Coming event
The inaugural Katherine A.H. Graham Annual Lecture on Aboriginal Policy is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, October 7, 2010, with Mary May Simon as the featured speaker. The lectureship
was established in 2009 to provide a vehicle for examining a wide range of policy issues, cases, models and tools related to First Nations, Metis and Inuit communities across Canada. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Recent events
Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney spoke to postgraduate economics students on March 11, on the occasion of the Bank’s 75th anniversary. The speech, held at Carleton University, was broadcast by videoconference to economics students across the country. Students were invited to ask
questions following the speech.
The 2010 Model NATO Conference was not exactly your typical academic conference. For three days in February, students gathered in Ottawa, prepared to represent a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NAT O) member state. They researched, articulated and formulated foreign policies and national interests. They engaged in a series of debates on contemporary
policy issues and interacted with senior policy-makers, with the goal of achieving consensus policies on nuanced and contentious international issues. As the only simulation of its kind in Canada, Model NATO 2010 was uniquely able to promote an understanding of policies in the alliance and within its member states among undergraduate students.