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  • Margery Fee, fellow to the Royal Society of Canada

    Margery Fee, McLean Chair in Canadian Studies 2015-2017, has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada. Margery Fee has a stellar national and international reputation for her research in Canadian Literature and Canadian English Lexicography. Among her most influential publications are Literary Land Claims: the “Indian Land Question” from Pontiac’s War to Attawapiskat (2015) […] Read More

  • Geography student is awarded the 2017 Prize for the Best MA Thesis by the Canadian Studies Network

    James Rhatigan, from Geography, has been awarded the 2017 Prize for the Best MA Thesis by the Canadian Studies Network.  « Afterlife of a Mine: The Tangled Legacies of the Britannia Mine.  » examines the complicated environmental and social legacy of the Britannia copper mine and examines efforts to remediate the space polluted by the […] Read More

  • Welcome to the Canadian Studies Program!

    We are a vibrant multidisciplinary community of students and scholars from the humanities to the social sciences who critically engage Canada’s past and present and seek to understand Canada’s place in the world. Read More

The McLean Series in Canadian Studies

The McLean Lecture Series 2019

“Cold, Dark, and Dangerous: The Arctic and Outer Space”

By Michael Byers, The Brenda and David McLean Chair in Canadian Studies

Watch Prof. Michael Byers’ inaugural McLean lecture: “Our 3D Arctic”

Watch Prof. Byers’ second lecture: “Space Force? Security and Cooperation in the Arctic and Space”

Watch Prof. Byers’ final McLean Lecture: “Look up! Canada as an Arctic and Space Nation”

Previous McLean lectures available HERE

More about the McLean Series in Canadian Studies HERE

The Seed

The Seed is UBC’s undergraduate journal of Canadian Studies.
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Minelle Mahtani as the Brenda and David McLean Chair in Canadian Studies

June 10, 2021 Minelle Mahtani appointed as Brenda and David McLean Chair in Canadian Studies We are pleased to announce that Professor Minelle Mahtani has been appointed as the 2021-2023 Brenda and David McLean Chair in Canadian Studies in the Faculty of Arts. Dr. Mahtani is an Associate Professor in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice […]
June 10, 2021: Call for Paper from the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS)

The ACSUS Executive Council is happy to announce that it has renegotiated with the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Washington, D.C. and that the new dates for the 26th biennial conference of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States will be held March 24-27, 2022. The ACSUS Executive Council is optimistic that international travel will be able to safely resume by that time and that the Association will be able to meet in what promises to be a great venue.
Submissions open for Dalton Camp Award 2021 $10,000 prize for the best essay on media and democracy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Submissions open for Dalton Camp Award 2021 $10,000 prize for the best essay on media and democracy TORONTO, SEPTEMBER 8, 2020: Submissions are now open for the 2021 Dalton Camp Award. The annual prize, presented by FRIENDS of Canadian Broadcasting, awards $10,000 for the best essay on the subject […]
Call for Papers: 26th biennial conference of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS)

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS), the Association will host its 26th biennial conference, October 21-24, 2021, in Washington, DC. The conference is open to all proposals with a significant Canadian focus. We welcome papers and panel proposals from graduate students, professors, independent scholars, and practitioners […]
CWAHI 2020 Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS Modernisms, Inside & Out The 4th conference of the Canadian Women Artists History Initiative http://cwahi.concordia.ca Toronto, 20 – 22 August 2020  NEW DATES A collaboration between Concordia University, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection & Ryerson University’s Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre. In 2020 the McMichael Canadian Art […]
NEW SEMINAR

This year, Professor Laura Moss, the Brenda and David McLean Chair in Canadian Studies, offers CDST 450B: “Poetics of Warning: Canadian Environmental Art, Film, and Literature”. This seminar is offered in Term 2 (January-April 2020). The class will meet on Wednesday morning from 9am to 12pm.
Thanks to Professor Michael Byers

Thanks to Professor Michael Byers (Political Science) who completed his term as the Brenda and David McLean Chair in Canadian Studies at the University of British Columbia, a position he fulfilled over the last two years (2017-2019). His contribution to the UBC Canadian Studies program has been superb. We wish him the best in his […]
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