Towards Literacy on Contemporary Aboriginal Issues

October 27, 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
MSVU, Seton Academic Centre, Room 404-405 Faculty Lounge

The Mount and the Aboriginal Healing Foundation launch Cultivating Canada: Reconciliation through the Lens of Cultural Diversity later this month. This event will feature introductions and readings from contributors and WIFT-AT members, Rita Shelton Deverell, the Mount’s current Nancy’s Chair in Women’s Studies, and Sylvia Hamilton, award-winning Halifax filmmaker and former Nancy’s Chair in Women’s Studies.

Also attending, will be the book’s Editors Ashok Mathur, Canada Research Chair in Cultural and Artistic Inquiry at Thompson Rivers University, Mike DeGagne, Executive Director of the AHF, and Jonathan Dewar, AHF’s Director of Research.

This launch is part of MSVU’s Literacies as Ways of Knowing – a series of speakers, workshops and public events that will examine the question, “How do we read the world?”. Sessions are open to educators, students, community partners and those with a specific interest in literacy and will be provided free of charge.

For more information please visit:

http://www.msvu.ca/en/home/aboutus/WhatsHappening/literacyseries/default.aspx

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