ENGAGEMENTS

• August 10, 2012
• Speech: "A Fair Country" Revisited (6:30pm, 353 McCarthy Road, Stratford, Canada)

• April 19, 2012
• Speaking at the Public Interest Alberta 2012 Annual Advocacy Conference, "Make Shift Happen: Mobilizing the Power of the People" (Calgary and Edmonton, Canada)

• March 27, 2012
• Speaking in the Toronto in Question Lecture Series: Who Needs Art and Culture in Toronto? (6:30pm, Free admission, FitzGerald Building, 150 College St., Room 103, Toronto, Canada)

• March 26, 2012
• Speeaking at public forum, Economic Inequality: What Do We Do? (7:00pm, Free admission, Metropolitan United Church, Queen & Church, Toronto, Canada)

• February 23, 2012
• Participating as Panelist and a Leading Speaker at the Global Korea 2012 Conference (Seoul, South Korea)

• November 7, 2011
• Extraordinary Canadians Author Meet-and-Greet (St. Thomas Golf and Country Club, 11am)

• November 4, 2011
• JRS Receives Honourary Doctorate from Nipissing University and Delivers Convoocation Address

• November 3, 2011
• Panel Discussion: Aboriginal Education: A Call to Innovate, with National Chief Shawn Atleo and Jose Barreiro (Nipissing University Theatre, 6:30pm)

• October 29, 2011
• Official Launch of the Extraordinary Canadians Television Series

• October 21, 2011
• LaFontaine and Baldwin Book Launch Event at the Salon du livre de Dieppe at 19:00 (Dieppe, New Brunswick)

• October 21, 2011
• JRS Receives Honourary Doctorate from Université de Moncton and Delivers Convoocation Address

• October 19, 2011
• Discussing LaFontaine and Baldwin with Éric Bédard at Librairie Olivieri at 19:00 (Montreal, Canada)

• October 17, 2011
• Speech to the Saskatchewan Law Review (Saskatoon, Canada)

• October 5, 2011
• JRS participates in the first KA NA TA Conversation (Winnipeg, Canada)

• September 12, 2011
• Literary Evening with JRS, "The Collapse of Globalism" at Galery ARTGET (Belgrade, Serbia)

• September 9, 2011
• Speech: "Marshall McLuhan: communications and freedom of expression (Canadian Embassy in Belgrade, Serbia)

• July 21, 2011
• JRS Receives the Gutenberg Galaxy Award for Literature in Celebration of McLuhan Centenary

• June 25, 2011
• ICC Citizenship Ceremony hosted by the Musqueam Indian Band in Vancouver

• May 30, 2011
• Speech on Democracy in 19th-century Canada and 21st-century North Africa, as part of Fort York's "Parler Fort" Speaker Series (7:30pm, Fort York, Toronto, Canada)

• May 28, 2011
• Extraordinary Canadians Event with Adrienne Clarkson at Chapters St. Johns (2:00pm, 70 Kenmount Rd., St. Johns, Newfoundland)

• May 26, 2011
• JRS Receiving Honorary Doctorate of Letters Degree from Memorial University and Addressing the Convocation Ceremony at the Arts and Culture Centre (St. Johns, Canada)

• May 26, 2011
• John Ralston Saul recibe un título honorario de Doctorado en Letras de Memorial University y presenta un discurso en la Ceremonia de Graduación del Centro de Artes y Cultura (St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada).

