Addressing Barriers to Modern Anti-Racist Work in Canada

Event Date: 
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm EDT
Event Location: 
ATAC 1010
Event Fee: 
Free, Everyone Welcome
Event Contact Name: 
Karen Woychyshyn
Event Contact E-mail: 

 

"Addressing Barriers to Modern  Anti-Racist Work in Canada"   Through this paper, I think through the issues that are particularly pertinent to the current social context within which antiracist work is occurring. In particular, systemic racism is now firmly on the antiracist agenda across many different factions of identity. Thus, I approached this paper with an understanding of racism that is especially attuned to the persistence and yet elusiveness of systemic racism, specificities of racisms against different groups, and intersectionality; that is, the complex ways that various systems of oppressions work together. With this in mind, I examine three sets of conditions or concerns and their impact on antiracist work: 1. Whiteness as a barrier to antiracist work (see Hughey, 2009; Lawrence and Dua, 2005; Srivastava, 2005; DiAngelo, 2018); 2. liberal multiculturalist discourse (Thobani, 2007; Chen, 2019) upholding racism in Canada; and 3. The myth of meritocracy (Gilmour et al. 2012), the model minority (Wu, 2013), and neoliberal interests hindering antiracist work.    Kristen Kowlessar MA Social Justice Studies, HBA Psychology PhD Sociology candidate Past President, LU Social Justice Students   Tuesday, March 19th  1:00-2:30pm in ATAC 1010    Guests may also attend via ZOOM:  https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/j/6730430832?pwd=SlVmQnRmczg3N0UvSEZJTGVKMS8yUT09&omn=92339398289 Meeting ID: 673 043 0832       Passcode: 7777   Everyone Welcome 

 

Graduate Speaker Series Winter 2024

Event Date: 
Friday, February 23, 2024 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm EST
Event Location: 
Graduate Student Lounge, CASES

Sociology Speaker Series

Event Date: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm EDT
Event Location: 
ATAC 3006
Event Contact Name: 
Dr. C. Sanders
Event Contact E-mail: 

Particular Bodies, Particular Policies: Immigration Health Work, People with Chronic Illness, Disability and Genetic Otherness

If the late Stephen Hawking had wanted to settle in Canada, he would likely have been denied. This is because he was disabled. Federal immigration law is designed to exclude people with chronic illness and developmental or genetic difference from permanently settling on health grounds, referred to as medical inadmissibility, with some exceptions. I explore and critique the immigration system based on an ethnography of the medical, legal, and administrative practices governing this bureaucracy published as Screening Out: HIV Testing and the Canadian Immigration Experience. Using findings from people toward whom exclusionary health policy is directed, I argue that immigration medical practices trigger ethical, practical, and professional problems for migrant persons and for the doctors, lawyers, and other practitioners inside and outside Canada whose livelihoods tether them to the immigration program. I provide a series of do-able strategies for legal reform. 

Laura Bisaillon

Associate Professor, University of Toronto

Laura Bisaillon is a sociologist. Her career is dedicated to social research, services, care and activism. She asks questions about the social organization of knowledge related to migration, minoritization, the body and the state. She is author of the book Screening Out(University of British Columbia Press, 2022). She publishes in formats such as podcast, film, vodcast, photo exhibit, website, and scholarly blog. Her scholarship has been supported by the Brocher Foundation (Geneva), the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Amsterdam), and a Visiting Professorship at the University of Bucharest (Romania). She is fluently bilingual in English and French.

Wednesday, March 15th

2:00-3:30pm in ATAC 3006

Guests may also attend via ZOOM: https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/j/99085820576?pwd=TThuclJmVUZqTXBidDNVL21LVmVqdz09

Meeting ID: 990 8582 0576       Passcode: 517377

Everyone Welcome

Graduate Student Seminars Winter 2023

Event Date: 
Friday, January 27, 2023 - 1:00pm EST to Friday, March 10, 2023 - 2:00pm EST
Event Location: 
LI 5014 C or ZOOM
Event Contact Name: 
Dr. B. Parker
Event Contact E-mail: 

Practicing Knowledge Mobilization and Translation Using Community Based Participatory Research & Engaged Scholarship

Event Date: 
Thursday, February 9, 2023 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm EST
Event Location: 
Zoom
Event Fee: 
Free
Event Contact Name: 
Dr. Kevin Willison
Event Contact E-mail: 

Practicing Knowledge Mobilization and Translation Using Community Based Participatory Research & Engaged Scholarship
FREE ONLINE SEMINAR
ALL ARE WELCOME
Sociology Speaker Series
Thursday February 09, 2023
1 PM - 2:30 PM (EST)
Presenter: Kevin Donald Willison, Ph.D.
Zoom link to attend:
https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/j/91791536034?pw
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Meeting ID: 917 9153 6034
Passcode: 465822

Russian Aggression in Ukraine: An Intimate Perspective

Event Date: 
Wednesday, March 2, 2022 - 2:30pm to 3:30pm EST
Event Location: 
https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/j/94002098080

Dr. A. Puddephatt, Lakehead University's Distinguished Researcher Award Recipient

Event Date: 
Thursday, March 4, 2021 - 10:00am EST
Event Location: 
ZOOM

Just a reminder to join the celebration of Lakehead University's Distinguished Researcher Award for 2020 - our own Dr. A. Puddephatt, Professor of Sociology.  As part of his winning this honour last year, he will be delivering a talk on Thursday, March 4 at 10am via Zoom (see attached poster).  I invite all of you to attend this talk, noting there is a link on the poster to register, or register here: https://pheedloop.com/lakeheadri/site/home/

Hungry to Learn: Panel on Campus Food Security

Event Date: 
Thursday, November 26, 2020 - 3:00pm EST
Event Location: 
ZOOM
Event Contact Name: 
Dr. Barbara Parker
Event Contact E-mail: 

I'm asking participants to watch the film "Hungry to Learn" (which is currently free and available on yahoo) https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/hungry-to-learn-soledad-obrien-investigates-college-student-hunger-crisis-homelessness-035925085.html as a starting place for our conversation.

Here is the link:
 
Join Zoom Meeting
https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/j/6795875506?pwd=YXNLem9xNEQ1alRMMVlpRklNUFhNZz09

Meeting ID: 679 587 5506
Passcode: 352633