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CONFERENCE PROGRAM
DAY 1
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2008
REGISTRATION STARTS AT 9:15 at ENGINEERING BLDG. LOWER LEVEL LOBBY
10:00-12:00 FRIDAY, Nov. 14, :
WORKSHOP
GRADUATE STUDENTS OF COLOUR WORKSHOP
Oakham Lounge, Oakham House
This workshop is open to all graduate students of colour (including those not registered for the conference). The workshop takes as its starting point the idea that the Academy continues to be an exclusionary white space (despite the increasing numbers of Faculty and students of colour). Its objective is to provide information and support to graduate students of colour on the hidden and systemic challenges that we face in the Academy.
Zahir Kolia & Nashwa Salem
12:00 - 1:00 : Lunch Break
1:00 - 2:30 FRIDAY,
Nov. 14 , 2008 : SESSION 1
INDIGENOUS IDENTITIES AND ANTI-COLONIAL STRUGGLES
Oakham Lounge, Oakham House
Indigenous Identity, Resistance to Resource Theft, and the Land Claims
Industry in Eastern Ontario
Bonita Lawrence (York University)
Between Equal Rights Force Decides: Direct Action and the Six Nations
Struggle in Brantford
Tom Keefer (York University)
Borders, Floods, Movements: “Global Lockdown” and the Production of Carceral Landscapes
Maita Abola Sayo (York University)
Chair: Sherene Razack (OISE/UT)
WRITING FOR EMPIRE: TRAVELLERS, NATIVE INFORMANTS AND COLUMNISTS
Eric Palin Hall (EPH) 216
Writing Oneself into Whiteness: Iranian Exilic Memoirs in an Age of
Empire
Sara Saljoughi (Ryerson University)
Eliciting Compassion and Marketing Sympathy in Diasporic Iranian Prison
Narratives
Nima Naghibi (Ryerson University)
Into the Mirror: Illustration, Description and Meaning in Colonial
American Travel Writing by Europeans
Chris Johnson (New School University)
“Badland’s Radical Imam” versus the “Sioux”: Race and Haunting in Mark
Steyn’s Text
Shaista Patel (OISE/UT)
Chair: Amina Jamal (Ryerson University)
POLICING, RACE AND EXPERIENCES OF VIOLENCE
ENG L06
Private Policing, Political Economy and the Policing of Race
Anne-Marie Singh (Ryerson University)
Non-Lethal Violence and Race
Aaron Gordon (York University)
Violence in Punjabi and Tamil Immigrant Families: Cultural and Structural Interpretations by Survivors
Vappu Tyyska (Ryerson University)
Chair: Pam Sugiman (Ryerson University)
ASIANS IN TRANS/NATIONAL FRAMES: RACE, COLONIALISM AND DIASPORA
ENG L02
Constructing Identities and Spaces: Reflections of a Korean Canadian
Woman
Anna Kim (OISE/UT)
Deconstructing Racism in Canadian Educational Institutions: A South
Asian Perspective
Sangeetha Navaratnam (OISE/UT)
Beyond Bruce Lee and Writing as Fighting: Representations of Asian
Masculinity Reconsidered
Kenneth Huynh (OISE/UT)
Well-Being as Praxis of Decolonization: The Healing Power of Filipino
Indigenous Women
Rose Ann Torres (OISE/UT)
Framing Asian Diaspora in Canada
Roland Sintos Coloma (OISE/UT)
Chair: Roland Sintos Coloma (OISE/UT)
RACE AND RACIALIZATION IN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Oakham Room G
Boundaries of Risk: The Urban Politics of Race and Student Voluntarism
John Paul Cervas Catungal (University of
Toronto)
Race and Representational Practices in Anti-War Solidarity Activism
Gada Mahrouse (Concordia University)
Have Anti-Racist Theories and Activism Facilitated a New White Cultural
Identity?
Anne O’Connell (York University)
Chair: Sedef Arat-Koç (Ryerson University)
2:30 -
2:45 : Break
2:45 - 4:15 : FRIDAY, Nov. 14, 2008,
: SESSION 2
BELONGING, CITIZENSHIP AND ANTI-RACIST STRUGGLES
Oakham Lounge, Oakham House
Home at the Bridge: First Nations’ Belonging and Colonial Insecurities
at Niagara Falls, Ontario
Robinder Kaur Sehdev (Nipissing University)
The Colonizer’s Plan? Citizenship Policies, Whiteness and Anti-Colonial
Resistance
Krista Johnson (York University)
Immigrant Voting Rights in Toronto: From Colonialism to Post-Colonialism?
