Detailed Schedule

Short Film

• 1.01Sippin’: Story and ceremony as remedy to colonial violence — Where four women of color create a ritual of tears for celebration and healing

Multi-Paper

• 1.02Anti-colonial feminist stories
• 1.04Storying anti-colonial solidarity work
• 1.05Identity, memory, and cultural resurgence
• 1.06Whiteness & institutions: Experiences of anti-Blackness
• 1.07Youth speak out: Global resistances & solidarities

Group Panel

• 1.03User-generated content: Māori language revitalisation on the ‘socials’
• 1.08The power of oral culture in education: Theorizing proverbs, idioms, and folklore tales book panel
• 1.09Culturally conscious pedagogy and practice in the Ghanaian higher education context
• 1.10Decolonial feminisms: Re-writing gender narratives and community through comparative educational praxis across three continents

Workshop

• 1.1150 Shades: Resisting White supremacy in the Academy

• 1.01 Sippin’: Story and ceremony as remedy to colonial violence — Where four women of color create a ritual of tears for celebration and healing

  Short Film

  Day 1

  11:30am – 1:00pm

  Presented by

  Gilbert Salazar

  Chaired by

  Maribeth Tabanera

• 1.02 Anti-colonial feminist stories

  Multi-Paper

  Day 1

  11:30am – 1:00pm

  Chaired by

  Carla Rodney

  • A journey of Black women’s experiences from slavery to today

    Presented by Kashoro Nyenyezi

  • Creating growth & developmental opportunities for racialised education leaders in southern Ontario schools

    Presented by Wonuola Yomi-Odedeyi

  • Decolonizing our stories: How I became an Alevi Muslim woman?

    Presented by Esra Ari

  • The decolonial potential of Islamic feminist hermeneutics: Towards a transnational model of gender equality

    Presented by Ilyass Bouzghaia

• 1.03 User-generated content: Māori language revitalisation on the ‘socials’

  Group Panel

  Day 1

  11:30am – 1:00pm

  Presented by

  Kiri Dell, Krystal Te Rina Warren, Te Mihinga Komene

  Chaired by

  Nicole George

• 1.04 Storying anti-colonial solidarity work

  Multi-Paper

  Day 1

  11:30am – 1:00pm

  Discussant

  Hrishikesh Inguva

  Chaired by

  Muhammad Ali Jabbar

  • Dear non-Black Muslim communities: An open letter to the non-Black Muslim communities — Strengthening Black and non-Black Muslim solidarity

    Presented by Zainab Zafar

  • Elders critical teachings (Eldercrit): The epistemic gift for educational futurities

    Presented by Paul Banahene Adjei

  • Solidarity between racialized people on Prince Edward Island (Epekwitk)

    Presented by Amirah Oyesegun, Sobia Ali-Faisal, Stephanie Arnold

  • The role of anti-colonial solidarities in nurturing generative relations and anti-colonial pedagogies

    Presented by Florian Carl, Salman Sikandar

• 1.05 Identity, memory, and cultural resurgence

  Multi-Paper

  Day 1

  11:30am – 1:00pm

  Chaired by

  Deborah Buchanan-Walford

  • Ghanaian identity construction in Aflao

    Presented by Leonard Atsu Torsu, Vida Amankwaah Kumah

  • The development of Chinese-Indonesian cultural identity and the influence of the west

    Presented by Teresa (Tessa) A. Latief

  • The memorialization of Algeria’s anti-colonial struggle

    Presented by Baraa Abuzayed (براء)

• 1.06 Whiteness & institutions: Experiences of anti-Blackness

  Multi-Paper

  Day 1

  11:30am – 1:00pm

  Discussant

  Dionisio Nyaga

  Chaired by

  Kathy Lewis

  • Anti-Black racism and COVID-19: Experiences of Black healthcare providers in GTA

    Presented by Suleyman M Demi

  • Black evangelicals in predominantly White evangelical churches

    Presented by Eric Ofori-Atta

  • Black, Francophone, Caribbean and African Canadians, and …a minority: How do we exist in the different societal spheres?

