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Michael Kater
Affiliation: York University
Keywords: Modern German, social-cultural history
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Professor Michael Kater of the Department of History, Atkinson College, York University, is the leading historian of Germany in Canada. Since 1965, his books and articles have poured forth, analyzing subjects as varied as Weimar student life, the SS, Nazi party membership, culture, and doctors and the practice of medicine under Hitler. All his writing, in both English and German, is marked by absolutely thorough research, carefully honed argumentation, and a complete mastery of the field. Without question, Michael Kater is a major authority in this most important field of history.
Dr. William Keith
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Powys Family, Canadian literature
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William Keith has established himself as the major authority on 'the rural tradition' in both prose and poetry. But his interests are wide, and his publications have been in a variety of fields. He has written on Blake, Lawrence, Hardy, and Yeats; and he has taken a vigorous interest in Canadian Literature. His recent appointment as Editor of "The University of Toronto Quarterly" is evidence of the respect that his colleagues feel for his scholarly scope and critical acuteness.
Gary Kelly
Affiliation: University of Alberta
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Gary Kelly, from the Department of English at the University, took his degrees from the University of Toronto and Oxford. His first book, "The English Jacobin Novel", published by Clarendon Press, is a major study in intellectual history as well as literary criticism. His subsequent books, on "English Fiction of the Romantic Period", on Mary Wollstonecraft, and on women's writing and the French Revolution, continue to explore literature in the light of the philosophical, political and social conditions of the time in which it was written. Formerly a Killam Research Fellow, he is launched in editing a multi-volume project on women's writing in English from the middle ages to the present. For three years (1994-97) he was Professor at Keele University in England.
Dr. Nathan Keyfitz
Affiliation: Harvard University
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Nathan Keyfitz, B.Sc. (McGill), Ph.D. (Chicago), is Senior Research Statistician in the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. It is a very special pleasure for me to introduce him to the Society since he has recently accepted an appointment as a Professor of Sociology in the Department of Political Economy in the University of Toronto. He has achieved distinction in four distinct careers: as a mathematical statistician, as a demographer, as a student of the cultures of southeast Asia, and as consultant for programmes of economic development. The University of Toronto is proud of its new Professor; this Society will be equally proud of its new Fellow.
James King
Affiliation: McMaster University
Keywords: Biography, modernism, Japanese woodblock prints
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Internationally known and respected as a scholarly editor and biographer of the eighteenth-century literary figure, William Cowper, James King has become one of Canada's foremost writers of biography. His acclaimed accounts of the life and work of Paul Nash, Herbert Read, and (most recently) William Blake have had an important impact not only on the interpretations of the figures about which he has written but also on the very nature of the genre of biography.
Dr. Leslie King
Affiliation: McMaster University
Keywords: Urbanization, development, economic, locational analysis
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Dr. Leslie J. King has a long and outstanding record of scholarly research and publication, journal editing, and professional leadership in urban and economic geography. He was a pioneer in introducing mathematical models to geography and was a founding member of the interdisciplinary field of regional science. He has made major contributions in developing the theoretical underpinnings of economic geography, in quantitative modelling, central place theory and the systematic analysis of fluctuations in economic activity across space and over time. His research, publications and pedagogical contributions continue to shape the work of an entire generation of geographers and spatial analysts.
Dr. John King-Farlow
Affiliation: University of Alberta
Keywords: Religion
Metaphysics
Current issues
Language
History
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John King-Farlow specializes in religion and metaphysics. His writings on rationality and religion have established the relationship between truth and falsity in ideals and faith. In addition, he has directed much of his thought to issues of technology, moral values, and international cooperation in order to illustrate and explain their significance in relation to life values. Although he does not specialize as a historian, King-Farlow has sought to pursue consistently the goal he advocates of taking philosophy's historical and modern traditions with serious interest. He has thus published exploring papers from time to time on a range of traditional or contemporary figures and movements.
1997 - Book of Poetry: "Words Rise Up Like Fireflies" (BearCat Press, ISBN 0-9682622-0-1.
Dr. Martin Kitchen
Affiliation: Simon Fraser University
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In German history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Professor Kitchen has established himself as an authority and a brilliant writer on many subjects ranging from Prussian economic history to Austrian politics in 1934. His six books and several major articles constitute an astonishing 'corpus' of learning and interpretation for so young a man, and some of them have drawn high praise from the old masters in the field, such as F.L. Carsten and Gordon Craig. Kitchen is without a doubt the leading German historian in Canada; his accomplishments merit the highest recognition.
