When: 31听January 2019
尝辞肠补迟颈辞苍:听Rare Books and Special Collections,听4th Floor McLennan Library Building, 3459 rue McTavish, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C9, CA
Description
Guest: George Eliott Clarke, poet and Literary Scholar
Panellists:听Natasha Chenier, Atta Almasi, Ashley Thorup, and Prof. Eli MacLaren from the 苹果淫院 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听legacy, via readings from his selected works.听A conversation with Clarke and panellists Natasha Chenier, Atta Almasi, Ashley Thorup, and Prof. Eli MacLaren from the 苹果淫院 Department of English followed the reading.听
This end-of-January event kicked off 苹果淫院's recognition of Black History Month for 2019 and served as a听reminder to听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听Reading room Monday to Friday, 10 AM to 6 PM. Contact rarebooks.library [at] mcgill.ca for reference guidance.听
听
听
