https://protestsandpedagogy.ca protests and pedagogy Tue, 16 Feb 2021 03:16:24 +0000 https://protestsandpedagogy.ca en https://protestsandpedagogy.ca/COVER Tue, 16 Feb 2021 03:16:24 +0000 protests and pedagogy https://protestsandpedagogy.ca/COVER PROTESTS AND PEDAGOGY&nbsp;Presents BLACK PROTEST BLACK LIVES&nbsp; AND THE UNIVERSITY A Transnational Conversation with Verene Shepherd (Jamaica) &nbsp; Asanda Ngoasheng (South Africa) Moderated by Océane Jasor Monday February 22, 10:30am-noon (EST) Zoom Registration: http://bit.ly/3tKqzMQ ︎ Recent protests across the Black diaspora as well as critical challenges to the university as a colonial structure have been underpinned by a philosophical grounding in the discourse and demands of reparations. This conversation will take up questions of reparatory justice in relation to Black protest and the university. Our contributors will draw on their respective leadership in the Reparations Movement spearheaded by the University of the West Indies and the #FeesMustFall,#RhodesMustFall, and #DecolonisingTheCurriculum movements emerging from&nbsp; South Africa. We will explore the challenges, provocations as well as the transformative possibilities of these movements to right historical injustices on both sides of the Atlantic. ︎ Verene A. Shepherd, graduate of the University of the West Indies (UWI) and the University of Cambridge, is Professor Emerita of Social History at The UWI, is Director of the Centre for Reparation Research at the UWI, a published author of 7 books, a radio host and scholar activist, especially in the areas of women’s rights, human rights and reparatory justice. As a UN expert she has played a role in drafting the programme for the Decade for people of African descent and in the adoption of CERD General Recommendation 36 – “Preventing and Combatting Racial Profiling by Law Enforcement Officials. She has received several awards for her work in History, Human Rights and Gender. Her work around collective memorials for historical tragedies is well-known. Asanda Ngoasheng is a racial and gender justice activist. She is a research associate at the University of Sussex’s Centre for Rights and Justice.&nbsp; As a scholar -activist she has written journal articles and opinion pieces on the role of social justice in education. She has taught at the University of Witwatersrand and Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), both in South Africa. She is a conflict transformation practitioner who runs transformative workshops using storytelling to heal and affirm marginalised people in South Africa and beyond. Ngoasheng holds a Master’s in international Relations from the University of Witwatersrand. Océane Jasor&nbsp;is a graduate of Florida International University and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University. Prior to joining academia, she worked in development agencies broadly concerned with women’s empowerment and gender justice. Her research explores non-western and gendered responses to developmentalist discourses and global processes. Her current research investigates present-day feminist movements and discourses in South Africa, the African continent, and the African diaspora. Her work was published in Gender, Place &amp; Culture, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, and Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies. She is the recipient of the Social Sciences and Humanities Council (SSHRC) Insight Development grant and a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship to foster academic collaboration between Canada and West Africa. With the support of ACCUTE (Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English) ︎ <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/44e9edee8eab3074553d2e34d600ef383170bac8a941ce9b47f3c99f44933a1a/ProtestsandPedagogy_FacebookEvent.jpg" data-mid="99018594" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/44e9edee8eab3074553d2e34d600ef383170bac8a941ce9b47f3c99f44933a1a/ProtestsandPedagogy_FacebookEvent.jpg" /> https://protestsandpedagogy.ca/Still-Demanding-Justice Sat, 06 Jun 2020 00:28:48 +0000 protests and pedagogy https://protestsandpedagogy.ca/Still-Demanding-Justice PROTESTS AND PEDAGOGY STILL DEMANDING JUSTICE We are once again in a