The Annual Dominick S. Graham Lecture

Is Canadian Multilateralism Dead? by Noah Richler
Wednesday, November 14, 2012, 7 p.m.
Wu Conference Centre
University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

In the 12th Annual Dominick Graham Lecture in War and Society, award winning author Noah Richler considers whether or not Canada's leading role in meaningful multilateralism, exercised through the United Nations, is effectively past.

Noah Richler’s This Is My Country, What’s Yours? A Literary Atlas of Canada won the 2007 British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, was nominated for the 2006 Nereus Writer’s Trust Non-Fiction Prize, and was chosen as a ‘Best Book’ by The Globe and Mail, the National Post, Amazon.ca, and as one of Canada’s Top Ten Books of the Decade by Macleans.ca.

Richler is a regular contributor to BBC and CBC Radio, to the Op-Ed and cultural pages of The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star and the National Post, and of features on various topics to The Walrus and Maclean’s. He is the winner of two gold National Magazine Awards, has won a Sony for his radio work and represented the BBC at the Prix Futura. His most recent book, What We Talk About When We Talk About War, published by Goose Lane Editions, examines the use of narrative to ease our way into, through and out of conflict. He is presently at work on a book about the Digby Neck, Nova Scotia. 

About the lecture series

The Annual Graham Lecture in War and Society was inaugurated in 2000 in honour of Professor Dominick S. Graham. After serving with distinction in the British Army in the Second World War, Graham came to UNB in the 1960s during which time he completed his PhD and became an Assistant Professor with the History Department. His focus soon shifted to war and society issues.  In 1971 Graham established the Military and Strategic Studies Program and in 1980 was one of the founding members of UNB’s Centre for Conflict Studies (both precursors to The Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society).

Previous Graham Lectures

2011 - "Tropic of Chaos: The New Era of Climate Wars," Dr. Christian Parenti