Canadian Studies Announcements

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Program News & Events

Other Announcements

External Events

NEXT WEEK

Future Imaginaries of Abundant Intelligences: Indigenous Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and its Discontents

Thursday, April 7 | 12:30 pm PT | 223 Moses | RSVP here

The artificial intelligence (A.I.) industry-academic complex does not have an ethics problem. It has an epistemology problem. The persistent failures with computationally-enabled and -amplified bias are symptoms of a blind allegiance to knowledge frameworks that define the “knower” as a post-Enlightenment individual motivated by selfish utilitarianism while subordinating or erasing ways of understanding the world that imagine people differently. How do we expand the operational definitions of intelligence to account for different epistemologies? In particular, how might we take inspiration from Indigenous knowledge frameworks that situate knowing within a web of relationships amongst humans and non-humans? And how might we consider integrating advanced computational practices, such as A.I., into traditional knowledge frameworks to the benefit of Indigenous communities?

Jason Edward Lewis is the University Research Chair in Computational Media and the Indigenous Future Imaginary as well professor of computation arts at Concordia University in Montreal. His research explores computation as a creative material, and seeks to understand how our technologies are constituted through explicit and implicit cultural knowledge practices. He is lead author of the award-winning “Making Kin with the Machines” essay and editor of the Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence Position Paper. Lewis directs the Initiative for Indigenous Futures Partnership, and co-directs the Indigenous Futures Research Centre and the Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace research network.

PROGRAM NEWS

New Hildebrand Fellow, Joshua Zimmt, Probes Ancient Fossils for Modern Lessons

Canadian Studies is pleased to introduce Joshua Zimmt as the latest recipient of an Edward Hildebrand Graduate Research Fellowship. Joshua is a Ph.D. candidate in integrative biology and affiliate of the UC Museum of Paleontology, and is studying the link between climate change and mass extinction in the fossil record.

Joshua’s Hildebrand Fellowship will support his dissertation research on the exceptional fossil and rock records on Anticosti Island, Québec. Joshua hopes to understand how climate change may have caused the Late Ordovician mass extinction, one of the largest known extinction events. Recent studies have linked this disaster, which led to an estimated extinction of 85% of marine species, to a drop in global temperature. By producing a better understanding of this critical interval in the history of life, Joshua’s research will serve as a case study of global change that can be used to better understand our rapidly changing modern world.

Joshua holds a B.Sc. in geology from the College of William & Mary. His work was awarded the American Paleontology Association’s Best Paper Prize in 2021. In addition to his research, Joshua is the student lead on the ACCESS program, an initiative by the UC Museum of Paleontology to bring engaging paleobiology and geology lessons to community college classrooms around the country.

2022 THOMAS GARDEN BARNES LECTURE

“Practically American”: What a Canadian Schoolteacher’s Fight Against California’s Anti-Alien Laws Reveals About the Boundaries of American Identity

Thursday, April 28 | 12:30 pm PT | 223 Moses | RSVP here

Former Hildebrand Fellow Brendan Shanahan explores the case of Katharine Short, a Canadian immigrant to California who challenged early 20th-century anti-immigrant laws. In 1915, Short found her job as a California schoolteacher at risk when the state began enforcing a law barring non-citizens from public employment. She responded with a vigorous legal, public relations, political, and diplomatic campaign to save her job and those of other non-citizen schoolteachers in the state. Shanahan will discuss what the case shows about the disparate impact of the state’s anti-alien hiring laws, comparing the experiences of favorably portrayed immigrants (like white, middle-class Canadians) vs. less favored non-citizens (such as Mexican blue-collar laborers).

Brendan Shanahan is a socio-legal historian focusing on (North) American immigration and citizenship policy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He earned his Ph.D. and M.A. from UC Berkeley, received a Hildebrand Fellowship for work in Canadian Studies, and won the 2019 Outstanding Dissertation Award of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. He is currently a postdoctoral associate at the MacMillan Center and visiting lecturer in the Yale Department of History.