• May 26, 2011
• John Ralston Saul recibe un título honorario de Doctorado en Letras de Memorial University y presenta un discurso en la Ceremonia de Graduación del Centro de Artes y Cultura (St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada)

• April 14, 2011
• JRS to Moderate Extraordinary Canadians Book Launch Event with André Pratte, Vincent Lam, Charles Foran, and Mark Kingwell at the Royal Ontario Museum at 19:00

• April 13, 2011
• JRS to Moderate Extraordinary Canadians Book Launch Event with André Pratte, Vincent Lam, and Charles Foran at the Mayfair Theatre (1074 Bank St.) at 19:00, as part of Ottawa's Writers Festival

• March 18, 2011
• Keynote Speech at the French Immersion in Manitoba Conference (Winnipeg, Canada)

• March 9, 2011
• JRS Participating in Global Economy Panel Discussion: The Dark Side of Globalization, hosted by the Centre for International Governance Innovation, starting at 19:00 (Waterloo, ON)

• March 6, 2011
• Speaking at the Globe & Mail/Ben McNally Books Authors' Brunch - 10:00am at the King Edward Hotel (Toronto, ON)

• March 2, 2011
• Tribute to Bob Neibert (Bracebridge, Canada)

• February 23, 2011
• JRS Presented with the Writers' Union of Canada's 2011 Freedom to Read Award, at the Gladstone Hotel at 18:00 (Toronto, Canada)

• February 16, 2011
• Speech on LaFontaine and Baldwin to the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto (Toronto, Canada)

• February 15, 2011
• Speech at ICC Special Citizenship Ceremony (Ottawa, Canada)

• January 21, 2011
• Speech, "Friendship: Making Canada a Fair Place", at the Cathedral Church of St. James, at 7:00pm (Toronto, Canada)

• January 20, 2011
• Speech at the TD National Reading Summit (Montreal, Canada)

• January 13, 2011
• Speaking on "Aboriginal Sovereignty and the Arctic" with Stepehen Kakfwi, hosted by the Canadian International Council at the Munk School for Global Affairs, at 6:30pm (Toronto, Canada)

• December 24, 2010 - December 26, 2010
• Speaking at the "Reviving the Islamic Spirit" Convention (Toronto, Canada)

• November 30, 2010
• Seminar on the Arabic edition of Collapse of Globalism, with Dr. Hamed Ammar and Prof. Sayed Yassin (Cairo, Egypt)

• November 5, 2010 - November 6, 2010
• ICC Annual Gathering (Toronto)

• November 4, 2010
• Book Launch Event for Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine and Robert Baldwin, with Joseph Boyden at the Princess Twin Cinema in Waterloo at 7:00PM (Waterloo, Canada)

• October 25, 2010
• Book Launch Event for Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine and Robert Baldwin, with Joseph Boyden at the Maxwell Cummings Auditorium, Montreal Museum of Fine Art at 6:00PM (Montreal)

• October 23, 2010
• Interviewing Donna Thomson for the International Festival of Authors (Toronto)

• October 22, 2010
• Keynote Speech on Endangered Languages at the EstDocs Film Festival (Toronto)

• October 21, 2010
• Book Launch Event for Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine and Robert Baldwin, with Joseph Boyden at the Stanley A. Milner Library Theatre at 7:00PM (Edmonton)

• October 20, 2010
• Book Launch Event for Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine and Robert Baldwin, with Joseph Boyden at the Winnipeg Westminster United Church at 7:00PM (Winnipeg)

• October 19, 2010
• Book Launch Event for Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine and Robert Baldwin, with Joseph Boyden at the Roxy Theatre at 7:30PM (Saskatoon)

• October 18, 2010
• French For the Future Annual General Meeting (Toronto)

• October 15, 2010
• 10th Annual LaFontaine-Baldwin Symposium featuring His Highness the Aga Khan (Toronto)

• October 13, 2010
• Book Launch Event for Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine and Robert Baldwin, with Joseph Boyden at the Ottawa International Writers Festival at 7:00PM (Ottawa)

• October 12, 2010
• Book Launch Event for Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine and Robert Baldwin, with Joseph Boyden at the Bram & Bluma Appel Salon, Toronto Reference Library at 7:00PM (Toronto)

• September 9, 2010
• Speech to Huronia Unitarian Fellowship: "Spirituality and Myth in a Fair Country: the Citizen as Agent of Change" (Barrie, Ontario)

• August 12, 2010
• Manhae Grand Prize Recipient Awards Ceremony (Manhae Village, South Korea )

