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Gender Matters Speaker Series

"Migration and Diaspora: Research at the Intersection of Religion and the Law"

Speakers: Ashwini Vasanthakumar (���ϳԹ���Դ), Shobhana Xavier (���ϳԹ���Դ)

Wednesday November 18, 2020
1-2pm
 
Meeting ID: 316 397 3452
Password: 92ZwFN 

Department of Gender Studies
genderstudies@queensu.ca

Join us for our virtual BOOK LAUNCH

By Dr. Courtney Szto

Featuring 
Dr. Courtney Szto
Queen's University

Moderated by
Dr. Shobhana Xavier
Queen's University

DR JANELLE JOSEPH
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
CRITICAL RACE STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF TORON TO

Kinesiology, Sport and the Systemic Barriers of Racism
Although the diversity among participants in Canadian athletic institutions
and students in Kinesiology programs has steadily increased, our
organizations still struggle to develop a deep understanding of (anti-) racism
issues, awareness of ongoing structural barriers, and actions to ensure
representation and justice for those who experience racialization and
oppression. Dr. Joseph will share her perspectives on decolonizing sport
studies.

ZOOM WEBINAR

NOVEMBER 18 | 2 PM

Although the diversity among participants in Canadian athletic institutions
and students in Kinesiology programs has steadily increased, our
organizations still struggle to develop a deep understanding of (anti-) racism
issues, awareness of ongoing structural barriers, and actions to ensure
representation and justice for those who experience racialization and
oppression. Dr. Joseph will share her perspectives on decolonizing sport
studies.

What, You’re Calling Me A Racist? 

Speakers: Dr. Sarita Srivastava (OCAD) and Dr. Fiona Nicoll (U of Alberta)

Join us as Canadian and Australian scholars present on, and engage in, a timely dialogue unpacking the emotions around racism, anti-racism, and the concept of white fragility.

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Dr. Srivastava: “You’re calling me a racist?”: The Emotional Landscape of Racial Encounters
Dr. Sarita Srivastava is Dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, OCAD University. In her previous position as Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Gender Studies, ���ϳԹ���Դ, she developed graduate seminars in Transnational Theories of Race, Gender and Sexuality and undergraduate seminars such as race, sex and the body, and race gender and nation, and taught a Social Justice Practicum for many years. She was a founding Chair of the Equity Committee in the Department of Sociology.
 
Dr. Nicoll’s Presentation: Anti-Racism Beyond Racial Fictions of Fragility: Challenging the Epistemological and Affective Grounds of the White Possessive
Dr. Fiona Nicoll is a professor in the Faculty of Arts (Political Science) at the University of Alberta. She is also a founding member of the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association and edited its inaugural issue in 2005. She has a track record of working with Indigenous leaders, artists and academics, through social history curation, collaborative arts projects, teaching and joint research projects. She has published on Indigenous gambling in Australia and North America and brings expertise in critical race and whiteness studies, and the role of arts in creating and transforming knowledge, within and across conflict zones in settler-colonial states. 
 
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Dr. Malinda S. Smith the inaugural Vice Provost (Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) and a political science professor at the University of Calgary. She is a former Vice President of Equity Issues for the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences and currently serves as Chair of its Advisory Committee on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization. 
 

Roberto Esposito urges us to recognize and address the challenges posed by globalization, large-scale migration, climatic change, and massive shifts in geo-politics.  At the core of his philosophy lies the rethinking of central concepts, including the notion of life, politics, and the person, which he feels need to be reconceived outside of our global, dominant liberal economic paradigm.  Esposito draws upon Gilles Deleuze’s “Immanence: A Life” to articulate what he calls the third person. Like Deleuze, the third person or the impersonal, a term borrowed from Simone Weil, Esposito maintains that a person’s life is to be understood as made up of virtualities, events, and singularities. A person’s life, because of its potentiality to actualize itself in unforeseen ways, as evidenced by the immunitary paradigm, has within itself the potential to resist the large-scale governmental determinations that have come to determine modern life. The person’s life is inscribed in what Spinoza and Deleuze tell us is a plane of immanence that is actualized in subjects and in objects, what Esposito calls things. If we conceive of ethics as a way of thinking and living about how we should live with one another, what do Esposito and Deleuze offer us by way of insight about collective, personal life?.........

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Kate Rowbotham, associate professor in the Department of Geography and Planning and Canada Research Chair in Reconciling Relations for Health, Environments, and Communities, will share her experiences developing a course on the foundations of Indigenous histories and realities for undergraduate business students. This session is sure to appeal both to those in business-related subjects, and those who are considering foundations courses in their own disciplines.

Beyond Words was created by BIPOC for BIPOC. The series aims to foster a safe and creative space centred in art healing for Queen's University students and members of the Katarokwi/Kingston community who are Black, Indigenous and people of colour.

Facilitated by Melanie Gray Registered Art Therapist from Tyendinaga (Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte)

Coordinated by Fatou Tounkara
Union Gallery Program Assistant

SESSION ONE: November 7, 1-3pm
SESSION TWO: November 21, 1-3pm
SESSION THREE: December 5, 1-3pm

Led by Casandra Fullwood and Vatineh Magaji, this webinar will explore:
- The connections between anti-Black racism and gender-based violence
- The challenges faced by Black survivors of gender-based violence
- The ways Black student survivors are creating change on their campus
- The importance of healing spaces for Black survivors on campus, and how to create these at your own institution

Go to to register.