{"id":1049,"date":"2015-04-13T18:58:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T18:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/indocanadianstudies\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2015-04-13T18:58:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T18:58:50","slug":"ehsaas-readers-and-writers-festival-with-shauna-singh-baldwin-at-the-cics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/2015\/04\/13\/ehsaas-readers-and-writers-festival-with-shauna-singh-baldwin-at-the-cics\/","title":{"rendered":"Ehsaas Readers and Writers Festival with Shauna Singh Baldwin at the CICS"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Centre for Indo-Canadian Studies was pleased to host acclaimed Canadian author Shauna Singh Baldwin at this year\u2019s Ehsaas South Asian Readers and Writers Festival on Tuesday, March 3rd<\/sup>, 2015. The presentation was very well attended by approximately 30 people, which included University faculty, students and community members.<\/p>\n

Ms. Baldwin presented her talk, titled \u201cWhy Names Matter\u201d <\/em>where she addressed how the influence of someone\u2019s name and last name creates judgements about an individual\u2019s Character. She also mentioned in her talk that patriarchy is the longest running empire in the world, related to the last names of the people, which further differentiates gender, class and caste bias. She engaged the audience in a positive way by asking \u201cwhat name would you give yourself? She suggested that some of us may silence our own names, change names, take androgynous names, pen names or respond differently with nick names and code names to hide our original identity for benefits or public safety. In this talk Ms. Baldwin also brought to light the significance of legitimating the universal freedom of name identity and empowering people to use their matrilineal and creative names.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Shauna Singh Baldwin<\/strong>\u00a0is a Canadian-American novelist of Indian descent. Her 2000 novel\u00a0What the Body Remembers<\/em>\u00a0won the\u00a0Commonwealth Writers Prize\u00a0(Canadian\/ Caribbean region), and her 2004 novel\u00a0The Tiger Claw<\/em>\u00a0was nominated for the\u00a0Giller Priez. Her second short-story collection,\u00a0We Are Not in Pakistan<\/em>, was released in Canada in 2007. \u00a0She currently lives in\u00a0Milwaukee, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

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