The inaugural Gordon Hirabayashi Annual Lecture
Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024
5:00pm to 7:30pm
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The inaugural Gordon Hirabayashi Annual Lecture celebrates the legacy of former University of Alberta Sociology Professor Dr. Hirabayashi whose work centred on human rights and ethnic minorities in Canada.
Dr. Pamela Sugiman, Dean of Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University, will be the distinguished speaker whose research has focused on the oral history and memory studies of Japanese Canadians. Dr. Sugiman will present her lecture, followed by a Q&A session and reception afterwards.
MORE ABOUT DR. PAMELA SUGIMANDr. Pamela Sugiman is a Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Toronto. Throughout her academic career, Pam has been deeply committed to a scholarly understanding of institutional racism and colonization, anti-racism and decolonization. As a Sansei (third generation) Japanese Canadian researcher, she has also published extensively on racism and personal memory in Canada, with a focus on the ways in which Nisei (second-generation) Japanese Canadian women remember and narrate, in the present, their internment during the Second World War.
Dr. Sugiman has served as President of the Canadian Sociological Association and is currently a board member for the Atkinson Foundation and Pathways to Education Canada. She is also a member of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation Research Community Advisory Network and the National Coalition of Canadians Against Anti-Asian Racism. She is a recipient of the Errol Aspevig Award for Outstanding Academic Leadership (TMU), the Outstanding Contribution Award (Canadian Sociological Association) and the Senior Women Academic Administrators of Canada Recognition Award in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.
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