Uprisings of the Dispossessed and Protests in the Street

This was Session V of the “Dissenting Traditions” conference to Address the Intellectual and Political Interests of Canada Research Chair, Bryan D. Palmer at Trent University, 23-24 October 2015. Moderated … Watch video »

This was Session V of the “Dissenting Traditions” conference to Address the Intellectual and Political Interests of Canada Research Chair, Bryan D. Palmer at Trent University, 23-24 October 2015.

Moderated by Christine McLaughlin. Presentations by:

  • David Thompson (Queen’s Univ): “Dispossessed Agency: The Revolutionary Indignation of Canada’s Unemployed, 1870-1929”
  • John Clarke (OCAP): “OCAP and Resistance in the Age of Austerity”
  • Andrée Lévesque (McGill Univ): “Rough Musicking Power: Quebec Street Protests in Our Times”
  • Sean Purdy (Universidade Sao Paulo): “Brazil’s June Days of 2013: Mass Protest, Class, and the Left”

This conference was funded and supported by the Canada Research Chairs Program and Trent University’s School for the Study of Canada. Recorded in Peterborough, 24 October 2015.