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OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

Call for Papers: American Council for Québec Studies 22nd Biennial Conference

Submission deadline: April 1, 2022

The American Council for Québec Studies (ACQS) invites proposals for papers and panels for their upcoming conference, to be held October 20-23, 2022 in Baltimore, Maryland. The conference hopes to give space to multiple openings and exchanges. Proposals related to any aspect of Québec studies will be considered, including Québec’s diasporas and the Francophone presence in the Americas. The conference is open to a wide range of approaches across the social and physical sciences and humanities. Submissions of both individual papers and complete panels are encouraged.

All submissions (abstracts of +/-250 words) are should be made via the ACQS website.

Conference presentations can be made in French or English. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is April 1, 2022. Please visit acqs.org for more details.

Call for Applications: Cornell University Migrations Summer Institute

Application deadline: April 4, 2022

Cornell University invites advanced graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early career scholars to apply now for the virtual 2022 Migrations Summer Institute, “The Ongoing Afterlife of Dispossession in Africa and the Americas.”

From July 11 to 22, 20 participants will join a collaborative virtual space that engages with African studies, Native American and Indigenous studies, and settler colonial studies from a comparative perspective. A stipend of $2,000 supports each participant as they join a dialogue with other migration scholars, activists, and artists, design curricula and digital humanities resources, and contribute to a publication.

This institute is hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and Migrations: A Global Grand Challenge. Learn more and apply here.

EXTERNAL EVENTS

Canadian Films at the 2022 International Ocean Film Festival

Saturday, April 9 | San Francisco | Buy tickets here

Two feature-length Canadian films will be showcased at this year’s International Ocean Film Festival in San Francisco. In Coextinction, filmmakers Gloria Pancrazi and Elena Jean travel through the Pacific Northwest to uncover the interlocking environmental issues threatening an endangered pod of orcas. And in Bangla Surf Girls, Elizabeth D. Costa and Lalita Krishna tell the story of three Bangladeshi teenagers who defy tradition and their families’ expectations with their dreams of professional surfing. Check out the full program to discover additional shorts by Canadian filmmakers!

Permanent Revolution: A Reading and Conversation with Gail Scott

Thursday, April 21 | 4:00 pm PT | 4229 Dwinelle Hall

The Montreal writer Gail Scott writes in the interstices of anglophone and francophone traditions, of the novel and theory, of prose and poetry. Scott’s audacious books refuse to divorce aesthetics from politics, and they demonstrate the inseparability of the erotic and the theoretical. Her innovative sentences dramatize the fractured relationship to language of minority subjects (including women, lesbians, and Indigenous people) and the sutured subjectivity that results.

In the 1970s and 80s, living in a French-speaking metropolis gave Scott a kind of privileged access to “French theory,” reading Barthes, Cixous or Derrida in the original. It also was during this period that she participated in Quebec’s feminist and formalist écriture au féminin moment alongside the poet Nicole Brossard. Her continental consciousness later led to her involvement with San Francisco’s New Narrative group in the 1990s and New York’s conceptual poetry scene in the past two decades.

Scott reflects on this trajectory in her essay collection, Permanent Revolution (Book*hug, 2021): “an evolutionary snapshot of [her] ongoing prose experiment that hinges the matter of writing to ongoing social upheaval.” She will read from her new book and then be joined by Canadian Studies faculty affiliate William Burton to discuss the politics and/of form, lesbian sexuality, colonisation, and more.

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PROGRAM NEWS

Faculty Affiliate Sabrina Agarwal Honoured With 2022 Distinguished Teaching Award

Canadian Studies is proud to announce that Sabrina Agarwal, a professor of anthropology and Canadian Studies affiliate, was one of five Berkeley faculty selected to receive a 2022 Distinguished Teaching Award. The award recognizes faculty for “sustained performance of excellence in teaching”. We hope you will join us in congratulating Professor Agarwal for this significant achievement!

Professor Agarwal is an expert in biological anthropology specializing in age, sex and gender-related changes to human bone. She received her bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, where she also taught for one year before coming to Berkeley. She is interested in the philosophies of teaching, and is actively involved in the pedagogical training of current and future college instructors.