    Presented by Antonide Mars-Ligondé-Essono, Danielle Cantave

  • Institutional anti-Blackness

    Presented by Isabelle Higgins

• 1.07 Youth speak out: Global resistances & solidarities

  Multi-Paper

  Day 1

  11:30am – 1:00pm

  Chaired by

  Catherina Blair

  • Black Muslim youth confront spatialities of anti-Blackness, Islamophobia, and anti-Muslim racism

    Presented by Andrea Murray-Lichtman, Siham Elkassem

  • Rural youth and trans local livelihoods in Chalatenango, El Salvador: Agrarian transformations, generational exits, and geographies of trauma of the post-war

    Presented by Juan Carlos Jimenez

  • Youth resistance and decolonizing Nigeria politics through active political participation

    Presented by Ferdinand Ottoh

• 1.08 The power of oral culture in education: Theorizing proverbs, idioms, and folklore tales book panel

  Group Panel

  Day 1

  11:30am – 1:00pm

  Presented by

  Ardavan Eizadirad, Jennifer M. Straub, Njoki Wane

  Chaired by

  Rukiya Mohamed

• 1.09 Culturally conscious pedagogy and practice in the Ghanaian higher education context

  Group Panel

  Day 1

  11:30am – 1:00pm

  Presented by

  Candace M. Moore, Ebenezer Kobina Mensah, Kwesi Sam, Michael Boakye-Yiadom, Ophelia Affreh, Osei-Bonsu Safo-Kantanka

  Chaired by

  Ernest Obeng

• 1.10 Decolonial feminisms: Re-writing gender narratives and community through comparative educational praxis across three continents

  Group Panel

  Day 1

  11:30am – 1:00pm

  Presented by

  Emily Dobrich, Rachael Kalaba, Tavila D. Haque

  Chaired by

  Abeer Mirza

• 1.11 50 Shades: Resisting White supremacy in the Academy

  Workshop

  Day 1

  11:30am – 1:00pm

  Presented by

  jennifer ma, MJ Rwigema, Ruth Wilson

  Chaired by

  Samantha Stevens-Hall

Youth Presentations

• 2.01High school student presentations: ISNA High School students

Multi-Paper

• 2.02Sound, music, and fugitive space
• 2.03Critical reflections & praxis for STEM education
• 2.04Engaging research methods for social justice
• 2.05Locating the power in language: Community resistance against colonial policies

Group Panel

• 2.06A decolonized approach to student affairs practice through a pan-African lens
• 2.07How does Canada’s child welfare system address the needs and challenges of immigrant and refugee children and families?
• 2.08Enacting anti-racism and activist pedagogies in teacher education

Workshop

• 2.09Boundless Englishes: Striving for linguistic equality on campuses

• 2.01 High school student presentations: ISNA High School students

  Youth Presentations

  Day 2

  9:00am – 10:30am

  Presented by

  ISNA High School Students

  Chaired by

  Abeer Mirza

• 2.02 Sound, music, and fugitive space

  Multi-Paper

  Day 2

  9:00am – 10:30am

  Chaired by

  Jessica Schultz

  • Mycelium and musical interconnectedness as an anti-oppressive praxis

    Presented by Amy Lewis

  • The implication of sound in spatial organizations of colonialism and racism

    Presented by Sherry Ostapovitch

  • Transcultural music education

    Presented by Juliet Hess, Lorenzo Sánchez-Gatt, Saleel Menon

  • Utilizing the funds of knowledge to develop decolonial praxis in music education

    Presented by Munjeera Jefford

• 2.03 Critical reflections & praxis for STEM education

  Multi-Paper

  Day 2

  9:00am – 10:30am

  Chaired by

  Muhammad Ali Jabbar

  • A critical policy analysis of equity policies of a faculty of kinesiology

    Presented by Shannon Giannitsopoulou

  • Engineering education and the collective shadow

    Presented by Dimpho Radebe

  • Reimagining STEM education: Exploring teachers experiences with the integration of HeadsUp framework

    Presented by Alice Johnston, Jane Mao, Kenneth Gyamerah

  • Socio-cultural contexts of word problems: A critical content analysis of two grade 12 mathematics textbooks in Ontario

    Presented by Gentian Rexhepaj

• 2.04 Engaging research methods for social justice

  Multi-Paper

  Day 2

  9:00am – 10:30am

  Chaired by

  Hrishikesh Inguva

  • Disobedience and decoloniality: Toward a deconstructed institutional ethnography

