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Massey Dialogues: Climate Displacement in the Arctic Wednesday, March 10, 2021 4 pm - 5 pm EST... Rapid and accelerating climate change is causing the Arctic to heat at three times the global average. There are many opinions on what this means to the people of the North in various time frames as well as implications for infrastructure from melting tundra and rising sea levels that may cause human displacement. At the same time, Arctic warming is renewing discussions of the implications of northern commercial trade routes and the need to build ports and other physical infrastructure. These changing conditions in the Arctic raise questions of the adequacy of Arctic governance and legal infrastructure. Are there legal or institutional gaps that we need to contemplate? Please join us for a rich conversation with Kluane Ademak, Regional Chief, Assembly of First Nations, Yukon; Suzanne Lalonde, Professor of International Law, University of Montreal and Brent Doberstein Associate Chair Undergraduate Department of Geography & Environmental Management, University of Waterloo on what is being lost and gained as the Arctic changes. Moderated by Rosemary McCarney, Senior Fellow in Foreign Defence Policy, Massey College; Former Ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations and the Conference on Disarmament. Co-Sponsors: Massey Arctic Series, Massey is Missing COP26, the World Refugee and Migration Council, The Graham Centre. https://www.masseycollege.ca//massey-dialogues-climate-di/

The Bill Graham Centre is pleased to sponsor a virtual launch of Sevérine Autesserre's new book, The Frontlines of Peace: An Insider's Guide to Changing the World. Tuesday, March 6th, 2021 12 pm EST Online Via Zoom... Don't miss it! For more information and to register, click here: http://billgrahamcentre.utoronto.ca//book-launchthe-frontl

Greg Donaghy, RIP On July 1, 2020, the Graham Centre's Director, Greg Donaghy, died, a week after suffering a severe heart attack. Greg was a distinguished historian of Canadian foreign relations, and spent most of his career with Global Affairs Canada, retiring as Head of the Historical Section in the spring of 2019. Born in London, England, of Irish heritage, Greg quickly adapted to Canadian ways and became one of his generation's foremost practitioners of Canadian diploma...tic history. He was trained at the University of Toronto (where he was a proud alumnus of St. Michael's College), Carleton University, and the University of Waterloo. His doctoral dissertation was published as Tolerant Allies: Canada and the United States, 1963-1968. This work established him as a leading scholar of Canada-US relations, and compelled fundamental revisions to our understanding of the bilateral relationship in a tumultuous and much-mythologized period. At Global Affairs Canada, he edited several volumes of Documents on Canadian External Relations (DCER), the official collection of Canadian diplomatic documents, and, with John Hilliker and Mary Halloran, wrote the third volume of the official departmental history. This volume covered the event-packed years of the first Prime Minister Trudeau, and provides an essential, departmental, perspective on that period. Greg was a remarkably prolific scholar, turning out more than fifty articles and editing a number of collections of essays and conference papers. Eventually he turned to biography, with Grit: The Life and Politics of Paul Martin, Sr., which revived a major figure in Canadian political and diplomatic history for a new generation of readers and was a finalist for the 2015 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize. In the summer of 2019 he succeeded his doctoral adviser John English as Director of the Graham Centre, and, latterly, became coeditor of International Journal, published by the Graham Centre and the Canadian International Council. While his tenure at the Graham Centre was tragically short, it was productive. He introduced a new seminar course on Canada's relations with a revolutionary Asia, and co-taught a course on Canadian defence policy. As a historian, he was scrupulous and exacting in his analysis of what the pertinent documents actually said, and demanding in matters of both prose and argumentation, with nothing but scorn for the fashionable and the slipshod. Yet he was always generous to colleagues, particularly younger historians, including those whose views were far from his own. And his short time at the Graham Centre saw him take much pleasure in classroom teaching, where he was a rigorous but empathetic guide to his students, and took great pride and happiness in their successes. His students were among those who will miss his dry wit and gift for easy camaraderie. He is mourned by his extended family, and many friends and colleagues.

Dr. Greg Donaghy, the Director of the Bill Graham Centre, passed away on July 1. Our condolences and support go out to Greg's family and friends. His presence will be missed.

The Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History is delighted to offer its congratulations to Junior Fellow Brendan Kelly, winner of the 2020 John Wesley Dafoe Book Prize for _The Good Fight: Marcel Cadieux and Canadian Diplomacy_. The Good Fight is published by UBC Press as part of its vibrant C.D. Howe Series in Canadian Political History, which is supported in part by the Bill Graham Centre, and edited by Robert Bothwell and John English. The J.W. Dafoe Book Prize is awarded to the best book on Canada, Canadians, and/or Canada’s place in the world published in the previous calendar year.

COVID-19: PERSPECTIVES ON ITS GLOBAL SECURITY CHALLENGES The Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History and the Toronto branch of the Canadian International Council hosted a roundtable discussion on the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic for international security on 28 April 2020. The free-flowing dialogue ranged from the 1919 influenza pandemic to the UN Security Council and WHO to the shifting balance of power in Asia. Ambassador Salome Meyer of Switzerla...nd served as moderator for this panel, which featured the following three distinguished experts, who each brought a unique professional and scholarly perspective to bear on this vital question: Mark Humphries holds the Dunkley Chair in War and the Canadian Experience and is Director of the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. He is the author of The Last Plague: Spanish Influenza and the Politics of Public Health in Canada. Rosemary McCarney is the Pearson-Sabia Scholar in International Relations at Trinity College, University of Toronto. An award-winning humanitarian and business leader, she served as Canada’s Ambassador to the UN in Geneva with responsibilities for the World Health Organization from 2015-2019. Bruno Charbonneau is Professor of International Relations at the Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean and Director of the Centre FrancoPaix en résolution des conflits et missions de paix at the Université du Québec à Montréal. WATCH NOW: https://youtu.be/OSsb2RPmQS8

Introducing the Network for Strategic Analysis: The Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History is delighted to join over 60 researchers from across Canada, the US, and Europe in the exciting new Network for Strategic Analysis, part of the Department of National Defence’s Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security (MINDS) programme. For more information:... http://billgrahamcentre.utoronto.ca/new-page-5 See more

Water Reflections: a 2020 World Water Day Magazine, featuring contributions by Bill Graham Centre Director Greg Donaghy and Program Coordinator Jack Cunningham.