Professor Agarwal emphasizes inclusive and respectful exchange in her teaching and research, particularly in the context of the fraught relationship between anthropology and many historically disenfranchised communities. In addition to her teaching, she chairs the UC Berkeley NAGPRA Advisory Committee, which facilitates the return of Native American ancestral remains and cultural goods to their tribes of origin. Last month, she moderated a panel on repatriation efforts in the US and Canada for Canadian Studies.

Recipients of the Distinguished Teaching Award receive a cash award from the campus and permanent recognition in the UC Berkeley catalogue. Distinguished Teachers are frequently called upon to serve on forums, panels, and committees involving teaching issues, and advocate for excellence in teaching at Berkeley.

Canadian Studies Welcomes William M. Burton, Scholar of French Literature, as Newest Faculty Affiliate

This week, people across Canada and around the world celebrate the French Language and Francophonie, the global French-speaking community. Canadian Studies is pleased to join in by announcing that William M. Burton, an assistant professor of French with a love for Quebec, has joined the program as our newest faculty affiliate.

Professor Burton is an expert in 18th- and 20th-century French literature and philosophy, with a focus on gender, sexuality, and feminism. Their current project, The End of Sex, approaches this topic through a case-study of Monique Wittig and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Burton also has an interest in Quebec culture and literature. This semester, they are teaching “Montreal: Colonization, Urbanization, Migration“, a course that explores the development of the unique literary and artistic voice of the world’s second-largest Francophone city.

Professor Burton joined the Berkeley faculty in August 2021. They received their B.A. in French literature and translation from McGill University; an M.A. in English studies from Université de Montréal; and an M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in French and Romance philology from Columbia University.

UPCOMING EVENT

Future Imaginaries of Abundant Intelligences: Indigenous Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and its Discontents

Thursday, April 7 | 12:30 pm PT | 223 Moses | RSVP here

The artificial intelligence (A.I.) industry-academic complex does not have an ethics problem. It has an epistemology problem. The persistent failures with computationally-enabled and -amplified bias are symptoms of a blind allegiance to knowledge frameworks that define the “knower” as a post-Enlightenment individual motivated by selfish utilitarianism while subordinating or erasing ways of understanding the world that imagine people differently. How do we expand the operational definitions of intelligence to account for different epistemologies? In particular, how might we take inspiration from Indigenous knowledge frameworks that situate knowing within a web of relationships amongst humans and non-humans? And how might we consider integrating advanced computational practices, such as A.I., into traditional knowledge frameworks to the benefit of Indigenous communities?

Jason Edward Lewis is the University Research Chair in Computational Media and the Indigenous Future Imaginary as well professor of computation arts at Concordia University in Montreal. His research explores computation as a creative material, and seeks to understand how our technologies are constituted through explicit and implicit cultural knowledge practices. He is lead author of the award-winning “Making Kin with the Machines” essay and editor of the Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence Position Paper. Lewis directs the Initiative for Indigenous Futures Partnership, and co-directs the Indigenous Futures Research Centre and the Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace research network.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Call for Applications: Cornell University Migrations Summer Institute

Application deadline: April 4, 2022

Cornell University invites advanced graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early career scholars to apply now for the virtual 2022 Migrations Summer Institute, “The Ongoing Afterlife of Dispossession in Africa and the Americas.”

From July 11 to 22, 20 participants will join a collaborative virtual space that engages with African studies, Native American and Indigenous studies, and settler colonial studies from a comparative perspective. A stipend of $2,000 supports each participant as they join a dialogue with other migration scholars, activists, and artists, design curricula and digital humanities resources, and contribute to a publication.

This institute is hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and Migrations: A Global Grand Challenge. Learn more and apply here.

EXTERNAL EVENTS

Public attitudes towards immigration in Canada: A false or true positive?

Tuesday, March 22 | 7:00 am PT | Online | RSVP here

Contrary to the experiences in most European countries and the U.S., public attitudes towards immigration in Canada have grown increasingly positive over the last two decades. However, several studies have found that while most of the population has a positive opinion on immigration, there is a significant difference in public attitudes depending on an individual’s education, age or political ideology. Studies also have shown that different factors, including economic and cultural concerns, play an essential role in influencing public opinion towards immigration, and that this has been shown to shift over time.

