SCHEDULE
As of June 21, 2018
(The most up-to-date schedule is here!)
Critical Ethnic Studies Association Conference
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
June 21-24, 2018
Registration, Thursday: Lev Bukhman Lounge, The Nest
Registration, Friday-Sunday: Level 2 Foyer near Great Hall, The Nest
Location: 6133 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
Hours: 8am - 5pm
Exhibitor Room: 2301 Nest
Hours
Thursday, June 21, noon–6pm
Friday, June 22, 9am–6pm
Saturday, June 23, 9am–6pm
Sunday, June 24, 9am–noon
Conference Schedule Overview
Thursday, June 21
Featuring special panels on Indigenous issues on Canada’s National Aboriginal Day
9am-10am - Elder Grant Welcome with Debra Martel, Dr. Linc Kesler and Social Justice Center
10-10:15 am - Coffee Break
10:15-11:15 am - West Coast Indigenous Legal Issues, Contexts & Activism
11:15 am-12:15 pm - Black, Indigenous & People of Colour Interventions at UBC
12:15-2:00 pm - Lunch break
2:00-3:30 pm - Film Screening: c̓əsnaʔəm: The City Before the City by Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
3:30-3:45 pm - Coffee Break
3:45-5:15 pm - Cartographies of the Body: Organizing for Social Justice Across Pacific Worlds
5:15-5:30 pm - Break
5:30-7:00 pm - Plenary @ the Longhouse
Friday, June 22
9am-10.30am - Panel sessions
10.30-10.45am - Coffee break
10.45am-12.15pm - Panel sessions
12.15-1.15 - Lunch break
1.15-2.45pm - Panel sessions
2.45-3.00pm - Coffee break
3-4.30pm - Panel sessions
4.30-4.45pm - Break
4.45-6.15pm - Panel sessions
6.30-7.45pm - Plenary
Saturday, June 23
9am-10.30am - Panel sessions
10.30-10.45am - Coffee break
10.45am-12.15pm - Panel sessions
12.15-1.15 - Lunch break
1.15-2.45pm - Panel sessions
2.45-3.00pm - Coffee break
3-4.30pm - Panel sessions
4.30-4.45pm - Break
4.45-6.15pm - Panel sessions
6.30-7.45pm - Plenary
Sunday, June 24
9am-10.15am - Plenary
10.15-10.30am - Coffee break
10.30am-12.00pm - Panel sessions
12.00pm-1.15 - Lunch break
1.15-2.45pm - Panel sessions
2.45-3.00pm - Coffee break
3-4.30pm - Panel sessions
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Most sessions will take place in the Nest, the central student hub, at UBC. More info here: http://www.ams.ubc.ca/nest/aboutthenest/
Nest Rooms:
Great Hall, Great Hall North, Atrium, 14 Rooms (Performance Theatre, Kingsmill Forum, 2301, 2306, 2311, 2314, 2504, 2506, 2508, 2309, 2528, 2514, 2515, 2521). There are several restaurants in the building at the Nest: http://www.ams.ubc.ca/foodanddrink/
Plenaries
Thursday, June 21, 5:30-7pm, Longhouse
Glen Coulthard, Annette Henry, Love Intersections, Students for the Salish Sea
Friday, June 22, 6:30-7:45pm, Great Hall @ The Nest
Robin Kelley, Jack Halberstam, Dory Nason, Cecily Nicholson
Saturday, June 23, 6:30-7:45pm, Great Hall @ The Nest
Saidiya Hartman, John Marquez, Larissa Lai, Mercedes Eng
Sunday, June 24, 9-10:15am, Great Hall @ The Nest
Sherene Razack, Maile Arvin, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, Dylan Rodriguez
Film Screenings Location: Lev Bukhman Lounge, The Nest | Director(s) | Length | When |
Coming to Love | Emmanuelle Andrews and Pedro Daher | 10 minutes | Friday: 11.30-11.40; 4.35-4.45 Saturday: 10.35-10.45; 11.30-11.40 Sunday: 1.05-1.15; 2.35-2.45 |
Serpent Rain | Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman | 35 minutes | Friday: 10.50-11.25; 3.05-3.40 Saturday: 10.50-11.25; 1.50-2.25; 3.05-3.40 Sunday: 12.05-12.40; 2.50-3.25 |
After/Lives of the Arizona Desert: Mapping as a State of War | Puck Lo | 15 minutes | Friday: 10.30-10.45; 11.45-12.00; 3.45-4.00 Saturday: 10.15-10.30; 2.45-3.00 Sunday: 10.15-10.30; 12.45-1.00 |
Memories of a Penitent Heart | Cecilia Aldarondo | 69 minutes | Friday: 12.20-1.30; 4.50-6.00 Saturday: 9.00-10.09; 3.45-4.54 Sunday: 10.35-11.44; 1.20-2.29 |
Out of State | Ciara Lacy | 82 minutes | Friday: 9.00-10.22; 1.35-3.00 Saturday: 12.20-1.45; 5.00-6.22 Sunday: 8.45-10.07; 3.30-5.00 |
Schedule - Friday, June 22
9am-10.30am - Friday 22nd
Room Number | Program Stream | Category | Session/Paper Titles | Participants |
Great Hall North | Incarceration, Criminalization, and State Violence | Created Session | Abolitionist Mediums?: From Carceral Literature, Social Media Justice, BPP Newspapers to Coalitional Campaigns | |
Black Lives as Snuff | Rasul Mowatt | |||
Big "P" versus Small "P" Policing: The Battle to End the SRO Program in the Toronto District School Board | Phillip Morgan | |||
Defining Social Reality in a Revolutionary Way | Casey Goonan | |||
Doin' Time in French Guiana's Penal Colony: Carceral Literature and Heritage Sites | Michael Reyes | |||
2306 | Other | Created Session | Race, Identity, Construction of Race in/of the Nation (1) | |
A (Mexican) Native American Rock Band: Redbone and the Limitations of Identity | Jedediah Kuhn | |||
Racial inclusion in a history of cunning white nationalism: Lessons from Canada | Laura Kwak | |||
The Racialization of Immigration, Labor, and Worship in Hamtramck, Michigan | Kate Liska | |||
Spatializing blackness in New Mexico | Natasha Howard | |||
2311 | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies | Created Session | Centering Muslims, Challenging Islamophobia | |
Thinking About Islamophobia, Tradition, and Politics in Critical Ethnic Studies | M. Bilal Nasir | |||
Through the Lens: Muslim girls' identities, belonging and resilience in a Canadian High school | Neila Miled | |||
Sacred Epistemologies of 'Qawwam': Muslim Women and | Nadia Hasan | |||
2314 | Relationships and Resistance, Relationships as Resistance | Roundtable | The Collective Possibilities of Critical Pedagogy in a Time of Political Urgency | Eva Hageman, Arianne Miller, Christina Hanhardt, Dayo Gore |
2504 | Relationships and Resistance, Relationships as Resistance | Created Session | Troubling Racialized Relations | |
Black Love, or Being-With-Nothing... | John Gillespie | |||
Dissenting Imaginaries of Self-Determination: Theorizing the Failure to Construct Indigenous-Black Solidarity in Indian Territory, 1902-1905 | Sunny Yang | |||
Theories of the Human, Black Life | Arina Rotaru | |||
We Need a Third Reconstruction: The Wards Cove Workers Project and Afro-Asian Labor Solidarity in the 1990s and 2000s | Michael Schulze- | |||
2515 | Black, Indigenous, Women of Color, Trans and Trans Interventions | Created Session | Foundational Violences | |
“What Will We Be in this New Place: Black Enslaved Peoples in the Cherokee West” | Eve Eure | |||
To Flavor the Soil of the Earth: Wilderness and Black Feminist Refusal in Toni Morrison's 'A Mercy' | Megan Spencer | |||
Black and Native Imaginings: Looking Back to Move Forward | Jasmine Wade | |||
Canadian Academic Culture and/as The Black Outdoors | Lucia Lorenzi | |||
2528 | Other | Created Session | Decolonizing Practices (1) | |
Decolonizing Modern Institutions | Teresa Crist | |||
Decolonizing, Gameful, Insurrectionary, Queer & Playful Pluriversality Against, (Be)for(e) & Beyond the (White) Man | Cody Lestelle | |||
Fractal Thinking: Madness, Blackness and Decolonial Demands | Lindsay Miller | |||
2514 | Incarceration, Criminalization, and State Violence | Roundtable | Chicano Studies Roundtable | Benjamin H. Abbott, Trisha Martinez, Norma Lira-Pérez, Jocelyn Gómez, Jennifer Marley |
