[HR-rsch] Politics of Commemoration: Dec. 4

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/96824169907?pwd=V2xvYUZrOHRocDF2ckl1NUoxcGtDdz09

[cid:image001.jpg@01D6C3E1.5463E8A0] Sean Carleton has advocated for the removal of John A. Macdonald statues.

Melanie Newton studies gender, slavery and slave emancipation, and indigenous Caribbean history.

Laura Madokoro will talk about radical ideas of human rights and resistance, including the 1920 Universal Negro Improvement Association’s Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World, and how these have been ignored in commemorations or genealogies of the history of human rights.

Omeasoo Wāhpāsiw is a Cree scholar who has commented publicly on recent destruction of Canadian statues.