    Presented by Maimuna S. Khan

  • Filipino health care workers accessibility of mental health services

    Presented by Rose Ann Torres

  • Fostering ecological and cultural resurgence through storytelling: How stories of Indigenous resurgence in Mexico can help us live with modernity and Mestizaje otherwise

    Presented by Carlos E. Sanchez-Pimienta

  • Hope and spirituality: The anti-colonial frameworks for educational futurities

    Presented by Gayatri Thakor

• 2.05 Locating the power in language: Community resistance against colonial policies

  Multi-Paper

  Day 2

  9:00am – 10:30am

  Chaired by

  Jocelyn Yu

  • Language instruction policy and the colonization of the mind

    Presented by Alfred Kweku Ampah-Mensah, Patricia Ewuradwoa Ampah-Mensah

  • Language planning and policy in Pakistan: Decolonizing factor in theory and practice

    Presented by Muhammad Irfan Janjua

  • The impact of racism on Indigenous language acquisition and transmission in a colonial society

    Presented by Awanui Te Huia

• 2.06 A decolonized approach to student affairs practice through a pan-African lens

  Group Panel

  Day 2

  9:00am – 10:30am

  Presented by

  Ebenezer Kobina Mensah, Kwesi Sam, Tyanna AE Clayton-Mallett

  Chaired by

  Rebecca Guo

• 2.07 How does Canada’s child welfare system address the needs and challenges of immigrant and refugee children and families?

  Group Panel

  Day 2

  9:00am – 10:30am

  Presented by

  Gillian Harris, Heather Bergen, Keishia Facey, Nicole Guthrie, Rachel Chung Kwan Tam, Rupaleem Bhuyan, Sandra Osazuwa, Swarna Suresh Tyagi, Vania Patrick-Drakes

  Chaired by

  Jingqiao Su

• 2.08 Enacting anti-racism and activist pedagogies in teacher education

  Group Panel

  Day 2

  9:00am – 10:30am

  Presented by

  Andrew B Campbell (DR.ABC), Ardavan Eizadirad

  Chaired by

  Nasreen Khan

• 2.09 Boundless Englishes: Striving for linguistic equality on campuses

  Workshop

  Day 2

  9:00am – 10:30am

  Presented by

  Yaseen Ali

  Chaired by

  Samantha Stevens-Hall

Youth Presentations

• 3.01Middle school student presentations: Black Youth Alliance — Boyne Public School

Multimedia

• 3.02Reimagining Whiteness: Community podcast

Multi-Paper

• 3.03Transforming language & literacies
• 3.04Othering, exclusion, and racism in higher education
• 3.05Towards improved educational outcomes: Opportunities, policies, and practice
• 3.06Politics & governance: From local to global
• 3.07Decolonial shifts in schools: Critical pedagogies and EDI
• 3.08Communications & media for anti-colonial resistance and solidarity-building

Group Panel

• 3.09Imagining radical intergenerationality: Reflections on queer, crip, decolonial storytelling research
• 3.10Identifying and supporting trafficked individuals: A critical examination/discussion of mistreatment, trauma, and ethical responsibility through a decolonial lens
• 3.12Genealogy of teaching and learning as a neoliberal care technology: School of Social Work — Algoma University

• 3.01 Middle school student presentations: Black Youth Alliance — Boyne Public School

  Youth Presentations

  Day 2

  10:45am – 12:15pm

  Presented by

  Black Youth Alliance from Boyne Public School, Halton District School Board

  Chaired by

  Abeer Mirza

• 3.02 Reimagining Whiteness: Community podcast

  Multimedia

  Day 2

  10:45am – 12:15pm

  Presented by

  Hana Truscott (Хана Траскот)

  Chaired by

  Samantha Stevens-Hall

• 3.03 Transforming language & literacies

  Multi-Paper

  Day 2

  10:45am – 12:15pm

  Chaired by

  Maribeth Tabanera

  • Anti racist and anti colonial pedagogy in early years literacy

    Presented by Hardeep Shergill

  • Anticolonial literacies for teaching the new FirstVoices course

    Presented by Erenna Morrison, Jennifer Brant, Juwyriyah Ahmed, Meagan Hamilton

  • Decolonizing the classism of dialects and languages of Canadian theatre: Les Belles-soeurs and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing

