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O.D. Skelton Memorial Lecture, Ottawa, 17 December 2008
The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Leonard J. Edwards, is pleased to announce that the O.D. Skelton Memorial Lecture for 2008-9 will be given by the distinguished Canadian historian Norman Hillmer. Professor Hillmer’s lecture will be entitled “Foreign Policy and the National Interest: Why Skelton Matters.”
The lecture will take place at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, 17 December 2008, in the Marcel Cadieux Auditorium of the Lester B. Pearson Building, 125 Sussex Drive, Ottawa. A brief question period will follow the lecture. Simultaneous interpretation will be available throughout the proceedings. Following the lecture, there will be a vin d’honneur (reception) in the adjacent O. D. Skelton Lobby, which is open to all present.
In conjunction with the lecture, the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, in collaboration with Queen’s University, is hosting a two-day colloquium on its history on Wednesday and Thursday, December 17-18, 2008, at the Lester B. Pearson Building. For further information on the Department’s Centennial activities, please consult the Department's 100th Anniversary site.
Admission to these events is free, but as seating is limited, those wishing to attend are asked to register in advance. To register and for more information, please contact: Greg Donaghy, Historical Section, Policy Research Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, 125 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0G2. TEL: 613-992-6288 FAX: 613-944-9346 greg.donaghy@international.gc.ca.
The Marcel Cadieux Auditorium is wheelchair accessible. Please note that there is very little public parking at the Lester B. Pearson Building.
About the speaker
Norman Hillmer is Professor of History and International Affairs at Carleton University. Dr. Hillmer was Visiting Professor of Modern Commonwealth History at Leeds University, 1978-1979, and from 1981 to 1990 Senior Historian at the Department of National Defence, working primarily on the multi-volume official history of the Royal Canadian Air Force. His 28 books and numerous articles concentrate on themes in politics, diplomacy, peacekeeping and defence, and immigration. From 1997 to 2000, Dr. Hillmer was coeditor, with Margaret MacMillan, of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs publication, International Journal; he was then coeditor, 2000-2004, of the Canada Among Nations series of the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton. His work has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, French, Russian, and Swedish, and he has won several teaching, publishing and research prizes, including the Canada–Japan Prime Minister’s Award and, twice, the Marston LaFrance Research Fellowship. Professor Hillmer is currently completing a biography of Dr. O. D. Skelton.
About the O.D. Skelton Memorial Lecture Series
This will be the 14th O.D. Skelton Memorial Lecture and the fifth to be held in Ottawa. The series encourages a scholarly examination of topics within the area of Canada’s international relations. Inaugurated in December 1991, it honours Dr. O. D. Skelton, a prime architect of the Department of External Affairs (now Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada) and of Canadian foreign policy.
For more information about O. D. Skelton and about the series, as well as for the texts of past lectures, please consult the O.D. Skelton Memorial Lectures website.
