Event

VIOLATION: REPRESENTATIONS IN LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Friday, February 20, 2015 13:30
Thomson House 3650 rue McTavish, Montreal, QC, H3A 1Y2, CA
Price: 
Free

An Interdisciplinary Conference Sponsored by the McGill University English Department.

February 20-22, 2015. 

Thompson House, McGill University. 3650 Rue McTavish, Montréal.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Professor Rinaldo Walcott, Director of the Women and Gender Studies Institute and Associate Professor, Department of Social Justice Education, University of Toronto.

Presentation Title: “The Long Emancipation: Anti-Blackness, Settlement and the Problem of Nation.”

FACULTY SPEAKER: 

Professor Katherine Zien, Assistant Professor, Department of English, McGill University.

Presentation Title: “Minstrels of Empire: Black Labor and Blackface in Panama and the Canal Zone, 1850-1930.

More info: https://violationconference.wordpress.com/

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