Overview for Sexual Assault: Discourse & Dialogue

Prof. Malinda Smith (left) and Prof. David Austin

Join us on March 1 for the third event of Race Literacies: A Black Canadian Speakers Series, funded by the UBC Equity Enhancement Fund. Join  Malinda Smith, Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta and David Austin, Professor of Humanities, Philosophy, and Religion Department at John Abbott College in Montreal.

March 1, 2016
2pm
St. John’s College (Wayfinding at UBC)
Social Lounge
2111 Lower Mall
PLEASE NOTE VENUE CHANGE – This event is not being held at the Liu Institute as previously advertised.

Please register by completing this form.

Other UBC sponsors of Race Literacies include the Department of Language and Literacy Education, the Centre for Culture, Identity and Education, the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice and the Jane Rule Endowment for the Study of Human Relationships.

Intersectionality Blues: Diversity is the New White

Malinda Smith, Professor, Faculty of Arts, Department of Political Science, University of Alberta
Prof. Malinda Smith is author of many book chapters and journal articles. She is the editor or co-editor of five books, including States of Race: Critical Race Feminism for the 21st Century (with Sherene Razack and Sunera Thobani),Critical Concepts: An Introduction to Politics (with Janine Brodie and Sandra Rein); and forthcoming books onRacialization, Indigeneity and the University (with Frances Henry et al.); and Nuances of Blackness in the Academy (with Handel Wright et al.). She is also the editor of two open access books, Beyond the Queer Alphabet (with Fatima Jaffer), and Indigenous Education and Indigenizing the Academy.

She has won many awards for her activism in the university and broader community. Most recently, she won the Office of Safe Disclosure and Human Rights inaugural ‘Human Rights Education Recognition Award’ (2013), and CAUT’s ‘Equity Award’ (2015).

Solidarity Blues: From the Plantation to the Plant to the Prison

David Austin, Professor of Humanities, Philosophy, and Religion Department at John Abbott College in Montreal.
Prof. David Austin is the author of numerous articles and books on the Caribbean, Black diasporic and African thought and political history, including his recent book, Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security and Sixties Montreal, for which he was awarded the Casa de las Américas Prize in 2014, and You Don’t Play with Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James (Editor).

He has also produced two radio documentaries for CBC’s Ideas: C.L.R. James: The Black Jacobin and Frantz Fanon: The Wretched of the Earth. He currently teaches in the Humanities, Philosophy, and Religion Department at John Abbott College in Montreal.

Concerned faculty member at UBC (including sessional instructors and non-tenure faculty) are invited to participate in a Virtual Teach-In for UBC’s Sexual Assault Awareness Month (January 2016). Post your thoughts about the topic on social media, using the hashtag #UBCSAAM.

Many UBC faculty are concerned that official channels for addressing important campus issues are inadequate. Social media allows us the space to speak from our research expertise, from our experiences as members of the campus community, and as faculty who teach and supervise students. By using social media, we bring the topic to the larger public for further discussion and greater awareness.

Part of Race Literacies – as series of events featuring renowned Black Canadian Scholars

Liu Institute for Global Issues
Tuesday, January 26, 2:00 PM
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Rinaldo Walcott is an Associate Professor and Director of Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. He is a member of the Department of Social Justice Education at OISE, as well as the Graduate Program in Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto. His teaching and research is in the area of black diaspora cultural studies and postcolonial studies with an emphasis on questions of sexuality, gender, nation, citizenship and multiculturalism. From 2002-2007 Rinaldo held the Canada Research Chair of Social Justice and Cultural Studies where his research was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and the Ontario Innovation Trust.

Rinaldo Walcott is the author of Black Like Who: Writing Black Canada (Insonmiac Press, 1997 with a second revised edition in 2003); he is also the editor of Rude: Contemporary Black Canadian Cultural Criticism (Insomniac, 2000). As well Rinaldo is the Co-editor with Roy Moodley of Counselling Across and Beyond Cultures: Exploring the Work of Clemment Vontress in Clinical Practice (University of Toronto Press, 2010).

Currently, Rinaldo is completing Black Diaspora Faggotry: Readings Frames Limits, which is under-contract to Duke University Press. Additionally Rinaldo is co-editing with Dina Georgis and Katherine McKittrick No Language Is Neutral: Essays on Dionne Brand (forthcoming). Additionally, Rinaldo is completing The Long Emancipation: Moving Towards (Black) Freedom, An Essay. As an interdisciplinary black studies scholar Rinaldo has published in a wide range of venues. His articles have appeared in journals and books, as well as popular venues like newspapers and magazines, as well as other kinds of media.

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