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Last chance for Thanksgiving! Plus: Making middle-class multiculturalism

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An item from one of our fellow Canadian organizations in the Bay Area.
Canadian Studies Announcements
In this issue:
  • Canadian Thanksgiving is this Saturday – last chance for tickets!
  • Book talk next week: Making Middle Class Multiculturalism
  • In the news: Canada marks first-ever “National Day of Truth and Reconciliation”
  • External event: The 2021 Election’s Implications for Canadian Foreign Policy
  • Call for papers: ACSUS 2022 26th Biennial Conference
  • Call for papers: The Clean Water Act and Lake Champlain Basin
4th Annual Canadian Family Thanksgiving
October 9 | 5:00 pm | Alumni House, UC Berkeley | Purchase tickets here
Don’t miss your chance – join us this Saturday for our annual Canadian Thanksgiving dinner! Join us and our partners at the Digital Moose Lounge for a special meal celebrating the Bay Area’s Canadian community as we meet together for the first time since the pandemic. Mingle with your fellow SF Bay Canadians while enjoying entertainment and a delicious boxed turkey dinner. There will also be special prizes, including a raffle of Air Canada tickets! The dinner will take place outdoors and will observe all relevant public health measures.
Tickets are selling out fast, so buy yours today through the Digital Moose Lounge.
We’re also looking for volunteers to help staff the event. A limited number of half-priced tickets are available to volunteers; please contact us for more information.
UPCOMING EVENT
Book Talk: Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism: Immigration Bureaucrats and Policymaking in Postwar Canada
October 12 | 12:30 pm PT | Online | RSVP here
In the 1950s and 1960s, immigration bureaucrats played an important yet unacknowledged role in transforming Canada’s immigration policy. Their perceptions and judgements about the admissibility of individuals influenced the creation of formal admissions criteria for skilled workers and family immigrants that continue to shape immigration to Canada. Bureaucrats emphasized not just economic utility, but also middle-class traits and values such as wealth accumulation, educational attainment, entrepreneurial spirit, resourcefulness and a strong work ethic. By making “middle-class multiculturalism” a basis of nation-building in Canada, they created a much-admired approach to managing racial diversity that has nevertheless generated significant social inequalities. Migration expert Jennifer Elrick will discuss insights from her forthcoming book examining the topic.
Jennifer Elrick is an assistant professor of sociology at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. Her research interests lie in the area of state classifications (in censuses and immigration policy) and their relationship to social stratification along the lines of race, gender, and social class. Her work is multi-national in scope, focusing on Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
IN THE NEWS
Canada Marks First “National Day for Truth and Reconciliation”
September 30 was Canada’s first-ever National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Originating from the Indigenous-led grassroots campaign known as “Orange Shirt Day”, the new commemoration honors survivors of Canada’s residential school system as well as the children who perished in the schools.
Canada’s residential schools operated for over a century, and were intended to forcibly assimilate Indigenous people into European-Canadian society. Attendance was compulsory for Indigenous children from 1894 to 1947. Children were intentionally separated from their communities, with the goal of eliminating Indigenous cultural practices; meanwhile, within the schools, they endured neglect, deprivation, and abuse.
In 2013, Indigenous writer and residential school survivor Phyllis Webstad established “Orange Shirt Day” on September 30, to promote awareness of the system’s impact on Indigenous communities. Webstad had arrived at the school wearing a new orange shirt, which was taken from her on arrival: it now symbolizes “stripping away of culture, freedom and self-esteem experienced by Indigenous children over generations.”
After several high-profile gravesite discoveries at former residential schools brought renewed attention to the issue earlier this year, the Canadian Government officially recognized the commemoration as a national statutory holiday called “National Day for Truth and Reconciliation”. Public commemoration and acknowledgement of the devastating impact of the system on Indigenous families and communities is vital to the reconciliation process.
