About

The Shared Citizenship Public Lecture Series is a unique event that brings together some of the most important thinkers and practitioners from Ontario and Canada to discuss the moral and ethical dimensions of contemporary public issues in an accessible and open forum.

Since its establishment, the Shared Citizenship Public Lecture Series has examined important issues such as:

  • Religion and citizenship: Reflections on law, public life, and medicine—2006;
  • Well-being and threat: Reflections on the public and disease, terrorism, and crime—2005;
  • Political power and mental health—2004.

The Shared Citizenship Public Lecture Series is free and open to all members of the public.

History

In Spring 2002, the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto was granted the Honorary Patronage of the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario by the Honourable James K. Bartleman. To mark this occasion, The Shared Citizenship Public Lecture Series was initiated by Janice Gross Stein, Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science and Director of the Munk Centre, to recognize the Lieutenant Governor’s Honorary Patronage. The Munk Centre and the Centre for Ethics are now organizing the events jointly.

Financial support for the series partly comes from the generous donation of the royalties of the Lieutenant Governor’s book on his life within the Canadian Foreign Service: James K. Bartleman, On Six Continents: Life in Canada’s Foreign Service 1966-2002 (Douglas Gibson Books). The Shared Citizenship series has also benefited from the support of other University of Toronto sponsors such as the Department of Political Science, the Comparative Program on Health and Society, and, this year, the Centre for Aboriginal Initiatives and the Aboriginal Studies Program.