Myer Siemiatycki (Ryerson University)
Indigenous Solidarity in an Anti-Racism Framework? A Case Study of
the National Secretariat Against Hate and Racism in Canada (NSAHRC)
Beenash Jafri (York University)
Chair: Henry Parada (Ryerson University)
THE CHANGING MULTICULTURAL LANDSCAPE AND THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF
BELONGING IN THE NATION
Eric Palin Hall (EPH) 229
The Changing Multicultural Landscape: Is Canada Following the Assimilationist
Path of the UK and the Netherlands?
Tariq Amin-Khan (Ryerson University)
Homegrown, Muslim and Other: Tolerance, Secularism and the Limits of
Multiculturalism
Eve Haque (York University)
Be All You Can Be or Longing to Be: Canadian Militarism and the Im/Possibility
of Belonging to the Nation
Tammy George (OISE/UT)
Islam in Secularist Societies
Ratiba Hadj-Moussa & Karine Côté-Boucher
(York University)
Chair: Mustafa Koç (Ryerson University)
RACE, GENDER AND DEVELOPMENTALIST HEGEMONIES
Eric Palin Hall (EPH) 225
Men in Development: Countervailing Hegemonic Masculinities
Paul Perret (California State University,
Long Beach)
Images of Third World Women: Race and Gender in CIDA Development Representations
Christiana Abraham (University of the West
Indies)
Liberation or (Re)Colonization?: Troubling NGO/Activist “Alternatives
to Globalization” Positions in Canada and Aotearoa/New Zealand
Aziz Choudry (McGill University)
In/securities? The Racial Politics of Planning the 2010 World Cup in
South Africa
David J. Roberts (University of Toronto)
Chair: Anne-Marie Singh (Ryerson University)
RACISM, IMMIGRANT STATUS AND LABOUR MARKET INEQUALITIES
Eric Palin Hall (EPH) 204
Do Not Disturb/Please Clean Room: The Invisible Work and Real Pain
of Hotel Housekeepers in the GTA
Sirena Liladrie (Ryerson University)
Racism and Resistance: A Case Study of Toronto’s Taxi Industry
Jessica Walters (Ryerson University)
Transnational Class Mobility: Professional Immigrant Women Navigating
the Labour Market
Tania Das Gupta (York University), Roxana
Ng (OISE/UT), Kiran Mirchandani (OISE/UT),
Guida Man (York University) & Hongxia
Shan (OISE/UT)
Chair: Tara La Rose (Ryerson University)
“FROM COLUMBUS’S MACHINE TO THE SUGAR-MAKING MACHINE”: GEOGRAPHY,
IDENTITY AND POWER IN THE (NEO)/IMPERIAL CARIBBEAN
Eric Palin Hall (EPH) 242
Decolonizing Jamaican Tourism: The Legacy of Plantation Slavery in
the Tourist Trade
Jenny Burman (McGill University)
Planting Sugar, Producing Art: The Picturesque West Indian Plantation
Anuradha Gobin (McGill University)
Sugar Cane, Slaves and Ships: Imperial Desire, Geography and Nineteenth-Century
Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica
Charmaine Nelson (McGill University)
Race, Modernity and the Visual: The “Problem” of Indians in Colonial
Cultural Politics in the Caribbean
Amar Wahab (York University)
Chair: Charmaine Nelson (McGill University)
4:15 -
4:30 : Break
4:30 - 6:30 FRIDAY, NOV. 14, 2008: BOOK LAUNCH AND RECEPTION
The Atrium, 3rd Floor, Engineering Building
Environmental Justice and Racism in Canada
Andil Gosine and Cheryl Teelucksingh (Eds.)
Desire for Development: Whiteness, Gender, and the Helping Imperative.
Barbara Heron
Desire for Development: Whiteness, Gender, and the Helping Imperative. Barbara Heron
Rethinking Global Sisterhood: Western Feminism and Iran
Nima Naghibi
The Color of Stone: Sculpting the Black Female Subject in Nineteenth-Century America.
