March 20 | 4 - 6 p.m. | Location: TBD
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The Human Rights and Equity Office, in partnership with Promise of Home, invites Indigenous, Black and Racialized students, staff and faculty to join us in observing the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
We welcome your participation in a focus group discussion on "Building Anti-Racist and Decolonial Futures Together on Campus." This conversation will explore how our campus community can work together to create and sustain anti-racist practices and environments in higher education.
Facilitators | Dr. Gül Çalışkan
Dr. Çalışkan (she/her), is a professor of global sociology at St. Thomas University (STU) on unceded Wolastoq Territory. She received her PhD from York University in Toronto, where her dissertation focused on the diasporic citizenship of Turkish-background residents of Berlin.
Gül joined the sociology department at STU in 2013. Her research and teaching focus on the broad areas of citizenship (as a social practice) and global social justice within global and transnational sociology.
Postcolonial studies and postcolonial feminism inform her research and teaching. In her research, she engages in the narrative inquiry to examine the complex relations between global processes and everyday realities.
Gül teaches Introduction to Sociology; Sociology of Globalization; Globalization and Gender; Racialization and Ethnicity; Global Justice; Orientalism Islamophobia and Postcolonial Transgressions; Advanced Theory; Research for Social Change; and Qualitative Methods.
Dr. Sophie Lavoie
Dr. Lavoie (she/her) is a professor in the department of culture & media studies at UNB’s Fredericton campus, where she teaches Spanish Latin American language, literature and culture, women’s studies and film.
Her research publications are on women writers of Central America and social change, mostly in Nicaragua. She has also published on Latino-Canadian writers’ narratives of integration (Lady Rojas Benavente, Carmen Aguirre, Carmen Rodríguez).
Along with editing two anthologies of Latino-Canadian women’s poetry, she is a literary translator with various books published in English, French and Spanish.
Notably, she translated Mi’kmaq poet Rita Joe and Ojibwa-Cree elder Ma-Nee Chacaby’s memoirs into French, recently published a translation of NB Anglophone poets in two volumes and is finishing up a translation of NB LGBTQIA+ writers for Frog Hollow Books.
