The Canada Semester

Why Canada?

Canada Resource Center

Similarities & Differences Between Canada & United States

Canadian Football League on KGCS-TV

Canadian Semester Extra Credit Form (for students)

The Canada Challenge


List of Activities


Québec, the Cradle of Canada
10:00 a.m., Friday, Aug. 28, 2009
Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall
Admission: free


Cultural Reflections: Inuit Art
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday – Friday
Aug. 31 through Oct. 9, 2009
MSSU Spiva Art Gallery
Admission: free

Two Canadian Writers of Multi-volume Fiction: Robertson Davies and Margaret Laurence
7:00 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009
Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall
Admission: free

The Cultural Anthropology of Canada: As Viewed Through the Lens of Ice Hockey
9:30 a.m., Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009
Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall
Admission: free

The Past and Present Behavior of Mummers: What the Reinvention of a Traditional Ritual in Newfoundland Tells Us about Worldwide Changes in Human Social Relationships
11:00 a.m., Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009
Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall
Admission: free

Why are There So Many Newfoundland Flags in Alberta?
Newfoundland Identity and Supportive Social Networks

9:00 a.m., Friday, Sept. 4, 2009
Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall
Admission: free

In Cod They Trusted: Ecological Knowledge, Social Context and the
Overexploitation of Marine Resources in Eastern Canada

11:00 a.m., Friday, Sept. 4, 2009
Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall
Admission: free

Canadian Film Festival: Nanook of the North
7:00 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009
Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall
Admission: free

Something Bigger Than Fact: The Art and Life of Emily Carr
12:00 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009
Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall
Admission: free

Interdependence Day Celebration
9:00 a.m. to 11:50 a.m., Friday, Sept. 11, 2009
Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall
Admission: free

Herman Voaden, Canadian Playwright
10:00 a.m., Monday, Sept. 14, 2009
Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall
Admission: free

Trends in Contemporary Canadian Theatre and Drama
1:00 p.m., Monday, Sept. 14, 2009
Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall
Admission: free

Canadian Bacon
9:00 p.m., Monday, Sept. 14, 2009
Courtyard at Student Residence Halls
Admission: free

Southern Theatre presents: Emily Carr
7:30 p. m., Tuesday-Saturday, Sept 15-19, 2009
Bud Walton Theatre
Admission: free to students, faculty, staff;
$3 for adults; $1 for senior citizens and high school students

Of Myth and Mounties: A History of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
9:00 a.m., Monday, Sept. 21, 2009
Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall
Admission: free

The Modern Model of the RCMP
11:00 a.m., Monday, Sept. 21, 2009
Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall
Admission: free

A Tradition of Service: The RCMP and Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples
1:00 p.m., Monday, Sept. 21, 2009
Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall
Admission: free

Canadian Film Festival: Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
7:00 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009
Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall
Admission: free

Readings in Native Canadian Literature
9:00 a.m., Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009
Room 413 in Spiva Library
Admission: free

Canadian Film Festival: Black Robe
7:00 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009
Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall
Admission: free

Readings in National Canadian Literature
11:00 a.m., Friday, Oct. 2, 2009
Room 413 in Spiva Library
Admission: free

Great Big Sea
7:00 p.m., Monday, Oct. 5, 2009
Taylor Performing Arts Center
Admission: free

Canadian Mosaic
9:30 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009
Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall
Admission: free

“I’m an Albertan First!” Tales of Provincial-Federal Relations
11:00 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009
Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall
Admission: free

Canadian Film Festival: Seducing Dr. Lewis
7:00 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009
Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall
Admission: free

Gouldberg Variations: Glenn Gould’s Polyphonic Art and Life
11:00 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009
Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall
Admission: free

Glenn Gould: Hereafter
2:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009
Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall
Admission: free

Canadian Film Festival: 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould
7:00 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009
Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall
Admission: free

Turn-of-the-Century Canadian Literature for the Young and Dutiful:
Each Time Has to be the First Time When Re-experiencing Anne of Green Gables

10:00 a.m., Monday, Oct. 12, 2009
Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall
Admission: free

Turn-of-the-Century Canadian Literature for the Young and Adventurous:
Fierce Animals, Red Indians, & Terrible Storms: Courage, Pluck, & Derring-do
and None of It Seen from an Arm-Chair

12:00 p.m., Monday, Oct. 12, 2009
Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall
Admission: free

Canadian Film Festival: The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
7:00 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009
Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall
Admission: free

Canadian Film Festival: Jesus of Montreal
7:00 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009
Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall
Admission: free

Readings in Francophone Canadian Literature
10:00 a.m., Friday, Oct. 23, 2009
Room 413 in Spiva Library
Admission: free

Gockel International Symposium
Canada and the U.S.: Partners in Security and Prosperity

9:30 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009
Taylor Performing Arts Center
Admission: free

Gockel International Symposium
O Canada-Au Canada: Understanding and Appreciating Our Northern Neighbor

10:15 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009
Taylor Performing Arts Center
Admission: free

Gockel International Symposium
Like a Mouse Sleeping with an Elephant: Canada-U.S. Relations

7:00 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009
Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall
Admission: free

Gockel International Symposium
The Obama Effect: Canada-U.S. Relations

7:45 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009
Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall
Admission: free

Gockel International Symposium
NAFTA and the North American Economy

9:00 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009
Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall
Admission: free

Gockel International Symposium
Canada in Afghanistan: Development, Defence and Diplomacy

11:00 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009
Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall
Admission: free

Canadian Film Festival: Bon Cop, Bad Cop
7:00 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009
Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall
Admission: free

Clinking Maple Leaves: An All-Canadian Concert by Southern Symphony Orchestra
7:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 6, 2009
Taylor Performing Arts Center
Admission: free

Nunavut: An Inuit Approach to Wildlife Management
10:00 a.m., Monday, Nov. 9, 2009
Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall
Admission: free

First Nations and Treaty-Partnership in Canada
12:00 p.m., Monday, Nov. 9, 2009
Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall
Admission: free

Canadian Film Festival: The Sweet Hereafter
7:00 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009
Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall
Admission: free

From Champlain to the Cirque du Soleil — 400 years of French in North America
9:30 a.m., Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009
Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall
Admission: free

Québec in North America: Nation Building in the North
11:00 a.m., Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009
Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall
Admission: free

Canadian Film Festival: Away from Her
7:00 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009
Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall
Admission: free

Emily Carr’s Klee Wyck
9:00 a.m., Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009
Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall
Admission: free

“A Little Old Lady on the Edge of Nowhere”: Canada’s National Treasure, Emily Carr
6:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009
Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall
Admission: free

Artist, Author, Eccentric, Genius: Will Emily Carr please identify herself!
9:30 a.m., Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009
Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall
Admission: free

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