EXTERNAL EVENT
Conversations on Canada: Solo Canada? The 2021 Election’s Implications for Canadian Foreign Policy
October 6 | 11 am PT | Online | RSVP here
The 2021 Canadian election included debates over just a few international relationships and issues, mainly China, climate change, and the evacuation of Kabul. On these issues and more, the relationship with the United States is important: border restrictions, COVID, Buy American provisions, USMCA implementation, Enbridge Line 5, and the extradition of Meng Wanzhou. On a growing range of issues Canada is looking for a partnership with the United States, but Canadians increasingly wonder if they are talking to themselves and if Americans are listening.
Dr. Christopher Sands, director of the Wilson Center’s Canada Institute and a Canadian Studies Program board member, will address these challenges in a conversation moderated by Dr. Christopher Kirkey, director of the Center for the Study of Canada and Institute on Québec Studies, SUNY Plattsburgh.
Call for Papers: ACSUS 2022 26th Biennial Conference
Deadline: November 1, 2021
In celebration of the its 50th anniversary, the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS) will host its 26th biennial conference, March 24-27, 2022, in Washington, D.C. The conference is open to all proposals with a significant Canadian focus. ACSUS welcomes papers and panel proposals from graduate students, professors, independent scholars,
and practitioners on all diverse and critical perspectives related to the theme, ‘Canada: Near and Far’. How is Canada perceived and portrayed from outside its borders, and by the international community? How is Canada understood by its expatriates? What role do non-governmental agencies around the world play in shaping Canada’s relationships with the world? What is ACSUS’s role in these larger questions? Proposals that touch on these themes through diverse and critical perspectives are especially encouraged, though, as always, submissions on all subjects addressing Canada and Canadian-American relations are welcome.
For more information on proposal guidelines and for submission information, please visit the conference’s website.
Call for Papers: The Clean Water Act and Lake Champlain Basin: Origins, Implementation, Impacts
Deadline: December 31, 2021
The Institute on Quebec Studies and the Lake Champlain Research Institute at SUNY Plattsburgh, in partnership with Groupe d’études et de recherche sur l’international et le Québec (GERIQ), École nationale d’administration publique (ÉNAP), and Observatoire sur les États-Unis, Chaire Raoul-Dandurand, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM), are co-organizing a two-day authors’ workshop to investigate and review the 1972 U.S. Clean Water Act (CWA), and the implementation and impact of the Act on the Lake Champlain Basin. The goal is to produce a book volume with a leading university press.
This scholarly research colloquium and publication initiative – to be held in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the CWA – will bring together social scientists, applied scientists, and leading practitioners from the United States and Canada. They invite single-discipline, multidisciplinary, comparative, and applied case study proposals that offer original perspectives.
For more information, please read the call for papers here.
Canadian Studies Program
213 Moses Hall #2308
Canadian Studies Program | Univ. of California, Berkeley, 213 Moses Hall #2308, Berkeley, CA 94720

Canadian Thanksgiving tickets now on sale! 🦃

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An item from a fellow Canadian organization in the Bay Area.
Canadian Studies Announcements
In this issue:
  • Canadian Thanksgiving tickets now on sale – volunteers needed!
  • Upcoming book talk: Making Middle Class Multiculturalism
  • Opinion: Canada needs to reimagine foreign policy in a leaderless world
  • Call for papers: Atlantic Canada Studies conference
4th Annual Canadian Family Thanksgiving
October 9 | 5:00 pm | Alumni House, UC Berkeley | Purchase tickets here
Canadian Studies is pleased to announce that our annual Canadian Family Thanksgiving will be happening as scheduled this October! Join us and our partners at the Digital Moose Lounge for a special meal celebrating the Bay Area’s Canadian community as we meet together for the first time since the pandemic. Mingle with your fellow SF Bay Canadians while enjoying entertainment and a delicious boxed turkey dinner. The dinner will take place outdoors and will observe all relevant public health measures.
Tickets may be purchased through the Digital Moose Lounge.
We’re also looking for volunteers to help staff the event. A limited number of half-priced tickets are available to volunteers; please contact us for more information.
