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The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Office of Advancement invite you to please join us on Wednesday, March 20th as we welcome current events journalist, podcaster, and former host of CBC Radio’s ‘The Current’, Anna Maria Tremonti to deliver the 2023-24 Shaar Shalom Lecture at Dalhousie University.

The event is free and open to the public, but guests must register to attend in person or to participate virtually via livestream. 

Wednesday, March 20 (ADT)
7 – 8:30 p.m.
McInnes Room, 2nd floor, Dalhousie Student Union Building
Register here

View a video message from Anna Maria Tremonti introducing her lecture topic.

Unbraiding Shame, Blame and Pain.

In the course of examining the lingering effects of her own short-lived and violent marriage in a podcast called Welcome to Paradise, journalist Anna Maria Tremonti realized her sense of self-worth remained entangled in feelings of shame, self-blame and pain. By telling her story, she found a way to unbraid those complex emotions and let them go, and she began to understand how that potent combination affects so many others. She asks – what if we all found a way to let those feelings go? How would it affect the way we see ourselves, judge ourselves, and judge others?

The Shaar Shalom Lecture at Dalhousie University is a significant annual lecture made possible through the generosity of the Shaar Shalom Synagogue of Halifax. The Shaar Shalom’s unique partnership with Dalhousie University seeks to explore the broad themes of tolerance, multiculturalism, diversity, and difference in contemporary society, and demonstrates our shared interest in bringing in-depth discussion of these themes to wider civil society.

Learn more about the annual Shaar Shalom Lectures that have taken place at Dalhousie.