    Presented by Shannon King

• 3.04 Othering, exclusion, and racism in higher education

  Multi-Paper

  Day 2

  10:45am – 12:15pm

  Discussant

  Phiona Lloyd-Henry

  Chaired by

  Ernest Obeng

  • Brave and safe spaces: Promoting civility and anti-racist discourse in academia

    Presented by Marva J. Ferguson

  • Disrupting coloniality and White supremacy in social work spaces

    Presented by Yahya El-Lahib

  • Pedagogical outcomes of translanguaging and plurilingual instructions for Chinese international students at OISE

    Presented by Rui Dong Chen

  • The role of polite racism

    Presented by Karine Coen-Sanchez

• 3.05 Towards improved educational outcomes: Opportunities, policies, and practice

  Multi-Paper

  Day 2

  10:45am – 12:15pm

  Chaired by

  Jocelyn Yu

  • Dehumanization of Indigenous workers and unionization in Nigeria: Decolonization paradigm

    Presented by Ofili Innocent Nkwandu

  • Experiences of learners who are incarcerated with accessing educational opportunities in Ontario, Canada

    Presented by Ardavan Eizadirad

  • Leveraging Indigenous knowledge to promote the acquisition of 21st-century skills among students in Ghana

    Presented by Vida Amankwaah Kumah

  • Post-secondary education’s capacity for dismantling White supremacy through anti-racist and decolonial pedagogies

    Presented by Aasiya Satia, Ameil J. Joseph, jennifer ma, Maimuna S. Khan, Vanessa Maradiaga Rivas, Xin (Mona) Huang

• 3.06 Politics & governance: From local to global

  Multi-Paper

  Day 2

  10:45am – 12:15pm

  Chaired by

  Lisa Roach

  • Canada’s seasonal agricultural workers program: On the politics of migration, citizenship, and border fortification

    Presented by Tania Ruiz-Chapman

  • Politicians and the practice of dehumanization

    Presented by Emma Pimpong, Samuel Pimpong

  • The effectiveness of Gladue reports and the role of Gladue writers

    Presented by Taylor Rubin

  • The role of traditional oath administration systems in community governance and peacebuilding in Ogoni

    Presented by Dinebari Kpoobari Badey

• 3.07 Decolonial shifts in schools: Critical pedagogies and EDI

  Multi-Paper

  Day 2

  10:45am – 12:15pm

  Discussant

  Beverly-Jean Daniel

  Chaired by

  Indira Quintasi

  • Agency & counter agency in curriculum studies: Teacher work against the grain of settler futurities

    Presented by Sage Hatch

  • Decolonizing curriculum: Teaching practices to overcome barriers to immigrant students’ inclusion and academic success

    Presented by Geneviève Audet, Rola Koubeissy

  • Implementing EDI policies within educational organizations: Challenges and possibilities

    Presented by Daniel Shiu, Henry Lee

  • Queering education as a praxis of decolonization and abolition

    Presented by Cailea Swidinsky

• 3.08 Communications & media for anti-colonial resistance and solidarity-building

  Multi-Paper

  Day 2

  10:45am – 12:15pm

  Chaired by

  Rebecca Guo

  • Gratitude as a complex and resistive immigrant discourse

    Presented by Kim Hong Nguyen

  • Kaupapa Māori research and eColonialism

    Presented by Krystal Te Rina Warren

• 3.09 Imagining radical intergenerationality: Reflections on queer, crip, decolonial storytelling research

  Group Panel

  Day 2

  10:45am – 12:15pm

  Presented by

  May Chazan, Megan Hill, Mehrangiz Monsef, Melissa Baldwin, Ziysah von Bieberstein

  Chaired by

  Maddi Mathon

• 3.10 Identifying and supporting trafficked individuals: A critical examination/discussion of mistreatment, trauma, and ethical responsibility through a decolonial lens

  Group Panel

  Day 2

  10:45am – 12:15pm

  Presented by

  Jessica Rogers, Mesha Maloney

  Chaired by

  Jingqiao Su

• 3.12 Genealogy of teaching and learning as a neoliberal care technology: School of Social Work — Algoma University

