AUUC National Convention Guest Speakers

Ivan Katchanovski is a Ukrainian and Canadian political scientist at the University of Ottawa. He was born in Lutsk in Western Ukraine and studied in universities in Kyiv and Prague. He received Ph.D. from the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University

He specializes primarily in politics, conflicts, political violence, and the far right in Ukraine. His academic publications include 6 books, 22 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and 13 chapters.

He was Visiting Scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Politics at the State University of New York at Potsdam, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, and Kluge Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. His publications, interviews, and comments appeared in more than 3,500 media reports in over 80 countries.

Cecil Rosner has been a professional journalist in Canada for nearly five decades, concentrating for most of that time on reporting and supervising investigative journalism projects. He has taught the principles of investigative journalism widely, and is the author of the definitive history of the genre in Canada – Behind the Headlines: A History of Investigative Journalism in Canada, published by Oxford University Press. He was with the CBC for 31 years, and his last position was as executive producer of The Fifth Estate, CBC's flagship investigative journalism program. For 13 years he served as managing editor of CBC Manitoba, overseeing all editorial content on radio, television and online. His latest book, published in 2023, is Manipulating the Message - How Powerful Forces Shape the News (Dundurn Press).

Cecil’s work has been recognized in many ways over the years. He has won Michener and Gemini Awards for his journalism, medals from the New York and Columbus Film Festivals, along with many others. In 2019 he was awarded a lifetime achievement award by RTDNA Canada, the Radio, Television and Digital News Association. He has taught the principles of investigative journalism in seminars and workshops across Canada and abroad for the last 30 years, and has taught a course in Investigative Journalism at the University of Winnipeg since 2005. In 2023, he created a course at the University of Manitoba called Media Literacy, Critical Thinking and Investigative Journalism which he continues to teach. He is also the co-author of When Justice Fails: The David Milgaard Story (McClelland and Stewart), which chronicled the story of a man who spent 23 years in jail after being wrongly convicted of murder. Born and raised in Winnipeg’s North End, he is currently the managing editor of the Investigative Journalism Foundation.