Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication will host the 20th annual Kesterton Lecture Seeing/Saying: Journalism, Indigeneity and Hard Truths, presented by award-winning journalist and celebrated author Tanya Talaga.
The lecture is part of FPA Research Month.
When: Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019 at 7 p.m.
Where: Second floor conference rooms 2220-2228, Richcraft Hall, Carleton
Info: This event is free and open to the public. Registration is available online.
Media are invited to attend the event.
In this lecture, Talaga will explore the chasm between seeing and saying through the lens of her research into the deaths of seven Indigenous students in Thunder Bay, Ont. She will discuss where society is now, how it can move forward and the role that journalism should play.
APTN journalist Francine Compton will moderate the event.
About Tanya Talaga
Talaga is the acclaimed author of Seven Fallen Feathers – winner of the RBC Taylor Prize, the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and the First Nation Communities Read Award: Young Adult/Adult. The national bestseller was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Nonfiction Prize, the B.C. National Award for Nonfiction, CBC’s Nonfiction Book of the Year and was a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book. Talaga was the 2017-2018 Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy, the 2018 CBC Massey Lecturer and author of the national bestseller All Our Relations: Finding The Path Forward. For more than 20 years, she has been a journalist at the Toronto Star and is now a columnist. She has been nominated five times for the Michener Award in public service journalism. Talaga is of Polish and Indigenous descent. Her great-grandmother, Liz Gauthier, was a residential school survivor. Her great-grandfather, Russell Bowen, was an Ojibwe trapper and labourer. Her grandmother is a member of Fort William First Nation.
About the Kesterton Lecture
The Kesterton Lecture, Carleton Journalism’s signature annual public event, honours Wilfred Kesterton’s pioneering contribution to journalism education in Canada. Saskatchewan-born Kesterton was a newspaperman and Second World War veteran when he became one of the earliest graduates of Carleton’s Bachelor of Journalism program in 1949. As the school’s second full-time faculty member, he was a leading figure in the program for 40 years.
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