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Dominick S. Graham Memorial Lectures

The Annual Graham Lecture in War and Society was inaugurated in 2000 in honour of Professor Dominick S. Graham. After serving with distinction in the British Army in the Second World War, Graham came to UNB in the 1960s during which time he completed his PhD and became an Assistant Professor with the History Department. His focus soon shifted to war and society issues.  In 1971 Graham established the Military and Strategic Studies Program and in 1980 was one of the founding members of UNB’s Centre for Conflict Studies (both precursors to The Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society).

Date  Name of Lecturer Title of Lecture
2003 Margaret MacMillan  “The Long Shadow of the Great War: Our World and the Paris Peace Conference of 1919” 
2004 Terry Copp  "Canadians and the Liberation of the Netherlands"
2005 Ivan Fenton  “Canada and NATO: From Kosovo to Afghanistan” 
2006 Desmond Morton  “In Afghan Fields the Poppies Blow” 
2009 Lewis MacKenzie  “How Did We Get Here From There? The Canadian Forces from the 1950s to Afghanistan” 
2010 Marc Milner  “Canada’s Navy at 100: Was There Any Need For This ‘Costly and Hazardous Experiment?’” 
2011 Christian Parenti  “Tropic of Chaos: The New Era of Climate Wars” 
2012 Noah Richler  “Is Canadian Multilateralism Dead?"  
2013 Roger Sarty  "When the War Came Home to Canada: The U-Boat Campaign in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 1942" 
2014 John Grodzinski  “Mind the Crap: Coping with the Bicentenary of the War of 1812” 
2016 Gwynne Dyer  “Don’t Panic – But You Can Worry a Little” 
2017 Tim Cook  “Vimy: Battle and Legend 1917 – 2017” 
2018 (February) Michael Neiberg  “Path to War: A New Interpretation of America’s Entry into the Great War” 
2018 (October) J. Brent Wilson  “New Brunswickers and the Advance to Victory, 1918” 
2021 David Hofmann  “We have it here too: Politics, Identity, Race and the Question of Far-Right Extremism in Atlantic Canada” 
2022 Gregory Kennedy  “New Approaches in Inclusive Leadership and Military Studies in Atlantic Canada” 
2024 Jason Bell  “How Canadian Intelligence Agency Secures Post War Peace: From Winthrop Bell and the Marshall Plan to ‘The Day After’ Today.” 
2025 Sabrina Thomas  “The Color of Dust: The effort to save ‘black babies’ from Vietnam” 
2026 Lisa Todd  “Investigating Atrocity: Military Violence, Civilian Suffering, and Propaganda in the Era of the First World War” 

 

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