Daniel Manulak


Thesis Title

  • “A Light in the Window”: Canada, Race, and South African Apartheid, 1958-1994

Supervisor

Second Reader

Main Research Interests

  • International and global history, Canada and the World, Modern Canadian history, Modern African history, Cold War, decolonization, and globalization, Race and foreign relations, Religion and foreign relations 

Publications

  • Blood Brothers: Race-thinking, the Afro-Asian-Canadian Bloc, and South Africa's Expulsion from the Commonwealth, 1960-1961, Accepted for publication in the Canadian Historical Review.

  • "An African representative": Canada, the Third World, and South African Apartheid, 1984-1990," The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Vol. 49, no. 2 (2021).

  • "A marathon not a sprint": Canada and South African Apartheid, 1987-1990, International Journal, Vol. 75, No. 1 (2020).

  • Asa McKercher, “Reason over Passion: Pierre Trudeau, Human Rights, and Canadian Foreign Policy,” H-Diplo, Round table review (Forthcoming). 

  • “Other Powers, Other Perspectives: New Histories of the United Nations and Global Governance,” (co-authored with Preston Arens) Beyond the P5: The Historical Role of Non-Permanent Members of the United Nations Security Council Members in Global Governance. Conference report. United Nations History Project, Harvard University (October 2016).

Conference Papers

  •  Black and White: Transnational Advocacy Networks, South African Apartheid, and the 1970 White and Black Papers on Canadian Foreign Policy, Between the Postwar and Present-Day Conference at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 6 May 2021.

  • ‘“A movement of movements’: Canada, South African Apartheid, and the Struggle for Global Racial Equality: 1985-1994,” Culture and International History VI: Visions of Humanity Conference at the Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 6-8 May 2019. 

  • “A mission with a mission’: Diplomats, the Global Anti-Apartheid Movement, and the Stakes of Sanctuary, 1986-1993,” Global History Colloquium in the Centre for Global History at the Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 19 November 2018. 

  •  ‘“The Great Liberal’: Lester B. Pearson, Decolonization, and South African Apartheid 1963-1968,” International History Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, London, United Kingdom, 6 November 2018. 

  • ‘“Practically an Honorary African’: Canada, the Afro-Asian ‘bloc,’ and Rhodesia’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence: 1963-1966,” LSE-Sciences Po Seminar in Contemporary International History at the London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom, 31 October 2018. 

  • ‘“No nation can win a race war’: Race-thinking, the ‘Afro-Asian-Canadian ‘bloc,’ and South Africa’s withdrawal from the Commonwealth, 1960-1961,” Britain and the World Annual Meeting at the University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom, 22 June 2018. 

  • ‘“A Light in the Window’: Canada, Race, and South African Apartheid, 1958-1961,” The Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting at the University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, 30 May 2018. 

  • ‘“An African Representative’: Canada, the Third World, and South African Apartheid, 1984-1988,” Challenging the Liberal World Order: The History of the Global South, Decolonization, and the United Nations: 1955-2000 workshop at the University of Leiden, The Hague, The Netherlands, 9 May 2018. 

  • “Striking the ‘Right’ Balance: Canada and South African Apartheid, 1984-1990,” International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War at the London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom, 4 May 2018. 

  • “The Cold War and Decolonization in Southern Africa,” lecture delivered in International Relations 2702E at the University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, 28 November 2017. 

  • “A Marathon, not a Sprint: Canada and South African Apartheid, 1984-1994,” McCaffrey Seminar Series at the University of Western Ontario, 23 November 2017. 

  • “Southern Africa, Apartheid, and the Cold War,” lecture delivered in International Relations 2702E at the University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada. 2016. 

  • “A Marathon, not a Sprint: Canada and South African Apartheid, 1984-1990,” Tri-University History Conference at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada. 2013. 

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