2506 | Other | Pre-arranged panel | Thinking Social Justice through State, Citizen, Subject, and Difference | Pedro Daher, Jhonelle Nelson, Emmanuelle Andrews, Khaldah Salih |
2521 | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies | Pre-arranged Panel | Speaking to the Silences: Contested Violences, (Im)material Histories, and Rebellious Futures | Naimah Petigny, Joanna Nunez, José Manuel Santillana, Soham Patel |
Kingsmill Forum | Other | Pre-arranged Panel | Organizing for food justice in the "Greenest City" | Crecien Bencio, Kaitlyn Fung, Kevin Huang, Stephanie Lim |
Performance Theatre | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies | Pre-arranged Panel | Indigenous Expressions of Culture in Literature, Drama, Performance and Storytelling: Traditional and Contemporary Perspectives from North Africa, the Middle East and The Gulf States | Badreddine Ben Othman |
10:45am-12.15pm - Friday
Room Number | Program Stream | Category | Session Paper Title | Participants |
2306 | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies | Workshop | Study, Struggle, Refuge: Hic Rosa Collective: A Falsework on Anti-Fascist Hospitality by Hic Rosa Collective | Colin Eubank, Asma Abbas, Lillian Goldberg, Anna Poplawski, Milo Ward |
Great Hall North | Other | Created Session | Race, Identity, Construction of Race in/of the Nation (2) | |
"Where was the Color in Seattle?": Neoliberal Multiculturalism and Colorblind Racism in the 1999 World Trade Organization Protests | Eric Larson | |||
Toward an Anthropology of Whiteness: Limits and Potentials of a (Decolonizing) Discipline | Ine Beljaars | |||
Watching the Watchers: Observational Methods, Panoptic Gazes, and Being a Brown Researcher Subject in the Era of Terror | Kritee Ahmed | |||
Exploring race and transnational labor in the federal funding for California’s rural education | Araceli Gonzalez | |||
2311 | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies | Roundtable | You Already Know: Critical Ethnic Studies as a Lexicon for Lived Experiences | Leilani Hemmings Pallay, Jenell Navarro, Jose Navarro, Cameron Clay, Carlos Gomez, Jason Campos |
2314 | Art, Visual Culture and Media // Incarceration, Criminalization, and State Violence | Pre-arranged Panel | Militarism, Asylum, and the Logic of Humanitarianism | Y-Dang Troeung, Christopher Patterson, James Pangillinan, Erin Goheen Glanville, Christine Kim |
2504 | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies | Created Session | Disrupting colonial and racial structures | |
'Race,' Theory, and Methodology: A Normative Project | Rolando Rodriguez | |||
Excavating (E)urochristian Themes in Bioethics and Health | Jennifer McCurdy | |||
The Legacy of Colonial Politics on How People Perceive Themselves in Afghanistan Today | Ahmad Javeed Ahwar | |||
Lest they be Blacked Out: Alcohol's Racialized Consumption and Early Modern Anxiety | Elizabeth Smith | |||
2506 | Art, Visual Culture and Media | Arts Engagement Workshop | More than Talk: Dismantling White Supremacy Utilizing Creative Methods | Yasmine Awais, Adam Reynolds |
2309 | Other | Created Session | Transforming the Academy - Battle for Academic Freedom | |
Against Diversity: Student Demands for a Different Kind of University | Giselle Cunanan | |||
Inclusive Racism: Decentering Race through the Language of Inclusivity in Higher Education | Joon Kim | |||
The End(s) of the University | Andy Hines | |||
Settler Colonialism, Racial Capitalism, & Education Reform: An Abolitionist Move Towards Deschooling Education | Anita Juarez | |||
2528 | Relationships and Resistance, Relationships as Resistance | Roundtable | Re-membering Revolutions: Feminist Solidarity, Abolitionary Politics, and Freedom Making | Heather Turcotte, Tamara Lea Spira, Vanessa Lovelace, Dolores Calderon, Veronica Velez |
2514 | Incarceration, Criminalization, and State Violence | Created Session | Africa, Migration and the White Supremacist Imaginary | |
Nigeria: Booming Sex Migrant Workers Across the Mediterranean Sea | Samuel Dada | |||
Sub-Sahara: Migration on the Mediterranean at Crisis Level | Adebanji Williams | |||
The Ancestral is the Epistemic: An Investigation into the Positionalities of White Dutch researchers of migration in The Netherlands | Eóin Ó Cuinneagáin | |||
2515 | Incarceration, Criminalization, and State Violence | Created Session | Precarity, Citizenship and Bindings of Settler Colonialism | |
Across Oceans, Beyond Borders: The Political Subjectivity of Undocumented Asian Americans | Jessica Law | |||
Migrant Bodies in a White Settler Society | Nathalie Lozano-Neira | |||
Citizenship, Borders, and the Body: How is the Canadian citizen constituted through the undocumented and precariously documented migrant? | Tania Ruiz-Chapman | |||
Guelaguetza Across the Border: Thinking Through Decolonization and Immigration | Lourdes Alberto | |||
2521 | Incarceration, Criminalization, and State Violence | Created Session | Education Beyond Colonialism, Punishment & Borders | |
Dreamers And Doers: Building Bridges, Not Walls, With Immigrant Youth | Susana Flores | |||
Am I not a Mother, too? Studying the Complex Relations Between White Female Educators and (M)others of Colour | Marycarmen Lara Villanueva | |||
A Ghost in the University: Hauntings, Settler Colonialism, and Militarism at UC San Diego | Christian Gella | |||
"I'm not Chicana": Exploring identity and Indigeneity among Indigenous Mexican college students | Gabriela Kovats Sánchez | |||
Kingsmill Forum | Extractivism, Racism and Colonialism | Pre-arranged panel | An Evaluation of the US Peace Corps: Neocolonization through State-funded Volunteerism | Shawna Follis, Erika Nacim, Caroline King |
Performance Theatre | Incarceration, Criminalization, and State Violence | Pre-arranged Panel | Entanglements of Dispossession: Exposing and Refusing State Violence against Black, Indigenous and Racialized Peoples | Stephanie Latty, Sa Whitley, Megan Scribe, Rosanna Simons, Sherene Razack |
1.15-2.45pm - Friday 22nd
Room Number | Program Stream | Category | Session/Paper Titles | Participants |
Kingsmill Forum | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies // Art, Visual Culture and Media | Created Session | Decolonizing Feminism and Gender Studies | |
My Coming to Feminist Praxis: A Case for Epistemic Justice | Salsabel Almanssori | |||
Kuleana (responsibilities) and concerns as a Woman of Colour academic activist in a white space | Karin Louise Hermes | |||
Feminist Aisthesis: Figuring a Counter-Symbolic | Youngbin Song | |||
A Decolonial Gender Studies? Possibilities for New Praxis and Pedagogy | Ryan Rousseau | |||
Great Hall North | Migration, Borders and Settler Colonialism | Roundtable | Liberal Empire, Migrants, and Humanitarian Violence | Wesley Attewell, David Hernandez, Vanessa Rosa, Christopher Patterson |
2306 | Art, Visual Culture and Media | Arts Engagement Workshop | Radical Dreaming: An Activist’s Journal of Imaginaries | Addyson Frattura |
2514 | Art, Visual Culture and Media | Workshop | No Carrots, No Sticks | Margot Leigh Butler |
