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  Read our Q&A with Philosopher Lissa Skitolsky, the Simon and Riva Spatz Visiting Chair in Jewish Studies for the 2019-20 year, as she prepares for her first public lecture this week on "Holocaust Humour and our Sensibility of Anti-Black Violence."
  
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  Some of the world's most renowned Cuba experts gather at Dalhousie next week to explore the Cuban Revolution and its continued impacts on the island country and the world today.
  
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• The question of Holocaust humour: 2019‑20 Spatz Visiting Chair in Jewish Studies to explore genocide, culture and comedy
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• Justin Trudeau’s job just got a lot more complicated
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