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Feb
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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


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


Crisis on the Ninth Floor

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

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


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


Strategies:  Blackness and Institutional Life

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


Reception and Literary Event

Moderator: Kaie Kellough


·     Phanuel Antwi

·     Faizal Deen

·     Kaie Kellough