The History Department and the Graduate Program in History聽would like to congratulate Paul Lovejoy and the聽Tubman Institute most warmly for their highly successful 2011 Summer聽Institute, "Slavery, Memory, Citizenship," which took place at 91亚色 last聽week.
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With over a dozen keynote addresses by major scholars, presentations by students,聽and workshops for students and teachers, the Institute attracted a large聽and diverse crowd of students, scholars, museum curators, and teachers聽from the GTA and around the world. Our own faculty members Michele聽Johnson and Jos茅 Curto, our part-time colleague Karolyn Smardz Frost,聽and our graduate students Jeff Gunn, Nadine Hunt, and Neil Marshall all聽gave impressive presentations. The large group of student workers did an excellent job to ensure that everything ran smoothly, from registration,聽to simultaneous translations, to managing technology, to leading tour聽groups. As some of you will have seen from the media reports, former聽Governor-General and current UNESCO Special Envoy to Haiti the Rt. Hon.聽Michaelle Jean gave a stirring lecture to launch the official UNESCO聽supported "Itineraries of African Canadian Memory" project last Tuesday聽evening, in the process making it clear to the large audience what a聽huge impact, locally, nationally and internationally, the Tubman聽Institute is making with this and its other research projects. Please聽join us in applauding the team at the Tubman Institute for their innovative and very exciting Summer Institute.