Sage Hill Keynote Lecture
Every year at the Sage Hill Writing Experience, Lumsden SK, a faculty member is invited to give a Keynote Lecture on a topic of her or his choice. It was my turn in 1998.
Kyiv Konnection
The Ukrainian Foundation for College Education in Edmonton hosts an annual fund-raiser, the Kyiv Konnection, with a guest speaker. I spoke in 2006.
Icon Symposium
In 2003 I was invited to speak at a symposium, “Icons and Image,” at St Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewa, Saskatoon.
Grainau 2005
The annual conference of Canadianists in Grainau, Germany, is one of the largest and most important of its kind. I was invited to address the conference on the basis of my most recent book, The Next Canada: In Search of the Future Nation (2000)