Public Lecture Series
February
Black History Month
In keeping with the Johnston Chair's mandate to "bring Black culture, reality, experience, perspectives, and concerns into the Academy", the Eminent Speakers Lecture Series established a broad and flexible programme that responded to a variety of interests and concerns shared both within the University community as well as among the general public. Each year, these accessible academic and public forums constituted and generated unprecedented discursive spaces. Here it was legitimate to address, in a constructive way, issues of "Race" as valid areas of inquiry, research, policy and scholarship.
Yes, February is Black History Month but... Let's Make Every Month of the year Black History Month! For after all, Black History is important!
For decades now, FBHM has been observed annually across Canada by Black Communities in such urban centres as Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal.
And, ever since the year 1998, commemoration of FBHM is now an integral part of Canadian national policy. "Commemoration" is a more fitting descriptor because, from a Black perspective, any celebration of the history of Peoples of African Descent must necessarily be also tempered or calibrated with sobering reflection.
February Black History Month Lectures included the following:
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2001 Esmeralda M. A. Thornhill, Professor of Law, Dalhousie Law School, First James Robinson Johnston Chair
in Black Canadian Studies. All rights reserved.