2311 | Relationships and Resistance, Relationships as Resistance | Arts Engagement Workshop | Freedom Dreaming with Women of Color: Imagining the Future, Connecting with the Past, and Invoking Resistance Through Art and Letter-writing. | Christine Rosales |
2314 | Land Defense, Environmental Justice and Food Sovereignty // Extractivism, Racism, and Colonialism // Relationships and Resistance, Relationships as Resistance | Created Session | Political natures and the Politics of Difference | |
Climate Refugee Exceptionalism: Racialized Bodies, Liberal Warfare | Joe Gallegos | |||
Dredging the Dam: Lake Oroville, Public Records, Maidu Land, and Archival Excavation | Ryan Rhadigan | |||
2504 | Land Defense, Environmental Justice and Food Sovereignty // Black, Indigenous, Women of Color, Trans and Trans Interventions | Created Session | Whose Land? | |
White Women and the Wild: An Intersectional Analysis of US Wilderness Mythology | Jamie Corliss | |||
Researcher and Participants in Land-based Research | Ranjan Datta | |||
The Chiapas Jaguar As Cultural Expression of Respect for Nature | Sean Sell | |||
2508 | Migration, Borders and Settler Colonialism | Roundtable | Come, Let Us Build Worlds Together: Roundtable on Joint Struggle across the Americas and Palestine | Gavriel Cutipa-Zorn, Leslie Quintanilla, Dana Olwan, Tamara Lea Spira, Jennifer Mogannam |
2515 | Health, Disability/Disablement and Reproductive Justice | Pre-arranged Panel | Refusing the Therapeutic Nation: De-Psychiatrizing Social Death and Trauma under the Settler Carceral State | Lena Palacios, Sandrine de Finney, Mandeep Mucina, Shantelle Moreno |
2521 | Relationships and Resistance, Relationships as Resistance | Pre-arranged Panel | Breaking Bread- Recipes of Resistance 1980-2017 | Marie-Jolie Rwiegma, RL Taylor |
2528 | Incarceration, Criminalization, and State Violence | Created Session | The Policing of Resistance: Against Carceral Violence and Abolitionist Pedagogy | |
Militarizing, Policing, and Generating Anti-Blackness through Islamophobia | Atiya Husain | |||
"Penitentiary Bound": Policing and Pedagogy in Southeast San Diego | Aundrey Jones | |||
It's a Discipline Problem: A Pedagogy of Prison Abolition | Tadashi Dozono | |||
Pedagogical Processes of Individuation: Policies and Policings | Michael Miller | |||
Performance Theatre | Other | Workshop | Workshop on Re-Envisioning the Critical Ethnic Studies Journal | Christine Hong, Wayne Yang, Eve Tuck, LeKeisha Hughes, Beenash Jafri, Juliann Anesi, |
3-4.30pm - Friday
Room Number | Program Stream | Category | Session/Paper Titles | Participants |
Great Hall North | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies | Pre-arranged Panel | Beyond Pragmatics: The Nuts, Bolts, and Guts of Living Coalitional Possibilities | Shireen Roshanravan, April Petillo, Christine Keating, Davina Bhandar |
2311 | Extractivism, Racism, and Colonialism | Pre-arranged Panel | Trans-American Indigenous Studies: Beyond the Extractive View | Macarena Gomez-Barris, Jaskiran Dhillon, Ho’esta Mo’e’hahne, Jodi Byrd |
2314 | Other // Art, Visual Culture and Media | Created Session | Constructions, Identity, and Otherness (I) | |
Theories of ‘Dew’- Poetic Imaginings of l’à-venir | Silvana Carotenuto | |||
Imperialist Constructions of Dangerous Brown Women: A Case Study of Two Female Iraqi Scientists | Gwen Darcangelis | |||
Deshima: A Filtered View of the Other | Min Zhou | |||
From White Trash to White Folk: Progress and White Misery | Christian Ravela | |||
2504 | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies | Roundtable | Academy and the im/possibility of decolonization | Santhosh Chandrashekar, Bernadette Calafell, Sarah Jordon, Sarah Gonzalez Noveiri |
2506 | Relationships and Resistance, Relationships as Resistance | Created Session | Intergenerational Relations | |
Diasporic Youth Identity Development in Community Organizations | Diana Chandara | |||
"Daughterhood & the Diaspora: Asian-American Women on Defining Home, Belonging, and Gender Identity." | Andi Remoquillo | |||
Storying Activisms: Critical Reflections on Making and Un-Making in Nogojiwanong (Peterborough, Ontario) | Melissa Baldwin | |||
2508 | Black, Indigenous, Women of Color, Trans and Trans Interventions | Created Session | Building Power | |
"They wanted to talk family dysfunction; we wanted to talk plumbing": Mutual Aid and Affective Labor in Baltimore's High-rise Public Housing | Robert Choflet | |||
The Roots of Radical Pedagogy: The Jeanes Teachers in America, 1908-1968 | Layla Treuhaft-Ali | |||
Kanaka Maoli Women Leadership and Visions of Sociotechnical Landscapes | Caterina Desiato | |||
2306 | Art, Visual Culture and Media | Workshop | Decolonizing Media: Language and Reclaiming Identity | Jocelyn Gomez, Jose Amaro |
2309 | Land Defense, Environmental Justice and Food Sovereignty // Extractivism, Racism, and Colonialism | Created Session | Negotiating the Terms of Collectivity and Organizing | |
Black International Anti-Fascism: Capitalism, Fascism, and Anti-Imperial Resistance in George Schuyler's Black Empire | Samantha Simon | |||
Abolition and the Limits of the Racial Environmental State | Keith Miyake | |||
2528 | Land Defense, Environmental Justice and Food Sovereignty | Created Session | Growing and Consuming Race and Colonialism (I) | |
The Palette of Empire Runs Sweet: Sugar, Addiction, and the Banal Violences of Neocolonialism | Courtney Mitchel | |||
Workmanship and Relationships: Food Trading and Sharing Practices of Indigenous People on Vancouver Island | Johnnie Manson | |||
Invasive, Indigenous, and Interstitial Species: Yomogi Spectrality on Unceded Coast Salish Territory | Jane Komori | |||
Bumblebees, Tomatoes, and People | A Quinn | |||
2514 | Migration, Borders and Settler Colonialism | Pre-arranged Panel | Decolonizing Asian Racialization: Unsettling Identity in Transnational Contemporary Cultural Productions | Sonia Gomez, Jennifer Wang |
2515 | Other | Activist Report-Back | The University as the Site for Resistances | Maria Wallis |
2521 | Black, Indigenous, Women of Color, Trans and Trans Interventions | Workshop | Demystifying Healing Justice: A Community Conversation | Veronica Agard |
Performance Theatre | Migration, Borders and Settler Colonialism | Created Session | Borders Between Us: Indigeneity, Empire and Racialized Settlement | |
Practicing Reflection: A Collaboration for Indigenous Space | Natchee Barnd | |||
Tensions and Borders that Kill: New Mexican Hispanos/Xicanxs, Settler Colonialism and Empire | Norma Lira-Perez | |||
The Rhythms of a Racialized Residence: Chicano Batman, Johnnie Walker, and the Sounds of Chicanx Settler Colonialism | Raul Melgoza Jr. | |||
Mestizo longing as a settler futurity along the U.S./Mexico borderlands | Dolores Calderon | |||
Kingsmill Forum | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies | Performance | Voices at the Center of the Intersection: Latin@/x Counter-Narratives as an Anti-Colonial Act | Yolanda Nieves |
4.45-6.15pm - Friday 22nd
Room Number | Program Stream | Category | Session/Paper Titles | Participants |
Great Hall North | Other | Pre-arranged Panel | Racial-Colonial Entanglement in Higher Education: Towards Imagining Educational Futures Otherwise | Rosalind Hampton, Kristi Carey, D-L Stewart, Sharon Stein, Sheeva Sabati, Lisa (Leigh) Patel |
