Alpha Omega Alumnae presents
Presentation by Dr. Lindy Ledohowski, Research Professor at Carleton University and Board Member of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Multigenerational Ukrainian-Canadian identity through Literature
This five-part talk looks at Ukrainian-Canadian English-language literature to examine questions about what it means to be a born-in-Canada descendant of Ukrainian immigrants in today’s post-multicultural society. It first looks at how notions of “ethnicity” have changed in the pre- and post-multicultural context and then analyzes how Ukrainian-Canadianness has become linked to prairie identity, leading to interesting intersections with First Nations identities across the Canadian landscape. The final section examines the particularly female gendered nature of Ukrainian-Canadian identity as it appears in the literature. In short, this talk provides an overview of some of the main thematics that English-language literature by and about Ukrainian Canadians has to say about some of the interesting and complicated questions informing a contemporary Ukrainian Canadian identity. There will be ample time for Q & A and discussion.
WHEN: Friday, March 21, 2014 at 7pm
WHERE: Canad Inns Destination Centre, Garden City – 2100 McPhillips St
COST: $5/person
BRIEF BIO: Lindy Ledohowski completed her B.A. (Hons.) at the University of Manitoba, and her B.Ed., M.A., and Ph.D. at the University of Toronto, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Ottawa. She was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo in 2009 and a Research Professor at Carleton University in 2011. She is a scholar of contemporary Canadian identity politics, particularly issues of minoritization in post-multicultural Canada. Her work focuses on theorizing identity through a case study of Ukrainian Canadian literature in English, and she has published numerous scholarly articles, book reviews, and encyclopedia entries on this topic and is currently working on a co-edited book collection in this area. In March 2011 she was appointed to a four-year term on the Board of Trustees for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, and in July 2011 she joined Carleton University as a research professor.
With gratitude to Canad Inns for their support of this event.
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