MAR Talks Presents: Who We Choose to Forget: The BIPOC Fight for Remembrance
In honour of Remembrance Day
MAR is deeply honoured to welcome Dr. Neilesh Bose, historian, writer, scholar, public speaker, and professor at the University of Victoria, for a powerful talk on memory, legacy, and the BIPOC fight for remembrance. As colonialism continues to shape which stories are honoured and which are silenced, this talk invites us to explore how histories of service and sacrifice have been distorted, erased, or forgotten across both Canadian and global contexts.
Together, we’ll reflect on how reclaiming these narratives can fuel anti racist change, reshape how we parent, and help us imagine a more just and truthful future. This is an urgent invitation to remember differently and to remember together, recognizing that remembrance itself can be a radical, anti racist act.
Date: Saturday, November 8th, 2025
Time: 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Introducing Dr. Neilesh Bose
Historian, public speaker, and writer, Neilesh Bose is Professor of History at the University of Victoria. His research interests include the history of colonial and early post-colonial South Asia, as well as the histories of South Asian diasporas in the modern world. He also holds active research and teaching interests in African history and the history of the African diaspora. He enjoys teaching courses on global and comparative history, with a focus on histories of colonialism and anticolonial activism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From 2015 to 2025, he held the Canada Research Chair of Global and Comparative History at the University of Victoria. In this capacity, he convened several public programs exploring the history and politics of the Global South. He has lectured and/or taught in various institutions in India, Bangladesh, South Africa, and the U.S.A. His books include Chips from a Calcutta Workshop: Comparative Religion in Nineteenth Century India (Cambridge, 2025), India after World History: Literature, Comparison, and Approaches to Globalization (Leiden, 2022), South Asian Migrations in Global History: Labor, Law, and Wayward Lives (London, 2020), and Recasting the Region: Language, Culture, and Islam in Bengal (Oxford, 2014).
https://onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/boseneilesh/
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