2311 | Extractivism, Racism, and Colonialism | Roundtable | California State of Racial Capitalism | Ofelia Cuevas, Javier Arbona, Keith Miyake, Juan De Lara |
2521 | Other | Created Session | Constructions, Identity and Otherness (II) | |
Why Queers Love Astrology: New Age as (De)colonial Imaginary | Christopher Lee | |||
Scripting Temporality in Film - Queer Subjects & Performance | Laura Malaver | |||
2306 | Extractivism, Racism, and Colonialism | Pre-arranged Panel | Doing research with Muslim women in Quebec while Racialized and Muslim Women | Leila Benhadjoudja, Baljit Nagra, Sonia Ben Soltane |
2314 | Health, Disability/Disablement and Reproductive Justice | Created Session | Family Life, the body and Death | |
The Everyday Lives of Grieving Black and Latina Mothers | Ina Kelleher | |||
Reproductive rights as keys for survival | Violet King | |||
Healing Together: Racialization, Trauma-Informed Therapy, and Activism | Nicolas Juarez | |||
2504 | Land Defense, Environmental Justice and Food Sovereignty // Extractivism, Racism, and Colonialism | Created Session | Growing and Consuming Race and Colonialism (II) | |
Invisible Contributions: The Role of Racialized Canadians in Urban Food System Policy | Colin Dring, Victoria Ostenso | |||
Landscapes of Plunder | Wendy Cheng | |||
Ecological Intimacies?: Environmental Catastrophe, Fractured Alliances, and Missed Opportunities in the Swan Hills Valley | Dallas Hunt | |||
2506 | Incarceration, Criminalization, and State Violence | Pre-arranged Panel | Grassroots Organizing during the so-called "Refugee Crisis": New Possibilities in Catastrophic Times | Randa Tawil, Loubna Qutami, Maytha Alhassen |
2508 | Extractivism, Racism, and Colonialism // Land Defense, Environmental Justice and Food Sovereignty | Created Session | Body, Environment, Science | |
Disposable Geographies: Debility and Death in California's Environmental Justice Movement | Oscar Gutierrez | |||
Toxic Worlds: Asthma, Race, and Embodiment on Chicago's South Side | Alex Ding | |||
suq̓ʷabš čəd: Suquamish Tribal Identity and Blood Quantum through the Story of Julia Jacobs | Kylie Gemmell | |||
Buckshot for Brains | Cynthia-Lou Coleman | |||
2514 | Incarceration, Criminalization, and State Violence // Migration, Borders and Settler Colonialism | Created Session | Reproducing Freedom as Racial, Gendered and Sexual Violence | |
In the Case of Celia: Liberal Freedom as Sexual Violence | Caleb Knapp | |||
Israel's Still-Born: Race, Reproduction and Power in Israel and Palestine | Bayan Abusneineh | |||
Framing the Automobility and Freedom of (Im)Migrant Women: Analyzing Two Snapshots | Wendy Thompson Taiwo | |||
Criminalization and Human Trafficking: The Targeting of Victims of Exploitation for Deportation | Cassandra Gonzalez | |||
2515 | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies | Pre-arranged Panel | F$$K What You Think: Sensing Decolonial Epistemologies of Race and Empire | Christine Peralta, Bryce Henson, Brenda Garcia, Christine Yao |
2528 | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies | Pre-arranged Panel | The Radical Potential of Third World Studies Epistemic and the Unfinished Project of the twLF | Abraham Ramirez, Angela Aguilar, Pablo González, Cynthia Ledesma |
Performance Theatre | Other | Roundtable | Black Marxism Revisited | Robin Kelley, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Emmanuelle Andrews, Peter Wanyenya, Pedro Daher; Matt Browning |
Kingsmill Forum | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies | Activist Report-Back | Lessons from Denver: Strategies for Decolonizing Education and Empowering Marginalized Student Populations to Navigate and Succeed in Neoliberal Public Education Systems. | Ji Yoon, binh phan, TRUE Apodaca, Faye Caronan |
Schedule - Saturday, June 23
9-10.30am - Saturday 23rd
Room Number | Program Stream | Category | Session/Paper Titles | Participants |
2504 | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies | Created Session | Critical Ethnographic Methods in Communities and Classrooms | |
Whose Voices Are Heard? Integrating Intersectional and Anticolonial Discourses into Institutional Ethnography | Erika Ono | |||
Transgressive Temporalities: CP Time and the importance of being off time to youth of color. | Rahsaan Mahadeo | |||
2506 | Extractivism, Racism, and Colonialism | Pre-arranged Panel | Unsettling Apocalypses | April Anson, Bruno Seraphin, Meredith Martin-Moats |
2508 | Relationships and Resistance, Relationships as Resistance // Black, Indigenous, Women of Color, Trans and Trans Interventions // Art, Visual Culture and Media // Extractivism, Racism and Colonialism | Created Session | Revisiting Relations | |
Ancient Usage and Primal Instinct: Theorizing the Indian in the Partido Liberal Mexicano | Benjamin H. Abbott | |||
Techno-Orientalist neo-Luddism in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead | Anthony Kim | |||
Decolonial Possibilities of the Aporia in Toni Morrison’s ‘Beloved’ and Leanne Simpson’s ‘Islands of Decolonial Love’ | Emmanuelle Andrews | |||
2309 | Relationships and Resistance, Relationships as Resistance | Pre-arranged Panel | Mapping Counter “Our” Archives: Prison Abolitionist and Transformative Justice Praxis Across Turtle Island | Lena Palacios, Ren-yo Hwang, Juliana Hu Pegues, Eunha Jeong Wood, Alisa Bierria |
2314 | Incarceration, Criminalization, and State Violence | Pre-arranged panel | Truly Community Advocacy for People in Jail to Enhance Their Reentry | Joanne Belknap, Deanne Grant, Awon Atuire, Lisa Calderón, May Mgbolu |
2311 | Other | Performance | Land and Bodily Sovereignty: Policy Problem Re-Framed via the Art of Refusing Empire and Embracing MADness | Binish Ahmed |
2528 | Other | Roundtable | Healing to Action | Micah Fedenko, Gabriel Duska, Sarah Rivers, Helen Magowan, Maimuna Touray, Xris Rodiguez |
2306 | Black, Indigenous, Women of Color, Trans and Trans Interventions | Activist Report-Back | On the Contradictions of Individual Advocacy in Abolitionist Organizations: Reflections on Immigration Detainee “Support Work” in Tkaronto | Allos Abis, Louise Tam |
2514 | Art, Visual Culture and Media | Created Session | Music, Humour and Protest | |
Racist Humour, Racist Rhetoric and Freedom of Expression: Exploring How we Might Reconfigure Freedom of Expression in Liberatory Ways | Philip Howard | |||
The politics and performance of disruption: Manifestations of affect, pedagogy and action in protests against the immigration industrial complex | Chantiri Resendiz | |||
"O.K. Kids lets Talk about Gun Control...Damn.": Kendrick Lamar Outlines the Limits of Cultural Nationalism | Mario Obando | |||
2521 | Migration, Borders and Settler Colonialism | Roundtable | Grounded Roots, Fluid Routes: Exploring the Challenges of Studying Gender and Sexuality with/in Empire | T.J. Tallie, Andrew Brown, Theresa Warburton, Josh Cerretti |
Great Hall North | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies | Created Session | In But Not Of the Institution: Challenging the Coloniality of Education | |
