Free Queen’s Mar 3:“From Christians to Communists: Making meaning of “liberation” in Cold War Canada”
Mon March 3 at 6:30pm in Dunning 12
Scott Rutherford helps make meaning of “liberation” in Canada during the Cold War by examining the period between 1945 and 1975. His lecture discusses how a wide array of actors imagined liberation by simultaneously drawing from their own local experiences while conceptually linking to a politics of global dissent. Through an examination of newspapers, journals, and visual media, we will spend time discussing the public debates that occurred around “revolutionary moments” in Canada. From armed occupations to campaigns against nuclear weapons, by discussing public challenges to the Canadian state, and the debates and responses to them, we can unravel how “liberation” significantly shaped Cold War Canada.
Biography: Scott Rutherford is a PhD candidate in the History department at Queen’s University.
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