Nov. 10 - Who Do You Think You Are, and Who Gets to Decide? With George Elliott Clarke

[Wendy Philpott]

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, Who Do You Think You Are, and Who Gets to Decide? Are you Black, Indigenous, or Afro-Métis?<https://uwaterloo.ca/arts/events/who-do-you-think-you-are-and-who-gets-decide-are-you-black>.

[cid:image001.jpg at 01D8F2AC.3C792A60]George Elliott Clarke 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.

Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey 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.

WHEN: Thursday, Nov. 10, 7:00 to 8:30 PM
WHERE: CIGI Auditorium (BSIA) 67 Erb St West, Waterloo
REGISTER TO ATTEND<https://www.balsillieschool.ca/event/who-do-you-think-you-are-and-who-gets-to-decide-are-you-black-indigenous-or-afro-metis/> — everyone is welcome

Thank you.

Wendy Philpott
Communication Manager
Dean of Arts Office, Faculty of Arts
University of Waterloo
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With gratitude and respect, I live and work on traditional territories of ‎the 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 Office of Indigenous Relations<https://uwaterloo.ca/indigenous>.

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