{"id":80816,"date":"2022-02-11T11:08:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T16:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=80816"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:21","slug":"carleton-experts-available-national-flag-of-canada-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2022\/carleton-experts-available-national-flag-of-canada-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Experts Available:\u00a0National Flag of Canada Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Carleton Experts Available:\u00a0National Flag of Canada Day\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Feb. 15 is National Flag of Canada Day and Carleton experts are available to talk about a range of topics related to the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richard Nimijean
\n<\/strong>Instructor, School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies at Carleton University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email:<\/strong> richard.nimijean@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nimijean is available to discuss Canada\u2019s flag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has researched, written, and taught in the areas of Canadian Studies, Canadian politics and public policy, regional innovation systems, science and technology policy, and scholarly communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He co-authored the article: Marketing the Maple Leaf: The Curious Case of National Flag of Canada Day<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nimijean\u2019s research interests focus on national identity and the branding of Canada, the relationship between Canada\u2019s role as a global actor and the Canadian identity, and the politics of the brand state. His current research and writing projects include cross-border perspectives on Canada\u2013U.S. relations and global issues from a Canadian perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More information can be found at http:\/\/www.richardnimijean.ca\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paolo Gentile<\/strong>
\nPhD Candidate, Political Science at Carleton University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email<\/strong>: paologentile@cmail.carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gentile is available to discuss the symbolic and unifying role that the Canadian flag has on Canadians, including its representation of democracy and human rights, and as a symbol of what Canadians aspire to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gentile\u2019s work is focused on the decline of democratic sentiment in the United States and Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Feb. 15 is National Flag of Canada Day and Carleton experts are available to talk about a range of topics related to the day. Richard Nimijean Instructor, School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies at Carleton University Email: richard.nimijean@carleton.ca Nimijean is available to discuss Canada\u2019s flag. He has researched, written, and taught in the areas of Canadian Studies, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":58150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[1558],"class_list":["post-80816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-experts-available","tag-political-science"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80818,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80816\/revisions\/80818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}