Series 3 - Professional activities

0.65 m of textual records (5 boxes) and 7 photographs

Series consists of records documenting Prof. Safarian’s relationships and involvement in activities and organizations outside of his formal (paid) roles within academia and other sectors. A large component of this series relates to his interactions with scholars from the former Soviet Union (especially Armenia) and the Armenian-Canadian business community, and his service as board member of the Mosaic Institute and co-editor of the multi-volume series Hong Kong Bank of Canada Papers on Asia. It also includes some material documenting his involvement with the Canadian-American Committee; the Pacific Economic Cooperation Committee (PECC); the Ontario Centre for International Business (OCIB); the Tadenac Fishing Club; the Naval Officers’ Association of Canada (NOAC) scholarship selection committee; and an economics reading group Strategy 10. Also included are records revealing shorter-term professional activity such as consulting and reviewing of others’ manuscripts. Material in this series is especially noteworthy for the insights it provides on the interconnectedness of social networks (ethnic, recreational, etc.) and professional ones. Tadenac Club files may be of interest to researchers examining issues surrounding recreational ‘conservationists’ and Indigenous communities in rural Ontario. Records in this series include correspondence, travel journals, articles and notes, manuscript drafts and comments, meeting minutes, reports and photographs.

Files in this series are divided into two sections. The first section is arranged by organization and chronologically within those sub-sections. The second section, documenting various small-scale consulting and commentary, is arranged chronologically.

The following files in this series are restricted:

• B2018-0023/007(03): Restricted for 75 years until 1 January 2063.
• B2018-0023/009(01)-(07): Restricted for 20 years until 1 January 2036.
• B2018-0023/009(08)-(09): Restricted until 1 January 2027.
• B2018-0023/010(02)-(05): Restricted for 20 years until 1 January 2035.
• B2018-0023/010(06)-(08): Restricted for 30 years until 1 January 2044.

See accession B1996-0034 for other records related to the PECC and B2006-0030 for other records related to the Canadian-American Committee.