February 8, 2024
5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Presented by the School of Social Work, Dalhousie University, The Dalhousie Black Faculty & Staff Caucus (DBFSC) and The Dalhousie Faculty Association (DFA)
PANELLISTS:
Barrington Walker is Professor of History and Vice Provost Equity and Inclusion at McMaster University where he leads the Office of Equity and Inclusion. He is a specialist in Black Canadian history and the histories of race, migration, law and the racial state. He has also held tenured faculty positions and equity administrative portfolios at Queen’s University and Wilfrid Laurier University. He was member of the drafting team for the Scarborough Charter; he is on the Board of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences and Chair of its EDID committee. And he is Chair of the Council of Ontario Universities Reference Group on Equity and Diversity.
Topic: The Afterlife of the Scarborough Charter: Towards Black Thriving in Canadian HigherEducation
Ajay Parasram is an Associate Professor of Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and Development based in the departments of International Development Studies and History, and cross-appointed to the department of Political Science at Dalhousie University. With Alex Khasnabish (MSVU) Ajay facilitates a monthly online program called Safe Space For White Questions and wrote Frequently Asked White Questions (Fernwood Publishing, 2022). Ajay's second book, Pluriversal Sovereignty and the State: Imperial Encounters in Sri Lanka, was published in Nov 2023 with Manchester University Press.
Topic: Institutional Deficiencies and Anti-Racist Foundations at the End of the EDI Era
Dr. Camisha Sibblis is an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Black Studies Institute at the University of Windsor. She holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of Toronto and pursued her BSW, MSW, and PhD degrees at York University. Prior to her new role, she was an Assistant Professor of Criminology and Associate Director of Belonging, Equity, Anti-Racism and Decolonization for the In light Institutional Initiative for Student Mental Health Research at the University of Toronto. Dr. Sibblis was a school social worker, a child welfare worker, and a clinician who, in addition to treatment, has authored various types of assessment reports - including Enhanced Pre-Sentence Reports. She is also a clinical agent for the Office of the Children’s Lawyer.
Topic: Black Studies in Canada
Dr. Warren Clarke is an Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of Manitoba, focusing on sociocultural anthropology. His research is tied to Youth Cultures, Social Citizenship, Neoliberalism/Gentrification, Race and Ethnicity, Anti-Colonialism, and Masculinity.
Topic: Challenging the Canadian white Settler Ideology and its Homogenizing Acronyms, which Define and Homogenize Black Intersectional Lived Experiences
Moderator:
David Westwood is a Professor of Kinesiology at Dalhousie University. He has been involved in DFA leadership since 2018, alternating between President and President-Elect since that time.
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