Dr. Raymond Klibansky
Affiliation: McGill University
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Professor Raymond Klibansky's list of scholarly publications in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, the United States, written in five different languages including Latin, attest to his immense erudition. The numerous honorific posts he has held indicate that he is one of the most respected scholars internationally ever to be a Canadian citizen or a servant of a Canadian university. These speak so eloquently for themselves that further comment upon Professor Klibansky's qualifications for election to the Royal Society would be superfluous. He has also been unsparing of his time with students at McGill.
Dr. Klaus Klostermaier
Affiliation: University of Manitoba
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KLAUS KONRAD KLOSTERMAIER, University Distinguished Professor, Department of Religion, University of Manitoba, has won international recognition through his work in the area of interreligious dialogue, studies in Hinduism and science and religion. His engagement in India on behalf of Hindu- Christian understanding has found expression in works that have become classics. He has broadened his interests in the past decade to also include the science and religion dialogue. The importance of his work has been recognized both by Western and Eastern scholars.
Dr. E.F. Koerner
Affiliation: University of Ottawa
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E. F. Konrad Koerner, Canada's most distinguished historian of linguistics, has done much to professionalize this field, both in Canada and internationally. His personal scholarship includes four books on the linguistic thought of Ferdinand de Saussure, the founder of modern linguistics as well as of structuralism in the humanities and social sciences. Dr. Koerner's bibliographic and editorial work and six books devoted to 19th and 20th century historiography of the language sciences has provided crucial resources for burgeoning historicist scholarship. Canada's high profile in linguistic historiography depends in great part on Dr. Koerner's books, articles, conference presentations, organizational skills and international network. He is also active in writing and editing in current linguistic theory and in diachronic linguistics.
Leszek Kosinski
Affiliation: University of Alberta
Keywords: Migration, population redistribution, political geography, migration policy
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Professor Leszek Kosinski has done important analyses of population migration in Poland, Africa and Asia. He has been internationally recognized for this work and has been central to the increasing participation of indigenous Asian and African scholars in studies of their populations. He is also among the world's foremost scholars of East Central European population movements. He has made a major contribution to the study of migration and of emergency planning by co-authoring the first integrated, cross-national and comparative analysis of emergency evacuations of cities. Presently, he is coordinator of a major international study on migrations and of another on "Ecological Disorder in Amazonia".
Vern Krishna
Affiliation: University of Ottawa
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A brilliant legal academic who specializes in the field of taxation, Professor Vern Krishna has produced a large body of work, all characterized by clear writing, acute analysis and concern with the policy-goals of taxation. This work is respected and cited in the academic community, the legal profession, the courts of all levels, and in the policy-making branches of government. He is one of the most influential and admired legal scholars in Canada.
Dr. Robert Kroetsch
Affiliation: University of Manitoba
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Prolific novelist, poet and critical essayist, the contributions of Robert Kroetsch, Distinguished Professor in the University of Manitoba, to literature and ideas have been recognized by several awards and by many invitations to lecture and participate in symposia. Novels and poems are original in form and content and meditate on many aspects of life - prairie regionalism, fiction versus reality, the temper of North America, the poet and his mortality. His critical studies have brought Canadian literature and ideas to new audiences in North America and Europe. In all three genres, as well as in the 'interview' which he has made peculiarly his own, Kroetsch's writing and speaking is original in form and matter, penetrating and provoking.
Dr. Karol Krótki
Affiliation: University of Alberta
Keywords: Demography
Sampling
Economic development
Defective data analysis
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Few social scientists in Canada could claim such a diversity of experiences. Dr. Krotki has spent about thirty very productive years of his life in almost all continents, particularly in developping countries. Part of his reputation is related to his important contribution to methodological improvements in the measurement of demographic phenomena in these countries. Besides being a world leading researcher in that field, he has made remarkable contributions to the understanding of social implications of population phenomena, particularly in Canada. As a scholar and professor, Dr. Krotki is one of the leading demographers of this country.
Mrs. Margaret Labarge
Affiliation: Carleton University
Keywords: History, medieval, French & English, women
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Professor Labarge is one of the most widely-read (and readable) historians of medieval history in the world, as the multiple-publication and frequent reprinting of her books testifies.
Her work has won her a wider audience than most academicians enioy, but not at the expense of her scholarly reputation; her fellow medievalists agree that she richly deserved her Order of Canada. Her new book on women in the middle ages is likely to be another landmark: this distinguished scholar is uniquely well qualified to give us a fresh and reliable view of that currently popular field of study.
Gérard La Forest
Affiliation: University of New Brunswick
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Since graduation from Oxford almost 25 years ago, Dr. La Forest has had a remarkably varied career in many parts of Canada. A central core of very distinguished legal scholarship and publishing has consistently characterized the whole period. For fourteen years he was a full-time professor of law, and in the other years has maintained both his teaching and publishing while also rendering distinguished service to the Government of Canada. He is a leading authority on the Constitution of Canada, natural resources, taxation, criminal law and international law, and a member of the Law Reform Commission of Canada.