UPCOMING EVENT
Book Talk: Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism: Immigration Bureaucrats and Policymaking in Postwar Canada
October 12 | 12:30 pm PT | Online | RSVP here
In the 1950s and 1960s, immigration bureaucrats played an important yet unacknowledged role in transforming Canada’s immigration policy. Their perceptions and judgements about the admissibility of individuals influenced the creation of formal admissions criteria for skilled workers and family immigrants that continue to shape immigration to Canada. Bureaucrats emphasized not just economic utility, but also middle-class traits and values such as wealth accumulation, educational attainment, entrepreneurial spirit, resourcefulness and a strong work ethic. By making “middle-class multiculturalism” a basis of nation-building in Canada, they created a much-admired approach to managing racial diversity that has nevertheless generated significant social inequalities. Migration expert Jennifer Elrick will discuss insights from her forthcoming book examining the topic.
Jennifer Elrick is an assistant professor of sociology at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. Her research interests lie in the area of state classifications (in censuses and immigration policy) and their relationship to social stratification along the lines of race, gender, and social class. Her work is multi-national in scope, focusing on Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
Opinion: Canada needs to reimagine a foreign policy for a leaderless world
With the recent federal election confirming a continuation of PM Trudeau’s Liberal government, Canadians are looking for signs of new policies and government priorities. A recent opinion published in The Globe & Mail, co-written by five Canadian political thinkers, argues that Canada needs to radically re-imagine an independent foreign policy. With authors including Jeremy Kinsman, a former diplomat who has spoken at Canadian Studies events multiple times, and former minister of foreign affairs Lloyd Axworthy, the piece argues that Canada’s leaders must give renewed attention to international affairs. Canada can no longer merely follow a United States that is increasingly disinterested in global leadership, as illustrated by the recent Afghanistan debacle. Canadians, they contend, are eager for greater global engagement, and the US’ withdrawal is an opportunity for Canadian initiative on rights issues worldwide.
Call for Papers: Atlantic Canada Studies Conference
Deadline: November 15, 2021
UNB’s Atlantic Canada Studies Centre cordially invites submissions of paper and panel proposals for the 2022 Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, taking place in Fredericton, NB from May 11-14, 2021. They welcome paper and panel proposals which consider a variety of topics related to the study of Atlantic Canada, and which offer new approaches to questions of peoples, places, and ideas in the writing of this region. Applicants should prepare 15-minute presentations and limit panels to 3 papers. Papers can be presented in English, French, or any Wabanaki language.
For more information on proposal guidelines and for submission information, please visit the conference’s website.
Canadian Studies Program
213 Moses Hall #2308
Canadian Studies Program | Univ. of California, Berkeley, 213 Moses Hall #2308, Berkeley, CA 94720

It’s Election Day! 🇨🇦 Upcoming election panels; plus, new documentary features affiliate

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An item from one of our fellow Canadian organizations in the Bay Area.
Canadian Studies Announcements
In this issue:
  • It’s Election Day! Here’s what we’re following
  • Affiliate Brian Barsky interviewed in airplane disaster documentary, airing tonight
  • Save the date: Canadian Thanksgiving, Oct. 9
  • Upcoming book talk: Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism
  • External event: “What Happened in Canada’s 44th General Election”
  • External event: “Canada Votes 2021: Discussing the Canadian Election”
It’s Election Day! Here’s What We’re Following
Today, Canadians head to the polls to exercise their right to vote in an early election called by Prime Minister Trudeau. The elections are seen as a referendum on Mr. Trudeau, who hoped to transform his government’s success in handling the pandemic into a Liberal majority but is now facing stiff competition. Polls show a tight race, with the Liberal and Conservative parties running neck-and-neck in the popular vote at around 31% each.
While we won’t be holding a watch party this year, we’ll certainly be following the results closely. Poll analysis website 538 provides an overview of the current polling situation, the role of minor parties in the next government, and the likelihood of Trudeau remaining prime minister. Here’s what to watch as the results roll in over the next few hours. And for live post-election analysis, check out the panels in our External Events!