  Group Panel

  Day 2

  10:45am – 12:15pm

  Presented by

  Dionisio Nyaga, Rose Ann Torres, Suleyman M Demi

  Chaired by

  Rose Ann Torres

Youth Presentations

• 4.01(a)Understanding identity and inclusivity: Toronto Homeschooling Group

Posters

• 4.01(b)Poster presentations

Photo Display

• 4.01(c)Harm reduction as fugitive life-making

Poetry

• 4.01(d)Borders & belonging on stolen Land

Creative New Media

• 4.02Multiple identities

Multi-Paper

• 4.03Roles of the anti-colonial researcher
• 4.04Racialized leaders and legacies
• 4.05The implications of race on public health: Politics and policies of dehumanization
• 4.06Critical race and cultural perspectives on parenting and the wellbeing of children
• 4.07Gender, coloniality & violence
• 4.08Whiteness & education: Complicities and resistances
• 4.09Violence, coloniality, & resistance in K-12 schools

Group Panel

• 4.10Critical global citizenship education: An anti-oppressive knowledge sharing initiative for secondary school teachers in the TDSB
• 4.11Indigenous knowledge and social justice education: Lessons from Luo language and literature
• 4.12Black undergraduate students' experiences navigating post-secondary education

• 4.01(a) Understanding identity and inclusivity: Toronto Homeschooling Group

  Youth Presentations

  Day 2

  3:15pm – 4:45pm

  Presented by

  Toronto Homeschooling Group

  Chaired by

  Abeer Mirza

• 4.01(b) Poster presentations

  Posters

  Day 2

  3:15pm – 4:45pm

  • From erasure to resurgence: Indigenous health education as a catalyst for change in medical training

    Presented by Linda Diffey

  • Navigating academia: A critical look at the Imani Black academic mentorship program

    Presented by Adrian Leckie, Etinosa Oliogu

  • Ubuntu and Africanism

    Presented by Steven Kwesiga

• 4.01(c) Harm reduction as fugitive life-making

  Photo Display

  Day 2

  3:15pm – 4:45pm

  Presented by

  Jamie Magnusson

• 4.01(d) Borders & belonging on stolen Land

  Poetry

  Day 2

  3:15pm – 4:45pm

  Presented by

  Archana Raguparan

• 4.02 Multiple identities

  Creative New Media

  Day 2

  3:15pm – 4:45pm

  Presented by

  Danielle Cantave

  Chaired by

  Kaína Mendoza-Price

• 4.03 Roles of the anti-colonial researcher

  Multi-Paper

  Day 2

  3:15pm – 4:45pm

  Chaired by

  Zihan Gao

  • Doing research with an anti-racist, desire-based, and critical place inquiry lens

    Presented by Nisha Toomey

  • Fissures within an Arabyyah feminist Maseerah: Imagining a decolonial research space in Jordan

    Presented by Heather Sykes, Manal Hamzeh

  • Indigenous-with-Indigenous research: Challenges, advantages, and implications

    Presented by Masha Kardashevskaya, Sardana Nikolaeva

  • Kinship and the fur trade

    Presented by Mandavni Dhami

• 4.04 Racialized leaders and legacies

  Multi-Paper

  Day 2

  3:15pm – 4:45pm

  Chaired by

  Mandeep Ajimal

  • Black women’s leadership experiences in Canadian banks

    Presented by Kim Borden Penney

  • Mwalimu Nyerere’s leadership from an Ubuntu African Indigenous centered epistemology

    Presented by Njoki Wane

  • Rodney Bobiwash’s Indigenous anti-racism

    Presented by Heather Howard-Bobiwash

• 4.05 The implications of race on public health: Politics and policies of dehumanization

  Multi-Paper

  Day 2

  3:15pm – 4:45pm

  Chaired by

  Lisa Roach

  • Anti-Black racism as a public health priority

    Presented by Lucina Rakotovao

  • Community-perspectives on racism in German health care

    Presented by Maksymilian Awuah, Tanja Gangarova

  • Protesting “paradise”: Understanding political mental health and the discourse created by the idea of “paradise”

    Presented by V. Pauahi Souza

  • The impact of intersectional violence (colonization) on the lives of African/Black communities globally during COVID-19

    Presented by Roberta K. Timothy

• 4.06 Critical race and cultural perspectives on parenting and the wellbeing of children

  Multi-Paper

  Day 2

  3:15pm – 4:45pm

  Chaired by

  Maribeth Tabanera

  • An African Indigenous approach: Re-engaging spaces of colonial resistance — school, community, and parent engagement

