Symposium

In commemoration of the United Nations 3rd Decade Against Racism, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, the James Robinson Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies (Dalhousie University), in partnership and collaboration with an ensemble of local, national and international organizations, is convening an international Symposium in Halifax from 5-12 August. Specifically addressing the needs of people of African descent, sessions will focus on issues such as globalization, impoverishment, the AIDS pandemic, foreign debt, immigration, environmental, systemic and anti-Black racism, and the politics of race, dislocation and compensation. A program of cultural events such as exhibitions, poetry readings, films, workshops, and visits to historically Black Nova Scotian communities will complement the Symposium.