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Joy James (2019)
Mar 19, 2019
Joy James is a professor at Williams College. Her research considers the role of mass incarceration in the class and race struggles of the 1970s, and considers incarceration as a form of state violence while also exploring how people of colour resist it through organizing [...]
Susan Stryker (2015)
Feb 25, 2015
“Transgender Histories and Futurities” Susan Stryker is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona. She is a historian, writer, educator, artist, documentary filmmaker, and human rights activist. Her work lies at the intersection of Queer [...]
David Wilson (2010-2011)
Feb 15, 2011
“Inventing Black-on-Black Violence: American Style” David Wilson is Professor of Social and Cultural Geography and a member of the unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is an internationally recognized, [...]
Mary Louise Pratt (2009-2010)
Mar 03, 2010
“Globalization and the Ecology of Language” Mary Louise Pratt is an emeritus professor at New York University, where before retirement she was Silver Professor and Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures. She studied at the University of Toronto, the [...]
David Goldberg (2009-2010)
Oct 30, 2009
“Enduring Occupations on Racial Neoliberalism” David Theo Goldberg is the Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute. He is also Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. As a [...]
Sherene Razack (2006-2007)
Jan 30, 2007
“Dangerous Muslim Men, Imperiled Muslim Women, and Civilized Europeans: Law and the War on Terror” Sherene Razack is Distinguished Professor and the Penney Kanner Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies at UCLA. She was previously Emeritus Professor in the Department of Social [...]
Elie Wiesel (2006-2007)
Nov 22, 2006
“Against Indifference” Elie Wiesel is a Nobel laureate and a Holocaust survivor. He was born in Sighet, Transylvania in 1928. His family was captured and transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944 two weeks before D-Day. There, his mother and sisters were taken [...]
The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin (2005-2006)
Jan 12, 2006
“Judging in the 21st Century” Beverley McLachlin is the first woman to become Chief Justice of Canada’s Supreme Court of Canada. She gave royal assent to Canada’s Civil Marriage Act, which effectively legalized same-sex marriages in July 2005. She was born and raised in [...]
Hanan Ashrawi (2005-2006)
Oct 25, 2005
“The Global Context and Human Imperative of Peace in the Middle East” Hanan Ashrawi is a scholar and activist in the struggle for a Palestinian homeland. As the founder and secretary general of the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy, [...]
Linda McQuaig (1998-1999)
Apr 08, 1999
“Reviving Democracy” Linda McQuaig is an activist, journalist, and author described by the National Post as “Canada’s Michael Moore.” She is the author of numerous books that challenge free-market economic ideology and call for a more egalitarian distribution of wealth [...]
Douglas Cardinal (1989-1990)
Mar 12, 1990
“The Museum of Civilization: From Vision to Reality” Douglas Cardinal is an Indigenous Canadian architect best known for his designs for the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau and the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC. He also designed the [...]
Moshe Safdie (1989-1990)
Mar 05, 1990
“Architecture vs. the Arts” Moshe Safdie is an architect, urban planner, educator, theorist, and author. He designed the National Gallery of Canada, as well as the Musee de la Civilisation in Quebec City, the Toronto Ballet Opera House, and Expo ’67’s Habitat. He was born [...]