Andrew Cohen is a best-selling author, award-winning journalist and professor of journalism and international affairs. A native of Montreal, Quebec, graduated with honours in political science from McGill University, earned graduate degrees in journalism and international relations from Carleton, and was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre of International Studies at the University of Cambridge. As a journalist, he has reported at home and abroad for United Press International, Time, The Financial Times of London, Congressional Quarterly, Jane’s Defence Weekly, The Financial Post, Saturday Night and The Globe and Mail, where he was a member of the Editorial Board, a columnist, and a correspondent in Washington, D.C between 1997 and 2001. He writes a weekly column for The Ottawa Citizen syndicated in Canwest Newspapers and appears as a commentator on radio and television. He has won two National Newspaper Awards, three National Magazine Awards and the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal. Among his five books are While Canada Slept: How We Lost Our Place in the World, a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction and The Unfinished Canadian: The People We Are, a national bestseller. His latest book is Extraordinary Canadians: Lester Pearson, which The Globe and Mail called “a notable book of 2008.” A professor since 2001, he spent 2007-2008 in Berlin as a Visiting Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. In September, 2009, he was named president of The Historica-Dominion Institute, a newly-created organization dedicated to history, identity and democracy in Canada. Benoît Pelletier is a politician and lawyer in Quebec. He was a Liberal Party Member of the National Assembly from 1998 to 2008, and served as Minister for Canadian Intergovernmental Affairs, Aboriginal affairs, Francophones within Canada, the Reform of Democratic Institutions and Access to Information in the Jean Charest government, as well as the minister responsible for the Outaouais region, for the region of Nord-du-Québec and the deputy leader of the government in the National Assembly of Québec. He studied law at the Université Laval in 1981 and obtained a licence and was admitted to the Barreau du Quebec soon after. He worked for the federal Ministry of Justice as a legal adviser. Francisco Colom González is a Research Scientist at the Institute of Philosophy of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). He obtained his Ph.D in Philosophy (1991) at the Universidad Complutense, in Madrid (Spain) and his Diploma in Political Science and Constitutional Law (1991) at the Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies, Madrid. He undertook post-graduate studies at the Free University of Berlin (Germany; 1985-86) and postdoctoral research at McGill University (Montreal, Canada; 1992). From 1992 until 1994 he was Associate Professor of Sociology at the Public University of Navarre (Pamplona, Spain). He has also been visiting professor and research visitor in several Latin-American, Canadian and European universities. From 2000-2005 he was the president of the Ibero-American Association of Political Philosophy and is currently the president of the Spanish Association for Canadian Studies/Association Espagnole d'Etudes Canadiens and Vicedirector of the Institute of Philosophy of the CSIC. He is currently coordinating a research project on political secularisation. Danielle Fuller holds degrees from the Universities of Durham and Leeds and studied at Dalhousie University, (Halifax, NS, Canada) on a Commonwealth Scholarship. She has been Lecturer in Canadian Studies and Director, Regional Centre for Canadian Studies at Birmingham since 1997. Her chief research areas are: contemporary Canadian writing, particularly Atlantic Canadian literary culture; the politics of cultural production in Canada, and reading communities in present-day North America and the UK. She is also committed to interdisciplinary research methods that combine empirical and textual strategies. Her book, Writing the Everyday: Women’s Textual Communities in Atlantic Canada (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2004) was the Winner of the Gabrielle Roy Prize (English-language) 2005. Danielle has served on BACS Council and as a Convenor of the BACS Literature Group.
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