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On March 28th, 2023, Melissa McLetchie, a graduate student in the department of sociology hosted a tour and information session for 30 grade 6-8 students and their teachers from Biidaasige Mandamin P.S. in Pickering, ON. The event was the conclusion to a five-week program she facilitated with the students on behalf of her non-profit organization Neighbourhood Scholar (www.nhscholar.org). The event was supported by the sociology graduate program, the Sociology Undergraduate Student Association (S.U.S.A.), the Office of the Vice-Provost Students, and the TD Community Engagement Centre. Melissa hopes to make this an annual event for youth who participate in her Social Justice in A Social World program.
Memorializing Violence: Transnational Feminist Reflections
Join the Center for Feminist Research in celebrating the launch of Memorializing Violence: Transnational Feminist Reflections, edited by CFR associates Professor Alison Crosby and Heather Evans.
Memorializing Violence brings together feminist and queer reflections on the transnational lives of memorialization practices, asking what it means to grapple with loss, mourning, grief, and desires to collectively remember and commemorate–as well as urges to forget–in the face of disparate yet entangled experiences of racialized and gendered colonial, imperial, militarized, and state violence.
Unsettling Migration Studies: Race, Mobility & Carcerality
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Paper Session
Saturday, 2:45-4:30pm
Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center
Room: Mineral B
Analyses of racialization and racism are often obscured in migration studies. Instead, migration studies have largely framed migration and border controls as governing the movement of non-citizens and producing citizen-subjects with endowed rights. The racial grammar that frames security threats and the logics of carcerality are rarely highlighted, leaving the study of migration, freedom, and of mobility as ahistorical abstractions, void of their connections to racial logics of differentiation that frame the politics of inclusion/exclusion and movement in, out and across space. This session provides a forum to discuss the intrinsic connection between histories of slavery, settler-colonialism, and contemporary racial projects of nation-building, and studies of migration, mobility, carcerality, and the border.
Racial Governance in Judicial Decision Making on Migrant Sentences
For those attending online, the Zoom link is:
https://yorku.zoom.us/j/99119170535?pwd=azRHa3JFdzlIaVBhMCtsbUtFakdvUT09
Meeting ID - 991 1917 0535
Passcode - 261398
Strategies of Critique 2023: Care and Cure
This year’s Strategies of Critique Conference reflects on the relationship between care and cure, and the collective violence ordained in the name of both. Who is cared for, and by whom? What political purpose does care serve? What alternatives to care are possible? How is care deployed as a cure for violence — and in what ways does care reproduce it? These questions retain an even greater urgency within these now precedented times, wherein the politics of care and the standards for cure have been thrown into further crisis by a pandemic, epidemics, and racial and gendered reckonings worldwide.
RCPS - Global Public Sociology Conversations: Beyond the Ivory Tower - Practising Public Sociology
How do we use research to transform our communities and contribute towards social change? How do we connect researchers and multiple publics for critical and transformative dialogue? What does DOING social justice work, beyond the academy, look like?