FOMACS/BRITISH COUNCIL: PUBLIC INTERVIEW with Handel Wright

Published: Thursday, May 20, 2010

Please join us for a public interview with Handel Wright, David Lam Chair of Multicultural Education and Director of the Centre for Culture, Identity and Education, University of British Columbia, Canada. Mica Nava, Professor of Cultural Studies and Co-director of the Centre for Cultural Studies Research, University of East London, will conduct the interview.

Handel Wright is visiting Dublin to participate in a FOMACS/British Council public education project, titled Learning Lab: Identities and Social Justice. For more on Learning Lab see: www.learninglab.ie

Originally from Sierra Leone, West Africa, Handel Wright did his graduate studies in Canada (MA English, University of Windsor; MEd, Queen's University; PhD Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto). Handel then moved to the United States where he taught courses in cultural studies, multicultural education, qualitative research and service learning at the University of Tennessee. His primary activist and progressive community organising work is with the Highlander Research and Education Centre in Tennessee, serving as Coordinator of the Personnel Committee and on the Executive Committee of the active working Board of Directors.

Handel's current research includes comparative examinations of forms of representation (comparative multiculturalism and interculturalism) and identity formation (new youth identities) as well as explorations of the politics of research based on identity and social justice.

Venue: Chester Beatty Library, Dublin Castle
Date: Friday, 28 May 2010
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm

For more information and to RSVP for this event, please contact: Ann Nolan or Maeve Burke at email: info.fomacs@dit.ie or tel: 01 4023006 by 12pm Thur, 27 May 2010