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Symposium Examines Critical Canada-Caribbean Affairs
A range of issues were put under the spotlight during last year’s third Canada-Caribbean Institute Symposium hosted at the Cave Hill campus of The University of the West Indies.
T he two-day event, held 23-24 February at the Sagicor Cave Hill School of Business and Management, brought over 55 scholars and researchers from the Caribbean, Canada, and the United States for discussions on “Decoloniality: Past, Present and Future Directions”. The conversation centred on ten broad themes that included Alternative Livelihoods and Economies ; Decoloniality and Indigeneity Across Contexts ; Decolonializing Educational Practice ; Decolonializing Regional Politics ; and Making Decolonization Visible on the Ground: Towards a Memorial Relief Sculpture for the “Negro Burial Ground” in Niagara-on-the-Lake .
between the North American country and the Caribbean. UWI Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Hilary Beckles noted that although Canada did not colonise externally, domestically it conquered indigenous peoples and enslaved Africans. He pointed to the groundbreaking nature of the discussions that he said were both relevant and timely, as they took place a week after talks between Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and CARICOM Heads of Government during their conference in The Bahamas. President and Vice-Chancellor of McMaster University , Dr. David Farrar , said he was born at a time of racial segregation in Southern Ontario, Canada and agreed that many issues needed to be
Professor Sir Hilary Beckles Vice-Chancellor The University of the West Indies
In the prelude to the discussion, several speakers noted historic race relations within Canada, the treatment of its indigenous peoples, and the complex relationship
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