season of protest. In 1969 students at Concordia protested anti-Black racism by occupying the university’s computer centre for two weeks. Outside, others carried signs which marked their connections to a worldwide struggle for Black rights. On the 14th day of their occupation a fire was lit. It caused nearly 2 million dollars in damage and imperiled their lives, forcing the protestors to hack their way out of the computer centre with an emergency axe. The police -- called by the university’s administration -- assaulted and arrested nearly 100 people fleeing the fire. Some of those same students were jailed anywhere from 6-16 months, threatened with deportation, and Trinidad and Tobago (which had only gained Independence 7 years earlier) bailed out ten of their nationals due to bails set extraordinarily high (ranging from $1,000-$15,000). In remembering this event today we ask what duty of justice do we owe the past and what are the connections to the present? Should the Trinidad government be repaid the bail money? Was 1960s Canada really any less racist than the segregated US? Why in a nation of apologies has there been no apology issued for this event? In this moment, institutions around the world are grappling with the legacies of slavery, anti-Black racism, and police brutality. Protests and Pedagogy convened this conversation as part of a two week programme in February 2019, meant to remember and reflect on the 1969 protests. We shared these videos&nbsp;with Concordia to re-ground the issue of reparative justice. Such a lens moves beyond the corporate discourse of equity and inclusion which dominates universities’ “diversity management” policies. In the US, Ivy League schools such as Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia are questioning the symbolic and material afterlife of slave ownership found in the source of endowments. In South Africa, a movement to decolonize universities by challenging white curricula, and removing imperial statues had ripple effects. Oxford University debated its imperial ties and Glasgow University has become the first British university to admit it benefitted from slavery, and is seeking to make amends. In Canada, prominent universities like Dalhousie and McGill also had founders who were pro-slavery/slave-owners respectively. In the world-wide context of universities beginning to address their relationship to slavery and anti-Black racism, does Concordia carry any responsibility here?&nbsp; And what is that responsibility?&nbsp; Is it financial responsibility and/or a responsibility to seek truth and to reconcile with those original protestors and the communities to which they now belong, and for whom the events still emphasize a legacy of discrimination and enforced inequality? After all, those students were among the most talented from their Caribbean islands, their aim was to enter medical school, and many of their lives, although still remarkably successful, were transformed by these events. Canada in the 1960s distanced itself from racist practices in the US, as it does now, through the image of a polite, harmonious nation, but should the politics of an apology extend to the Black community as a whole in Canada? A starting point for Concordia would be an institutional apology for calling the police on Black students in 1969, but also attention to the further demands the students made in 1969 including their call for Black Studies at what was then Sir George Williams University, now Concordia. https://protestsandpedagogy.ca/HOME-1 Sat, 01 Dec 2018 17:19:58 +0000 protests and pedagogy https://protestsandpedagogy.ca/HOME-1 &nbsp;HOME&nbsp; COVER&nbsp;&nbsp;GROUNDINGS &nbsp;CALENDAR &nbsp;SYLLABUS&nbsp; PARTNERS&nbsp; CONTACT&nbsp; SUPPORT &nbsp;PROTESTS AND PEDAGOGY A conference and event series commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Sir George Williams University Computer Center Occupation, Montréal,Québec. <img width="3030" height="2458" width_o="3030" height_o="2458" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/088e11b8081c71426b50b944cf4f1d580732a4175bc9499e098b72bf4f3a38ab/I074-02-037.jpg" data-mid="29661515" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/088e11b8081c71426b50b944cf4f1d580732a4175bc9499e098b72bf4f3a38ab/I074-02-037.jpg" />*Image