Notice Board

The Centre for Oral History and Tradition (COHT) in partnership with the Lethbridge Public Library will present the following:

Did I Hear You Say Racism?  Interpretive Authority and the Oral History Interview
Guest Speaker:  Prof. Pamela Sugiman (Professor & Dean of Arts, Ryerson University)
Day/Date:  Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Time:  7:00 p.m.
Venue:  Friends Place Meeting Room (Crossing Branch Library); 255 Britannia Blvd., West

Dr. Pamela Sugiman was appointed as Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Ryerson University in July 2016. Prior to this, Dean Sugiman was Chair of the Department of Sociology at Ryerson (since 2012). She joined Ryerson in 2006 after holding a tenure-stream position for 15 years at McMaster University. In the course of her career, Sugiman has built a reputation for creativity, collegiality, transparency and vision. She has had a longstanding  commitment to issues of social justice, equity and inclusion. These values are rooted in her personal history and have profoundly shaped her scholarly pursuits. She currently heads the Oral History Cluster of the multi-institutional,  interdisciplinary Landscapes of Injustice project. Her current research explores the memories of eyewitnesses and  bystanders to acts of racial injustice.

Sugiman is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Pathways to Education Canada and she has served as
President of the Canadian Sociological Association, a director on the National Executive Board of the National
Association of Japanese Canadians and has been a faculty representative on the Ryerson University Board of
Governors.

For excellence in research, she has been awarded an Outstanding Contribution Award from the Canadian
Sociological Association. In recognition of her overall excellence in research, teaching and service, she has received a Marion Dewar Prize in Canadian Women’s History from the National Capital Committee on the Scholarship,
Preservation and Dissemination of Women’s History. Most recently, she has been named the Lansdowne Lecturer and the Distinguished Women Scholar, both at the University of Victoria. 

Everyone is welcome.