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McGill Lecture Series "Public Memory, Citizenship and History Education"
Public memory in Canada commonly erases racisms from historical consciousness. Pervasive racisms do not square with accounts that describe the national past as an inevitable progress to "the best country in the world.” This lecture examines some of the common myths about racisms in Canada and their links to forms of historical memory. In particular, the lecture will examine nationalist grand narratives which seem unable to represent on-going racist practices and their consequences, including the daily realities of physical and psychic brutality experienced by many, and the consistent privilege experienced by still others. The lecture will describe how particular ways of representing the past contribute to exclusions in the present. Finally, it considers alternative, potentially more inclusive, ways of imagining the past as part of a broad strategy for anti-racism and historical education
The next lecturer in the series "Public Memory, Citizenship and History Education" is Timothy J. Stanley who teaches anti-racism education, the social foundations of education, Canadian history and Chinese history at the University of Ottawa. His current historical research examines turn-of-the-twentieth century anti-Chinese racism in British Columbia and its effects on schooling practices. His lecture begins at 5:30 pm this Thursday, April 25th in the Jack Cram Auditorium of the Faculty of Education, McGill University, 3700 McTavish St. Everyone is welcome.
For further information about this lecture, and others in the series, please see www.education.mcgill.ca/events or email ruth.sandwell@mcgill.ca
Dr. Ruth Sandwell
Department of Integrated Studies in Education
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UVIC CSSE Reception
You are cordially invited to the UVIC - CSSE Reception "From the West with Love"
Monday, May 27th, 2002 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM at the OISE Building, 252 Bloor St West, 7th Floor South, Toronto, ON
Hot Band --- Good Munchies --- Great Company
Ratna Ghosh
Dean
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