BLACK HISTORY MONTH EVENT: Research, Repression, and Freedom: A conversation with David Austin

BLACK HISTORY MONTH EVENT: Research, Repression, and Freedom: A conversation with David Austin

Categories: General, Lectures and Seminars | Intended for

Tuesday, February 02, 2016

7:30 PM - 9:00 PM | Add to calendar

433 Paterson Hall History Lounge (Paterson Hall)

1125 Colonel By Dr, Ottawa, ON

Contact Information

Audra Diptee, 613-520-2828, AudraDiptee@Cunet.Carleton.Ca

Cost

Free

About this Event

Host Organization: History Department
More Information: Please click here for additional details.

Hosted by CBC’s Adrian Harewood

Drawing on his award-winning book, Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal as a point of departure, this wide-ranging conversation will touch a number of subjects related to politics, race, security, prisons, incarceration and human freedom. The conversation will be facilitated by CBC’s Adrian Harewood.

When? 7:30pm, February 2nd, 2016
Where? History Lounge, 4th Floor Paterson Hall, Carleton University
RSVP: https://blackhistorymonth2016.eventbrite.ca

About David Austin: David Austin is the author Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal, winner of the 2014 Casa de las Americas Prize for literature in English or Creole. He is also the editor of You Don’t Play with Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James, and has produced radio documentaries on the life and work of Frantz Fanon and C.L.R. James for CBC’s flagship program, Ideas. He currently teaches in the Humanities, Philosophy and Religion Department at John Abbott College.