Politics

Pierre Charpentier, Alfred Pick, Allan Roger, Rev. C. William Smith, Pierre Tanguay (1974-1975)

Nov 27, 1974

“Institutional Cooperation Between Canada and Latin America: Government and Church” This panel was part of a series on “Canada’s Involvement in Latin America,” which began with Michael Lubbock’s lecture. The five speakers each addressed a different aspect of Canada-Latin [...]

Jean Chrétien (1970-1971)

Mar 17, 1971

“The Unfinished Tapestry: Indian Policy in Canada” At the time of his Dunning Trust lecture, Jean Chretien was the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. He was born in Quebec in 1934 and graduated from Laval University. In 1963, he was elected to the House of [...]

Isaac Beaulieu, Donna Tyndall, Herbert Strong Eagle, Arthur Manuel, Walter Currie (1970-1971)

Mar 10, 1971

“Canada’s Indians: Their Place in the Just Society” This panel presentation brought five Indigenous leaders to Queen’s to discuss Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s concept of the “Just Society” and how it related to Indigenous lives. Each emphasized that any place for [...]

Milton Rokeach (1969-1970)

Oct 22, 1969

“Freedom, Responsibility and Political Ideology” Milton Rokeach was a professor of social psychology at Michigan State University. He was known for his study of the relationship between individual psychology and the formation of social and political attitudes and beliefs. [...]

C. Eric Lincoln (1968-1969)

Jan 24, 1969

“The New Blacks in Search of a Self” C. Eric Lincoln was a professor of sociology and religion at the Union Theological Seminary in NYC. He authored the influential Black Muslims in America and was one of the first scholars to study African-American Islam. He taught at a [...]

John Eccles (1968-1969)

Oct 16, 1968

“The Necessity of Freedom for the Flowering of Science” Sir John Eccles was an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher, and professor at a number of universities in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, including the University of Buffalo. Eccles was the 1963 [...]

J. A. Leith (1968-1969)

Oct 02, 1968

“The French Revolution of 1968” J. A. Leith was professor and chairman of the Queen’s History Department. He was the author of Space and Revolution: Projects for Monuments, Squares and Public Buildings in France, 1789-1799 and editor of Symbols in Life and Art. In his [...]

Vincent Harding (1967-1968)

Mar 07, 1968

“Black Radicalism in America -From Montgomery to Detroit” Vincent Harding was a theologian, historian of Black America, and the Chairman of the Department of History at Spellman College in Atlanta, Georgia. Over the course of his career, he taught at University of Pennsylvania, T

Leon Dion (1967-1968)

Feb 14, 1968

“Political Participation in Liberal Democracies” Leon Dion was Professor of Political Science at Laval University from 1948-1989. He was best known for studying educational reform and French-English relations. His book Le bill 60 et la société québécoise (1967) studied the [...]

Prince Hubertus Zu Loewenstein (1967-1968)

Jan 30, 1968

“How Stable is German Democracy” Prince Hubertus Zu Loewenstein was a German historian and journalist, and an early opponent of Hitler. He fled Germany and moved to the United States to promote anti-Nazism in advance of the Second World War. While still in Germany, he was a [...]

Hon. Norman St. John-Stevas (1966-1967)

Oct 15, 1967

“Art, Morality and Censorship” Norman St. John-Stevas was a Conservative politician, member of the British House of Commons, and a well-known writer and editor. After studying at a Roman Catholic seminary for six months, he studied law at Cambridge and Oxford Universities, and ea

A.E. Safarian (1966-1967)

Mar 01, 1967

“Approaches to Foreign Ownership” Dr. A.E. Safarian was professor of economics at the University of Toronto. After graduating with a degree in political economy from the University of Toronto, he worked on compiling and analyzing data on Canada’s international transactions [...]