On November 17th, 2017, a public discussion on the implications of talking about race in the 21st century took place at the University of King’s College. The event featured keynote speaker Dr. Sunera Thobani who was followed by a panel discussion.
The recording provided by Atlantic Live Stream only includes the keynote lecture and Q & A.
Click here to access the recording on Youtube
KEYNOTE:
Dr. Sunera Thobani is Associate Professor in the Department of
Asian Studies and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality
and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia. Her
scholarship focuses
on critical race, post/colonial and feminist theory;
globalization, media, citizenship and migration; and Muslim
women and the War on Terror. Her book, Exalted Subjects:
Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada, was
published by the University of Toronto Press (2007) and she
has also co-edited Asian Women: Interconnections (Canadian
Scholars’ Press, 2005) and States of Race: Critical Race
Feminist Theory for the 21st Century (Between the Lines,
2010). She served as Director of the Race, Autobiography,
Gender and Age (RAGA) Centre at the University of British
Columbia (2008-12), where she organized numerous projects on
equity, diversity and social justice. She is a founding
member of the Researchers and Academics of Colour for Equity
(RACE), a cross-Canada network that promotes the scholarship
of academics of colour and of Indigenous Ancestry. Dr.
Thobani was the Ruth Wynn Woodward Endowed Professor in
Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University (1996-2000) and
also past President of the National Action Committee on the
Status of Women (NAC), Canada’s then largest feminist
organization (1993-1996).
PANELISTS:
Dr. Sherry Pictou (MSVU), Dr. Janice Graham
(Dal), Masuma Khan (DSU), Dr. Alex Khasnabish (MSVU), and Dr.
Benita Bunjun (SMU)
& the powerful words of El Jones!
SPONSORS:
Saint Mary’s University: Social Justice
and Community Studies,
Atlantic Canada Studies, Women and
Gender Studies, Dean of Arts, Religious Studies, International
Development Studies, Modern Languages and Classics
Mount St. Vincent University: Nancy’s Chair of Women’s Studies, Sociology and Anthropology
Dalhousie University: English, Canadian Studies, Philosophy, Sociology and Anthropology
PARTNERS & SUPPORTERS: King’s Student Union, Racialized Students Academic Network, Dalhousie Student Union, Global Afrikan Congress, Dal International Development Studies, Solidarity Halifax, NSPIRG, SMU History