The Colonial History of Land-Grant Institutions: Rethinking U.S. Public Higher Education Through Processes of Accumulation and Relations of Conquest | Sharon Stein | |||
The Coloniality of the West: A Critical Reading of the University of California | Sheeva Sabati | |||
Under the cloak of professionalism: Covert racism in teacher education | Lilach Marom | |||
The Possibilities, Impossibilities, and Limitations of Doing Human Work | Romeo Garcia | |||
Kingsmill Forum | Black, Indigenous, Women of Color, Trans and Trans Interventions | Pre-arranged Panel | Shape-shifting sexualized violence through bodied, land-based retellings | Sandrine de Finney, Shantelle Moreno, Anna Chadwick, Chantal Adams, Angela Scott |
10.45am-12.15pm - Saturday
Room Number | Program Stream | Category | Session/Paper Titles | Participants |
2306 | Black, Indigenous, Women of Color, Trans and Trans Interventions | Pre-arranged Panel | Hemispheric Asian American and Indigenous Relationalities: Keywords Towards Decolonizing Solidarities | Beenash Jafri, Quynh Nhu Le, Nishant Upadhyay, Marie Lo, Maria John |
2309 | Extractivism, Racism, and Colonialism | Created Session | Infrastructure of Race and Colonial Difference | |
Infrastructure, Channel, Frontier: The Sacramento River Delta, Settler Grammars of Place, and Disruptive Indigenous and Black Geographies | Robert Moeller | |||
"'Longest line of communications ever employed by any army of great size...perhaps the most vulnerable:' Racialized Railroad Labor from the Peripheries of the US and Western Europe during the Great War" | Michael Calderon-Zaks | |||
Welcome to Detroit 2.0: Neoliberalizing the Black City | AJ Rice | |||
Black Lives Matter, Police, and Racial Politics: Are Pride Parades Still Political? | Andy Holmes | |||
2311 | Relationships and Resistance, Relationships as Resistance // Migration, Borders and Settler Colonialism | Created Session | Violence and Relational Rupture | |
Advocating for Domestic and Gender-Based Violence Survivors in the Era of Trump: Lessons from An API and Latinx Statewide Coalition for Cultural Responsive Services | Ayanna Yonemura, James Fabionar | |||
Disability Justice in the Anti-Violence Movement: Challenging Ableism in the Struggle Against Sexual and Domestic Violence | Samuel Shelton | |||
Reawakening the Dreamer | Kimberly Todd | |||
Korean and Japanese American Atomic Bomb Survivors in the Nuclear Pacific: Reimagining the Future of Transnational and Pan-ethnic Solidarity | Michael Jin | |||
2314 | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies // Extractivism, Raciasm and Colonialism | Created Session | Black Pedagogies and Anti-Pedagogies | |
The Anti-Pedagogy of Afro-Pessimism | M.Shadee Malaklou, Franco Barchiesi | |||
The Revival of Pan Africanist Thought: Exploring Informal Black Educational Space | Brian Lozenski, Shakita Thomas | |||
Woke and Silent? Parents Wading through the Waters of Racism in Quebec Schooling | Dana Lerona | |||
How “African” is African(a) Studies?: A Critical Global North-South Discourse | Sahar D. Sattarzadeh | |||
Great Hall North | Other | Roundtable | One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Professors’ Struggle for Equity in the Academy | Ãzlem Sensoy, Kamari Beck, Wanda Cassidy, Haumei Han, Sharalyn Jordan, Ena Lee, Beth Marshall, Susan O’Neill, Suzanne Smythe, Dolores van der Wey, Amy Parent and Pooja Dharamshi |
2514 | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies | Roundtable | What’s so “Critical” about Ethnic Studies? Pedagogy and Practice of Critical Ethnic Studies within the Neoliberal University in an era of White Nationalism | Lourdes Torres, Laura Kina, Muriel Dorsey-Johnson, Jamie Corlis, Lisa Calvente, Maria Ferrera |
2528 | Art, Visual Culture and Media // Black, Indigenous, Women of Color, Trans and Trans Interventions | Created Session | Indigenous strategies | |
Two-Spirit Is Markedly Different than LGBTQ | Jeffrey McNeil-Seymour | |||
"This is where the poetry comes out": The Peterborough Poetry Slam as Resistant Space-Making | Melissa Baldwin | |||
Fourth World Feminist Clocks | Reema Rajbanshi | |||
2508 | Incarceration, Criminalization, and State Violence // Migration, Borders and Settler Colonialism | Created Session | Forced Migration: Militarized Zones of Resettlement and Displacement | |
No Refuge from Empire: Migrant Incarceration as Imperial Intervention in Haiti, 1970s-1990s | Llana Barber | |||
Exiled Again: The Refuge-Prison-Deportation Pipeline of Southeast Asian American Refugees | Lan Nguyen | |||
What do precarious legal status migrants learn about settler colonialism? | Paloma Villegas | |||
Comparative Colonialisms: Identifying Filipino-Chamorro Solidarity Amongst Histories of Incarceration and Racial Capitalism in Guam | Josephine Ong | |||
Performance Theatre | Other | Pre-arranged Panel | Critical Insurgencies: Curating the Book Series of the Critical Ethnic Studies Association | Jodi Byrd, Michelle M. Wright |
Kingsmill Forum | Black, Indigenous, Women of Color, Trans and Trans Interventions | Pre-arranged Panel | Scripting Public Pedagogy: Three Muslim Women's Responses to the U.S. Travel Ban | Heba Elsherief, Muna-Udbi Ali, Lucy El-Sherif |
1.15-2.45pm - Saturday 23rd
Room Number | Program Stream | Category | Session/Paper Titles | Participants |
Great Hall North | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies | Pre-arranged Panel | Critical Filipino Canadian Studies: Directions, Detours, and Debates | John Paul Catungal, Ethel Tungohan, Roland Sintos Coloma, May Farrales, Marissa Largo, Rogert Diaz, Fritz Luther Pino |
2309 | Art, Visual Culture and Media | Arts Engagement Workshop | For Many Returns | Nasrin Himada |
2508 | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies | Created Session | Decolonizing Teaching and Learning: Indigenous People and Practices of Education | |
From Intergenerational Survivor to Sur-Thrivor: A Secwepemc Two-Spirit Reflection on Spirituality in the Social Work Classroom and the Sacred Responsibility of Unsettling | Jeffrey McNeil-Seymour | |||
Navajo in Anglo-America: Diné Students Views on Heritage Preservation in Higher Education | Sara Rodriguez | |||
2506 | Black, Indigenous, Women of Color, Trans and Trans Interventions | Created Session | Black Hermeneutics | |
Alba-pessimism: Black Optimism and White Ontology | Seth Cosimini | |||
Split Future(s) - Trans*posing Bodies. Interventions on Materialities and Flight | Mariya Nikolova | |||
Feeling Human, Feeling Black | Tyrone Palmer | |||
2306 | Relationships and Resistance, Relationships as Resistance | Roundtable | Thinking Otherwise: Practicing Coalition at the Outside of Modernity's Boundary | Daimys Garcia, Chia-Hsu Chang |
2314 | Art, Visual Culture and Media | Created Session | Struggling with / representing pain, violence and resistance | |
Navigating Economies of Humanitarian Benevolence: Almost Human Parts as Both Waste and Gift | Emily Hue | |||
Identity Politics in the 21st century: Experiential Pain, Possessive Individualism, and the Making of the Self | Arezou Soltani | |||
Reframing the Narrative through Visual Ethnography: Photographs of the Palestinian Popular Struggle Against the Israeli Apartheid Wall as Visual Injustice Symbols | Aisha Mershani | |||