Dr. David Laidler
Affiliation: Western University
Keywords: Monetary economics
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David Laidler, through his extensive research and teaching activities, has become a world authority in the area of macro-econornics and particularly on the role of money and monetary policy. His studies, based on a variety of countries, have given special attention to the U.S., the U.K. and Canada. Throughout this work he has managed to achieve a blend of theoretical reasoning and empirical evidence which is highly distinctive and has been important to the development of the subject internationally. His name ranks prominently in any bibliography of the important work done by economists in this area during the past decade.
Dr. W. Kaye Lamb
Affiliation: National Library of Canada
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Lamb, William Kaye, M.A., Ph.D., LL.D. - Dominion Archivist, honorary Chairman and he was formerly librarian and archivist of the province of British Columbia, librarian of the University of British Columbia, editor of the "British Columbia Historical Review". He is the author of "Introduction to the Letters of John McLoughlin", and articles in historical and Library journals.
Dr. Lauriat Lane, Jr.
Affiliation: University of New Brunswick
Keywords: Dickens
Thoreau
Fiction
MacLeish
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Lauriat Lane is known internationally for his work on Dickens, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Mark Twain, and MacLeish and was Senior Editor of "The Stature of Dickens", one of the major contributions to the Dickens Centennial Year. Professor Lane was the Founding Editor (1975-84) of the new journal "English Studies in Canada", Head of the Department of English in the University of New Brunswick and one of the principal architects of programmes of advanced studies in English Literature in the Maritimes Provinces.
Dr. Jean Laponce
Affiliation: The University of British Columbia
Keywords: Ethnicity, language, space, referendums
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Jean Laponce est professeur de science politique aux Universités de Colombie britannique et d'Ottawa. Il est diplomé de l'Institut d'études politiques de Paris (1949) et docteur de l'Université de Californie à Los Angeles (1955). Il a été président de l'Association canadienne de science politique (1972-73), de l'Association internationale de science politique (1973-76), et de l'Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences de la Société royale du Canada. La notion d'espace offre la clé de ses recherches actuelles, soit l'espace métaphorique que nous utilisons pour structurer nos idéologies politiques (gauche-droite, haut-bas, proche-lointain par exemple) soit l'espace géographique réel qui est l'enjeu de compétition ou de conflit entre ethnies, et notamment entre ethnies ayant des langues différentes.
Dr. Gary Latham
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Leadership, employee motivation, selection
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GARY PHILLIP LATHAM, Secretary of State Professor of Organizational Effectiveness, Faculty of Management, University of Toronto, has made a three-fold contribution to organizational psychology. First, he was a co-participant in the development of goal setting theory, and he showed that participative decision making affects performance only if it increases self-efficacy regarding the discovery of goal related strategies. Second, on the premise that goals predict behaviour, he developed the situational interview that minimizes biases. Applicants are presented a dilemma whereby they state their intentions rather than a socially desirable response. Third, he created behavioural observation scales for coaching employees. He developed a training methodology for increasing objectivity in performance appraisals.
Dr. Hughes Leblanc
Affiliation: Université du Québec à Montréal
Keywords: Free Logic
Truth-value semantics
Probability semantics
Induction
Deduction
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Hugues Leblanc is the most important Canadian logician of his generation. His contributions lie in three areas, in each of which he has expanded the frontier of research in fundamental and greatly valued ways. They are (1) free logic, (2) truth-value semantics and (3) probability theory. All three are areas calling for considerable technical virtuosity, and each deals with problems of celebrated difficulty.
There is a recurring motif discernible in Professor Leblanc's work. It involves finding fault with received theories on grounds of philosophical inadequacy, and then supplanting them with more satisfactory alternatives. The trick is to try to get the alternatives to match the originals in technical power. This Leblanc has managed to do with impressive consistency, and is the measure of his importance to technical philosophy.
Dr. Richard Lee
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Medical anthropology, indigenous human rights, African political economy
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The outstanding attribute of Richard Lee's ethnographic study is its theoretical sensitivity. As an example of longitudinal analysis and detail-rich field work it is remarkable. But it is when this empirical treasure load is put into a challenging theoretical framework that it takes on special significance to students of Africa. For Lee uses his complex understanding of the !Kung to test the validity of two major theories of societal evolution: Marxism and ecological systems theory. It is because he returned to the !Kung several times that he could monitor change from hunting and gathering to farming and herding and thus have grounds for such important theoretical testing. Lee finds that foraging societies such as the Kung are indeed communistic, but that that reciprocity does not come naturally, it must be struggled for, and even when it does exist it can co-exist with sexual inequality.