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Architects and Innovators: Building the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, 1909-2009

Program

Lester B. Pearson Building

Wednesday, 17 December 2008

Registration: 13:00 - 13:30

Opening Remarks: 13:30 - 14:00

Greta Bossenmaier, Associate Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

Session 1: Establishing the  Department - 14:00 - 15:30

Chair: Gaëtan Lavertu

Carman Miller (McGill): "Sir Joseph Pope: A Tory Public Servant"

Margaret MacMillan (Oxford): "Sir Robert Borden: Laying the Foundations"

Stéphane Paquin (Sherbrooke): "Senator Raoul Dandurand: Spokesman for the World"

Coffee Break - 15:30 - 16:00

Session 2: Projecting a Presence Abroad - 16:00 - 17:00

Chair: Jean McCloskey

John Hilliker (Independent scholar): "Style and Substance: Vincent Massey, William Herridge, and the Canadian Legation in Washington, 1927-1935"

John Meehan (Toronto): "Canada's Pacific Debut: Herbert Marler and the Tokyo Legation, 1929-1936"

Coffee Break - 17:00 - 17:30

O.D. Skelton Memorial Lecture - 17:30 - 19:30

Chair: To be confirmed

Norman Hillmer (Carleton):  “Foreign Policy and the National Interest: Why Skelton Matters”

Reception

Thursday, 18 December, 2008

Session 2 Continued: Projecting a Presence Abroad - 8:30 - 9:00

Chair: Jean McCloskey

The Hon. Roy MacLaren: "Peter Larkin and the Creation of Canada House"

Session 3: Building a New World Order - 9:00 - 10:30

Chair: Michael Kergin

Stéphane Roussel (UQAM): "Hume Wrong: The Consummate Realist"

Francine McKenzie (UWO): "A.D.P. Heeney: The Orderly Under-Secretary"

Hector Mackenzie (DFAIT): "Gerry Riddell: A Golden Age Idealist"

Coffee Break - 10:30 - 10:45

Session 4: The Centre Cannot Hold - 10:45 - 12:15

Chair: Jacques Roy

Eric Bergbusch and Michael Stevenson (York): "'Give Peace a Chance': Howard Green, Public Opinion, and the Politics of Disarmament"

Robert Bothwell (Toronto): "The Fulminating Under-Secretary: Marcel Cadieux"

Claire Turenne-Sjolander (Ottawa): "Margaret Meagher and the Role of Women in the Foreign Service: Groundbreaking or Housekeeping?"

Lunch - 12:15 - 13:45

Session 5: The Shifting Agenda - 13:45 - 15:15

Chair: Leonard J. Edwards, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

John English (Centre for International Governance Innovation), "Two Heads are Better than One: Ivan Head, Pierre Trudeau, and the Department of External Affairs"

David Elder (Queen's), "The Department, Summits and the International Economic Agenda: Sylvia Ostry as Architect and Innovator"

Kim Richard Nossal (Queen's), "Allan Gotlieb and the Politics of the Real World of Washington."

Coffee Break - 15:15 - 15:30

Session 6: The Integrated Department: views from within 

- 15:30 - 17:00

Chair: Leonard J. Edwards
 
The Right Hon. Joe Clark (Secretary of State for External Affairs, 1984-1991)
 
James H Taylor (Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs, 1985-1989)
 
R.Allen Kilpatrick (Deputy Minister of International Trade 1993-1995)
 
The Hon. Pierre Pettigrew (Minister of International Trade, 1999-2003, and Minister of Foreign Affairs, 2004-2006)