TEF Conference Schedule

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Thursday 30 April 2015

18:00 – 22:00: Dinner (Saltlik Restaurant 101 8th Ave. SW, Calgary, AB 403-537-1160)

18:00 – 18:30: Cash Bar

18:30 – 22:00: Dinner

Keynote Speaker: Preston Manning (Manning Centre)

Friday 1 May 2015: Evans Room, The Rosza Centre, University of Calgary 

(Directions to the Rosza Centre can be found here).

08:30 – 09:00 Welcome

09:00 – 10:30 Session 1: Canadian Political Science

• Marco Navarro-Genie (Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, Chair)
• Rainer Knopff (University of Calgary)
• Anthony Sayers (University of Calgary)
• Mark Milke (Fraser Institute)

10:30 – 10:45 Break

10:45 – 12:30pm Session 2: Political Theory

• Travis Smith (Concordia University, Chair)
• Barry Cooper (University of Calgary)
• Peter Loewen (University of Toronto)
• John von Heyking (University of Lethbridge)

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 15:00 Session 3: Aboriginal Politics

• Christopher Alcantara (Wilfrid Laurier University, Chair)
• Gordon Gibson (Fraser Institute)
• Whitney Lackenbauer (UW)
• John Richards (Simon Fraser University

15:00 – 15:15 Break

15:15 – 16:45 Session 4: The Practice of Politics in Canada

• Lydia Miljan (University of Windsor, Chair)
• Ian Brodie (University of Calgary)
• Owen Lippert (Interchange)
• TBA

16:45 – 17:00 Closing Remarks: TEF responds