Uniqueness in the Art and Discourse Surrounding #BlackLivesMatter | Stephanie Clare | |||
2311 | Global Capitalism, Neoliberalism, and Precarity of Labour | Created Session | Labour, Precarity and Justice | |
"Bad Rehab" and Decent Work: Rehabilitative Regimes of Redemptive Labor | Elena Sih | |||
A Rising Tide Lifts All Boat People: 'Welfare Dependency': "Politics and the Racialization of Hmong Refugees in the United States | Stevie Larson | |||
The Aesthetics of Precarity: Performance and the Archive of Migrant Domestic Work | Maria Lopez | |||
2515 | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies | Workshop | Critical Ethnic Studies as Decolonial Approach to Science and Math Education | LaToya Strong, Atasi Das |
2528 | Global Capitalism, Neoliberalism, and Precarity of Labour // Black, Indigenous, Women of Color, Trans and Trans Interventions | Created Session | Resisting Criminalisation Across Borders | |
Fighting the Gangster Economy: Local Insurgencies for Economic Justice | Miranda Martinez | |||
Border crossings: Transnational hip hop and the search for an alternative future | Vincent Ogoti | |||
Drug War Capitalism and the Militarization of Everyday Urban Life: The New Military Urbanism from Central America to the United States | Krys Mendez Ramirez | |||
2514 | Black, Indigenous, Women of Color, Trans and Trans Interventions | Workshop | Marginalized Knowledges & Border Ethics as Resistance in Social Service Work | Lily Han |
Performance Theatre | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies | Roundtable | Pedagogies of the Past and their Potential for the Present | Robert Robinson, Angela Crumdy |
3-4.30pm - Saturday
Room Number | Program Stream | Category | Session/Paper Titles | Participants |
Great Hall North | Migration, Borders and Settler Colonialism | Roundtable | Transcolonial Relationality Across the Americas | Amrah Salomon J., Mark Harris, José Fusté, Daphne Taylor-Garcia |
2306 | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies | Created Session | Social justice in Primary and Secondary Education | |
Perceptions of local community, schooling, and social justice among high school students taking an ethnic studies class | Jenna Cushing-Leubner | |||
Standing with youth at the waters of critical heritage literacy | Brian Lozenski | |||
Theorizing educational abandonment: Lessons from the Kababayan Academic Mentorship Program | John Paul Catungal, Maureen Mendoza | |||
2309 | Relationships and Resistance, Relationships as Resistance | Created Session | Institutional Modes and Relations | |
Absorption & Seepage: Institutionalized Criticality, Moral Inclusion, and the Liberal Bargain | Kristi Carey, Mark Stern | |||
Activist Report-Back | Activism Against Kinder Morgan's Donation to Thompson Rivers University | Jenna Skogberg, Jeffrey McNeil Seymour | ||
Affective Politics and Recent Attacks on Critical Studies in Higher Education from Salaita to Wilfred Laurier: What's At Stake? How to Respond? | Virginia Husting | |||
2311 | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies | Created Session | International Engagement in Art and Public Engagement | |
Radical Transfeminism & Queer Activism from South America | Maia Machuca-Rose | |||
Institutional Rhetoric: The Pursuit of Diverse Voices in Public Engagement | Bindy Kang-Dhillon | |||
Decolonial Mimesis in Activist Performance | Jessica Friedman | |||
Violent and non-violent forms of resistance to racist systems | Johannes Strijdom | |||
2314 | Black, Indigenous, Women of Color, Trans and Trans Interventions | Created Session | Queer Poetics | |
Race, Queerness & Erotic Lives: A comparative analytics of sexual racism | Sonny Dhoot | |||
The Mayas Come Out of the Closet. The Poetics of Homosexuality in Manuel Tzoc’s Gay(o) | Emilio del Valle-Escalante | |||
Queer Politics and Its Discontents: Reconfiguring Kinship and Family in Psychoanalysis and Structuralism | Janice Feng | |||
Happiness and Joy: an instance of QTPOC world making | Maisha Manson | |||
2504 | Black, Indigenous, Women of Color, Trans and Trans Interventions | Created Session | Resistance to Hegemony at the Boundaries | |
Migrant Indigeneity: Anthropology, White Supremacy, and a Framework for Decolonizing Black Identity in the United States | Diana Burnett | |||
The Contradictory Nature of Dissent in Academia | Brie McLemore | |||
Leaving White People Out: Challenges to Anti-Racist Organizing on a Predominantly White University Campus | Mahtab Nazemi | |||
2506 | Relationships and Resistance, Relationships as Resistance | Roundtable | “If the Students Care, They Will Take It: Co-opting Student Initiated Programs by University ‘Diversity’ Initiatives, a UC San Diego Shit Show” | Joseph Allen Ruanto-Ramirez, Cortni Bardier, Maricris Arandia, Alexis Eubank, Roneil Lomahan, Isabelle Narvaez, Gabriel Le Espiritu, Ashley Carbonell, Dellanira Alcauter |
2508 | Health, Disability/Disablement and Reproductive Justice | Roundtable | Madness and Decolonization: Histories, Stories, Futures | Tanja Aho, Brady Forrest, Jess Watcott, Carol Moeller, Jessi Lee Jackson |
2528 | Land Defense, Environmental Justice and Food Sovereignty // Extractivism, Racism, and Colonialism // Relationships and Resistance, Relationships as Resistance | Created Session | People of Colour Organizing and Settler Coloniality | |
Aspirational Settlers and Unsettling Aliens: Asian/Canadian Arrivants, Settler Colonialism, Racialization, and the (Re)Creation of the Human's Others in British Columbia, 1880-1950 | Will Archibald | |||
"Local" Hawaiʻi Insurrections: Literary Imaginings of Indigenous-Asian Settler Coalition | Leanne Day | |||
Anti-Blackness and Settler Colonialism in Los Angeles Latinx Anti-Displacement Organizing | Luis Trujillo | |||
Against Domination: Settler Refusals of the Settler State | Bradley Por | |||
2515 | Art, Visual Culture and Media | Created Session | Emancipation | |
A Clandestine Human Rights Document: Speechless Doodle as Resistance | Supurna Dasgupta | |||
Visual Activisms and Postcolonial Languaging Between Hong Kong and Its Global Interlocutors | Ellie Tse | |||
Reclaiming Home and Righting Citizenships in Postwar Sri Lanka: Internal Displacement, Memory and Human Rights | Dinidu Karaunanayake | |||
Minority Literatures and Persuasive Resistance in the Age of "Alternative Facts” | Daniel Valella | |||
2514 | Incarceration, Criminalization, and State Violence // Migration, Borders and Settler Colonialism | Created Session | Reading Boundaries and Borders: Queering the Other and Othering Zones of Difference | |
Thinking Geography in American Ethnic Literature: Reading Queer Bodies of Asians in Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters | Jaehyun Jeong | |||
Unsettling the "Gay Oasis of the West":Specters of Indigeneity in Denver's Queer Migration | Hunter McFarland | |||
Breaking Down the Fences: Queer Futurity and the Possibilities of Outlaw Discourses | Joe Gallegos | |||
Hatch Art Gallery | Art, Visual Culture and Media | Performance | Siyapaa: Creating Radical Punjabi Feminist Formations in Performance (in partnership with Rungh) | Kiran Sunar, Tsohil Bhatia, Monica Cheema, Simranpreet Anand |
