Join us for a conversation with Lloyd Axworthy on his recently-published memoir, Lloyd Axworthy: My Life in Politics (2024, Sutherland House Books).*
We have the honour and privilege of welcoming him back to the Liu Institute for Global Issues, where he served as Director from 2000-2004.
Lloyd Axworthy was a Member of Parliament for 21 years and served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1995 to 2000. He was then President of the University of Winnipeg for ten years. In December 2015, he was promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada. He now chairs the World Refugee and Migration Council.
In this stirring and beautifully written memoir, Lloyd Axworthy tells the unlikely story of a Canadian prairie boy raised in the Social Gospel tradition becoming a prominent force in both national and international politics.
With extraordinary candour and introspection, he invites readers inside his roles in some of the most important political stories of the last half century, including the enactment of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the great debate over the Canada-US free trade agreement, and the global fights to ban landmines and establish the International Criminal Court.
When: October 21st, 5:30-7:00pm, followed by brief book signing in the lobby
Where: xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of Many Trees), 1st floor, Liu Institute for Global Issues
*Copies of the book will be available for sale in the lobby.
This event is co-hosted by the SPPGA and UBC’s Department of Political Science.