Source: Concordia University Records Management and Archive (1074-02-037). ︎ https://protestsandpedagogy.ca/Groundings Sun, 02 Dec 2018 01:10:43 +0000 protests and pedagogy https://protestsandpedagogy.ca/Groundings HOME &nbsp;GROUNDINGS&nbsp; CALENDAR &nbsp; SYLLABUS&nbsp; PARTNERS&nbsp; CONTACT&nbsp; SUPPORT G R O U N D I N G S <img width="12046" height="3347" width_o="12046" height_o="3347" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c37f7d93d74ad38231df2ee38b97fc99a2dc223273d500fb3cd10ad501461762/I074-02-150.jpg" data-mid="29690988" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c37f7d93d74ad38231df2ee38b97fc99a2dc223273d500fb3cd10ad501461762/I074-02-150.jpg" /> “Something happened here in Montreal on February 11th, 1969, which for different reasons neither Blacks nor Whites will ever forget."&nbsp; - Dennis Forsythe In 1969, West Indian students at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University) occupied the university’s computer centre from January 29th to Feb 11th as part of one of the most significant student protests in Canadian history. The student occupation was in response to discriminatory pedagogical practices and the university’s failure to effectively address the students’ complaints. &nbsp; &nbsp; The protest culminated with a now iconic and widely circulated image of computer punch cards being thrown out the window of the 9th floor by students. The end of the protest was also marked by varying accounts of police brutality, racist epithets, and a mysterious arson which forced the students’ evacuation. In the aftermath, nearly 100 people were arrested. The impact of this event was felt acutely in Montreal, but followed closely by national media in Canada, with ripple effects across the Caribbean, impacting Caribbean-Canadian relations and resulting in Caribbean-based student protests, which pushed governments to demand justice for their nationals. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; This conference commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Sir George Williams “affair” as a lens to reflect upon the unfinished business of decolonization and its relationship to questions of pedagogy, institutional life and culture and ongoing discussions about race and racism. We seek to remember this historical moment and its questions of decolonization and pedagogy as ones which remain urgent in higher education around the world. We also acknowledge the long history of student protests in various institutions across the Third World and the Global North, but in particular we draw connections between this event, and the “Rodney Riots” in Jamaica, 1968 and Trinidad’s Black Power Revolution in 1970. In locating the students who were part of the Sir George Williams “affair” as part of this wider trajectory, we further ask what is the decolonizing role of the student intellectual both historically and in our current global moment?&nbsp; What are the unfinished legacies of this moment in the Canadian context and beyond? How is it remembered, forgotten or contested in different spaces? How did it connect or contribute to wider circuits of activism, protest and resistance? How is blackness included or occluded in decolonizing dialogues (particularly relating to curriculum and pedagogy)? What are the lessons of the occupation of the computer centre to current forms of resistance, such as Black Lives Matter or Rhodes Must Fall? Image Source: Concordia University Records Management and Archive (1074-02-150) https://protestsandpedagogy.ca/Calendar Sat, 01 Dec 2018 17:19:58 +0000 protests and pedagogy https://protestsandpedagogy.ca/Calendar HOME &nbsp;GROUNDINGS &nbsp;CALENDAR &nbsp;SYLLABUS&nbsp; PARTNERS&nbsp; CONTACT&nbsp; SUPPORT &nbsp;C A L E N D A R &nbsp;January 29th-February 11th, 2019 <img width="11355" height="2314" width_o="11355" height_o="2314" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/202cc5ac9269654d5062ee84fddc790740fbd960a497509b03ea633aad703afc/I074-02-117.jpg" data-mid="29672036" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/202cc5ac9269654d5062ee84fddc790740fbd960a497509b03ea633aad703afc/I074-02-117.jpg" /> All events at&nbsp;4th SPACE, main floor, J.W. McConnell Building (LB), 