The Canada-Russia Research Initiative is a non-partisan scholarly organization housed at the University of Victoria (Canada) and dedicated to analysis of Russia-Canada relations, as well as to furthering greater understanding and mutual cooperation between the…
Presented by CIPS, the Observatoire de la politique et la sécurité de l'Arctique and the North American and Arctic Defence and Security About this Event The Arctic Council is the primary multilateral forum regrouping Arctic…
Central and East European Program Lecture Series 2020 -2021 Picturing the Page: Illustrated Children’s Reading and Literature Under Lenin and Stalin Dr. Megan Swift, Associate Professor, Germanic and Slavic Studies, University of Victoria Moderator: Dr.…
Join us as we welcome Hon. Lloyd Axworthy (former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Government of Canada), Ambassador Alison LeClaire (Canadian Ambassador to Russia), and Ambassador Jeremy Kinsman (former Canadian Ambassador to Russia) for a panel…
CALL FOR PAPERS The 17th RACS Annual International Conference Moscow (remote), November 26-27, 2020 RACS invites proposals for papers for the 17th Annual International Conference of the Russian Association for Canadian Studies. The Conference is open…
Arctic Summer School 2020 is organized by North-Eastern Federal University. The school is co-organized with Northern Forum international organization and will be held online from July 27 – August 7, 2020. Applications until July 25,…
Virtual Meeting with Alison LeClaire, the newly appointed Canadian Ambassador to Russia & Armenia and Ambassador Designate to Uzbekistan will be held in conjunction with the Canada Day Celebration on July 1, 2020. During the…
Iris Ferguson, Lindsay Rodman and Andrea Charron will discuss the challenges and opportunities for North American Arctic security in the near term in a geopolitically contested world. Representing US and Canadian perspectives, this engaging debate…
The COVID-19 outbreak that began in China has since evolved into a global pandemic, resulting in mass quarantines, lockdowns, accelerating fatalities, and an unprecedented global economic slowdown. China in particular has been working in overdrive…
We are now going to turn our attention to Russia and its Covid-19 response, which has been discussed at great length in the Canadian media. However, the media coverage of Russia frequently lacks perspective, often…