CRCR HIRES TWO UPC STUDENTS

In November, the CRCR hired two University Partnership Centre (UPC) students. Johanna Howes will help complete the SovFoto Project in conjunction with the MacLaren Arts Centre. She will be the fifth student to work on the project since it got underway in late 2007.

Brandon Meijers has been hired for a short-term project with the CRCR.

STUDENT TRIP TO VLADIVOSTOK

Negotiations are underway for a UPC/Georgian student trip to Vladivostok, the home of Russia’s Pacific Fleet. The trip will occur in conjunction with the Institute of American and Canadian Studies at the Russian Far Eastern State University in Vladivostok .

The director of the Institute, Galina Kazachun, is an associate of the CRCR. Times, cost and routes are now under investigation, with some subsidization from the CRCR possible.

Students or staff members interested in participating in the trip should contact Michael Johns at ext. 5307 or e-mail mjohns@georgiancollege.ca.

CRCR COURSE IN COLLINGWOOD

The CRCR has been conducting a six-week course, Changing World Order: A Uni- or Multi-Polar World?, for the Georgian Triangle Lifelong Learning Institute in Collingwood.

Lecturers include Larry Black and Michael Johns, Jennifer Armstrong-Lehman and the University of Toronto’s Jeffrey Kopstein. The course, which had close to 260 participants, wound up on Nov. 20.

REPORT FOR VIMY PAPER

The CRCR paper for the Conference of Defence Associations Institute, Ripple Effects: Russia, the Energy Card, and the Medvedev Doctrine, is scheduled to be completed by the end of November.

For more information on the CRCR, visit http://upc.georgiancollege.ca/research/.