October 2, 2006 Source: :
http://www.mta.ca/news/?id=1111 Cultural studies expert to
speak at Mount Allison, Oct. 4 SACKVILLE, NB
— "Multiculturalism, Human Rights and Culture: The Struggle for a New
Humanism" will be the title of a lecture presented by Dr. Rinaldo Walcott
who holds the Canadian Research Chair in Social Justice and Cultural Studies
at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University
of Toronto. The lecture will take place on Wednesday, October 4 at 7:30 p.m.
in the Owens Gallery at Mount Allison University. Everyone is welcome to
attend. Dr. Walcott is the author of Black Like Who?: Writing Black Canada (1997),
the editor of Rude: Contemporary Black Canadian Cultural Criticism (2000),
and has published widely in the area of cultural studies and postcolonial
studies with an emphasis on black diaspora studies. His most recent
scholarship branches out from black studies to engage with other forms of
marginalized difference in the Canadian nation-making project. Dr. Walcott’s visit is jointly sponsored by the Marjorie Young Bell
Distinguished Speakers Fund, the American Studies Program, the Office of the
Vice President, and the Centre for Canadian Studies. —30—
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