Instructor: Stuart Parker
This course will explore Canada’s current authoritarian turn and previous episodes of Canadian authoritarianism, in the context a larger turn taking place throughout the post-industrial West. Lectures will consider both universal and global factors in the turn and unique aspects of its manifestation in Canada.
Format and Cost
The course, comprising thirteen sixty to ninety-minute classes, has a total cost of $180 Canadian (an increase from $150 Canadian, at which registration costs were frozen 2020-24). Individual classes can also be purchased at $15.00 each. The classes will be delivered via Zoom and are available only online.
Texts
There is no mandatory reading for the course. However, the instructor will have a supplementary reading list for those wishing to dive deeper into subjects raised in the course.
Course Schedule
Classes will be held on Sundays at 12:00pm Pacific Time, 3:00pm Eastern Time, 8:00pm British Summer Time, 10:00pm East African Time.
| Date | Seminar Topic |
| June 8th | Colonial practices in Britain’s post-1784 empire |
| June 15th | The Family Compact versus Papineau and Mackenzie |
| June 22nd | Quasi-disestablishment: Syndicalism and Submerged Methodism |
| June 29th | The Padlock Law, Red Scare and the Rise and Fall of the Union Nationale |
| July 6th | Bethunism and the First Signs of the Imperial Mandarinate |
| July 13th | Jean Chretien’s Team Canada, Election Reforms and Transfer Cuts |
| July 20th | Candidate Vetting, Preference Falsification and the Rise of Stephen Harper |
| July 27th | Blairite Austerity and the Awakening of the Commissar Class |
| August 3rd | The Third Great Awakening and Canada’s False Secularism |
| August 10th | Joe Gosnell and the Rise of the Polynesian System |
| August 17th | Taiwan and Scotland as Dual Vanguards |
| August 24th | Church Ladies, Adderall and Grassroots Authoritarianism |
| August 31st | Catherine McKenney and Mussolini’s Theory of Violence Monopolies |
