# Roberta Lexier

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The “Radical” Sixties

On episode 2 Dr. Roberta Lexier explores the history of Vietnam War protests in Canada with Dr. Jessica Squires, author of Building Sanctuary: The Movement to Support Vietnam War Resisters in Canada, and the May 1970 Abortion Caravan with participant (later union leader and politician), Judy Darcy.…

The End of History

On episode 3 Dr. Roberta Lexier talks to anti-apartheid activist, Zainab Amadahy, about her experiences at the University of Toronto in the 1980s and former Canadian Federation of Students leader (and later politician), Joel Harden, about efforts to resist tuition fee hikes in the late-1990s.Show N…

Episode 9: Tuition Fees and University Funding

Welcome to Beyond the Lecture Hall, the podcast that focuses on issues in Alberta's postsecondary education sector.  On this episode we start with the regular provincial news Round Up with co-hosts Roberta Lexier and Lee Easton. This is followed by an interview on tuition fees and university fundin…

The Neoliberal University

On episode 4 Dr. Roberta Lexier unpacks the 2012 Maple Spring with Concordia faculty member and participant Dr. Anna Kruzynski and discusses fossil fuel divestment movements with McMaster alumna Adeola Egbeyemi.Show Notes: Roberta Lexier, Student Power: Canadian Student Movements From the Sixties …

Student Power with Dr. Roberta Lexier

In 2024 university campuses across Canada saw encampments and other protest actions. In a new book and podcast series Dr. Roberta Lexier places these actions within the broader history of student activism in Canada since the 1960s. In this discussion we ask her how student activism differes between…

Swift Repression

On episode 5 Dr. Roberta Lexier examines the repression of pro-Palestinian encampments at University of Calgary and University of Alberta in a conversation with independent, Edmonton-based journalist, Jeremy Appel, and at McGill University with local activist and journalist, Jack Solar. Show Notes:…

Canadian Student Movements

On episode 6 Dr. Roberta Lexier speaks with Mount Royal University professor, Muhannad Ayyash, author of Lordship and Liberation in Palestine-Israel: The Promise of Decolonial Sovereignties, about the importance of the Palestinian Exception to on-campus repression and to the Canada in Decline serie…

Episode 10: Alberta Separatism and PSE

Welcome to Beyond the Lecture Hall, the podcast that focuses on issues in Alberta's postsecondary education sector.  On this episode we start with the regular provincial news Round Up with co-hosts Roberta Lexier and Lee Easton. This is followed by an interview with University of Calgary Professor,…

INTERVIEW: Roberta Lexier

Professor and former member of the Board of Governors at Mount Royal University on how the UCP is undermining post-secondary education in Alberta.PALGARY ALMANAC #221Playlist: Meredith Bates - Book I - 3rd Incantation (Love) Astral Swans - NO HOME LEFT IN THE HEART Phillippe B - La jeunesse est u…

Student Movements vs. Neoliberal Corporatism / Part 4 of Setting Precedent: The Right to Protest on Campus

Part 4 of Setting Precedent: The Right to Protest on Campus - a podcast miniseries that tells the whole story behind the lawsuit activists have launched against the University of Calgary and the Calgary Police in response to an encampment eviction on the campus back in May 2024. Dr. Roberta Lexier,…