The Reddin Symposium, held in January each year, is designed to improve community understanding about Canada. The Reddin family of Bowling Green originally suggested the idea of an annual Canadian symposium and has funded the event every year. Now in its twentieth year, the symposium has covered a diverse range of topics that enhance our understanding of Canada. The proceedings feature the remarks of highly qualified speakers on such timely themes as:

• Public Education
• Urban Development
• Immigration and Population
• Foreign Affairs
• Social Equity
• Health Care

Previous symposium topics include:

• Higher Education in Canada (2007)
• Belonging in Canada: Immigration and the Politics of Race and Ethnicity (2006)
• Canadian Foreign Policy: The Values That Shape It (2005)
• Crime and the Criminal Justice System in Canada (2004)
• Work, Family, and Health Policy in Canada (2003)
• Power Politics: Canadian Energy Perspectives (2002)
• Public Education in Canada (2001)
• Urban Development: A Comparison between Canada and the U.S. (2000)
• Canada-U.S. Border Issues (1999)
• The Environment of the Great Lakes (1998)
• The Canadian Constitution and Renewed Federalism (1997)
• Canadian Cultural Sovereignty (1996)
• Peacekeeping as an Expression of Canadian Values (1995)
• Canada: A Fractured Political Landscape? (1994)
• The Changing Population Landscape of Canada: Implications for Social Policy (1993)
• The Canadian Health Care System (1992)
• Canada’s Native Peoples (1991)
• Canada-United States Relations and the Environment (1990)
• Free Trade Realities and the Telecommunications Industries of Canada and the United States (1989)
• Canada-United States Free Trade (1988)

NOTE: Proceedings available beginning with 1994 event.