January 24 John J. Wintermeyer Lecture on Religion and Politics

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Subject: January 24         John J. Wintermeyer Lecture on Religion and Politics





Paul Litt, PhD, Department of History and School of Canadian Studies, Carleton University



"The Just Society: Just a Slogan?"



The 2013-2014 John J. Wintermeyer Lecture on Religion and Politics

 January  24, 2014

C. L. Siegfried Hall | 7:30p.m. | Doors open 6:45p.m.

Free of Charge | Free Parking | Wheelchair Accessible | No Registration Required





In 1968, Pierre Trudeau ran for office promising a "Just Society." Was it just an election slogan? For a society supposedly secularizing in the swinging sixties, descriptors like "Just Society" and "Peaceable Kingdom" had remarkably religious overtones. This lecture looks at how the promise of the sixties melded with Canadian identity formation and imprinted baby boomers with a particular understanding of national values that would long withstand the rise of neoliberalism.



Paul Litt is an associate professor in the Department of History and the School of Canadian Studies at Carleton University, and director of the MA in Public History program. He has worked for the Ontario Heritage Foundation and been a policy advisor at the Ontario Ministry of Culture. Dr. Litt's research interests center on the intersection of culture, nationalism and the mass media in 20th-century Canada. His most recent book, Elusive Destiny: The Political Vocation of John Napier Turner, is a political biography of the leading English Canadian Liberal of the 1970s and 1980s..



This lecture is endowed by a special fund created by family and friends in memory of the Honourable John J. Wintermeyer.






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