• August 9, 2010
• Speech to Korean PEN (Seoul, South Korea)

• June 24, 2010
• Speaker, Meeting of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (Brussels, Belgium)

• June 17, 2010
• PEN Speech at the Committee of Translations and Linguistics Rights conference, hosted by Catalan PEN (Barcelona)

• June 6, 2010
• PEN Meeting with Roberto Varela, Minister of Culture (Galicia)

• June 4, 2010
• PEN Meeting with José Luís Baltar Pumar, President of Ourense

• June 2010 - June 4, 2010
• Opening Keynote Address on Migration and Integration at the ICORN General Assembly (Frankfurt, Germany)

• May 22, 2010
• Panel Discussion: "The Five Things the World Needs to Change Are?" at the Sydney Writers' Festival (Sydney, Australia)

• May 22, 2010
• John Ralston Saul Talks to Ramona Koval at the Sydney Writers' Festival (Sydney, Australia)

• May 20, 2010
• Onstage Event, "An Evening with John Ralston Saul" at the Sydney Writers' Festival (Sydney, Australia)

• May 12, 2010
• Keynote Speech at the London Regional Aboriginal Education Symposium 2010 - "Understanding the Past to Build the Future" (Ridgetown, Ontario)

• May 6, 2010
• Remarks at Opening of Bill Reddick Show at the Gardiner Museum (Toronto, Ontario)

• May 3, 2010
• Keynote Address, "Doing Theology in A Fair Country" at the First Biennial National Conference of the Churches' Council on Theological Education in Canada (Winnipeg, Manitoba)

• April 28, 2010
• Extraordinary Canadians at the Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto, Ontario)

• April 27, 2010
• Extraordinary Canadians at the Ottawa International Writers Festival (Ottawa, Ontario)

• April 22, 2010
• Bernhard Schlink in conversation with John Ralston Saul, at the Holy Blossom Temple (Toronto, Ontario)

• April 14, 2010
• Meeting with Secretary General of the Commonwealth, Mr. Kamalesh Sharma (London, United Kingdom)

• April 8, 2010
• Keynote Address at the Université Laval's "Between Wisdom and Ignorance" International Conference (Laval, Quebec)

• April 6, 2010
• Speech on A Fair Country to McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario)

• March 31, 2010
• Speech on A Fair Country for the President's Lecture Series at Thompson Rivers University (Kamloops, British Columbia)

• March 30, 2010
• Speech on A Fair Country to the Unitarian Church of Vancouver (Vancouver, British Columbia)

• March 29, 2010
• Conference with Simon Fraser University's Office of Francophone and Francophile Affairs (Vancouver, British Columbia)

• March 24, 2010
• Meeting with President of the Republic of Slovenia, Dr. Danilo Türk (Bled, Slovenia)

• March 19, 2010
• Meeting with the Secretary General of La Francophonie, Mr.Abdou Diouf

• September 8, 2005
• Official Opening of Confederation Boulevard and Bytown Bridge

Recent Speeches

• March 11, 2011
• Video of CIGI Panel Discussion on The Dark Side of Globalization, with John Ralston Saul, Jorge Heine, and William Coleman (Waterloo, Canada)

• December 26, 2010
• Extract from a Speech to the Reviving the Islamic Spirit Convention (Toronto, Canada)

• October 22, 2010
• Keynote Speech on Endangered Languages at the EstDocs Film Festival (Toronto, Canada)

• September 26, 2010
• Opening Address at the 76th Annual International PEN Congress (Tokyo)

• September 9, 2010
• Speech to Huronia Unitarian Fellowship: "Spirituality and Myth in a Fair Country: the Citizen as Agent of Change" (Barrie, Ontario)

• August 12, 2010
• Manhae Grand Prize Acceptance Speech (Manhae Village, South Korea)

• June 24, 2010
• Speaker, Meeting of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (Brussels, Belgium)

