Indigenous Women's Activism: Moving Towards a More Just Society
The 25th Annual Margaret Laurence Lecture
Event Details
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Wednesday, March 29, 2017
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Building: Bagnani Hall
Room: Traill College
Cost: Free
The Department of Gender & Women's Studies is pleased to announce Dawn Lavell-Harvard, director of the First Peoples House of Learning will be giving the 25th Annual Margaret Laurence Lecture entitled, "Indigenous Women's Activism: Moving Towards a More Just Society"
Reception to follow in Bagnani Hall.
The Annual Margaret Laurence Lecture brings to Trent a distinguished speaker to address a topic related to Margaret Laurence's passions for social justice, feminism and the natural world.
Dr. Dawn Lavell-Harvard, was elected President of the Native Women's Association of Canada at the 41st Annual General Assembly, July 11, 2015. She is a proud member of the Wikwemikong First Nation, the first Aboriginal Trudeau Scholar, and has worked to advance the rights of Aboriginal women as the President of the Ontario Native Women's Association for 11 years. She has been interim President of NWAC since February 2015 and was Vice-President for almost 3 years. In October 2016, she joined Trent University as the Director of the First Peoples House of Learning.
The Annual Margaret Laurence Lecture is financed by the Margaret Laurence Lecture Fund Endowment and supported by the Department of Gender & Women's Studies.