Lakehead University’s In Conversation talks returning to the Thunder Bay Public Library
September 27, 2018 – Thunder Bay, ON
Lakehead University’s In Conversation talks are returning to the Thunder Bay Public Library with three exciting presentations planned for this semester.
Making Love: Changing the World
On Saturday, Sept. 29 at 2 pm at the Mary J.L. Black Library Community Program Room, join Dr. Pauline Sameshima, Lakehead’s Canada Research Chair in Arts Integrated Studies, for this exciting talk. Using research projects as examples, this talk looks at how creative making develops understanding and a better world. When we imagine, make, and gift, we construct a future and a past of love.
Going from Chicago to Duluth of the North: Thunder Bay’s Economy in the Past, Present, and Future
On Saturday, Oct. 20 at 2 pm in the Brodie Resource Library Fireside Reading Room, join Dr. Livio Di Matteo of Lakehead University’s Economics Department for an exciting journey that explores the foundations of Thunder Bay’s economy, its current performance and anticipated challenges for the future.
Legal History and the Search for Entrenched Protections for Canada’s Rule of Law
On Saturday, Nov. 24 at 2 pm in the Brodie Resource Library Fireside Reading Room, join Dr. Ryan Alford, from Lakehead University’s Bora Laskin Faculty of Law, for this exciting talk.
It was recently revealed that Canada participated in the targeted killing of Canadian citizens in Syria during the military mission that ended in 2015. Leading legal scholars have argued that the only applicable source of rights is the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Dr. Alford will argue that the Preamble of the British North America Act embedded seven absolute rights into the Constitution of Canada at Confederation.
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