IN THE NEWS
Affiliate Brian Barsky Interviewed in New Airplane Disaster Documentary, Airing Tonight
Canadian Studies faculty affiliate Brian Barsky will be appearing in a new episode of the documentary series Ten Steps to Disaster, premiering tonight. Produced by Channel 5 (Britain) and the Smithsonian, the series explores lessons from the worst aviation disasters in recent history. Tonight’s episode explores the history of the Boeing 373 Max, which was grounded in 2019 after two major crashes killed 361 people within five months.
Professor Barsky, who is a professor of computer science with a specialty in computer-aided design and modeling, appears on the show as an expert witness to discuss the troubled development of the airplane and the flaws in its automated stabilization software that were responsible for the crash. Professor Barsky penned a Globe and Mail opinion last year, arguing against the decision of Canadian authorities to allow the 737 Max to resume flights without significant modifications. Investigations revealed that Boeing knew about and covered up these defects, leading to a $2.5 billion settlement against the company; American federal prosecutors yesterday announced criminal charges against the plane’s chief technical pilot for misleading the FAA.
The episode premieres tonight on the Smithsonian Channel at 6 pm PT, with a repeat at 10 pm.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Save the Date: 4th Annual Canadian Thanksgiving
October 9 | 4:30 pm | Alumni House, UC Berkeley
Canadian Studies is pleased to announce that our annual Canadian Family Thanksgiving will be happening as scheduled this October! Join us and our partners at the Digital Moose Lounge for a special meal celebrating the Bay Area’s Canadian community as we meet together for the first time since the pandemic. Mingle with your fellow SF Bay Canadians while enjoying entertainment and a delicious boxed turkey dinner. The dinner will take place outdoors and will observe all relevant public health measures.
Tickets will be required to attend the event: purchasing information to come soon.
Book Talk: Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism: Immigration Bureaucrats and Policymaking in Postwar Canada
October 12 | 12:30 pm PT | Online | RSVP here
In the 1950s and 1960s, immigration bureaucrats played an important yet unacknowledged role in transforming Canada’s immigration policy. Their perceptions and judgements about the admissibility of individuals influenced the creation of formal admissions criteria for skilled workers and family immigrants that continue to shape immigration to Canada. Bureaucrats emphasized not just economic utility, but also middle-class traits and values such as wealth accumulation, educational attainment, entrepreneurial spirit, resourcefulness and a strong work ethic. By making “middle-class multiculturalism” a basis of nation-building in Canada, they created a much-admired approach to managing racial diversity that has nevertheless generated significant social inequalities. Migration expert Jennifer Elrick will discuss insights from her forthcoming book examining the topic.
Jennifer Elrick is an assistant professor of sociology at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. Her research interests lie in the area of state classifications (in censuses and immigration policy) and their relationship to social stratification along the lines of race, gender, and social class. Her work is multi-national in scope, focusing on Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
EXTERNAL EVENTS
What Happened in Canada’s 44th General Election
September 22 | 12:00 pm PT | Online | RSVP here
The Canadian federal election on September 20 followed a 36-day campaign marred by heckling, protestors, and attack ads. Six political parties competed for 338 seats in the House of Commons after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the snap election. The Wilson Center’s Canada Institute gathers political experts from coast to coast to assess the outcome and outlook for the new government, trends revealed during the campaign, and implications for Canada’s relations with the United States and the world.
Institute director and Canadian Studies board member Chris Sands will moderate a panel featuring Frédérick Gagnon, a professor of political science at the Université du Québec à Montréal and a past Fulbright Chair and Sproul Fellow in the Canadian Studies Program, alongside other distinguished academics and politicians.
