KEYNOTE
18:30 HAITI: THEN AND NOW. A panel discussion on disaster relief in Haiti.
Featuring David Austin from the Alfie Roberts Institute and Jean St-Vil.
Co-Sponsored by QPIRG McGill and the Alfie Roberts Institute.
Leacock 232, McGill University, 805 Sherbrooke St. West.
David Austin is the co-founder of the Alfie Roberts Institute, an independent education and research centre based in Montreal working with African and Caribbean diaspora communities. He is also the editor of A View for Freedom: Alfie Roberts Speaks on the Caribbean, Cricket, Montreal, and C.L.R. James. David Austin has contributed to various progressive publications and is currently working on his second book.
Jean St-Vil was born in Haiti. He is an Ottawa-based activist within the Haitian diaspora in Canada. He has been a featured commentator on CBC Television’s Counterspin, CPAC’s Talk Politics, and CBC Radio’s The Current. He is also a community radio journalist, author of several books, and a founder of the Canada Haiti Action Network a solidarity network which works on public education issues. He is also a co-founder of the non for profit organization AKASAN which mobilizes resources to support worthy initiatives undertaken by and for Haitians.
12:00 Workshop: Third World debt: Who Owes Whom?
Lev Bukhman room, SSMU building (3480 McTavish, 3dr Floor)
This workshop delves into the history and origins of debt and poverty in the Third World. Through popular education and engaging illustrations, the audience participates in uncovering the complicated dynamics behind how the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and historical events contributed to Third World debt. This informative, interactive and engaging workshop presents both problems and solutions by instilling a sense of awareness, responsibility and action into the participants
Hosted by the Social Justice Committee
16:00 You Don’t Play with Revolution: The Legacy of C.L.R. James. A Guest Seminar on Globalization, Education and Change
Featuring David Austin, Alfie Roberts Institute, Editor, You Don’t Play With Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James (AK Press, 2009)
Education Bldg room 233, 3700 McTavish
You Don’t Play With Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James (AK Press, 2009), brings together never-before published lectures that Trinidadian socialist theorist, historian and writer C.L.R. James delivered to Caribbean students in Montreal in 1967-68. Ranging in topic from Marx and Lenin to Shakespeare and Rousseau to Caribbean history and the Haitian Revolution, these lectures demonstrate the staggering breadth and clarity of James’ knowledge and interest. Editor, David Austin, of the Alfie Roberts Institute will speak about the legacy and significance of James’ work for today – and Montreal’s connections to this remarkable thinker.
All welcome to attend. For more information, please contact Dr Aziz Choudry, Assistant Professor, International Education, Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University. Phone: 514 3982253 or email: aziz.choudry@mcgill.ca
Hosted by Dr. Aziz Choudry.