The Centre for Human Rights & Restorative Justice presents

CHILD PROTECTION & THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD: TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES

Join us online or in person at McMaster University for an international workshop featuring historical and contemporary research based on case studies from North America, South America, Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Australia. Register today at childrights2023.com

PANELS

Child Migration in the
British World
Child Labour
Children’s Rights in Politics & Education
International Children’s Rights Discourse
The Logics of Institutional “Care”
Children & The National Imagery

LR Wilson 1003, McMaster University Livestream on Zoom
*Times are subject to change. Visit our website for our most up to date times

Speakers

Keynote Talk by Crystal Gail Fraser

Histories of Indian Residential Schooling: Approaches to Studying Institutionalized Indigenous Children during the Twentieth Century

Crystal Gail Fraser (she/her) is Gwichyà Gwich’in, from Inuvik and Dachan Choo G?? hnjik in the Northwest Territories. Her research focuses on the history of student experiences at Indian Residential Schools in the Inuvik Region (1959 to 1996). Crystal serves on national and international committees; she is a member of the Governing Circle of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, a director at Gwich’in Council International, and a member of the National Advisory Committee on Residential School Missing Children and Unmarked Graves. In Fall 2022, Crystal was awarded the prestigious Distinguished Academic Early Career Award from the Confederation of Alberta Faculty Associations. She is an Assistant Professor in History and Native Studies at the University of Alberta.

Place: LRW Concert Hall, , McMaster University Or Livestream on Zoom
Date & Time  Friday, January 27th, 2023 4PM

Registration link & more details: https://www.childrights2023.com/