1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W, unless otherwise noted. Click dates for details. Tuesday January 29th Launch Event&nbsp;Archival Exhibit Opening Wednesday January 30th Ninth Floor - Screening with Cinema PoliticaBlack Montréal Round Table BLACKOUT - Tableau D’Hôte Theater - Opening Thursday January 31st Oral History: Workshop with Stéphane Martelly and Stephen HighBlack Canadian Education Tools: Workshop with Dorothy Williams An(other) Antilles - Screening with Cinema Politica Friday February 1st Black History Month Launch at City Hall Printmaking WorkshopA Visual Record of Events Unfolding: Artist Talk with Charmaine Lurch Saturday February 2nd Black Experience in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (Invitation only) Sugar Cane Alley - Screening with Cinema Politica Sunday February 3rd9th Floor Walk Through Policing Round Table Monday February 4th ’70: Remembering a Revolution - Screening with Cinema Politica Protest and Gender Activism Tuesday February 5th The Congress of Black Writers and Sir George at 50: A Talk Multidimensionality of Black Experiences: Round Table Wednesday February 6thCongress of Black Writers Conference at McGill University Telling Stories: Black Montréal Oral History CourseBeading Workshp with Pascale C. Annoual Film and Community, Massimadi Montréal Thursday February 7th Decolonizing Knowledge Across the English and French Caribbean Crisis at Sir George - Screening with Cinema Politica Friday February 8th Protests and Pedagogy Conference Day 1 Champaint: Race and Pedagogy Saturday February 9th Protests and Pedagogy Conference Day 2 Champaint: Race and Pedagogy Sunday February 10th REDE Protocol Commemoration - Maison d'Haïti Riots Reframed - Screening with Cinema Politica Monday February 11th Groundings: The Way Forward, Towards a Reparative Framework&nbsp; Everything Must Fall - Screening with Cinema Politica Closing *Image Source: Concordia University Records Management and Archive (1074-02-117). https://protestsandpedagogy.ca/Tuesday-January-29th Sat, 22 Dec 2018 03:18:49 +0000 protests and pedagogy https://protestsandpedagogy.ca/Tuesday-January-29th CALENDAR&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;NEXT DATE&nbsp; Tue Jan&nbsp; 29th LAUNCH EVENT 6-8pm, 4th SPACEJ.W. McConnell Building (LB)1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W. Main Floor&nbsp; African Grounding and Territorial Acknowledgement Pascale C. Annoual Acknowledging 2 years since the Québec City Mosque Shooting Yasmin Jiwani Speaking for Morgan StalnelyAlan Vesprini Opening Address Nantali Indongo Round Table: Why does this History Matter? Philippe Fils-Aimé&nbsp; Rodney John Leon LlewellynCarlyle Williams Brass: Jason Selman Modibo Keita Marcus Braithwaite-Selman Mon-Fri, 10am-6pm, until Feb 11th, 4th SPACE ARCHIVAL EXHIBIT OPENINGCurated by Christiana Abraham Images, sound, and text related to the SGW Computer Center Occupation https://protestsandpedagogy.ca/Wednesday-January-30th Sat, 22 Dec 2018 03:18:54 +0000 protests and pedagogy https://protestsandpedagogy.ca/Wednesday-January-30th CALENDAR&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;NEXT DATE&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;PREVIOUS DATE Wed Jan 30th 1-3pm, 4th SPACENINTH FLOOR Screening with Cinema Politica Talkback with Philippe Fils-Aimé 5-7pm, 4th SPACE ÊTRE NOIR À MONTRÉAL/BLACK MONTRÉAL ROUND TABLEÉvénement sponsorisé par la TRMHN / Event sponsored by the Round Table on Black History Month Moderator: Michael Farkas Tenisha Valliant Community and Black cultural heritage researcher, and coordinator of historical projects. Balarama Holness Politician, militant, and human rights advocate. Jerry Alexandre Author and teacher. Anastasia Marcellin Event organizer/manager, feminist, activist. Idil Issa&nbsp; Feminist, advocate and militant for minority group rights. Leon Llewellyn Visual artist, archivist. Their struggles, challenges, academic successes, their resilience and continuity in their personal and professional lives. D.B. Clarke Theater1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W. Main FloorBLACKOUTOpening PerformancePresented by Tableau D’Hôte Theater &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; https://protestsandpedagogy.ca/Thursday-January-31st Sat, 22 Dec 