4.45-6.15pm - Saturday 23rd
Room Number | Program Stream | Category | Session/Paper Titles | Participants |
Great Hall North | Relationships and Resistance, Relationships as Resistance | Pre-arranged Panel | “Every time we kiss/ we confirm the new world coming”: Literatures of Insurrection, Revolt and Political Possibility | Maddie Reddon, Rhonda Shanks, Sheila Giffen, Anne Stewart |
2306 | Art, Visual Culture and Media | Pre-arranged Panel | Decolonizing Sound Archives | Roshanak Khesti, Robin Gray, Dylan Robinson, Kirstie Dorr |
2309 | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies | Created Session | Liberatory Pedagogies of Culture and Freedom | |
Teachers as Cultural Mediators: Case study of neoliberalism and peace education in Aceh, Indonesia | Hannah D’Apice | |||
Learning Multiculturalism and Forgetting Racism: Lessons from the Classroom | Kalyani Thurairajah | |||
Teaching Freedom: Mediating the Effects of Internalized Oppression in Social Justice Education | Joanne Tien | |||
2311 | Other | Created Session | Violences in/of the State | |
A Critical Race Feminist Theory Analysis of Police Responses to Intimate Partner Abuse | Hannah Meharg | |||
The Dangers of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex and Alternative Paths for the Anti-Violence Movement | Samuel Shelton | |||
How the discourse of “achievement gaps” reproduces settler colonial constructions of race | Diana Barrero | |||
2514 | Black, Indigenous, Women of Color, Trans and Trans Interventions | Created Session | Between Memory and Future: Black, Indigenous and Diasporic interventions | |
Between Placenta and Angels: On Suicide in Toni Morrison’s 'Song of Solomon' | Adrian I. P-Flores | |||
Story-Telling: Decriminalizing Black Women Through Radical Movement Building | Carrie Morris | |||
“With the Migrants’ Objects” in Porto M, Lampedusa: Heritage Space, Memory, and ARTivism in a Small Mediterranean Island | Elvira Pulitano | |||
2521 | Art, Visual Culture and Media | Created Session | Culture as Praxis | |
“What do aesthetics do?” The contradictions of consuming black culture | Elizabeth Davis | |||
Stillness and the Apparatus of Capture | Mlondolozi Zondi | |||
The Political and Cultural Praxis of Chicanx/Latinx Icons in Public Art | Maricela DeMirjyn | |||
Race, Death and Sex Work | Amanda Lee | |||
2528 | Art, Visual Culture and Media | Created Session | Digitalscape | |
Love Intersections: Designing an Artful inQueery for Difference (activist report-back) | Jen Sungshine | |||
The Future of Femininity: Digital Transformations of Womanhood | Megan Morgan | |||
How You Do Anything Is How You Do Everything: A Community Reader On An Ethics of Activism | Frances Lee | |||
2314 | Land Defense, Environmental Justice and Food Sovereignty // Extractivism, Racism, and Colonialism | Created Session | Pedagogies of Difference and the Fraught Spaces of Learning | |
Racist Haunting: The Monstrosity of Slavery in Plantation Tours of the U.S. South | Lisa Calvente | |||
Bollywood in the Diaspora: Imaging the Indian Muslim as the Solution | Naila Mohammed | |||
The ideological tracking of da other within the structure of schooling: The elusiveness of social reproductive thought | Jesus Jaime-Diaz | |||
2506 | Relationships and Resistance, Relationships as Resistance | Roundtable | Resisting Isolation: WOC Navigating the Neoliberal Academy and Sustaining Networks of Collective Care | Devin Heyward, Arita Balaram, Priscilla Bustamante, Allison Cabana, Tellisia Williams |
Performance Theatre | Art, Visual Culture and Media | Pre-arranged Panel | Sight and the Spoils of Empire | Sarita See, Iyko Day, Yu-Fang Choo, Marie Lo, Jodi Kim |
Schedule Sunday, June 24
10.30am-12pm - Sunday 24th
Room Number | Program Stream | Category | Session/Paper Titles | Participants |
2528 | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies | Created Session | Decolonization through Poetry, Literature and Music | |
Ghadri and Sikh Poetry: Interrogations of Subjugated Knowledges in History | Amrit Deol | |||
HipHop's Origins as Organic Decolonization: Beyond "Metaphor" | Damon Sajnani | |||
“If I Were There”: The Archipelagic Poetics and Solidarities of Aimee Suzara’s Souvenir | Michael Pascual | |||
2314 | Relationships and Resistance, Relationships as Resistance | Roundtable | Re/In/Citing Politics Beyond Capital & Colony - A Reading and Roundtable by Hic Rosa Collective | Colin Eubank, Asma Abbas, Lillian Goldberg, Anna Poplawski, Milo Ward |
2508 | Relationships and Resistance, Relationships as Resistance | Created Session | Subverting Relations | |
A Hunger Game: Interrupting the Gendered Biopolitics of Settler-Colonialism | Sarah Wiebe | |||
Stories of Strength and Connection: Celebrating Inuit Women's Leadership in Nunatsiavut | Andrea Procter, Charlotte Wolfrey | |||
Lest they be Blacked Out: Alcohol's Racialized Consumption and Early Modern Anxiety | Elizabeth Smith | |||
2514 | Relationships and Resistance, Relationships as Resistance | Created Session | Across difference: Racial and Diasporic Dis/junctures | |
Chinese-Indigenous Relations and Resistance in Australia and New Zealand | Austin Tsent | |||
The Pilgrimage: Interethnic Coalitions and Cross-Race Solidarity at Former Sites of Japanese American Confinement | Desiree Valadares | |||
Where Are We Really From?: Decolonizing Indigenous and Refugee Relations | Malissa Phung, Jennifer Adese, Anna Hoque | |||
Researching Across Race and the Failures of Allyship | Janice Anderson | |||
2515 | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies | Created Session | Troubling Whiteness, Masculinity and Free Speech | |
White supremacism in under commons: on declaring “the university…” | Williston Chase | |||
The White Man Problem: Exploring Conscientization, Whiteness, and Masculinities with White Male-identified Activists | Robert Majzler | |||
The violence of freedom of expression | Mark Harris | |||
Citizen, Student Demands, and the Politics of Civility | Elizabeth Brown | |||
2521 | Art, Visual Culture and Media | Created Session | Witnessing | |
Dear Aisha | Andrea Actis | |||
Revolutions That Don't Revolutionize! Liberal Contradictions and Complexities in Stanley Nelson's Documentary "The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution" | Mary Schmitt | |||
"Even Machines Get a Rest": The colonial relationship between Indigenous sheepherders in Colorado and white ranchers | Shirley Coenen | |||
2504 | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies | Workshop | (Un)settled Narratives: Remaking the Classroom through Community Storytelling | Sasha Kruger, Camille Anderson |
2311 | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies | Workshop | Demilitarize! An Asian American Proposal for Decolonial Solidarity and Liberation | Eunha Jeong Wood, Juliana Hu Pegues, Anh-Thu Pham |
2309 | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies | Workshop | Praxivist Imaginaries: Abolition Pedagogies and Objections to the Curricular Object | Michael Miller, Lindsay Miller |
