On Human Rights: Seventy Years of Contested Change

The Department of History & Classical Studies cordially invites you to a public lecture by Prof. Laura Madokoro, one of Canada's leading historians of humanitarianism and migration, at the McCord Museum. The lecture will be followed by a reception at around 5 p.m. outside of the lecture hall.

On the seventieth anniversary of the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, this lecture explores the impact of its development on settler-migrant-Indigenous relations in Canada. Considering the history of rights activism in Canada, including the Japanese Canadian redress movement and First Nations campaigns, the lecture examines points of intersection and divergence in how rights issues have been understood by citizens, migrants, refugees and Indigenous peoples.

Admission is free, but please register by following this link: https://www.alumni.mcgill.ca/aoc/events-travel/EventDetails.php?id=MzUzNzI