Fri
Feb
8th
De Sève Cinema (LB 125), and 4th SPACE
PROTESTS AND PEDAGOGY CONFERENCE: DAY 1
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The
legacies of Caribbean student resistance and the Sir George Williams Affair,
Montréal, 1969
9:00am-9:30am, De Sève Cinema
Registration and Coffee
9:30am-10:30am
Opening
Registration and Coffee
9:30am-10:30am
Opening
Welcome
Territorial Acknowledgement, Pascale C. Annoual
Michael O. West, Binghamton University (SUNY)
“Contextualizing February 1969”
10:20am-10:45am
Coffee Break
10:45am-12:15pm
Discussion
Coffee Break
10:45am-12:15pm
Discussion
50 years ago: Memories of the Sir George Williams Affair
Chair: H. Nigel Thomas
With Original Protestors
12:15pm-1:30pm
Lunch
1:30pm-3:30pm
Concurrent panels
Lunch
1:30pm-3:30pm
Concurrent panels
Panel 1
Caribbean Radicalism and the Sir George Williams Affair
Chair: W. Chris Johnson, University of Toronto
· Amanda Perry, New York University/ Concordia University
“Montréal and the Caribbean Cold War”
· Cornel Bogle, University of Alberta
“‘Here in Montréal’: Caribbean-Canadian Radicalism after CLR James”
· Faizal Deen, Writer/Researcher
“Shared Genealogies of Resistance”
· René Cordero, Brown University
“Student Activism against Joaquin Balaguer’s Twelve Year Regime: Racial Politics and the Cold War in the Dominican Republic”
Panel 2
Art, Decolonization and Protest (4th Space)
Chair: Carol Marie Webster, Columbia University
· Marilou Thomassin, McGill University
“Histories of Black Enslaved Children in New France and Early Québec: Working Towards The Decolonization of The Black Body”
· Joana Joachim, McGill University
“Getting to the Root of Things: A Black Feminist Reading of Negro Life at the South”
· Adrienne Johnson, McGill University
“Yes, I wish that for one time you could stand in my shoes you’d know what a drag it is to see you”
· Quentin VerCetty, Multimedia Artist
“Public display and Commemorations: The Sir George Williams Affair”
3:30pm-3:45pm
Coffee Break
3:45pm-5:30pm
Roundtable Discussion
Coffee Break
3:45pm-5:30pm
Roundtable Discussion
Decolonizing the Academy and the Question of Institutionalizing Black Studies
Chair: Hyacinth Simpson, Ryerson University
Opening Remarks: André Roy (Dean, Faculty of Arts and Science)
Rinaldo Walcott, University of Toronto
Afua Cooper, Dalhousie University
Adelle Blackett, McGill University
5:30pm-6:00pm, 4th SPACE
Reception
6:00pm-8:00pm, 4th SPACE
Literary Readings
Reception
6:00pm-8:00pm, 4th SPACE
Literary Readings
Moderator: Kaie Kellough
· Clarence Bayne
· H. Nigel Thomas
· Stéphane Martelly
· Afua Cooper