Great Hall North | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies | Roundtable | Vulnerability as Pedagogical Practice: Criticality, Affinity, Decoloniality | Emily Garcia |
2506 | Black, Indigenous, Women of Color, Trans and Trans Interventions | Pre-arranged Panel | Trans* Pilipinx Studies: Decolonialism, Solidarity, and Transnationalism | Gina Velasco, Kale Fajardo, Robert Diaz |
Performance Theatre | Art, Visual Culture and Media stream | Roundtable | Arts-Based Community Organizing by Racialized Communities toward Social Justice | Izumi Sakamoto, Jeffrey Tanaka |
Now moved to 2306 | Black, Indigenous, Women of Color, Trans and Trans Interventions | Soundbite and Pitch | Feminist Interruptions and Refusals: Conversation with Series Editors | Shaista Patel, Corinne Mason Lena Palacios |
1.15-2.45pm - Sunday
Room Number | Program Stream | Category | Session/Paper Titles | Participants |
2515 | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies // Black, Indigenous, Women of Color, Trans and Trans Interventions | Created Session | Counterstorytelling as Solidarity and Self-love | |
Voices at the Center of the Intersection: Latin@/x Counter-Narratives as an Anti-Colonial Act | Yolanda Nieves | |||
Asian and Indigenous: Re-Possession and Refusals of a Kashmir Womxn | Binish Ahmed | |||
"Everything I'm Not Made Me Everything I Am": Counterstorytelling as Anti-Racist Pedagogy | Dominick Quinney | |||
2528 | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies | Created Session | In Pursuit of Decolonial Educations | |
Marinating over the Anti-Ebony Tower | Rahsaan Mahadeo | |||
Recovering the decolonial politics and praxis of Puerto Rican studies | Ricardo Gabriel | |||
Reviving the Spirit by Making the Case for a Decolonial Curriculum | Valerie Robert, Kimberly Todd | |||
2508 | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies // Migration, Borders and Settler Colonialism | Created Session | Anti-racist, Intersectional Praxis and Theory | |
Power and Intersectionality in Social Work Practice | Meenakshi Mannoe | |||
(Re)Imagining Black Femininity: An exploration of the complexities involved in comprehending Black womanhood, and the challenges they pose in establishing a sense of home | Mariba Douglas | |||
Deconstructing Whiteness: An Analysis of Dominant Perceptions of Asian Canadians | Elisabeth Dennis | |||
2521 | Relationships and Resistance, Relationships as Resistance | Created Session | Activating Alternative Relations | |
Ancient Ways for the (R)evolution: The Just and Peaceful World of the Grassroots | Javney Mohr | |||
Between Emersonian Independence and Confucian Interdependence: The World According to Gish Jen | Biling Chen | |||
"Red Readings, Brown Feelings": Affect, Ethnicity, and critical Latine Indigeneity among Tribal Nations, Some Mal-Criado Musings | Gregorio Gonzales | |||
Song for a Monster: Postcyborg Hybridity and Responsibility | Michelle Lee Brown | |||
Great Hall North | Art, Visual Culture and Media | Workshop | Rooting Out & Rising Up: Speaking Truth to Power Through the Alliance of Media & Education workshop | S.Rae Peoples |
2314 | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies | Workshop | Eugenic Gender: Race, Nation, and the Production of Trans Bodies | Mauro Sifuentes, Sé Sullivan |
2311 | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies | Workshop | Sharing Space, Sharing Stories: Understanding Resistance through Personal Narratives and Collective Histories of Place: An Interactive Workshop | Stephanie Barreto-Lastra, Yvette Ramirez, Esther Choi |
2309 | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies | Workshop | Decolonizing Justice: Reimagining the Notion of Justice Within and Without Legal Terms | Cecile Heim |
2504 | Black, Indigenous, Women of Color, Trans and Trans Interventions | Pre-arranged Panel | Thinking with Transdisciplinary Feminisms in Education: Towards Collective Possibilities for Responding to Environmental Precarity | Vanessa Clark, Rachel Hye Won Yu, cristina delgado, Sandrina de Finney, Fikile Nxumalo, Marleen Villanueva, Stacia Cedillo, Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, Meagan Montpetit |
2514 | Black, Indigenous, Women of Color, Trans and Trans Interventions | Workshop | Fighting Form: Indigenous Literary Style as Ethics | Erin Soros |
Performance Theatre | Relationships and Resistance, Relationships as Resistance | Pre-arranged Panel | Remapping the city: South Asian and Indigenous community building in Vancouver | Taq Bhandal, Renisa Mawani |
Now moved to 2306 | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies | Arts Engagement Workshop | Educator Positionality Mind Mapping | Sakina Laksimi-Morrow |
3-4.30pm - Sunday 24th
Room Number | Program Stream | Category | Session/Paper Titles | Participants |
2506 | Art, Visual Culture and Media | Pre-arranged Panel | Organizing in Toronto Through Hip-Hop and the Black Organic Intellectual Tradition | Damon Sajnani, Vincent Ogoti, Chris Harris |
2314 | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies | Created Session | Filipino diaspora and US empire | |
Publishing the Politics of Enlistment, Empire and the “US/Philippine Nation”: from Methodological Challenges to Decolonial Trajectories in and beyond the Pedagogical Context | Jason Gavilan | |||
The Burden of Colonial Debt and Indebtedness in Second Generation Filipino American Families | Maria Ferrera | |||
2528 | Incarceration, Criminalization, and State Violence | Workshop | Being Colonized Settlers: Unpacking Indigenous-Immigrant Relations in Canada | Phebe Ferrer |
2521 | Relationships and Resistance, Relationships as Resistance | Pre-arranged Panel | Relationships in Displacement: Archival, Feminist, and Sociological Perspectives on Interracial Community Dynamics | Novia Shih-Shan Chen, Yiwen Liu, Ayaka Yoshimizu |
2514 | Art, Visual Culture and Media | Pre-arranged Panel | Remembering Air India: The Art of Public Mourning (Book launch) | Amber Dean, Angela Failler, Chandrima Chakraborty, Sherene Razack, Renee Saklikar |
2504 | Other | Pre-arranged Panel | Race and Ethnicity in the Venezuelan Revolution | Maria Mercedes, Cobo Echenagucia, Jose Luis Mantilla, Maria de los Angeles, Pena Fonesca, Sandra Angeleri |
2508 | Relationships and Resistance, Relationships as Resistance | Roundtable | Interruptions, Talkbacks, and Silences: Sharing Stories of Racism | Ralina Joseph, Naheed Aaftaab, Georgia McDade, Anjuli Brekke, Melyssa Stone, Terri Hiroshima |
2515 | Decolonial: Pedagogy, Critical Methods, and Ethnographies | Roundtable | Displaced Subjects: Critical Ethnic Studies and Critical Refugee Studies | Cathy Schlund-Vials, Timothy K. August, Nerissa Balce, Kale Fajardo, Mimi Thi Nguyen, Joseph Ramirez |
Now moved to 2306 | Relationships and Resistance, Relationships as Resistance | Roundtable | Disrupting Diasporic Hindutva Politics in North America | Santosh Chandrashekar, Kanwalroop Singh, Farhat Rahman, Nishant Upadhyay, Chinnaiah Jangam, Sailaja Krishnamurti, Sanober Umar |
Performance Theatre | Relationships and Resistance, Relationships as Resistance | Pre-arranged Panel | Feeling Brown, Feeling Down: Melancholic Relations Under White Supremacy | Robert Echeverria, Joshua Redwine, Syeda Mahmood |