Ottawa Historical Assocaition – Lecture

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The Ottawa Historical Association is pleased to announce that its next regular lecture will be delivered by Xavier Gélinas of the Canadian Museum of Civilization on “Between History, Memory and Politics: An Exhibition on Queen Elizabeth II.” The lecture will take place on Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 7:30 pm in Room 2017, Dunton Tower, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive.

Dr. Xavier Gélinas is Curator, Canadian Political History and Assistant Director, Archaeology and History at the Canadian Museum of Civilization. He was chief curator of the Museum’s permanent exhibition, Face to Face: The Canadian Personalities Hall, and curator for A Queen and her Country, a recent exhibit marking the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.

A graduate of the Université de Montréal and York University, Dr. Gélinas is co-editor of Duplessis, son milieu, son époque (Septentrion, 2010) and author of La droite intellectuelle québécoise et la Révolution tranquille (Presses de l’Université Laval, 2007). Dr. Gélinas is interested in the political and intellectual history of 20th-century Quebec and Canada, and is currently working on René Lévesque’s journalism.