A Primer on Canadian Culture, Friday Oct. 16 @ 7:00pm

Will Straw is Professor in the Department of Art History and Communications Studies at McGill University.He is a co-editor of the Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock and of the forthcoming anthology "Circulation and the City: Essays on Urban Culture," and the author of "Cyanide and Sin: Visualizing Crime in 50s America", and over seventy articles on film, music, urban culture and visuality. At present, Dr. Straw is the director of a new research project entitled "Média et vie urbaine à Montréal," with colleagues from the Université de Montréal and Université du Québec à Montréal. A former cultural correspondent on CBC television and The Women's Television Network, Will Straw comments regularlyon culture and media for a wide range of media.

Dr. David J. Plazek is teaching Canadian politics this autumn. The course includes presentations by Richard Shultz, Chair of McGill University's Political Science Department, and Neil Burnham, Consul and Head of Political/Economic Relations and Public Affairs, Consulate General of Canada in Boston. In addition, the class will travel to McGill University for a presentation by Antonia Maioni, Director of McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, and a visit to McCord Museum.

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