The weight of words | Bertrand Bickersteth | TEDxBowValleyCollege

Описание: This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Bertrand’s talk, the Weight of Words, underlines how our historical frameworks determine how we presently understand the world, and subsequently, influences how our future is shaped. Bertrand further examines how words and languages, tools that we may take for granted, are more powerful than we think.

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Bertrand is an instructor at both Bow Valley College, and Olds College. Bertrand is a Calgary writer and educator. His work focuses on black history in Western Canada. He was born in Sierra Leone, raised in Alberta, and educated in the UK. His scholarly and literary work has appeared in the University of Toronto Quarterly, Freefall, KOLA, and The Great Black North Anthology of Black Canadian Poetry.

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