Cultural studies expert to speak at Mount Allison, Oct. 4
2006-10-02 09:11:57
SACKVILLE, NB — “Multiculturalism, Human Rights and Culture: The Struggle for a New Humanism” will be the title of a lecture presented by Dr. Rinaldo Walcott who holds the Canadian Research Chair in Social Justice and Cultural Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. The lecture will take place on Wednesday, October 4 at 7:30 p.m. in the Owens Gallery at Mount Allison University. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Dr. Walcott is the author of Black Like Who?: Writing Black Canada (1997), the editor of Rude: Contemporary Black Canadian Cultural Criticism (2000), and has published widely in the area of cultural studies and postcolonial studies with an emphasis on black diaspora studies. His most recent scholarship branches out from black studies to engage with other forms of marginalized difference in the Canadian nation-making project.
Dr. Walcott’s visit is jointly sponsored by the Marjorie Young Bell Distinguished Speakers Fund, the American Studies Program, the Office of the Vice President, and the Centre for Canadian Studies.
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