120168 AR E pluribus plura. Canada - "The other America" (2007W)

The interdisciplinary lecture series is intended to make students of several disciplines familiar with the various aspects of the cultural diversity of Canada. Experts from various disciplines (English and American Studies, Romance Studies, History, Geography, Political Science, Philosophy and Cultural Anthropology) will deal with the ethnogenesis and the construction of Canadian identities (both collective and individual) and the conflicts between the "founding nations", the development of multilateral relationships between Canada, the United States and Europe, the challenges of the integration of First Nations and their strategies of survival, and problems of immigration in the 20th century.