Canada Votes 2021: Discussing the Canadian Election
September 23 | 1:00 pm PT | Online | RSVP here
The Yale MacMillan Center-Committee on Canadian Studies invites you to virtually attend their expert panel and roundtable. Voters across Canada will head to the polls to participate in the 44th Canadian Federal Election. From pandemic mitigation strategies and climate change policies to the rights of marginalized Canadians and the structure of Canadian federalism, the topics of debate have grown numerous. The dimensions of electoral competition have similarly proliferated. Six political parties (none of which are currently polling above one-third of overall electorate) now fiercely compete to elect MPs. A minority Parliament – in which the left-wing NDP and/or the nationalist Bloc Québécois will hold the balance of power between the Liberals and Conservatives – remains the most likely (though far from certain) outcome.
This panel will unpack the election results, contextualize their place in Canadian political history, analyze key issues arising during the election, and discuss the possible ramifications of the election in Canada and beyond its borders. We hope you will join us, ask questions, and discuss this fascinating and fast-moving election!
The panel will feature former Canadian Studies Hildebrand Fellow Dr. Brendan Shanahan (Yale University) alongside other commentators from Yale and the University of Alberta.
Canadian Studies Program
213 Moses Hall #2308
Canadian Studies Program | Univ. of California, Berkeley, 213 Moses Hall #2308, Berkeley, CA 94720

First fall event tomorrow! How the pandemic is shaping elections in the US & Canada

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A reminder of this item from one of our fellow Canadian organizations in the Bay Area that is happening tomorrow.
Canadian Studies Announcements
In this issue:
  • Tomorrow: The Politics of Coronavirus in Canada and the United States
  • Upcoming book talk: Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism
  • External event: “Inuit: The Arctic We Want”
  • External exhibit: Collective Memories: Stonecuts from Cape Dorset
TOMORROW
Elections Matter: The Politics of Coronavirus in Canada and the United States
September 14 | 12:30 pm | Online | RSVP here
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have wide-ranging consequences on North American politics. The effect of the pandemicon Joe Biden’s 2020 win remains debated; meanwhile, Justin Trudeau hopes to use the belated success of his vaccine procurement strategy to win his party a parliamentary majority in the September 20 federal elections. How has COVID-19 shaped electoral politics in Canada and the United States as it relates to crucial recent and ongoing policy choices? Political scientist Daniel Béland will address this question while discussing the potential political and policy consequences of the upcoming Canadian elections.
Daniel Béland is James McGill Professor of Political Science at McGill University and director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. His research focuses on public policy, political sociology, and federalism and territorial politics.
UPCOMING EVENT
Book Talk: Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism: Immigration Bureaucrats and Policymaking in Postwar Canada
October 12 | 12:30 pm | Online | RSVP here
In the 1950s and 1960s, immigration bureaucrats played an important yet unacknowledged role in transforming Canada’s immigration policy. Their perceptions and judgements about the admissibility of individuals influenced the creation of formal admissions criteria for skilled workers and family immigrants that continue to shape immigration to Canada. Bureaucrats emphasized not just economic utility, but also middle-class traits and values such as wealth accumulation, educational attainment, entrepreneurial spirit, resourcefulness and a strong work ethic. By making “middle-class multiculturalism” a basis of nation-building in Canada, they created a much-admired approach to managing racial diversity that has nevertheless generated significant social inequalities. Migration expert Jennifer Elrick will discuss insights from her forthcoming book examining the topic.
Jennifer Elrick is an assistant professor of sociology at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. Her research interests lie in the area of state classifications (in censuses and immigration policy) and their relationship to social stratification along the lines of race, gender, and social class. Her work is multi-national in scope, focusing on Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
EXTERNAL EVENTS
Inuit: The Arctic We Want
September 14 | 1 pm ET (11 am PT) | RSVP here
On July 16-19, 2018, delegates from Alaska, Greenland, Canada and Chukotka (Russia) came together for the 13th General Assembly of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC). Under the theme “Inuit – The Arctic We Want,” delegates discussed policies and developed strategies for the 2018-2022 Alaskan Chairmanship of ICC. The event culminated in the adoption of the Utqiagvik Declaration, which serves as a guide for the ICC’s work over the 2018-2022 term and as a reflection of Inuit priorities across Alaska, Greenland, Canada and the Russian Federation. Please join the Wilson Center’s Polar Institute as we welcome ICC leaders to share their perspectives on the Utqiagvik Declaration’s priorities, reflections on their implementation since 2018, and goals for the final year of the Alaskan Chairmanship.