• June 17, 2010
• PEN Speech at the Committee of Translations and Linguistics Rights conference, hosted by Catalan PEN (Barcelona, Spain)

• June 2010
• Opening Keynote Address on Migration and Integration at the ICORN General Assembly (Frankfurt, Germany)

• May 20, 2010
• Onstage Event, "An Evening with John Ralston Saul" at the Sydney Writers' Festival (Sydney, Australia)

• May 20, 2010
• Onstage Event, "An Evening with John Ralston Saul" at the Sydney Writers' Festival (Sydney, Australia)

• May 12, 2010
• Keynote Speech at the London Regional Aboriginal Education Symposium 2010 - "Understanding the Past to Build the Future" (Ridgetown, Ontario)

• May 3, 2010
• Keynote Address, "Doing Theology in A Fair Country" at the First Biennial National Conference of the Churches' Council on Theological Education in Canada (Winnipeg, Manitoba)

• April 8, 2010
• Keynote Address at the Université Laval's "Between Wisdom and Ignorance" International Conference (Laval, Quebec)

• April 6, 2010
• Speech on A Fair Country to McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario)

• March 31, 2010
• Speech on A Fair Country for the President's Lecture Series at Thompson Rivers University (Kamloops, British Columbia)

• March 30, 2010
• Speech, "Myth and Spiriturality in A Fair Country" at the Unitarian Church of Vancouver (Vancouver, British Columbia) (MP3 audio)

• March 29, 2010
• Conference with Simon Fraser University's Office of Francophone and Francophile Affairs

• January 15, 2010
• In memory of Georges Anglade, President of PEN Haiti

• October 22, 2009
• Opening of the Free the Word!

• October 19, 2009
• Nomination Speech for the presidency of International PEN, Linz, Austria

• September 17, 2009
• Literature and the Environment

• September 19, 2008
• Speech at the International PEN Congress in Bogotá, Colombia

• October 22, 2007
• The rogue state of Burmese generals

• September 23, 2007
• Open Letter to the UN Secretary General by Akbar Ganji, signed by John Ralston Saul

• September 15, 2005
• Speech at the Temple of the Children Of Peace

• September 8, 2005
• Official Opening of Confederation Boulevard and Bytown Bridge

• August 2005
• "A circle of friends" Foreword to the publication In the Company of Others by PLAN (Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network)

• May 28, 2005
• Introduction to "Speaking in Tongues" a PEN Canada antology

• May 13, 2005
• Speech given at the opening of the new Canadian Embassy "Citizenship, Immigration and Federalism: The Complexity of Modern Democracy in Canada"

• May 7, 2005
• Speech to the Canadian Studies Program

• April 26, 2005
• Speech at the opening of the 2005 French for the Future Conference University of Ottawa

• April 25, 2005
• The Success and Challenge of Bilingualism in Canada Op-ed article prior to the French for the Future 2005 National Conference

• February 21, 2005
• "Canada's Gangrene" - Article by His Excellency John Ralston Saul in the February 21, 2005 issue of Maclean's magazine

• October 31, 2004
• Speech By His Excellency John Ralston Saul Upon Receiving An Honorary Degree From The University Of Ottawa

• September 25, 2004
• Foreword to a booklet for exogamous couples Prepared by the Alberta Federation of francophone parents

• September 23, 2004
• Remarks made during the presentation of the Pablo Neruda International Presidential Medal of Honour

• September 2004
• His Excellency John Ralston Saul "Challenges for Social Scientists" Feature article for the e-zine innovationcanada.ca

• May 20, 2004
• A balance between people and place

• April 29, 2004
• "Art, obligations and another form of consciousness" Foreword to a book by the SKILLS Society

• March 20, 2004
• Inaugural Joseph Howe Lecture University Of King's College School Of Journalism

• March 20, 2004
• Inaugural Joseph Howe Lecture University Of King's College School Of Journalism

• March 2004
• The unheralded success of Bilingualism in Canada