    Presented by Claudette Howell Rutherford, Kathy Lewis, Osholene Oshobugie Upiomoh

  • Pro-Black classrooms in early childhood education and care: Perspectives of Black mothers

    Presented by Janelle Brady, Rachel Berman

  • “Your best can only take you to where the good is”: Messages and things Black parents say and do to prepare Black children for a racist society

    Presented by Paul Banahene Adjei

• 4.07 Gender, coloniality & violence

  Multi-Paper

  Day 2

  3:15pm – 4:45pm

  Discussant

  Rachael Kalaba

  Chaired by

  Catherina Blair

  • Decolonizing responses to gender-based violence from the frame of coloniality & its decolonial re-frame: An analysis of necropolitics & narcissism

    Presented by Desirée Gonzalez

  • Liberated mothering: How decolonizing motherhood can reduce violence towards women

    Presented by Christie Lazo

  • On monsters, ghosts, and justice/revenge: Horror as a fugitive space

    Presented by Stephanie Latty

• 4.08 Whiteness & education: Complicities and resistances

  Multi-Paper

  Day 2

  3:15pm – 4:45pm

  Discussant

  Antonide Mars-Ligondé-Essono

  Chaired by

  Maddi Mathon

  • Beyond the veil: Complicity, compliance, and academic voyeurism in the Academy

    Presented by Andrea Murray-Lichtman, Siham Elkassem

  • Challenging the epistemology of ignorance through anti-racist activism in higher education

    Presented by Charmaine Crawford

  • Equity as work: Confessions of an EDI trainer

    Presented by Nicole Bernhardt

  • Exposing coloniality: The need to engage in system hacking while working within the school system to decolonize the knowledge presented

    Presented by Harmandeep Brar

• 4.09 Violence, coloniality, & resistance in K-12 schools

  Multi-Paper

  Day 2

  3:15pm – 4:45pm

  Discussant

  Hardeep Shergill

  Chaired by

  Nicole George

  • Addressing anti-Muslim racism within Ontario public schools

    Presented by Palvi Sidana

  • Anti-Asian racism in Canadian schools: Institutional complicity and lack of public accountability and transparency

    Presented by Ardavan Eizadirad, Mary Reid

  • The practice of violence in Nigerian schools

    Presented by Tuebi Beatrice Porbeni

  • The school as an extension of the state in policing Black and Indigenous students

    Presented by Cailea Swidinsky

• 4.10 Critical global citizenship education: An anti-oppressive knowledge sharing initiative for secondary school teachers in the TDSB

  Group Panel

  Day 2

  3:15pm – 4:45pm

  Presented by

  Aakriti Kapoor, Alana Butler, Alice Johnston, Elise Visentin, Hassina Alizai, Jane Mao, Karen Pashby, Kenneth Gyamerah, Mohamed Yusuf, Thashika Pillay

  Chaired by

  Emma Sterling

• 4.11 Indigenous knowledge and social justice education: Lessons from Luo language and literature

  Group Panel

  Day 2

  3:15pm – 4:45pm

  Presented by

  Esther O. Ohito, Maureen Olel

  Chaired by

  Ernest Obeng

• 4.12 Black undergraduate students' experiences navigating post-secondary education

  Group Panel

  Day 2

  3:15pm – 4:45pm

  Presented by

  Alanah Broomfield, Anika Ford, Prilly Bicknell-Hersco, Sonia Lewis

  Chaired by

  Carla Rodney

Youth Presentations

• 5.01Middle & high school student presentations: We S.T.U.D.E.N.T.S  I

Multi-Paper

• 5.02Understanding weaponized Whiteness & racism
• 5.03Afrocentricity & education
• 5.04Counter visions for education through critical EDI (equity, diversity & inclusion)
• 5.05Speaking back to the coloniality of western knowledge systems
• 5.06Healing & wellbeing: Racialized experiences
• 5.07Dismantling barriers in policy
• 5.08Spirituality, love, and embodied learning

Group Panel

• 5.09Solidarity & allyship: How do we dream up or envision a world that is outside of colonization and not a reaction to it?
• 5.10Exploring Muslim affect, practice, and protest: Re-imagined forms of community and self-making in the forging of “otherwise worlds”
• 5.11Liberatory learning in and beyond prison
• 5.12The TDSB’s Centre of Excellence for Black Student Achievement: Possibilities for Black educational futurity
• 5.13Breaking barriers: Empowering women immigrant doctors for a thriving Canadian healthcare system

