will be conferred, and may be asked to give a 20-minute presentation on their work at the conference.

For details on how to apply, please click here.

Call for Papers: Liminal Spaces: Two Days of Rural Canada

Deadline: September 15, 2023

The Centre for Canadian Studies at Brock University (St. Catharine’s, ON) invites paper submissions or panel proposals on the theme “Rural Canada.” When considering Canada, most people think of Canadian cities or the wonder of its vast wilderness. We often overlook, sometimes literally, rural Canada, those spaces in‐between. We fly over them and drive through them, but don’t often stop to consider what the people and the places contribute to Canada as a nation.

This conference will consider the world between the cities and the wilderness, those liminal spaces, and the people, culture, politics, and issues of concern within them. Scholars from a range of disciplines are invited to submit both individual papers and panel proposals; learn more here.

Canadian Studies Program

213 Philosophy Hall #2308

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