Upcoming Events
Tuesday, September 14, 4-6 pm
Marc Olivier Baruch (Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales Paris), "'A Man of His Time': Maurice Papon (1910-2007), Symbol of State Violence in Twentieth-Century France?"
Registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=9222
Room 208, North Building, Munk School of Global Affairs (1 Devonshire Place)
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Centre d'Etudes de la France et du Monde Francophone, the Joint Initiative in German and European Studies, and Peace and Conflict Studies
Born in 1957, and a former student of the École polytechnique and the École nationale d'administration, Marc Olivier Baruch has served since 1981 as a civil servant in the French Ministries of Education and Culture and in the Prime Minister's Office. His career shifted to the academic world in 1997, when he became a research fellow in the Centre national de la recherche scientifique. Published the same year, his doctoral thesis about the French Civil Service during the Second World War (Servir l'État français. L'administration en France de 1940 à 1944) made him a key expert in the latest post-war trial of the French civil service, French Republic vs Maurice Papon.
In 2003, he was elected as directeur d'études in the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS). His teachings and research deal with contemporary European politcal history, especially of the State and the Civil Service. As a specialist of the Vichy regime, he has also published a general story of the period (Le Régime de Vichy, Paris, La Découverte, 1996, translated into German as Das Vichy-Regime : Frankreich 1940-1944, Reclam Verlag, 1999), and edited a collective study on the purges of French society after WWII (Une poignée de misérables : l'épuration de la société française après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Paris, Fayard, 2003). He is currently working on a book dealing with the complex relationship between history, politics, and law in contemporary France.
Past Events
Tuesday, September 15, 2009. 3:30-5:00 pm
"Canada's Relations with Portugal": A Talk by Ambassador Anne-Marie Bourcier, Canada's Ambassador to Portugal
Room 208N, North Building, Munk Centre for International Studies (1Devonshire Place)
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies and European Studies Program.
Ambassador Bourcier will be talking about career paths and opportunities in the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. She is currently Canada's Ambassador to Portugal and will also touch on Canada-Portugal relations.
Monday, October 5, 10:00-11:30 am
"Canada's Engagement with the Western Balkans": A talk by Ambassador John Morrison, Canadian Ambassador to the Republics of Serbia, Macedonia, and Montenegro.
Registration:
Room 108N, North Building, Munk Centre for International Studies (1Devonshire Place)
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies and European Studies Program.
Monday, November 16, 3:30-5:30 pm
Ralph Lysyshyn (Ambassador to the Russian Federation with concurrent accreditation to the Republic of Armenia), “Canada-Russia Relations and Cooperation in the Arctic and the North”
Registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=8218
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies and European Studies Program
Ralph Lysyshyn joined the Department of External Affairs in 1972 and served abroad in Moscow, Lagos, Washington and Brussels, where he was Minister Counsellor at the Canadian Mission to NATO from 1990 to 1994. In Ottawa, he was seconded to the Privy Council Office in 1978 and 1979. At Headquarters, Mr. Lysyshyn held a number of positions, including Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Division and, from 1994 to 1998, that of Director General, International Security and Arms Control Bureau. From 1998 to 2002 he served as the first President of the Forum of Federations. From 2002 to 2005, he was Canada’s Ambassador to Poland and Belarus.