Charmaine Nelson
Razing Africville: A Geography of Racism
Jennifer Nelson
Lighting the Eighth Fire: The Liberation, Resurgence, and Protection of Indigenous Nations.
Leanne Simpson (Ed.).
Exalted Subjects: Studies in the Making of Race and Nation In Canada.
Sunera Thobani
Chair: Amina Jamal (Ryerson University)
7:00 - 7:30, FRIDAY,
Nov. 14, 2008 :
ABORIGINAL TRADITIONAL OPENING CEREMONY
ENG 103
Eileen Antone (OISE/University of Toronto)
7:30 - 9:30, FRIDAY Nov. 14, 2008 : OPENING PLENARY
TEORIZING RACE, THEORIZING ANTI-RACISM
ENG 103
Anna Agathengelou (York University)
Nadera Shalhoub Kevorkian (Hebrew University)
Sherene Razack (OISE/University of Toronto)
Malinda Smith (University of Alberta)
Moderator: Lynn Lavallée (Ryerson University)
DAY 2
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2008
REGISTRATION STARTS AT 8:15 at ENGINEERING BLDG. LOWER LEVEL LOBBY
9:00 - 11:00, SATURDAY, Nov. 15, 2008 : PLENARY
COLONIALISM, WAR AND IMPERIALISM
ENG 103
Adam Hanieh (York University)
Bonita Lawrence (York University)
Leanne Simpson (Trent University)
Sunera Thobani (University of British Columbia)
Moderator: Joanne DiNova (Ryerson University)
11:00 -
11:15 : Break (Tea and Coffee Served)
11:15 - 12:45 SATURDAY, Nov. 15, 2008 : SESSION 3
WOMEN AND THE POLITICS OF ANTI-COLONIAL RESISTANCE
ENG LG13
NGOs and the De-Politicization of Women’s Movements in Palestine
Natasha Goudar (University of Alberta)
Building From and Moving Beyond the State: The National and Transnational
Dimensions of Afro-Brazilian Women’s Resistance Efforts and Strategies
Jessica Franklin (McMaster University)
Gender, Dance and (Post)Colonial Imaginaries
Sitara Thobani (OISE/UT)
Chair: Shahnaz Khan (Wilfrid Laurier University)
RACISM, REPRODUCTION AND HEALTH
The Myth of Adoption: An Old Imperialism Writ New and Large in the Unethical Approach to Assisted Human Reproductive Technologies
Marie Marchand
“Underclassism” and Health Care Access for the Poor, Racialized Patient:
A Critical Analysis of How Ruling of the Neo-Liberal State Operates
in Healthcare
Sannie Y. Tang & Annette J. Browne (University of British Columbia)
Exploring the Colonial Logic of “Mental Health and Illness”: An Anti-Colonial
Disability Studies Analysis
Tanya Titchkosky & Katie Aubrecht (OISE/UT)
Chair: Renuka Sooknanan (Ryerson University)
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND RACISM IN CANADA
ENG LG24
What Green Looks Like: Representing Nature and Environmentalism
Andil Gosine (York University)
Rethinking “Green” Multicultural Strategies
Beenash Jafri (York University)
Environmental Racism and the Management of “Race” in Canada
Cheryl Teelucksingh (Ryerson University)
Chair: Cheryl Teelucksingh (Ryerson University)
RACE, IDENTITY AND POPULAR CULTURE
ENG 102
Launch the Metaphorical Afronaut
Deepak A. Mehmi (York University)
Sly Fox? The Cultural Industries’ Construction of Nas and the Limitations
of Mainstream “Conscious” Rap
Murali Balaji (Pennsylvania State University)
From Habermas to “Get Rich or Die Tryin”: Hip Hop, the Telecommunications
Act of 1996, and the Black Public Sphere
Akilah N. Folami (Hofstra University)
Patrolling the Nation through Soft Power: Race, Class and Gender in
Canadian TV Crime Drama
Yasmin Jiwani (Concordia University)
Chair: Gordon Pon (Ryerson University)
BALKANISM I: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL INTERVENTIONS
ENG LG2l
Post-Socialist Transition, Law and Imperialism
Irina Ceric (York University)
Humanism and Humanitarian Imperialism: The Contemporary Praxis of Western
Cosmopolitan Theory
Greg Bird (York University)
“The Serbs” and the Sensus Imperium: Periodizing a Sub-Species of Balkanism
Rade Zinaic (York University)
Chair: Kole Kilibarda (York University)
12:45 - 2:15 SATURDAY, NOV. 15, 2008 :
R.A.C.E. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
ENG 101
R.A.C.E. annual general meeting is for all academics and researchers of colour.