To understand the reasons behind changing public opinion, researchers have explored whether they are driven by changing demographics, ideological shifts or simply individuals changing their minds. Some scholars have taken a further step to examine what public support is like towards specific categories of immigration, racial groups or regions, showing that, at the finer grain, public support might not be as positive as Canada’s general attitudes suggest.

This workshop aims to address the following questions:

Ciné Canapé: Language is a Love Story

Wednesday, March 23 | 4:30 pm PT | Online | RSVP here

Join the Alliance Française of San Francisco for a special “Celebrate Francophonie” virtual film screening of the Canadian film Language is a Love Story (original title: “La langue est donc une histoire d’amour”). The film tells the story of a woman who teaches refugees to read and write. Their stories of pain and hope converge in one big-hearted lesson

This program is co-hosted by the consulates general of Canada, Luxembourg, and Switzerland in San Francisco, the Wallonia Export & Investment Agency, and the Quebec delegation in Los Angeles.

Reading Canada: Canada in NATO, 1949-2019

Thursday, March 24 | 11:00 am PT | Online | RSVP here

On April 4, 1949, Canada joined 11 other states in signing the North Atlantic Treaty, establishing a post-war western alliance and becoming one of the founding members of NATO. In the seventy years that followed, Canadian contributions to the organization have assisted operations in Korea, the Baltics, and the Middle East, supported NATO’s expansion in Eastern Europe, and played a vital role in promoting Canada’s image of international leadership.

Join the Wilson Center’s Canada Institute for a moderated discussion with Dr. Joel Sokolsky and Dr. Joseph T. Jockel, co-authors of Canada in NATO: 1949-2019. The 2021 publication explores Canada’s historical contributions to NATO and the impact that the alliance has had on Canadian defense and foreign policy.

Permanent Revolution: A reading and conversation with Gail Scott

Thursday, April 21 | 4:00 pm PT | 4229 Dwinelle Hall

The Montreal writer Gail Scott writes in the interstices of anglophone and francophone traditions, of the novel and theory, of prose and poetry. Scott’s audacious books refuse to divorce aesthetics from politics, and they demonstrate the inseparability of the erotic and the theoretical. Her innovative sentences dramatize the fractured relationship to language of minority subjects (including women, lesbians, and Indigenous people) and the sutured subjectivity that results.

In the 1970s and 80s, living in a French-speaking metropolis gave Scott a kind of privileged access to “French theory,” reading Barthes, Cixous or Derrida in the original. It also was during this period that she participated in Quebec’s feminist and formalist écriture au féminin moment alongside the poet Nicole Brossard. Her continental consciousness later led to her involvement with San Francisco’s New Narrative group in the 1990s and New York’s conceptual poetry scene in the past two decades.

Scott reflects on this trajectory in her essay collection, Permanent Revolution (Book*hug, 2021): “an evolutionary snapshot of [her] ongoing prose experiment that hinges the matter of writing to ongoing social upheaval.” She will read from her new book and then be joined by Canadian Studies faculty affiliate William Burton to discuss the politics and/of form, lesbian sexuality, colonisation, and more.

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Canadian Studies Announcements

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 Big Give Update: Another Amazing Year, Thanks to You! 

Canadian Studies is excited to announce yet another record-breaking Big Give for the program. With processing not yet finished, we’ve raised almost $29,000. That’s almost 15% of ALL money raised for the entire Research Division!

We can’t say this enough – your support is the bedrock for everything we do. We’re a small program, but we have an outsized impact thanks to the strength of our community engagement. We’re incredibly grateful for all you do, whether through your philanthropy, volunteering your time, or just attending our events. You make our work not only possible, but meaningful. So thanks again, and we hope to see you soon!

EVENT TOMORROW

Hildebrand Graduate Research Showcase

Tuesday, March 15 | 12:30 pm PT | 223 Moses Hall | RSVP here

Learn about the research Canadian Studies funds through our Edward Hildebrand Graduate Research Fellowships, as recipients present short overviews of their projects. This panel will have a special focus on the environment, development, and Indigenous resource sovereignty. This event will be held in-person as well as broadcast via Zoom.

