*The Fire that Time: Transnational Black Radicalism and the Sir George
Williams Occupation*
07 June 2023, 5:30 pm–7:00 pm
UCL Institute of the Americas on-line seminar, free to attend, but you will
need to register:
https://ucl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEscuCqqj8rHNYq0kaV-EbMXbO1WrSjhQN1#/registration
In 1969, in one of the most significant black student protests in North
American history, Caribbean students called out discriminatory pedagogical
practices at Sir George Williams University, before occupying the computer
center for two weeks. Upon the breakdown of negotiations, the police
launched a violent crackdown as a fire mysteriously broke out inside the
center and racist chants were hurled by spectators on the street. It was a
heavily mediatized flashpoint in the Canadian civil rights movement and the
international Black Power struggle that would send shockwaves as far as the
Caribbean. Half a century later, we continue to grapple with the legacies
of this watershed moment in light of its transnational reach and
implications for current resistance. We ask: How is the Sir George Williams
“affair” remembered, forgotten, or contested? How is blackness included or
occluded in decolonizing dialogues?
About the Speakers
Kirland Ayanna Bobb
Kirland Ayanna Bobb holds a BA in History and is a graduate teacher in the
Ministry of Education, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. She is currently
pursuing a PhD in history at UWI and has a special interest in Caribbean
traditions of Black Radicalism.
Amanda Perry
at Champlain College-Saint Lambert in Montreal
Her current book project examines the resonances of the Cuban Revolution as
a Caribbean event. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature, with
distinction, from NYU in 2019.
Ronald Cummings
Associate Professor at McMaster University, Canada
Ronald Cummings is an associate professor in the department of English and
Cultural Studies at McMaster University, Canada. Nalini Mohabir is an
associate professor of geography at Concordia University. Together, they
have co-edited The Fire That Time and worked on a series of publications
about the 1969 Black and Caribbean student protest in Montreal.
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Steve Cushion
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