Lecture
Glen Coulthard (2020)
Mar 05, 2020
Glen Coulthard is a member of Yellowknives Dene and an associate professor in the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program and the Departments of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. He co-founded the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning, a [...]
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 [...]
Bill Nichols (2019)
Jan 20, 2019
“In the Beginning” Bill Nichols is Professor of Cinema at San Francisco State University, a position he has held in 1987. Prior to that, he was a member of the Queen’s University Film Studies Department, where he was Acting Chair from 1976-8 and Chair from 1978-1985. He is [...]
Christopher Lebron (2018)
Oct 11, 2018
“Problems of African Universities South of the Sahara” Lawrence C.B. Gower was the Law Commissioner for Great Britain and the former Dean of Law at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He wrote The Principles of Modern Company Law (1954). Gower studied law at University [...]
Jenny Sealey (2017)
Oct 04, 2017
“The Arts as a Human Right” Jenny Sealey is the CEO and Artistic Director at Graeae Theatre in London, UK, the country’s flagship disabled-led theatre company. She has been the Artistic Director at the theatre since 1997. Her work has involved the development of a new [...]
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 [...]
Fredy Armando Peccerelli Monterroso (2015)
Jan 20, 2015
“The Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation: Truth from the Graves and the Power of Identification” Fredy Armando Peccerelli Monterroso is an internationally renowned forensic anthropologist, human rights activist, and founding member of the Forensic Anthropology [...]
Mike Otsuka (2014)
Oct 30, 2014
“How it Makes a Moral Difference that One is Worse Off than One Could Have Been” Mike Otsuka is a left-libertarian political philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the London School of Economics. Prior to this, he taught philosophy at University College London, [...]
Akram Zaatari (2014)
Feb 11, 2014
“Addressed, Folded, Opened, Performed, and Buried: Letters as a Form of Art” Akram Zaatari is a Lebanese filmmaker, photographer, archival artist and curator. His work focuses on collecting, studying and archiving the history of the Arab World. In 1997, he cofounded the [...]
Jeff McMahan (2013)
Oct 31, 2013
“Students and Society – Some Literary Views” Norman Jeffares was one of the twentieth century’s most distinguished scholars of the poet W. B. Yeats. After Yeats’ death, Jeffares was given access to his personal papers and library, which enabled him to study the author’s [...]
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco (2012-2013)
Jan 20, 2013
“Humanizing the Urban: The Poetics of Citizenship” Pier Giorgio Di Cicco was an Italian Canada author, editor, and priest. He attended the University of Toronto, graduating with the B.A. in 1973 and a B.Ed. in 1976. A trip to Italy in the 1970s inspired him to become a [...]
Stephanie Inglis (2012-2013)
Sep 24, 2012
“The Mi’kmaq Nation and Cape Breton University: 25 Years of Success” Stephanie Inglis is a linguist who has been a professor at Cape Breton University since 1986. She was integral in creating the first Native Studies courses in the university and has had a hand in the [...]