SJS ANNUAL LECTURE
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Dear Friends of SJS,
We are honored to announce that our upcoming Annual Lecture speaker will be Dr. Yvonne Shorter Brown. Dr. Brown is a retired public school teacher, university lecturer, researcher, writer and social justice activist. She was recently a post-doctoral fellow at the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migration of African Peoples, York University. Her research, writing, and workshop focus on how the legacies of the transatlantic slave trade and plantation slavery on the continent of Africa and in its Diasporas are remembered in various struggles for citizenship.
Dr. Brown's SJS Annual Lecture is entitled: Is There More That Canadians Should Know About Slavery, Besides the Fact and the Myth of the Underground Railroad
Friday, January 31st at 7:30 p.m. in the Hickman Building, HHB 105 (poster attached)
Dr. Brown will also be speaking presenting at the following events (poster attached):
Thursday, Jan.... 30th, 11:15 a.m., SUBKeynote address at the Provost's Diversity Conference, entitled and where are you from? Auto-ethnographical Research, Informed Dialogue & Building Working Relations Among First Peoples & Newcomers to Canada (registration required online at www.uvic.ca/diversityforum/)
Saturday, Feb. 1, 5 to 8 pm, Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria, Potluck Dinner, 930 Balmoral Road, Victoria, talk entitled: Why African/Black People Should Write Their Own Stories.
Tuesday, Feb. 4th, 1 to 2:20 pm, HSD A264, Academic Women's Caucus Auto-Ethnography Workshop
Please join us for one or more of these events, celebrating the opening of Black History Month,
regards,
Margo
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Margo MatwychukDirector
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