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
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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/