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2025 Henry Marshall Tory Lecture

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Tariff Man, World Order, and Canada:
Asymmetries of Power and the International System

Greg Anderson will discuss the significant changes unsettling the postwar economic and political order Canada came to rely upon for its economic and political security. What lessons can be drawn from earlier periods of tension? What kind of power does Canada have to chart an alternative course? Will the power and lure of the American colossus for Canada bring about an inevitable accommodation with Trump’s America and beyond?

When:
November 5, 2025
Doors Open 6:30pm, Lecture 7pm.

Where (new location for 2025):
Edmonton Clinic Health Academy (ECHA)
11405 87 Ave NW, Edmonton (view map)
Lecture Room 2-490 (building map)

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Greg Anderson Bio Statement

Greg Anderson is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta (Canada). His research and teaching interests are broadly situated within international political economy, particularly the political economy of North American integration. He has authored numerous pieces focused on Canada-U.S. relations, the politics of international trade and investment policy, U.S. foreign economic policy.

I have been teaching at the University of Alberta since 2004. My teaching and research interests generally flow in and out of the political economy of North America. I’m particularly interested in North American integration (the NAFTA, etc), but also spend a lot of time focused on US politics and foreign policy, Canada-US relations and all kinds of things globally. I am also a recovering gym rat and hoops junkie who still thinks he can play.

Video Games. No Longer Child’s Play!

The Friends of the University of Alberta present Raise The Bar
with Dr. PB Berge

Video Games. No Longer Child’s Play!

Video gaming is the BIGGEST entertainment business on earth. Worth more than twice the global film and music industries combined! Yet many people think video games are “child’s play”.

They’re not. They are classrooms, laboratories, and spaces of social protest and you should know more about them. On Oct. 28th, join us when video game expert, Professor PB Berge dismantles misconceptions about games today and reveals how players are using video games to challenge technology, identity, and power itself.

Blue Chair
9624 – 76 Avenue NW

Tue, Oct 28, 2025

5:00 PM Doors Open
6:00 PM Speaker + Q&A

Ticket includes 1 drink (beer, house wine, non-alcoholic)
Drinks Menu at The Blue Chair Cafe

Dr. Persephone Blue (“PB”) Berge is an award-winning media scholar, game designer, and self-described ludoarsonist. 🔥 She is an Assistant Professor of Experimental Game Design and is cross-appointed in the Media & Technology Studies Program and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies. They are also the director of the Discord Academic Research Community and a co-founder of Tabletop Research in Practice. Their research concerns the so-called “unplayable,” trans game design, feminist platform studies, and toxic technocultures. Their work can be found in New Media & Society, Game Studies, Feminist Media Studies, The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies and more. Website: https://psberge.com

Raise The Bar is a program designed by The Friends of the University of Alberta to provide engaging learning opportunities delivered by U of A researchers in a causal setting – like a bar. We’re raising the bar on the way people consume content!

Sleep is the New Sex?

The Friends of the University of Alberta present Raise The Bar
with Dr. Cressida Heyes

Sleep is the New Sex?

Sleep is always in the news, often under the headline that we are experiencing a “sleep crisis.” What is this crisis, and where did it come from? Why are we so anxious about sleep? In this short talk I’ll offer some answers to these questions drawn from my research in cultural politics. Come along and learn a little bit about the history of sleep, the preoccupation with giving advice to new mothers, the “sleep gaps” in gender and race, or why powerful men like to pretend they never sleep.

Blue Chair
9624 – 76 Avenue NW

Tue, Jun 10, 2025

5:00 PM Doors Open
6:00 PM Speaker + Q&A

Ticket includes 1 drink (beer, house wine, non-alcoholic)
Drinks Menu at The Blue Chair Cafe

Cressida Heyes is the author of three monographs, most recently Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge (Duke University Press, 2020), winner of the 2021 David Easton Award from the American Political Science Association, and finalist for the North American Social for Social Philosophy Book Award. The book argues that “experience” is a thoroughly political category, a social and historical product not authored by any individual. At the same time, “the personal is political,” and one’s own lived experience is an important epistemic resource. Anaesthetics of Existence reconciles these two positions, drawing on examples of things that happen to us but are nonetheless excluded from experience. If for Foucault an “aesthetics of existence” was a project of making one’s life a work of art, Heyes’ “anaesthetics of existence” describes antiprojects that are tacitly excluded from life—but should be brought back in. Drawing on critical phenomenology, genealogy, and feminist theory, Heyes shows how and why experience has edges, and analyzes phenomena that press against those edges. Essays on sexual violence against unconscious victims, the temporality of drug use, and childbirth as a limit-experience build a politics of experience while showcasing Heyes’ philosophical method.

Dr. Heyes is currently working on a SSHRC-funded project called “Sleep is the New Sex,” which extends and moves beyond the work in Anaesthetics, to examine how representations of sleep are implicated with cultural anxieties and political struggles around gender, sexuality, work, leisure, and rest.

Raise The Bar is a program designed by The Friends of the University of Alberta to provide engaging learning opportunities delivered by U of A researchers in a causal setting – like a bar. We’re raising the bar on the way people consume content!