Mindy Price, Ph.D. candidate, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

“New Agricultural Frontiers: Land, Labor and Sovereignty in the Northwest Territories, Canada”

Now more than 1º Celsius warmer than a century ago and warming at three times the global average, the Arctic and Subarctic are being reimagined as a new frontier for food production. Despite a growing body of evidence that climate change will enable new possibilities for agriculture in the North, much research remains agnostic about how northern agricultural development will affect communities and landscapes and the relations between them. Mindy uses archival research and ethnography in three extended case studies to examine the implications of agriculture development on the social relations of production and consumption in the Northwest Territories, Canada.

Aaron Gregory, Ph.D. student, City and Regional Planning

“Kinship Infrastructures: Indigenous Energy Autonomy and Regulatory Sea Change in Beecher Bay”

Aaron’s research explores the social, technical, and regulatory impacts of a renewable energy system developed by the Scia’new First Nation in Beecher Bay, British Columbia. He examines this project as an emergent approach to Indigenous environmental governance, an infrastructural solution responding to the problem of Indigenous energy sovereignty, and a regulatory provocation designed to challenge a provincial monopoly on energy production and distribution.

Call for Papers: American Council for Québec Studies 22nd Biennial Conference

Submission deadline: April 1, 2022

The American Council for Québec Studies (ACQS) invites proposals for papers and panels for their upcoming conference, to be held October 20-23, 2022 in Baltimore, Maryland. The conference hopes to give space to multiple openings and exchanges. Proposals related to any aspect of Québec studies will be considered, including Québec’s diasporas and the Francophone presence in the Americas. The conference is open to a wide range of approaches across the social and physical sciences and humanities. Submissions of both individual papers and complete panels are encouraged.

All submissions (abstracts of +/-250 words) are should be made via the ACQS website.

Conference presentations can be made in French or English. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is April 1, 2022. Please visit www.acqs.org for more details.

UPCOMING EVENT

Future Imaginaries of Abundant Intelligences: Indigenous Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and its Discontents

Thursday, April 7 | 12:30 pm PT | 223 Moses | RSVP here

The artificial intelligence (A.I.) industry-academic complex does not have an ethics problem. It has an epistemology problem. The persistent failures with computationally-enabled and -amplified bias are symptoms of a blind allegiance to knowledge frameworks that define the “knower” as a post-Enlightenment individual motivated by selfish utilitarianism while subordinating or erasing ways of understanding the world that imagine people differently. How do we expand the operational definitions of intelligence to account for different epistemologies? In particular, how might we take inspiration from Indigenous knowledge frameworks that situate knowing within a web of relationships amongst humans and non-humans? And how might we consider integrating advanced computational practices, such as A.I., into traditional knowledge frameworks to the benefit of Indigenous communities?

Jason Edward Lewis is the University Research Chair in Computational Media and the Indigenous Future Imaginary as well professor of computation arts at Concordia University in Montreal. His research explores computation as a creative material, and seeks to understand how our technologies are constituted through explicit and implicit cultural knowledge practices. He is lead author of the award-winning “Making Kin with the Machines” essay and editor of the Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence Position Paper. Lewis directs the Initiative for Indigenous Futures Partnership, and co-directs the Indigenous Futures Research Centre and the Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace research network.

EXTERNAL EVENTS

Public attitudes towards immigration in Canada: A false or true positive?

Tuesday, March 22 | 7:00 am PT | Online | RSVP here

Contrary to the experiences in most European countries and the U.S., public attitudes towards immigration in Canada have grown increasingly positive over the last two decades. However, several studies have found that while most of the population has a positive opinion on immigration, there is a significant difference in public attitudes depending on an individual’s education, age or political ideology. Studies also have shown that different factors, including economic and cultural concerns, play an essential role in influencing public opinion towards immigration, and that this has been shown to shift over time.

To understand the reasons behind changing public opinion, researchers have explored whether they are driven by changing demographics, ideological shifts or simply individuals changing their minds. Some scholars have taken a further step to examine what public support is like towards specific categories of immigration, racial groups or regions, showing that, at the finer grain, public support might not be as positive as Canada’s general attitudes suggest.