Lunch will be provided at this time for all conference attendants
2:15 - 3:45 SATURDAY, Nov. 15, 2008 : SESSION 4
IDEOLOGIES AND POLITICS OF EMPIRE AND ANTI-IMPERIALISM
ENG 101
Discourses of Domination: The Logic of the Empire and that of the Republic
Rachad Antonius (Université du Québec à
Montréal)
Race, Sovereignty and Empire
Sunera Thobani (University of British Columbia)
The Ethics of Anti-Imperialism
Jakeet Singh (University of Toronto)
From Authoritarianism to “Democracy”: The Human Rights Regime and the
Constitution of the Neo-Liberal Subject
Teresa Macias (OISE/UT)
Chair: Melanie Knight (Ryerson University)
RACISM IN THE CANADIAN UNIVERSITY: DEMANDING SOCIAL JUSTICE,
INCLUSION AND EQUITY
ENG 102
Getting Appointed: An Exploration of How Policies and Practices in
University Affect Diversity Among Faculty Members
Carl James (York University)
Caribbean Studies in the Academy: We’ve Come a Long way?
Camille Hernandez-Ramdwar (Ryerson University)
Evaluation of Anti-Racist Policies in Canadian Universities: Issues
of Leadership by Senior Administration
Ena Dua (York University)
The Weight of Whiteness in the University
Frances Henry & Carol Tator (York University)
Chair: Frances Henry (York University)
RESISTING RACISM: ORGANIZATIONAL AND EVERYDAY PRACTICES
ENG LG24
Resisting Racism through Organizational Change: The Theory and Practice
of Anti-Racism/Anti-Oppression
David Woodward (The Redwood Shelter for
Women)
Learning from Punjabi Grandmothers: Lessons in How to Confront Racism
and Patriarchy
Pramila Aggarwal (George Brown College)
Race-ing Women’s Organizations: Antiracist Feminists Navigating Activist
Responsibility
Sobia Shaheen Shaikh (York University)
Race Politics and the Museum: Resistant Curatorial Practices
Sally Frater (Sotheby’s Institute of Art)
Chair: Jasmin Zine (Wilfrid Laurier University)
(UN)LEARNING TO BE “CIVILIZED”: RESISTING THE WHITEWASH IN ABORIGINAL
COMMUNITIES
ENG LG13
The Road to Hell: Good Intentions in Indian Country
Joanne DiNova (Ryerson University)
Collegiality or Conformity? Good Intentions in the Academy
Lynn Lavallée (Ryerson University)
Good Intentions Turned Back: Double Savage/Half Breed
Lila Pine (Ryerson University)
Chair: Jake Chakasim (Ryerson University)
BALKANISM II: CULTURE, POLITICS AND ART
ENG LG21
Camp B
Zorica Vasic (Ontario College of Art and
Design)
New Balkanisms and the "Remnants" of Transition: Militant
Film-based Investigations into the lives of Displaced Migrants and Workers
in Serbia
Tamara Vukov (McGill University)
The Cultures of Socialism: Investigating the work of Emir Kusturica
and Tomislav Gotovac through the prism of Balkanist theoretical discourse
Bojana Videkanic (York University)
Chair: Kole Kilibarda (York University)
3:45 -
4:00 : Break (Tea and Coffee Served)
4:00 - 6:00 SATURDAY, Nov. 15, 2008 : PLENARY
RACE, POVERTY AND PRECARIOUSNESS
ENG 103
Grace Chang (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Marie Clark Walker (Canadian Labour Congress)
Grace-Edward Galabuzi (Ryerson University)
Geraldine King (National Association of Friendship Centers)
Moderator: Tariq Amin-Khan (Ryerson University)
DAY 3
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2008
REGISTRATION STARTS AT 9:15 at ENGINEERING BLDG. LOWER LEVEL LOBBY
9:30 - 11:00 SUNDAY, Nov. 16, 2008
: SESSION 5
RACE AND REGULATION OF SEXUAL IDENTITIES
ENG LG21
Besharam and the Production of Social Space in the Toronto South Asian
Community
Omme-Salma Rahemtullah (York University)