Workshop

• 5.14Identifying and resisting neoliberalism in higher education

• 5.01 Middle & high school student presentations: We S.T.U.D.E.N.T.S  I

  Youth Presentations

  Day 3

  10:45am – 12:15pm

  Presented by

  We S.T.U.D.E.N.T.S

  Chaired by

  Antonide Mars-Ligondé-Essono

• 5.02 Understanding weaponized Whiteness & racism

  Multi-Paper

  Day 3

  10:45am – 12:15pm

  Discussant

  Beverly-Jean Daniel

  Chaired by

  Indira Quintasi

  • A call to the community: We must be willing to say free Palestine

    Presented by Shyam Patel

  • Examining the need to challenge complicity within the Chinese diaspora and build solidarity with BIPOC communities in White supremacist systems

    Presented by Jaclyn Wong, May Lui

  • Justice, justice, shall I pursue: Reframing Judaism and justice in the fight against the alt-right

    Presented by Denise Handlarski

  • The destructive nature of inaction: Anti-Black racism and claims to White innocence

    Presented by Alissa Lévesque

• 5.03 Afrocentricity & education

  Multi-Paper

  Day 3

  10:45am – 12:15pm

  Chaired by

  Suleyman M Demi

  • Africa in the neoliberalist western classroom in the age of COVID-19

    Presented by Dionisio Nyaga

  • First-generation students (FGS) in post-colonial higher education in Africa

    Presented by Kwesi Sam

  • Indigenizing assessment methods and Indigenous models in student services at the University of Cape Coast

    Presented by Ebenezer Kobina Mensah

  • Positioning the “social studies approach” to decolonizing education at the pre-tertiary levels in Ghana

    Presented by David Naya Zuure

• 5.04 Counter visions for education through critical EDI (equity, diversity & inclusion)

  Multi-Paper

  Day 3

  10:45am – 12:15pm

  Discussant

  Rukiya Mohamed

  Chaired by

  Thanuja Thananayagam

  • Actionizing the boundaries of the other geography: An unrealized horizon

    Presented by Kathy Lewis

  • An equity guide for change

    Presented by Amanda Baker-Colacicco, RonaJualla van Oudenhoven

  • Decolonial turn/praxis in New Mexico: Creating the first borderlands and ethnic studies department at a landgrab university

    Presented by Dulcinea Lara, Manal Hamzeh

  • What does equity, diversity, inclusion, and Indigenization (EDI&I) mean to us and our work as scholar-activist-professors in higher education?

    Presented by Ardavan Eizadirad

• 5.05 Speaking back to the coloniality of western knowledge systems

  Multi-Paper

  Day 3

  10:45am – 12:15pm

  Chaired by

  Hrishikesh Inguva

  • Aldyn Stokes and autism: From the psychoanalytic to biomedical mode

    Presented by Steacy Easton

  • Fallen ontologies: The coloniality of western epistemology

    Presented by Marie McLeod

  • The challenge of decolonizing teacher’s education in a settler colonial context: Implication for educators in K-12

    Presented by Zainab Zafar

  • The project of alienation: Curricular epistemicide as a methodology to further Islamophobia

    Presented by Abeer Mirza

• 5.06 Healing & wellbeing: Racialized experiences

  Multi-Paper

  Day 3

  10:45am – 12:15pm

  Chaired by

  John Castillo

  • Critical Reflections on the implications of “territorio cuerpo-tierra” for studying women’s embodied resilience to trauma in El Salvador, Central America

    Presented by Maria Liegghio

  • Healing of Black masculinities

    Presented by O’Shan Darius Gadsden

  • If we build it, will they come?: Exploring attitudes towards culturally integrative therapy among Canada’s African community

    Presented by Sandra Osazuwa

  • Reflections on Indigenous knowledge as a coping strategy by female domestic workers: A de-colonial perspective

