Keynote Speaker
"Internationalizing the University: A Canadian Perspective"
Professor Adrian Shubert holds degrees from the University of Toronto (BA), the University of New Mexico (MA), the University of Warwick (MA), and the University of London (PhD). Currently, Professor Shubert is the Associate Vice-President International for York University in Toronto, Canada. He has been at York since 1985, and is a Full Professor in the Department of History. He has extensive experience in administration and governance, having served as the History Department’s Director of the Undergraduate Program from 1991-1993 and its Chair from 1994-2000. In 2000-2001, he was the Interim Associate Director of the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies and Coordinator of the newly established European Studies program. He has served on the University Senate, as well as on several committees of the Faculty of Arts Council, and has been a member of the Dean’s Task Force on Internationalization.
Professor Shubert’s teaching and research interests focus on European social history, in particular the history of Spain. Most recently he published Death and Money in the Afternoon: A History of Spanish Bullfighting, which is also being published in Spanish. He is the co-author of The West and the World: Contacts, Conflicts, Connections, the Grade 12 history text for the new secondary school curriculum. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (1997-1998), and in 1999 was named a Commander of the Order of Civil Merit by King Juan Carlos of Spain.
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