When: 31 January 2019
Location: Rare Books and Special Collections, 4th Floor McLennan Library Building, 3459 rue McTavish, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C9, CA
Description
Guest: George Eliott Clarke, poet and Literary Scholar
Panellists: Natasha Chenier, Atta Almasi, Ashley Thorup, and Prof. Eli MacLaren from the McGill University Department of English
Pioneering African-Canadian literary scholar and writer George Elliott Clarke discussed 500 years of African slavery and its abolition and of European imperialism and its complex legacy, via readings from his selected works. A conversation with Clarke and panellists Natasha Chenier, Atta Almasi, Ashley Thorup, and Prof. Eli MacLaren from the McGill University Department of English followed the reading.
This end-of-January event kicked off McGill's recognition of Black History Month for 2019 and served as a reminder to us all that Black People's History--and Black Lives--Matter every day--as should the histories of all peoples struggling for liberation and a truly Just Society.
Le James Bookstore handled a book sale of Clarke's impressive range of work after the event.
Materials can in the Rare Books and Archives Reading room Monday to Friday, 10 AM to 6 PM. Contact rarebooks.library [at] mcgill.ca for reference guidance.
