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Research, Repression, and Freedom: A conversation with David Austin, presented by The Institute of African Studies and History Watch Project

Austin and Harewood

Hosted by CBC’s Adrian Harewood

Tuesday, February 2, 2016 at 7:30pm
433 Paterson Hall, 杏吧原创 University

Drawing on his award-winning book, Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal as a point of departure, this wide-ranging conversation will touch a number of subjects related to politics, race, security, prisons, incarceration and human freedom. The conversation will be facilitated by CBC鈥檚 Adrian Harewood.

杏吧原创 David Austin:  David Austin is the author Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal, winner of the 2014 Casa de las Americas Prize for literature in English or Creole. He is also the editor of You Don鈥檛 Play with Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James, and has produced radio documentaries on the life and work of Frantz Fanon and C.L.R. James for CBC鈥檚 flagship program, Ideas.  He currently teaches in the Humanities, Philosophy and Religion Department at John Abbott College.