Exhibit: Collective Memories: Stonecuts from Cape Dorset
September 15 – December 12
St Mary’s College Museum of Art | Learn more
In the 1960s, graphic arts flourished in the newly formed Cape Dorset (Kinngnait) arts co-operative on Baffin Island in Nunavut. The co-operative sought to encourage art making and craft as an income source for local Inuit residents transitioning from seminomadic camps to permanent settlements. The residents experimented with materials and techniques at the co-operative, inventing their own adaptation of woodcut printmaking through direct stencil and relief carving on stone.
The selected works in Collective Memories speak to the collaborative nature, both in technique and meaning, of cultural practices at the co-operative. They reflect the traditional migratory lifestyle, a way of life undergoing rapid change as outside cultural influences impacted day-to-day lives. Depictions of mammals, birds, and marine life bring forth legends, shamanistic practices, and mythologies that had been memorized and told from one generation to the next.
An exhibit opening celebration will be held on September 16 from 4-8 p.m.
Canadian Studies Program
213 Moses Hall #2308
Canadian Studies Program | Univ. of California, Berkeley, 213 Moses Hall #2308, Berkeley, CA 94720

Happy Labo(u)r Day & Rosh Hashanah; More upcoming events

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A newsletter from one of our fellow Canadian organizations in the Bay Area.
Canadian Studies Announcements
In this issue:
  • Happy Labo(u)r Day and Shanah Tovah!
  • Next week: The Politics of Coronavirus in Canada and the United States
  • Upcoming book talk: Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism
  • Applications open: Mid-career international affairs fellowship in Canada
  • External event: “Inuit: The Arctic We Want”
  • External exhibit: Collective Memories: Stonecuts from Cape Dorset
Happy Labo(u)r Day!
Today, Americans and Canadians celebrate the contributions of the labour movement to our societies. Originating in the worker’s rallies the late 19th century, cross-border activism achieved national recognition for the holiday in both the US and Canada in 1894.
Once celebrated with massive union rallies, parades, and picnics across North American’s major cities, the decline of labour in the US and Canada since the 1950s has eroded the holiday’s original working-class identity. Former Canadian Studies Hildebrand Fellow Barry Eidlin tackles some of the reasons for this decline in his recent book comparing the US and Canadian union movements. Nevertheless, millions of Americans and Canadians continue to enjoy a long weekend of rest and recreation, a lasting tribute to organized labour’s past successes.
Image: Labour Day Parade in Toronto, 2011. (CAW Media/Wikimedia Commons)
… and Shanah Tovah!
This evening also marks the beginning of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Starting at sunset and lasting through Wednesday, Rosh Hashanah marks the beginning of the High Holy Days and is a time to reflect on the past year and one’s hopes for the future. As home to the second- and fourth-largest Jewish communities in the world, both the United States and Canada have been profoundly shaped by the contributions of their Jewish citizens. To all those celebrating, shanah tovah from Canadian Studies!
NEXT WEEK
Elections Matter: The Politics of Coronavirus in Canada and the United States
September 14 | 12:30 pm | Online | RSVP here
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have wide-ranging consequences on North American politics. The effect of the pandemicon Joe Biden’s 2020 win remains debated; meanwhile, Justin Trudeau hopes to use the belated success of his vaccine procurement strategy to win his party a parliamentary majority in the September 20 federal elections. How has COVID-19 shaped electoral politics in Canada and the United States as it relates to crucial recent and ongoing policy choices? Political scientist Daniel Béland will address this question while discussing the potential political and policy consequences of the upcoming Canadian elections.
Daniel Béland is James McGill Professor of Political Science at McGill University and director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. His research focuses on public policy, political sociology, and federalism and territorial politics.
