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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Students, faculty and staff are invited to hear professors Jennifer Simpson and Vershawn Young speak about their latest books at the first Department of Drama and Speech Communication 2015 Colloquium.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Friday, January 23, 1:30 to 3pm in Environment 3, room 4412<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Professor Young's edited volume (with Clair Oberon Garcia and Charise Pimentel),
<b>From Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Help: Critical Perspectives on White-Authored Narratives of Black Life,</b> boldly investigates the promise and perils of racial ventriloquism, that is, when white authors appropriate the history and stories of black life. While
narratives films such as The Help, Django Unchained, and The Blind Side have achieved popular acclaim, they have also been the subject of critical controversy, demonstrating that the much touted 'post-racial America' has yet to come to terms with the power
of race in contemporary imaginative and social lives.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Professor Simpson's monograph,
<b>Longing for Justice: Higher Education and Democracy's Agenda</b>, combines personal narrative with critical analysis to make the case for educational practices that connect to questions of democracy, justice, and the common good. In a bold challenge to conventional
wisdom about Higher Education, Simpson argues that today’s neoliberal educational norms foreground abstract concepts and leave the complications of real life, especially the intricacies of power, unexamined. Analyzing modern teaching techniques, including
service learning and civic engagement, Simpson concludes that for Higher Education to serve democracy it must strengthen students’ abilities to critically analyze social issues, recognize and challenge social inequities, and pursue justice. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Discussion will follow and light refreshments will be provided.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#7F7F7F">Wendy Philpott</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#7F7F7F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#7F7F7F">Faculty of Arts, University of Waterloo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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