About this Event
In "Making Freedom in Forgotten Places: Liberation At the End of (This) World," Robyn Maynard will discuss the intersections of writing, activism, and social justice.
Robyn Maynard is an author and scholar based in Toronto, where she holds the position of Assistant Professor of Black Feminisms in Canada at the University of Toronto-Scarborough in the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies. She is the author of Policing Black Lives: State violence in Canada from slavery to the present (Fernwood 2017). The book is a national bestseller, designated as one of the “best 100 books of 2017” by the Hill Times, listed in The Walrus’s “best books of 2018,” shortlisted for an Atlantic Book Award, the Concordia University First Book Prize and the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-fiction, and the winner of the 2017 Errol Sharpe Book Prize. Her most recent published work, co-authored with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, is titled Rehearsals for Living. The book was nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award in the non-fiction category and was a Hill Times and CBC “Best Book of 2022.” Maynard has also published work in an assortment of peer-reviewed and trade publications on the topic of policing, abolition, and Black freedom struggles.
Patricia A. Whelan Performance Hall (Calgary Public Library, Central Branch) on Friday, March 3 at 7 p.m. MST.
This venue includes accessible seating.
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This event will also be livestreamed. It will not be recorded. Livestream information will soon be available at: https://events.ucalgary.ca/arts/communication-media-film/
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Patricia A. Whelan Performance Hall, Calgary Public Library, 800 3 Street Southeast, Calgary, Canada
GBP 0.00