UPCOMING EVENT
Book Talk: Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism: Immigration Bureaucrats and Policymaking in Postwar Canada
October 12 | 12:30 pm | Online | RSVP here
In the 1950s and 1960s, immigration bureaucrats played an important yet unacknowledged role in transforming Canada’s immigration policy. Their perceptions and judgements about the admissibility of individuals influenced the creation of formal admissions criteria for skilled workers and family immigrants that continue to shape immigration to Canada. Bureaucrats emphasized not just economic utility, but also middle-class traits and values such as wealth accumulation, educational attainment, entrepreneurial spirit, resourcefulness and a strong work ethic. By making “middle-class multiculturalism” a basis of nation-building in Canada, they created a much-admired approach to managing racial diversity that has nevertheless generated significant social inequalities. Migration expert Jennifer Elrick will discuss insights from her forthcoming book examining the topic.
Jennifer Elrick is an assistant professor of sociology at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. Her research interests lie in the area of state classifications (in censuses and immigration policy) and their relationship to social stratification along the lines of race, gender, and social class. Her work is multi-national in scope, focusing on Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
Applications open: International Affairs Fellowship in Canada
Deadline: October 31 | Apply here
Launched in 2016, the International Affairs Fellowship (IAF) in Canada, sponsored by Power Corporation of Canada, seeks to strengthen mutual understanding and cooperation between rising generations of leaders and thinkers in the United States and Canada. The program provides for one to two mid-career professionals per year to spend six to twelve months hosted by a Canadian institution to deepen their knowledge of Canada. Fellows are drawn from academia, business, government, media, NGOs, and think tanks.
Applicants must be U.S. citizens, possess at least a bachelor’s degree, and demonstrate a strong record of professional achievement and a commitment to a career in foreign policy. The program awards a stipend of $95,000 for a period of twelve months (or a prorated amount if the duration is shorter) as well as a modest travel allowance. Please visit the link above to view full program details and submit an application.
EXTERNAL EVENTS
Inuit: The Arctic We Want
September 14 | 1 pm ET (11 am PT) | RSVP here
On July 16-19, 2018, delegates from Alaska, Greenland, Canada and Chukotka (Russia) came together for the 13th General Assembly of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC). Under the theme “Inuit – The Arctic We Want,” delegates discussed policies and developed strategies for the 2018-2022 Alaskan Chairmanship of ICC. The event culminated in the adoption of the Utqiagvik Declaration, which serves as a guide for the ICC’s work over the 2018-2022 term and as a reflection of Inuit priorities across Alaska, Greenland, Canada and the Russian Federation. Please join the Wilson Center’s Polar Institute as we welcome ICC leaders to share their perspectives on the Utqiagvik Declaration’s priorities, reflections on their implementation since 2018, and goals for the final year of the Alaskan Chairmanship.
Exhibit: Collective Memories: Stonecuts from Cape Dorset
September 15 – December 12
St Mary’s College Museum of Art | Learn more
In the 1960s, graphic arts flourished in the newly formed Cape Dorset (Kinngnait) arts co-operative on Baffin Island in Nunavut. The co-operative sought to encourage art making and craft as an income source for local Inuit residents transitioning from seminomadic camps to permanent settlements. The residents experimented with materials and techniques at the co-operative, inventing their own adaptation of woodcut printmaking through direct stencil and relief carving on stone.
The selected works in Collective Memories speak to the collaborative nature, both in technique and meaning, of cultural practices at the co-operative. They reflect the traditional migratory lifestyle, a way of life undergoing rapid change as outside cultural influences impacted day-to-day lives. Depictions of mammals, birds, and marine life bring forth legends, shamanistic practices, and mythologies that had been memorized and told from one generation to the next.
An exhibit opening celebration will be held on September 16 from 4-8 p.m.
Canadian Studies Program
213 Moses Hall #2308
Canadian Studies Program | Univ. of California, Berkeley, 213 Moses Hall #2308, Berkeley, CA 94720