When Africa Meets Canada in Downtown Toronto: Refugees, Immigrants, Blackness, and Identities North of the 49th Parallel

Date: 

Monday, September 18, 2017, 4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Bowie Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Canada Program Seminars presents "When Africa Meets Canada in Downtown Toronto: Refugees, Immigrants, Blackness, and Identities North of the 49th Parallel," featuring Awad Ibrahim, award winning author and Professor in the Faculty of Education at University of Ottawa. Ibrahim is a Curriculum Theorist with special interest in cultural studies, Hip-Hop, youth and Black popular culture, social foundations (i.e., philosophy, history and sociology of education), social justice and community service learning, diasporic and continental African identities, ethnography and applied linguistics.

ORGANIZER(S): The Canada Program at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
EVENT WEBSITE: https://wcfia.harvard.edu/event/canada-seminar-9-18-17?delta=0