Spectacles of Citizenship
Zoë Newman (York University)
Queering White Picket Fences: Same-Sex Marriage and the Racial Politics
of the “Ordinary”
Suzanne Lenon (University of Lethbridge)
“Dangerous Shortcuts”: Representations of LGBT Refugees in the Post-9/11
Canadian Press
Ainsley Jenicek & Alan Wong (Concordia
University) & Edward Lee (McGill University)
Chair: Amina Jamal (Ryerson University)
RACE, ANTI-RACISM AND EDUCATION
ENG LG24
Selling Our Universities in Developing Countries: Costs and Benefits
Mehrunnisa Ali (Ryerson University)
The Denial of Race in the Academy: The “Race” to Innocence
June Ying Yee (Ryerson University) &
Anne Wagner (Nipissing University)
Race Talk: The Politics of Risk and Choice in Toronto’s Black-focused
Schools Debate
Alex Means, Leonarda Carranza & Kelly Gilbreath
(OISE/UT)
Holocaust Education, Human Rights and the Clash of Civilizations
Jenny Peto (OISE/UT)
Chair: Yasmin Jiwani (Concordia University)
NEOLIBERAL GLOBALIZATION, “GLOBAL CULTURE” AND RESISTANCE
ENG 102
Canadian Transnational Corporations as Instruments of Imperialism:
An Analysis of Board Homogeneity
Aaron Arun Dhir (York University)
Neoliberal Globalization and Accumulation by Dispossession: Defining
the Contours of Subaltern Social Movements/Struggles in Asia and Africa
Dip Kapoor & Natasha Goudar (University
of Alberta)
Emerging “Cultures” in India’s Call Centres
Kiran Mirchandani, Srabani Maitra and Jasjit Sangha
(OISE/UT)
Race, Nation, Ethnicity: The Cultural Politics of Monster Homes in
Postcolonial Trinidad
Amar Wahab (York University)
Chair: Tariq Amin-Khan (Ryerson University)
IMPERIALIZING AND DECOLONIZING KNOWLEDGE
ENG LG13
Hegemonic Discourses and Violence in Civil Wars: Sierra Leone as a
Challenge to the Dominant Interpretations of African Conflicts
Zubairu Wai (York University)
(Re)Imperializing Anthropology and Decolonizing Knowledge Production
Maximilian C. Forte (Concordia University)
Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) Pedagogy: Moving
the Centre of Legal Academia
Mohsen al Attar & Vernon Tava (University
of Auckland)
Understanding Health Inequity: Moving Beyond “Culture” Paradigms
Gemma Hunting & Sanzida Habib (University of British Columbia)
Chair: Lila Pine (Ryerson University)
ROUNDTABLE: WALLS, HOME AND LAND: BUILDING THE MIGRANT RIGHTS
MOVEMENT IN CANADA
ENG 101
Organizers from No One Is Illegal-Toronto and Justicia from Migrant Workers
will talk about Canadian complicity in global displacement, the racist
and gendered logic of the Canadian immigration system, challenges facing
the migrant rights movement, the role of academics in supporting migrant
rights struggles and as well as current campaigns being waged in the ongoing
fight for regularization.
S. K. Hussan (No One Is Illegal – Toronto)
Jean McDonald (York University, No One
Is Illegal – Toronto)
Evelyn Encalada Grez (Justicia for Migrant
Workers)
Paloma Villegas (OISE/UT, No One Is Illegal
– Toronto)
11:00 -
11:15 : Break (Tea and Coffee Served)
11:15 - 1:15 SUNDAY, Nov.
16, 2008 : CLOSING PLENARY
ANTI-RACIST ALLIANCES AND PRACTICES
ENG 103
Tania Das Gupta (York University)
Frances Henry (York University)
Zainab Amadahy (Coalition in Support of Indigenous Sovereignty, Association of Native Development in the Performing and Visual Arts)
Uzma Shakir (Atkinson Economic Justice Fellow)
Moderator: Grace-Edward Galabuzi (Ryerson University)
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