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Promise Scholar Morgan Paul contributes to scholarship on Indigenous Data Sovereignty.

Dal’s Black and African Diaspora Studies major — the first of its kind at a Canadian university — will touch on everything from experiences of oppression and racial injustice to narratives of resilience and empowerment.

Award-winning filmmaker and writer Dr. Sylvia D. Hamilton cast a critical eye on past portrayals of African descended people in Nova Scotia and called out segregation in schools in her talk on ancestry at the Universities Studying Slavery conference last week.

This week on Sciographies, meet Dr. Kevin Hewitt, a professor in the Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science and the Faculty of Science's first associate dean of equity and inclusion. Learn more about Dr. Hewitt's coming to Canada, his research related to health outcomes for African Canadians, and his mother’s influence on his success.

An award-winning book about the influence of tuberculosis on the modern stage, a deep dive into the archives of Apartheid, and a novel about the threat of nuclear war — the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences contains multitudes as illustrated at this year's celebration of research, publications, and creative activities.