The State of the Canada - U.S. Relationship

Every two years, the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS) organizes a symposium and produces a special issue of The American Review of Canadian Studies (ARCS) on the state of the relationship between Canada and the United States. This project is dedicated to the memory of Thomas O. Enders, the late U.S. Ambassador to Canada.

The 2008 symposium will take place on Friday, October 24th at  Carleton University in Ottawa in collaboration with the Canada-US Fulbright Program. 

  Canada-U.S. Relations in Transition:  The U.S. Elections and Future Prospects

ACSUS Thomas O. Enders Symposium

Carleton University October 24, 2008

The upcoming elections in the United States and Canada are likely to have profound implications for the Canada-U.S. relationship. This year, Carleton University is pleased to be hosting the Biennial Enders Symposium, which will take place on Friday October 24, 2008 from 8:45 A.M. to 5:30 P.M. The symposium will focus this year on the implications of these upcoming elections in a range of important policy areas: religion and politics, energy and the environment, race and ethnicity, borders, and North American relations.

Speakers at the symposium include Marilyn Lashley (Howard University) Jonathan Malloy (Carleton University), Honourable Paul Frazer, Jason Ackleson (New Mexico State University), Mike Pasqualetti (Arizona State University), Michael Hawes and Jennifer Regan (Network on North American Studies in Canada), and Isabel Studer (ITESM Mexico City). The symposium proceedings will be published in a special issue of the American Review of Canadian Studies.

The symposium is co-organized by the Centre of North American Politics and Society, the Department of Political Science and the School of Canadian Studies at Carleton University, the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS), and the Network of North American Studies in Canada (NNASC). The Enders endowment was established in 1996 to honour the life of Thomas O. Enders (1932-1996), the former American ambassador to Canada from 1976 to 1979.

You must register to attend the Enders symposium, but registration is free. Please register at rsvp_politicalscience@carleton.ca. See also www.carleton.ca/polisci/.

9:00 – 9:30 – Welcome and introductions:

·        Laura Macdonald, Chair, Department of Political Science and Co-Director, Centre on North American Politics and Society, Carleton University

·        Andre Loiselle, Director, School of Canadian Studies, Carleton University

·        Douglas Nord, Director, Center for International Studies,Western Washington University, ACSUS Vice-President

·        Michael Hawes, Director, Fulbright Canada

9:30 – 10:30 Race/Ethnicity

·        Marilyn Lashley,  Howard University

·        Discussant TBC

10:30 – 10:45 – Break

10:45 – 11:45 - Religion and Politics

·        Jonathan Malloy, Carleton University  

·        Discussant:    Douglas Nord, Western Washington University

11:45 – 1:00  – Lunchtime address – U.S. Public Opinion, the Media, and the Presidential Elections – A Canadian Perspective

·        Jean-Francois Lisée, Université de Montréal

·        Discussant: Bill Cross, Carleton University (TBC)

1:00 – 2:00  - Energy and the environment 

•            Mike Pasqualetti, University of New Mexico
•           Discussant – James Meadowcroft, Carleton University (TBC)

2:00 – 3:00 – Border Politics

·        Jason Ackleson, University of New Mexico   

·        Discussant TBC

3:00 – 3:15 – Break

3:15 – 4:15 Finance

·        Michael Hawes and Jennifer Regan, Fulbright Canada

·        Discussant TBC

4:15 – 5:15 North American Politics

·        Isabel Studer, ITESM  

·        Discussant: Carol Wise, University of Southern California

Location: the symposium will take place at Carleton University, Porter Hall, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6.

2006 program in partnership with the Woodrow Wilson Center's Canada Institute