Free Public Lecture - Revolt at the Lakehead: Stories of Resistance and Dissent during the "Long" 1968 - LU Grad Students

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Address:

Thunder Bay Museum
425 Donald St. E. Thunder Bay ON
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Arts and Heritage

Details:

Join the Thunder Bay Museum's free public lecture with the LU Grad Students on Revolt at the Lakehead

This will be an in-person event that is free to view.  The lecture will be broadcast live via ZOOM for those who cannot attend in person and recorded and then to the Museum's YouTube at a later date.  

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Description:

This presentation explores social and political resistance and dissent at the Lakehead between the mid 1960s and the mid 1970s, a tumultuous period in world history referred to by some scholars as the "long" 1968. Situating local movements and events within a national and global context, Rachel Kakegamic and Steve Jobbitt survey the breadth of activism at the Lakehead and across Northwestern Ontario more generally, and examine the extent to which local activists were informed by radical developments nationally and globally that reached a peak with the student and worker rebellions that broke out throughout the Global North in 1968. 

Speaker Bios:

Rachel Kakegamic is from Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1 Territory), raised in Northwestern Ontario (Thunder Bay). Rachel is a second-year Masters student in the MA History program at Lakehead University. Rachel is also a proud wife and mother of 8 children.

Steve Jobbitt is Associate Professor and Acting Chair of History at Lakehead University. His research and teaching focus primarily on Eastern Europe and on the history of neoliberalism and fascism.


  • Free Museum Admission during the event
  • Refreshments will be available

This lecture session is part of the Society's long tradition of holding free public lectures. From September to March, talks on a wide range of topics are held on the fourth Tuesday of each month at the Thunder Bay Museum.  

The 2024-2025 Thunder Bay Museum lecture series is sponsored by the Lakehead University Department of History.  

Location:

Thunder Bay Museum

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