October 2008 Speaker

Our Mission: /To Share and Encourage a Passion for Canada/





OUR SPEAKER THIS MONTH

Prof. Tom Keating - U. of A.

"Canada at War in Afghanistan"

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16TH 2008

12:00 noon, Crowne Plaza Chateau Lacombe

Cost $30.00



Tom Keating is a Professor and former Chair of the Department of Political

Science at the University of Alberta, where he teaches in the areas of

Canadian foreign policy and international relations. He is a graduate of

Dalhousie University and has taught at St. Francis Xavier University and

Carleton University as well as part of the War Studies Program at the Royal

Military College, and more locally for the Edmonton Lifelong Learners'

Association. He also teaches in Mexico as part of a graduate program in

Canada-US Studies. He is the author of /Canada and World Order/ published by

Oxford University Press and is the co-editor with Andy Knight of /Building/

/Sustainable Peace/ published by the University of Alberta Press. He is

married with two children and has lived in Edmonton since the mid-1980s. He

enjoys hiking, skiing, reading and all types of music and theatre.