January 25, 2024
5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Held online via MS Teams
Presented by the Diversity and Equity Committee of the School of Social Work
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PANELLISTS:
Dr. Afua Cooper holds a Killam Research Chair at Dalhousie University. In 2016, she launched the Black and African Diaspora Studies Program at Dalhousie University. She is currently the Principal Investigator (PI) for A Black People's History of Canada, a one-million dollar Canadian Heritage funded project.
Topic: Black Unity/Disunity: How the Willie Lynch Disease has infected the Black Community
Dr Katherine Morton Richards (she/her) is a settler researcher interested in mobility, commemoration, and gender as they relate to ongoing colonial violence. With recent work on the politics of ugliness, the structures and demolition of residential schools, and on the era of apology, Katherine’s work looks at duel processes of commemoration and erasure of colonial violence. Although currently working at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, Katherine grew up on unceded and unsurrendered Nuu Chah Nulth territory.
Topic: Intentional Erasures: The Repurposing of structures of colonial violence
Dr. Valerie Borum came to Toronto Metropolitan University in January 2020 from the USA as the new Director of the School of Social Work. She has experience as BSW and MSW Program Director. Dr. Borum’s research/scholarship focuses on the role of ethno-culture as a protective and promotive factor in health, mental health, and disability, with attention to Black/African Americans. Dr. Borum also studies the role of ‘whiteness’ as a fundamental explanatory component in oppression, marginalization, and anti-Black racism. She utilizes Afrocentric and Womanist/Black Feminist approaches in her scholarship and research. Dr. Borum was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Topic: How notions of white supremacy ubiquitously rely on the perpetuation of anti-Blackness to maintain the colonial script
Patricia Doyle-Bedwell is a Mi’kmaq woman. She has a BA (Honours), JD, LL.M, from Dalhousie University. Patricia teaches Indigenous Studies in the TYP and in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Patricia is past co-chair of the Indigenous Advisory Council, a Dal Senator, and a member of the Dalhousie Faculty Association Executive Committee, Grievance Committee and Bargaining Committee and Chair of the Indigenous Faculty Caucus. She has been called on by local and national media for her expert commentary on diversity, human rights, women, and politics and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.
Topic: The cultural genocide of residential schools
MODERATOR:
Dr. Terrence Lewis is Associate Professor and Undergraduate Coordinator for the BSW Program at Dalhousie University’s School of Social Work
Participants will also engage in discussions with panelists.
EVERYONE IS WELCOME
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