On Belonging
Our speakers and Dal thinkers dive deeper into the meaning of belonging
In 2018, Dal invited thinkers to campus as part of a year-long conversation, asking them to reflect on the question “What does it mean to belong?”. We also asked them to reflect further on a number of key questions related to belonging, and posed the same questions to a group of Dal thinkers as well. We featured excerpts in the Fall 2018 issue of DAL Magazine. Here, we provide links for you to explore the full answers our speakers and thinkers gave: there’s so much thoughtful insight, and we didn’t want to lose any of it!
- Angela DavisAuthor, professor, social activist
- Buffy Sainte-MarieSinger-songwriter, humanitarian, Indigenous leader
- Craig Steven WilderProfessor and author of Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery and the Troubled History of America’s Universities
- Temple GrandinAnimal scientist and advocate for people with autism
- Howard RamosProfessor
- Jen PowleyAuthor of Just Jen: Thriving Through Multiple Sclerosis and Dal alumnus
- Mark TewksburyOlympian and humanitarian
- Patricia Doyle-BedwellLawyer, writer, first Mi’kmaq woman to earn tenure at Dalhousie
- Rick HansenParalympian and disability activist
- Murray SinclairLawyer, senator and chief commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)