{"id":17063,"date":"2017-09-24T10:47:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T14:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=17063"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:52:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:52:07","slug":"first-shannon-lecture-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2017\/first-shannon-lecture-success\/","title":{"rendered":"First Shannon Lecture a Success!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        First Shannon Lecture a Success!\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-medium wp-image-17064\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/IMG_1524-240x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17064\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/IMG_1524-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/IMG_1524-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/IMG_1524-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/IMG_1524-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/IMG_1524-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/IMG_1524-360x270.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gary Miedema and Paul Litt<br>First Shannon Lecture on expo67<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It takes a hot topic for people to forgo the beautiful weather we\u2019ve been having, but the first Shannon lecture of this fall\u2019s series on Expo 67 drew an enthusiastic crowd to the library\u2019s Discovery Centre on September 22<sup>nd<\/sup>. Dr. Gary Miedema, author of<i>For Canada\u2019s Sake: Public Religion, Centennial Celebrations, and the Re-making of Canada in the 1960s&nbsp;<\/i>provided a critical overview of the political and cultural forces that shaped Expo 67 and made it such a stunning success.&nbsp;<span class=\"contextualExtensionHighlight ms-font-color-themePrimary ms-border-color-themePrimary ident_527_788\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">His talk set the stage for subsequent series lectures on Expo 67 and Quebec (Friday, October 13), Indigenous art at the Indians of Canada Pavilion (Friday, November 3), and the fair\u2019s avant-garde architecture (Friday, November 17) and film (Friday, December 1).<\/span>&nbsp;Here series organizer Paul Litt presents Dr. Miedema (left) with a laminated plaque featuring the poster announcing his lecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It takes a hot topic for people to forgo the beautiful weather we\u2019ve been having, but the first Shannon lecture of this fall\u2019s series on Expo 67 drew an enthusiastic crowd to the library\u2019s Discovery Centre on September 22nd. Dr. Gary Miedema, author ofFor Canada\u2019s Sake: Public Religion, Centennial Celebrations, and the Re-making of Canada [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[88,183,148,39],"class_list":["post-17063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-carleton-events","tag-events","tag-news","tag-shannon"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17065,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17063\/revisions\/17065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}