The following presentations are samples of my work.
Human Rights in Canada: A History (40 minutes) [aussi en français]
- “Rights Inflation in the Age of Post-Truth Politics,” Fake News, Disinformation, and Post-Truth Politics conference (Victoria, B.C.), 1 September 2022.
- “Debating Rights Inflation,” Human Rights @ 60: Reflecting and Reimagining, (Toronto, ON), 23 June 2022.
- “Equality and Human Rights: Canada and Europe Compared” KU Leuven (Brussels, Belgium), 8 July 2019.
- “Equality Deferred: Human Rights Law and Sex Discrimination in British Columbia ” Northern BC Archives (Prince George, BC), 6 November 2017.
- “From the ‘Reign of Terror’ to the War on Terror: The History of Human Rights in Canada.” McBride Public Library (McBride, BC), 4 November 2017.
- “Human Rights or Social Justice? The Problem of Rights Inflation” University of Northern British Columbia Global Topics Speaker Series (Prince George, BC), 2 November 2017.
- “Is there a Distinctly Canadian Rights Culture?” Carleton University, Department of History and the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies (Ottawa, ON), 26 September 2016.
- “Human Rights in Canadian History.” Canadian Museum for Human Rights (Winnipeg, MB), 21 September 2016.
- “Les droits de la personne dans l’histoire du Canada.” Musée canadien pour les droits de la personne (Winnipeg, MB), 20 September 2016.
- “Human Rights Law in Canada.” New Zealand Centre for Human Rights Law, Policy and Practice (Auckland, NZ), 3 May 2016.
- “Freedom of Information Law and Historical Research.” Legal Archives Society of Alberta (Edmonton, AB), 10 June 2015.
- “Human Rights and History: Law, Feminism and Gendered Equality.” Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Speaker Series, Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, BC), 11 September 2014.
- “Equality Deferred: Human Rights in British Columbia History.” Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Public Lecture Series, Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre (Vancouver, BC), 11 Sept. 2014.
- “The Evolution of Human Rights in Canada.” Canadian Human Rights Commission (Ottawa, Ontario) 5 May 2012.
- “Social Movements, International Politics and the Global Human Rights Regime.” Department of International Studies Speaker Series, University of Regina (Regina, SK), 17 February 2011.
- “The October Crisis and the Writing of Canadian History.” Just Watch Me conference, Carleton University (Ottawa, ON), 12 Oct. 2010.
- “Canada’s Rights Revolution: Social Movements and Social Change, 1937-1984.” John Porter Traditional of Excellence Annual Lecture, Canadian Sociological Association (Montreal, QC), 31 May 2010.
- “The Sociology of Human Rights.” Confining the Unbound Society: Restraints and Resistance conference, University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB), 9 May 2010.
- “Human Rights Law & Education in Canada,” CASHRA: Human Rights Education, 24 July 2024.
- “Human Rights Education for the 21st Century,” Ignite Change Global Convention (Edmonton, AB), 9 December 2023.
- “Human Rights Education in Canada,” CASHRA: Human Rights Education, 8 September 2023.
- “Dragging the Liberal Arts into the 20th Century (21st Pending),” Royal Society of Canada Annual Meeting, 15 November 2018.
- “L’égalité et la culture des droits du Canada,” Musée canadien pour les droits de la personne (Winnipeg, MB), 21 February 2017.
- “Human Rights and the City.” Human Rights and the City symposium, Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton, AB), 26 October 2016.
- “Historical Research and the Right to Know.” Right to Know conference (Ottawa, ON), 26 September 2016.
- “Intelligence and National Security Planning in Cold War Canada.” The Five Eyes in the Early Cold War (Wellington, New Zealand), 23 April 2016.
- “Scholarly Solitudes.” (Re)Making Confederation: (Re) Imagining Canada conference (Charlottetown, PEI), 21 November 2014.
- “What are “Canadian” and “Quebec” values?” Canadian Sociological Association conference, Brock University (St Catharine’s, ON), 30 May 2014.
- “Policing Protest in Canadian History.” Canadian Civil Liberties Association’s RightsWatch conference (Montreal, QC), 13 October 2012.
- “The Social Movement Society and the Human Rights State in Canada.” Social Movement Society workshop (Ottawa, ON), 24 May 2012.
- “The Rights Revolution in Canada and Australia: International Politics, Social Movements, and Domestic Law.” Taking Liberties workshop (Hamilton, ON), 2 March 2012.
- “Canadian Studies and Graduate Programs.” New Voices in Canadian Studies conference (Peterborough, ON), 13 May 2013.
- “Canada’s Rights Revolution.” Department of Educational Policy Studies Speakers Series, University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB), 16 November 2010.
- “Human Rights in Canada: Social Movements and International Politics.” Human Rights and Humanitarianism in the 1970s conference, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (Freiburg, Germany), 10 June 2010.
- “The Women’s Movement and the Human Rights State in Post-World War Two Canada.” Department of Women’s Studies Feminist Research speakers’ series, University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB), 4 February 2010.
- “How the Baby Boom Generation Transformed Social Movements in Canada” Department of Sociology Speakers Series, University of Victoria (Victoria, BC), 13 February 2008.
- “Working for Rights: Organized Labour and the Human Rights Movements in Twentieth Century Canada and Australia,” University of Sydney Symposium (Sydney, Australia), 27 September 2002.