The J.J. Talman Lecture Series
Canada's Peacekeeping History: Symbols, Contradictions, and Hard Truths
Date: Tuesday, March 21, 2023 In-person and via Zoom
Time: 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Location: The Great Hall, Somerville House 3326
Our 2022-2023 Speaker
Professor Kevin Spooner, Wilfrid Laurier University
Kevin Spooner is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Director of the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada (LCSC), Wilfrid Laurier University.
Dr. Spooner's research expertise is in the history of Canadian foreign policy, particularly Canada’s contribution to international peacekeeping and Canadian relations with Africa with a focus on the impact of decolonization.
About the J.J. Talman Lecture Series
Presented by the Department of History and Western Libraries
The J.J. Talman Lecture Series focuses on Ontario history, Ontario regional collections and innovative uses thereof, or previously unstudied aspects of Canadian history.
Reflecting the breadth of Dr. Talman’s career at Western, as a respected historian and Chief Librarian, the lectures are organized annually by a joint committee comprised of representatives from the Department of History and Western Libraries.
The J.J. Talman Lecture Series was envisioned and is funded by Raj Jain, Librarian Emerita, and her brother, Dr. Sushil Jain, in gratitude for Dr. Talman’s many personal kindnesses, and to recognize his substantial contribution to Western.
Past Talman Lectures
| Year | Lecturer | Lecture Title |
| 2023 | Dr. Kevin Spooner | Canada's Peacekeeping History: Symbols, Contradictions, and Hard Truths |
| 2022 | Prof. Linda Mahood | The Legend of the Wawa Hitchhiker: Youth Mobility in the Hippie Generation |
| 2020 | Dr. David Koffman | Unsettling Ethnic History: Jewish Indigenous Encounters in Canada |
| 2019 | Dr. Barrington Walker | The Honourable Leonard Braithwaite: The Imprint of a Black Canadian Legal Pioneer on the History of Modern Ontario |
| 2017 | Prof. Constance Backhouse | Viola Desmond: Her Historic Challenge to Race Segregation in Canada and Her Appearance on Our $10 Note |
| 2015 | Prof. Jane Errington | 'A burthen to the community'? J.B. Hawke and Managing Migration to Upper Canada |
| 2013 | Prof. Alan Taylor | Settling and Unsettling Borders: Continental Legacies of the War of 1812. |
| 2012 | Dr. Cecilia Morgan | "Among the Six Nations": Celia B File and the Politics of Writing Memory, History and Home in Southern Ontario, 1920s-1960s |
| 2011 | Dr. Tim Cook | Ghosts from the Trenches: Stories of the Supernatural and the Uncanny among Canada's Great War Trench Soldiers |
| 2009 | Dr. Carl Benn | Mohawks in the Sudan War, 1884-85 |
| 2008 | Dr. Peter Neary | From War to Peace: Canada in the 1940s |
Accessibility
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