The Faculty of Law is delighted that Christopher Moore, a Governor General's Award winning author, is visiting the University of Alberta as a distinguished visitor from January 26 to February 2, 2011.
Mr. Moore has been called Canada's most versatile writer of history. He is a Toronto-based writer, blogger and commentator who will be spending a week at the University of Alberta giving a series of public lectures and classroom presentations in both the Faculty of Law and the Department of History and Classics.
Mr. Moore's books include 1867: How the Fathers Made a Deal, He wrote the 1999 photo-history best-seller Canada: Our Century with Mark Kingwell. He helped create the best-selling children's history The Story of Canada. His first book, Louisbourg Portraits: Life in An Eighteenth Century Garrison Town, won the Governor General's Award in non-fiction. His other writing includes magazine essays, a weblog, columns, film scripts, radio documentaries, guidebooks, reference works, and computer simulations.
In addition to receiving the Governor General's Award, Mr. Moore has also received the Mr. Christie Award and the Children's Literature Roundtable Award (for The Story of Canada), and the Secretary of State's Prize for Excellence in Canadian Studies, as well as recognition from the Canadian Historical Association and Ontario Historical Society. His achievements have been recognized in the authoritative Canadian Who's Who and his journalism has twice been recognized with National Magazine Awards nominations.
Mr. Moore's public lectures include:
Thursday, January 27, 2011
- "Doing history in public" from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Tory 2-58
- "From legal history to public policy: Where even a minor legal history topic may lead" from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in Fraser Milner Casgrain Hall (Room 201), Law Centre
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
- "New light on the Quebec Conference 1864: Were the confederation-makers democrats?" from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in Tory 2-58
For more information on Mr. Moore, please visit his website: http://www.christophermoore.ca/