{"id":53877,"date":"2019-02-21T09:03:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T14:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=53877"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:38","slug":"tanya-talaga-to-deliver-20th-annual-kesterton-lecture-at-carleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2019\/tanya-talaga-to-deliver-20th-annual-kesterton-lecture-at-carleton\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanya Talaga to Deliver 20th Annual Kesterton Lecture at 杏吧原创"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Tanya Talaga to Deliver 20th Annual Kesterton Lecture at 杏吧原创\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

杏吧原创 University\u2019s School of Journalism and Communication<\/a> will host the 20th<\/sup> annual Kesterton Lecture Seeing\/Saying: Journalism, Indigeneity and Hard Truths<\/a>,<\/em> presented by award-winning journalist and celebrated author Tanya Talaga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lecture is part of FPA Research Month<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When<\/strong>: Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019 at 7 p.m.
\nWhere<\/strong>: Second floor conference rooms 2220-2228, Richcraft Hall, 杏吧原创
\nInfo<\/strong>: This event is free and open to the public. Registration is available online<\/a>.
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\nMedia are invited to attend the event.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this lecture, Talaga will explore the chasm between seeing and saying through the lens of her research into the deaths of seven Indigenous students in Thunder Bay, Ont. She will discuss where society is now, how it can move forward and the role that journalism should play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

APTN journalist Francine Compton will moderate the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

杏吧原创 Tanya Talaga<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Talaga is the acclaimed author of Seven Fallen Feathers<\/em> \u2013 winner of the RBC Taylor Prize, the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and the First Nation Communities Read Award: Young Adult\/Adult. The national bestseller was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers\u2019 Trust Nonfiction Prize, the B.C. National Award for Nonfiction, CBC\u2019s Nonfiction Book of the Year and was a Globe and Mail<\/em> Top 100 Book. Talaga was the 2017-2018 Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy, the 2018 CBC Massey Lecturer and author of the national bestseller All Our Relations: Finding The Path Forward<\/em>. For more than 20 years, she has been a journalist at the Toronto Star<\/em> and is now a columnist. She has been nominated five times for the Michener Award in public service journalism. Talaga is of Polish and Indigenous descent. Her great-grandmother, Liz Gauthier, was a residential school survivor. Her great-grandfather, Russell Bowen, was an Ojibwe trapper and labourer. Her grandmother is a member of Fort William First Nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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杏吧原创 the Kesterton Lecture<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Kesterton Lecture, 杏吧原创 Journalism\u2019s signature annual public event, honours Wilfred Kesterton\u2019s pioneering contribution to journalism education in Canada.  Saskatchewan-born Kesterton was a newspaperman and Second World War veteran when he became one of the earliest graduates of 杏吧原创\u2019s Bachelor of Journalism program in 1949. As the school\u2019s second full-time faculty member, he was a leading figure in the program for 40 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Media Contact
\n<\/strong>Steven Reid
\nMedia Relations Officer
\n杏吧原创 University
\n613-520-2600, ext. 8718
\n613-265-6613
\nSteven_Reid3@杏吧原创.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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杏吧原创 University\u2019s School of Journalism and Communication will host the 20th annual Kesterton Lecture Seeing\/Saying: Journalism, Indigeneity and Hard Truths, presented by award-winning journalist and celebrated author Tanya Talaga. The lecture is part of FPA Research Month. When: Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019 at 7 p.m. Where: Second floor conference rooms 2220-2228, Richcraft Hall, 杏吧原创 Info: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":47248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[108],"class_list":["post-53877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-advisories","tag-journalism-and-communication"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53879,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53877\/revisions\/53879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}