G R A H A M S P R Y F U N D
FOR PUBLIC
BROADCASTING
and the Spry Memorial Lecture
"Broadcasting,
primarily, is an instrument of education in its widest significance, ranging from play to
learning, from recreation to the cultivation of public opinion, and it concerns and
influences not any single element in the community, but the community as a whole."
GRAHAM SPRY, "A Case for Nationalized
Broadcasting", 1931
The Université de Montréal and Simon Fraser University have received an extraordinary endowment from the friends and family of the late Graham Spry, a champion of Canadian public broadcasting. The purpose of this endowment is to sponsor an annual public lecture and related academic activities relevant to the promotion of public broadcasting in Canada.
Each year, a public keynote lecture by an eminent Canadian or international figure is delivered at the Université de Montréal and at Simon Fraser University. The distinguished lecturer spends several days on each campus participating in seminars, meetings and consultations with faculty and graduate students.These activities are designed to stimulate further interest in themes related to public broadcasting within the academic community.
The Spry Memorial Lectures
2007:
Dr. Karol Jakubowicz
(International
Expert in broadcasting in post-communist Europe)
"Public
Service Broadcasting in Post-Communist Countries: Finding the Right Place on the
Map"
Montreal, Tuesday, November
27, 2007 /
Vancouver, Thursday, November
29, 2007
In
Montreal:
Tuesday,
November
27,
2007, 5.30 pm, Room
A-415, Pavillon Marie-Victorin, Université de Montréal, 90, Vincent-d’Indy Avenue, (Édouard-Montpetit
subway station). Information: myriam.suissa.amzallag@umontreal.ca
or 514 343-5685
In Vancouver:
Wednesday,
November
29,
2007, 7 pm,
Room 7000, Vancouver campus,
Earl and Jennie Lohn Policy, Simon Fraser University,
515 Hastings street West.
Information:
bebaldwi@sfu.ca
or
778 782-3470.
Admission is free. The lecture will be followed by a dining cocktail in Montreal.
2006:
Dr. Patricia Aufderheide
(School
of Communication, American University, Washington, D.C.)
"Vlogs, iPods and
Beyond: Public Media's Terrifying Opportunities"
Vancouver,
Tuesday, November
14, 2006 / Montreal, Thursday,
November 16, 2006
2005:
Prof. Marc Raboy (Beaverbrook
Chair in Ethics, Media and Communications,
Department of Art History and Communication Studies,
McGill University, Canada)
"Making
Media. Creating the Conditions for Communication in the Public Good"
Vancouver,
Thursday, November 10, 2005
|
The tenth annual Spry Memorial Lecture was given in Vancouver on November 10th 2005. Exceptionally, a labour dispute led to the cancellation of the lecture that was to be held at l’Université de Montréal. After conferring with members of the Spry family, and taking into account the great topicality of the lecture prepared by this year’s guest, Dr. Marc Raboy, it was decided that the event would not be held in Montreal this year. The series will return to its normal bicoastal format next year, when the 2006 Spry Memorial Lecture be held in Vancouver and Montreal. |
2004: Prof. Graham
Murdock (Loughborough
University, United Kingdom)
''Building the Digital Commons: Public Broadcasting in
the Age of the Internet'' Vancouver, 18 November
2004 / Montreal, 22 November 2004
2003: Prof. Cees J. Hamelink (University of Amsterdam)
''The
Right to Communicate in Theory and Practice: A Test for the World Summit on the
Information Society'' Montreal,
13 November 2003 / Vancouver, 17 November 2003
2002: Mr.
Zacharias Kunuk (Director and Producer, Igloolik Isuma Productions)
"The Public Art of Inuit Storytelling"
Vancouver, 25 November 2002 / Montreal, 28 November 2002
2001: Prof.
Monroe E. Price (Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, New York
and Oxford)
"Journeys in Media Space. Global Media and National Controls: Rethinking the
Role of the State" Montreal, 29 November 2001 / Vancouver, 3 December 2001
2000: Mr. Daryl
Duke (Film maker and broadcaster, Vancouver, B.C.)
"Men Without Answers, Nation Without Hope: The Electronic Media and the
Decline of English Canada" Vancouver, 9 November 2000 / Montreal, 15 November
2000
1999: Mr. Gareth
Grainger (Australian Broadcasting Authority, Australia)
"Broadcasting Coregulation and the Public Good" Montreal,
2 November 1999 / Vancouver, 28
October 1999
1998: Dr. Peter
Dahlgren (University of Lund, Sweden)
"Public Service Media, Old and New: Vitalizing a Civic
Culture?" Montreal, 15 October 1998 / Vancouver, 19 October 1998
1997: Dr. Robert
W. McChesney (University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.A.)
"The Mythology of Commercial Broadcasting and the
Contemporary Crisis of Public Broadcasting" Montreal, 2 December
1997 / Vancouver, 4 December 1997
1996: Dr. Ruth
Teer-Tomaselli (Centre for Cultural and Media Studies, University of Natal, Durban,
South Africa) "The Public Broadcaster and Democracy in
Transformation" Montreal, 5 November 1996 /Vancouver, 13 November 1996
For further information on the Graham Spry Fund for Public Broadcasting please
contact:
| Professor Claude Martin Département de Communication Université de Montréal Box. 6128, succ. "Centre-ville" Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7 Telephone: 514 343-7807 Fax: 514 343-2298 e-mail: claude.martin@umontreal.ca |
Professor Catherine Murray School of Communication Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6 Telephone: 778 782-5322 Fax: 778 782-4024 e-mail: murraye@sfu.ca |
 Université de Montréal |
 Simon Fraser University |
Here are some links for public broadcasting:
Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications
Commission (CRTC) http://www.crtc.gc.ca/
Friends of Canadian Broadcasting http://www.friendscb.org
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) http://www.bbc.org
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) http://www.pbs.org
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation http://www.cbc.ca
Advertising Standards Canada http://www.canad.com/asc/drgmem2.html
Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) http://www.ccnr.ca
International Institute of Communications http://www.iicom.org/
Institut de l'Audiovisuel et des Télécommunications en
Europe (IDATE) http://www.idate.fr/maj/welcome.html
U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) http://www.fcc.gov
Ministère délégué de la poste, aux télécommunications et
à l'espace (France) http://www.telecom.gouv.fr
About Graham Spry
About Karol Jakubowicz | Full text of
his lecture | Summary of his lecture
About Patricia Aufderheide |
Full text of
her lecture | Summary of her lecture
About Marc Raboy | Full text of
his lecture | Summary of his lecture
About Graham Murdock | Full text of
his lecture | Summary of his lecture
About Cees J. Hamelink | Full text
of his lecture | Summary of his lecture | The 2003 lecture at a glance
About Zacharias Kunuk | Full text
of his lecture | Summary of his lecture | The 2002 lecture at a glance
About Monroe E. Prize | Full text
of his lecture | Summary of his lecture
About Daryl Duke | Full text of
his lecture | Summary of his lecture
About Gareth Grainger | Full text
of his lecture | Summary of his lecture
About Peter Dahlgren | Full text
of his lecture | Summary of his lecture
About Robert W. McChesney | Full
text of his lecture | Summary of his lecture
About Ruth Teer-Tomaselli | Full
text of her lecture | Summary of her lecture
Conception: Yasmina El Jamaï
Content: Dr.
Claude Martin & Yasmina El Jamaï
