Saskatoon
Dear friends,
Welcome back to the website. Special thanks to Kathryn, Naomi, Taylor, Anouk and Laura for their careful work with wrangling the electrons to keep the site going strong.
We’ve been busy. Watch for upcoming events in the column to the right, and scroll waaaayyyyy down to the “View All” at the bottom of this page for more articles from our members, as well as our newsletters, current and past.
Please enjoy. If you’d like to add your insights to the site, please let us know at Saskatoon@opencanada.org.
Our membership has been clamouring for topics on the Arab Spring, and in response the entire campus has sought out speakers on this topic.
• On Wednesday, March 7, at 4:30 pm, CIC hosted a highly successful event with Dr. Yoram Peri, intellectual, editor, and former senior advisor to the late Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, speaking on “ Israel, Iran and the Arab Spring – A Coming Storm?” in Neatby-Timlin Theatre (Room 241 Arts);
• On Thursday, March 15, at 7:00 pm, Dr. Larbi Sadiki (University of Exeter) speaks on “The Peoplehood Cascade: An Arab Spring Republic in 2011” as the Timlin Lecture (a series co-hosted by Political Studies and Economics), also in Neatby-Timlin Theatre;
• On Tuesday, March 20, at 7:00 pm, The Department of Languages and Linguistics hosts Dr. Mongli Bahloul, who will speak on “The Islamic Tsunami: Tunisia and Libya in the Arab Night”, in Room 105 of the Thorvaldson Building;
• On Tuesday, April 3, at 4:30 pm, the Department of Political Studies will host another speaker on the Arab Spring, details to follow.
Please consider any and all of the upcoming events. The best way for any of us to keep from falling into the easy traps of easy judgements is to see and listen to these points of view for ourselves, and to question and comment where we can. That has been CIC’s purpose for the past 80 years and counting.
In the meantime, keep warm, well read and independent of thought.
Let’s talk: Saskatoon@opencanada.org
Yours in service,
Daniel Sutherland
Chair – Saskatoon Branch
About
There is a magic in the prairies which encourages in its people a concern for the world and a heightened sense of political activism. CIC has provided a home to such people in Saskatoon since the inception of the branch in 1932.
Constantly transforming through the years, the branch draws its membership from many careers, generations and political stripes, providing common ground for a surprising number of communities within the region. Students, business people, community activists, researchers, politicians – all these and more gather here because of their common interest in the world, and Canada’s place within it.
The branch’s membership rosters through the years have included university presidents, provincial cabinet ministers and CBC’s own Shelagh Rogers.
Every branch across Canada is a success because of the impressive speakers they draw in for their events. CIC Saskatoon thanks its many partners, both inside and beyond the university, for its continued successes, including Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, The Hanlon Centre for International Business Studies, The Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, and the International Office, University of Saskatchewan.
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Commentary: The top 80 influencing Canada’s foreign policy
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News – March 2012
Hi! Welcome to our most recent newsletter, Volume 3, number 4, edited brilliantly by Val Schneider. Come on in, take a download, have a read. Sample the flavour of our branch, and find out some things ...More
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