Visiting professor Dr. Alan Gilbert
The University of Winnipeg’s Department of History presents a lecture by visiting professor Dr. Alan Gilbert entitled Founding amnesias: the fight against bondage and genocide from the American Revolution to Africville and Ferguson on
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
12:30pm – 2:00pm
Room 2M70, Manitoba Hall,
515 Portage Avenue
This lecture is part of the Bonnycastle Lecture Series and part of Black History Month.
“Dr. Gilbert’s talk is a timely and vital exploration of how cities and communities at large, Winnipeg included, approach the discussion about bow race, class and gender are mediated in urban and rural space,” expressed Dr. Eliakim Sibanda, Chair of History, (Faculty of Arts).
Gilbert is the John Evans Professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. Gilbert is a democratic theorist and poet whose research interests include international relations theory, history of political thought, ethics, philosophy of science and social science, slavery and violence and non-violence. He recently co-authored the University of Denver’s Report on the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre a pivotal event in the founding of the state of Colorado, the University of Denver and Native American history.
He received his PhD from Harvard and is a past fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. He is the author of numerous articles and books including Marx’s Politics: Communists and Citizens (1988), Democratic Individuality (1990), Must Global Politics Constrain Democracy?(1999) and Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War of Independence (2012).
This lecture is sponsored by H. Sanford Riley Centre for Canadian History; Faculty of Arts; President’s Office; Vice President Academic; Department of Political Science; The Uniter; Ridd Institute for Religion and Global Policy; United Centre for Theological Studies; Mennonite Studies; Global College; and the Zamangalo Foundation.
UWinnipeg’s Black History
Black History month over the years has become synonymous with a particular race, and yet in actuality the black history experience that is being celebrated is one of marginality moving towards the mainstream as a catalyst of change and transformation.
Freedom, social justice and equality before the law that we celebrate every February belong to all of us irrespective of race, religion, sexual orientation, physical structure, or gender because of the struggle for civil rights — those experiences freed everybody and continue to do so. We celebrate knowing fully well that much still needs to be done in terms of realizing a just society where all are treated equally and everyone’s rights equally protected in all aspects of life irrespective of who or what they are. And so we celebrate the experiences of marginality always moving towards the mainstream as a ferment of change and social transformation.
The Bonnycastle Lecture Series was established in 1969 in memory of Richard H.G. Bonnycastle, by his wife and son. Mr. Bonnycastle was a publisher, former Chair of the Winnipeg Metropolitan Council, and the University of Winnipeg’s first Chancellor. The lecture usually focuses on an area of special interest to Mr. Bonnycastle – the economic, social, and cultural life of cities.
