Sat
Feb
9th
De Sève Cinema (LB 125)
PROTESTS AND PEDAGOGY CONFERENCE: DAY 2
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The
legacies of Caribbean student resistance and the Sir George Williams Affair,
Montréal, 1969
8:00am-8:30am
Registration and Coffee
8:45am-10:15am
Panel 3
Registration and Coffee
8:45am-10:15am
Panel 3
Race, Representation and Public Memory in Montréal (De Sève Cinema)
Chair: Ted Rutland, Concordia University
· Steven High, Concordia University
“Occupation and Expropriation: The Sir George Williams Affair and Little Burgundy”
· Caroline A. Brown, University of Montréal
“The Third Solitude of Quebec”
· Christelle Saint-Julian, Writer and Artist, Montréal
“Local erasure: Montréal and the legacy of black diasporic amnesia”
· Annick Maugile Flavien
"Legacy of the Hall Building: The Significance & Responsibility of this Space, Place and Time for Black Student Activists and Black Community Organizing in Montreal"
8:45am-10:15am
Panel 4
Panel 4
Crisis on the Ninth Floor
Chair Beverly Bain, University of Toronto
Chair Beverly Bain, University of Toronto
· Leslie Sanders, York University.
· Rinaldo Walcott, University of Toronto
10:15am
-10:30am
Coffee Break
10:30am-12:00 pm
Panel 5
Black Canadian Histories and
Geographies Coffee Break
10:30am-12:00 pm
Panel 5
Chair: Alissa Trotz, University of Toronto
· Kim Borden Penney, University of Toronto OISIE
“Hidden in Plainview - The Missing Pages of the Cultural History and Knowledges of Africville”
· Hyacinth Simpson, Ryerson University, Toronto
"Did Blackness Matter?: How Canadians Responded to Frost-bitten Jamaican Servicemen, Halifax 1916."
· Philip Howard, McGill University
“Contemporary Canadian Blackface at the University and the Persistence of Antiblackness”
12:00-1:15pm
Lunch
1:15pm- 3:00pm
Panel 6
Lunch
1:15pm- 3:00pm
Panel 6
Histories and Historiographies of Activism
Chair: Yasmin Jiwani, Concordia University
· Mahdi Ganjavi, OISE/University of Toronto
“Archive and Historiography of Student Movements”
· Ashley Irwin, University of Waterloo
“Debasing Dissent: The Yonge Street Uprising and the Criminalization of Black Activism."
· Adriana Cabrera Cleves, Fariba Almasi, Shoshana Paget, (Concordia’s Ethnographic Lab Working Group), Concordia University
" Textual and Visual Representations of the “Sir George Williams affair” at the McCord Museum: Human Rights and Social Justice Section of the “Shalom Montreal” Exhibition"
3:00pm -3:15 pm
Coffee Break
3:15pm- 4:45 pm
Panel 7
Coffee Break
3:15pm- 4:45 pm
Panel 7
Strategies: Blackness and Institutional Life
Chair: Phanuel Antwi, University of British Columbia
Chair: Phanuel Antwi, University of British Columbia
· LLana James, University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine, RSI
"What’s at stake for Black people in Canada? Research, Biomedical Interventions and Data Collection”
· Kelann Currie-Williams, Concordia University
“In the Legacy of Marroonage: Black Intellectual Life and Alternative Ways of Knowing and Being in the University”
· Sefanit Habtom, University of Toronto OISIE
“Demands for More: Black Students' Demands on Indigenous Lands”
5:00pm-6:00pm
· Carol Marie Webster, Columbia University.
“Ecstatic Reasoning - blackness protracted: Joy/Rage as constructive survival in the wake”
7:00pm-9:00pm
Closing
Closing
Reception and Literary Event
Moderator: Kaie Kellough
· Phanuel Antwi
· Faizal Deen
· Kaie Kellough