2018 03:18:04 +0000 protests and pedagogy https://protestsandpedagogy.ca/Thursday-January-31st CALENDAR&nbsp; &nbsp; NEXT DATE &nbsp; &nbsp;PREVIOUS DATE Thu Jan 31st 10am-12pm, 4th SPACE ORAL HISTORY AS A CREATIVE PATHWAY INTO THE BLACK EXPERIENCE: A WORKSHOP Stéphane Martelly and Steven High This two-hour bilingual workshop will provide introductory training in oral history as a research and creative practice, grounded in examples drawn from projects focused on the Black experience. ︎ HISTOIRE ORALE COMME CHEMINEMENT CRÉATIF À TRAVERS L’EXPÉRIENCE NOIRE À MONTRÉAL: ATELIER Stéphane Martelly et Steven High Cet atelier bilingue de deux heures introduira les participants aux méthodes en Histoire orale, comme approche de recherche et de création, tout en s'appuyant sur des exemples tirés de l'expérience Noire à Montréal. 1-3pm, 4th SPACE&nbsp; BLACK CANADIAN EDUCATION TOOLSWorkshop with Dorothy WilliamsThe ABCs of Canadian Black History introduces a pedagogical tool for educators and is designed to introduce the contributions of Black Canadians to the historical development of Canada. The hands-on workshop features cross-curricular content adapted to the QEP in various subjects from science, business to human rights. Included are games, activities and cards to facilitate learning, discussion, introduce diversity and inclusion in the classroom and to engage students. A perfect Black History Month tool that will delight learners year-round. 4-6pm,&nbsp;4th SPACE AN(OTHER) ANTILLES Film Screening with Cinema Politica Talkback with Rodney John https://protestsandpedagogy.ca/Friday-February-1st Sat, 22 Dec 2018 03:18:44 +0000 protests and pedagogy https://protestsandpedagogy.ca/Friday-February-1st CALENDAR&nbsp; &nbsp; NEXT DATE &nbsp; &nbsp;PREVIOUS DATE Fri Feb&nbsp; 1st Hôtel de Ville / City Hall275 Notre-Dame Street East BLACK HISTORY MONTH OFFCIAL LAUNCH&nbsp;12-2pm, 4th SPACEPRINTMAKING WORKSHOP&nbsp; Textual and Visual Representation in the Sir George Williams affair 1969 With Charmaine Lurch This two-hour printmaking workshop uses paper cut out shapes to create stencils that are then screen printed using a number of inks. Incorporating words and images, this form of art making can be used to create visual narratives that re-construct events in representational and abstracts forms. Printmaking as an artivist tool in this workshop, can help us recollect an event, learn about a community’s experience and make visible the participants, students supporters, artists, activist, and others who were present at the time.&nbsp; 4-6pm, 4th SPACE A VISUAL RECORD OF EVENTS UNFOLDING Black Visualities and Protest:&nbsp;A talk with Charmaine Lurch&nbsp; Charmaine Lurch is an interdisciplinary visual artist, whose work explores race, and blackness, outside normative racial scripts. She creatively insists that black life, while certainly shaped by infrastructures of race, is not wholly defined by them. Working with a range materials, and reimagining our environmental surroundings—from bees and taxi cabs to The Tempest and quiet moments of joy, Lurch subtly connects black life and movement globally, drawing attention to human-environmental relationalities. Lurch’s holds a Master’s in Environmental Studies from York University and her work has been exhibited at: the Art Gallery of Ontario, Montreal museum of Fine Arts, Station Gallery, Toronto Centre for the Arts, The Gladstone, Nuit Blanche, the National Gallery of Jamaica, and more. &nbsp; https://protestsandpedagogy.ca/Saturday-February-2nd Sat, 22 Dec 2018 03:18:38 +0000 protests and pedagogy https://protestsandpedagogy.ca/Saturday-February-2nd CALENDAR&nbsp; &nbsp; NEXT DATE &nbsp; &nbsp;PREVIOUS DATE Sat Feb 2nd 1-3pm, 4th SPACE (This event is accessible by invitation only.) BLACK EXPERIENCE IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS (STEM) &nbsp;Since the computer centre occupation began as a protest against racism in the biology department, this roundtable will reflect on the history, legacies, and contemporary experiences of Black students and professionals in STEM. 4-6pm, De Sève Cinema RUE CASES NÈGRES/SUGAR CANE ALLEY Film Screening with Cinema Politica Talkback with Emily Zobel Marshall (Leeds Beckett University) and Océane Jasor (Concordia University)