Presentation: "The Right Road is Straight Ahead: Canadian Understandings of the Suez Crisis, 1956-1957"

Event Date: 
Wednesday, January 18, 2017 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm EST
Event Location: 
O'Kelly VC Armoury (317 Park Avenue)
Event Fee: 
Free. Everyone is welcome.
Event Contact Name: 
Dr. Michel S. Beaulieu
Event Contact Phone: 
(807) 343-8341
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The Thunder Bay Branch of the Canadian International Council and Lakehead University’s Department of History and are pleased to host Dr. Colin McCullough who will speak on "The Right Road is Straight Ahead: Canadian Understandings of the Suez Crisis, 1956-1957."

CoverThis event is also the Thunder Bay launch of his latest book Creating Canada's Peacekeeping Past (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2016). Copies will be available for purchase at the presentation.

Speakers Bio: Colin McCullough is the author of Creating Canada's Peacekeeping Past (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2016) and the co-editor of Canada and the United Nations: Legacies, Limits, and Prospects (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017). His work explores the intersections between Canadian national identity and United Nations peacekeeping from the 1950s to the present. He is currently an adjunct professor at Ryerson and McMaster Universities.