01/22/2024
By Monica Melo

The College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences is pleased to present the latest installment in the Dean’s Speaker Series. Join us in Feb. 7 at 4 p.m. in Coburn Hall, Room 255, for an engaging talk with Charlie Gargiulo who was awarded the UMass Lowell Trustees Medal in 1991 honoring his legacy of impactful activism.

"Legends of Little Canada" is a memoir told through the eyes of a 13-year-old Charlie Gargiulo, who during the 1960s watched an urban renewal plan destroy his world by forcibly displacing his family and friends from a poor, tight-knit French Canadian neighborhood in Lowell. During this talk, Gargiulo will discuss how this experience led him to become a champion of social and economic justice.

Charlie Gargiulo and "Legends OF Little Canada" and A Life of Activism
Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024
4-5:30 p.m.
Coburn Hall, Room 255, South Campus
Free and open to the public
Watch the live stream at uml.edu/Little-Canada

This event is sponsored by the Department of World Languages and Cultures, the Department of History, the Department of English, and the College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

For more information on this event, email Mercedes_Baillargeon@uml.edu or visit uml.edu/fahss-speaker-series.