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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The Faculty of Arts and the Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA) present George Elliott Clarke (BA '84 English at UWaterloo) and Dr. Wendell Adjetey (McGill University) exploring the complexities
of identity in an on-stage conversation entitled, <a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/arts/events/who-do-you-think-you-are-and-who-gets-decide-are-you-black">
Who Do You Think You Are, and Who Gets to Decide? Are you Black, Indigenous, or Afro-Métis?</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Elliott Clarke</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> is an award-winning poet, the 4th Poet Laureate of Toronto (2012-15) and the 7th Parliamentary/Canadian Poet Laureate (2016-17) and is a professor of English at the University of Toronto</span>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">is William Dawson Chair, assistant professor, and specialist in post-Reconstruction U.S. history and the history of the African Diaspora in North America and the Atlantic World at McGill University. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">WHEN:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> Thursday, Nov. 10, 7:00 to 8:30 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">WHERE:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> CIGI Auditorium (BSIA) 67 Erb St West, Waterloo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="https://www.balsillieschool.ca/event/who-do-you-think-you-are-and-who-gets-to-decide-are-you-black-indigenous-or-afro-metis/">REGISTER TO ATTEND</a> — everyone is welcome<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Wendy Philpott<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Communication Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Dean of Arts Office, Faculty of Arts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">University of Waterloo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#C55A11"><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/arts/"><span style="color:#C55A11">uwaterloo.ca/arts</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">
| </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#C55A11"><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/news/arts"><span style="color:#C55A11">read our stories</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">With gratitude and respect, I live and work on traditional territories of ýthe Neutral, Anishinaabeg, and Hodinohso:ni peoples. The University of Waterloo
is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land promised to the Six Nations that includes six miles on each side of the Grand River from mouth to source. The university's actions toward conciliation are guided by the <a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/indigenous"><span style="color:black">Office
of Indigenous Relations</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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