This workshop aims to address the following questions:

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Dear Michael,

Today, Canadian Studies is taking part in Big Give, Berkeley’s annual day of giving. This fundraising extravaganza is a special opportunity to demonstrate your support for our work, and have your gift make a big impact!

This year, we’re celebrating 40 years of promoting public knowledge about Canada. Since our founding in 1982, we’ve become one of the largest programs of our kind in the United States, with a continuously expanding network of friends of Canada in California and beyond. We couldn’t have achieved that without the generosity of our friends: as a 90% donor-funded program, your support is crucial to our success.

We hope you’ll join us by making a donation towards our mission today. Read some of the ways we’re putting donations to use below, from travel and research grants to public events. Your gift makes a difference!

With gratitude

Irene Bloemraad

Director, Canadian Studies Program

Thomas Garden Barnes Chair in Canadian Studies

Read this before you give: you could help us win a big prize!

Throughout the day, the university will be running special timed contests with thousands of dollars in prizes for winning units. Your gift of any size could enter us to win if your name is randomly selected during the contest period – just see which group you fall into below and make your gift during the contest window. It’s that easy!

Canadian Studies supports students!

Whether through our graduate Hildebrand Fellowships or undergraduate awards, Canadian Studies is proud to support Berkeley students engaged in world-class research with our donor-funded grants. Read what our current fellows have to say about the program, and don’t miss our Graduate Research Showcase on March 15!

“The Canadian Studies Program has been a huge asset to my time at Cal. The faculty and staff at Canadian Studies have been incredibly supportive… My dissertation research examining the social and cultural implications of new agricultural frontier development in the Northwest Territories was funded by the Canadian Studies Center, and I absolutely couldn’t not have done my 2021-22 field season without their support.

– Mindy Price, 2020-22 Hildebrand Fellow

“The Canadian Studies Program is a wonderful resource for students of all disciplines. My research attending to renewable energy infrastructures developed by First Nations in British Columbia was made possible by the Hildebrand Fellowship, alongside the institutional support and intellectual networks forged amongst faculty and Fellows alike. It facilitates a shared sense of community throughout a diverse range of students and scholars, providing a vibrant place of academic and intellectual engagement.”

– Aaron Gregory, 2021 Hildebrand Fellow

… and we set alumni up for success!

Canadian Studies is committed to helping young scholars of Canada develop the career skills and connections they need to succeed professionally. Recent Hildebrand Fellows have gone on to academic appointments at schools including Yale, UC San Francisco, University of British Columbia, and University of Windsor.

Canadian Studies supports public education!

The core of our mission is in public education on the most important issues facing Canada today. Our free public colloquium series brings these issues to the front through engaging, intellectually rigorous lectures.

This semester, we’ve already hosted an event on developing respectful repatriation policies for Indigenous artefacts in museum. And coming up, we have events on rethinking artificial intelligence through an Indigenous lens and what a Canadian teacher’s fight to keep her job in California tells us about the boundaries of American identity.

Finally, this May, Canadian Studies will be hosting a major policy research conference featuring 15 scholars from across the United States and Canada. The conference will examine the effects of bureaucracy on immigration policy in a global context, with the goal of developing specific policy recommendations. We hope you’ll join us then!

Canadian Studies supports community!

Canadian Studies serves as a hub for the Canadian community at Berkeley and beyond! From events like election watch parties to our annual Canadian Family Thanksgiving, we make it easy for students, faculty, and friends to connect with other Canadians and friends of Canada from across the Bay Area. We hope to create a welcoming environment for all, whether international students, expats, or just enthusiasts!

I learned about Canadian Studies when I was a visiting prospective student! I was worried about leaving Montreal and losing my connection to the Québec history that I had really grown to treasure at McGill. Knowing that Canadian Studies was here made me feel confident that I could keep my connection to Canadian scholarship… It was actually a major draw in deciding to come to Berkeley!

– Julia Lewandoski, 2015-16 Hildebrand Fellow

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