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Speakers

Event Organizer and Host

Dr. Hyacinth Simpson

Dr. Hyacinth Simpson organized and chaired the Black Canada and the Great War symposium. She is an associate professor in the Department of English at Ryerson University where she specializes in Caribbean, Caribbean diaspora, and Black Canadian literatures and cultures. Her writings on Caribbean and Black Canadian fiction, poetry, films, and theatrical works have been published in a variety of scholarly and popular outlets. Hyacinth spent a decade as the Editor-in-Chief of a scholarly journal devoted to works by and about Caribbean women in the region and its diasporas. A few years ago, she discovered a passion for historical research, and is now happily engaged in uncovering stories about the contributions of Black Caribbean and Black Canadian servicemen in the Great War.

Speakers

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Anthony Sherwood

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Darnel Leader

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Gord Heath

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Karolyn Smardz Frost

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Kevin Junor

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Melissa King

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Scott Moody

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Chuk Ezemenari

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Dudley Brown

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John Boileau

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Katelyn Stieva

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Kimberly Head

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Natasha Henry

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Sean Flynn Foyn

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Danielle Hargreaves-Pittman

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George Elliott Clarke

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June Parris

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Kathy Grant

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Mathias Joost

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Nevawn Patrick