    Presented by Oluwapelumi Temitope Adegbenjo

• 5.07 Dismantling barriers in policy

  Multi-Paper

  Day 3

  10:45am – 12:15pm

  Chaired by

  Lisa Roach

  • Anti-Black racism in public housing

    Presented by Krystle Skeete, Safia Hirsi, Shaquille Morgan

  • Socio-economic experiences of highly-skilled Muslim immigrants in Canada

    Presented by Anila Zainub

  • Sustainable community development for the sex work industry

    Presented by Alison Lam

  • The dialectics of disablement at the border

    Presented by Tania Ruiz-Chapman

• 5.08 Spirituality, love, and embodied learning

  Multi-Paper

  Day 3

  10:45am – 12:15pm

  Chaired by

  Alana Butler

  • “Revolutionary love has freed me more times than one”: Liberation praxis imagined by Sikh youth

    Presented by Harleen Kaur (ਹਰਲੀਨ ਕੌਰ)

  • Theory! Body! Wisdom! Paper!: Embodied journaling as a pedagogy of healing in the anti-racism and anti-colonial feminist classroom

    Presented by Arianna Valentino, Micah Favel, Nina Gaind, Stephanie Glick

• 5.09 Solidarity & allyship: How do we dream up or envision a world that is outside of colonization and not a reaction to it?

  Group Panel

  Day 3

  10:45am – 12:15pm

  Presented by

  Frances Elizabeth Moore, Joy Henderson, Rubby Nwaluka

  Chaired by

  Nasreen Khan

• 5.10 Exploring Muslim affect, practice, and protest: Re-imagined forms of community and self-making in the forging of “otherwise worlds”

  Group Panel

  Day 3

  10:45am – 12:15pm

  Presented by

  Arij Elmi, Nadiya Ali, Roshan Arah Jahangeer, Zahir Kolia

  Chaired by

  Fatima Zafar

• 5.11 Liberatory learning in and beyond prison

  Group Panel

  Day 3

  10:45am – 12:15pm

  Presented by

  Denise Edwards, lorraine pinnock, Melissa Alexander, Rachel Fayter, Simone Weil Davis

  Chaired by

  Rachael Kalaba

• 5.12 The TDSB’s Centre of Excellence for Black Student Achievement: Possibilities for Black educational futurity

  Group Panel

  Day 3

  10:45am – 12:15pm

  Presented by

  Jeffrey Caton, Karen Murray, Lindsey Marshall

  Chaired by

  Claudette Howell Rutherford

• 5.13 Breaking barriers: Empowering women immigrant doctors for a thriving Canadian healthcare system

  Group Panel

  Day 3

  10:45am – 12:15pm

  Presented by

  Cindy Sinclair, Kateryna Skoropad, Kawalpreet Kaur, Natasha Shokri, Shynney Vegafria Munar

  Chaired by

  Catherina Blair

• 5.14 Identifying and resisting neoliberalism in higher education

  Workshop

  Day 3

  10:45am – 12:15pm

  Presented by

  Shannon Giannitsopoulou

  Chaired by

  Matida Daffeh

Youth Presentations

• 6.01Middle & high school student presentations: We S.T.U.D.E.N.T.S  II

Poetry & Workshop

• 6.02How do Black women get to reclaim their humanity in a world that seeks to silence Black, female voices?

Multi-Paper

• 6.03Creative resistances: Art, memory, and collectivity
• 6.04Capitalism and coloniality: Countering the logics of Land as resource
• 6.05Centering the intersections of disability and race
• 6.06Migration, identity, and solidarities

Interactive Symposium

• 6.07De/anti-colonial African education: Challenges, possibilities and responsibilities

Group Panel

• 6.08It takes a village to punch a nazi: Māori and Asian solidarities against fascism in Aotearoa
• 6.09Precarity Collective: Rountable panel on precarious academic labour

Workshop

• 6.10Drum circle
• 6.11Revisiting scripted Land acknowledgments in the classroom
• 6.12Travel culture, (im)mobilities, and possible futures
• 6.13Using memoirs and auto-ethnographic narratives to create space for underrepresented voices in secondary humanities courses

• 6.01 Middle & high school student presentations: We S.T.U.D.E.N.T.S  II

  Youth Presentations

  Day 3

  3:15pm – 4:45pm

  Presented by

  We S.T.U.D.E.N.T.S

  Chaired by

  Antonide Mars-Ligondé-Essono

• 6.02 How do Black women get to reclaim their humanity in a world that seeks to silence Black, female voices?

  Poetry & Workshop

  Day 3

  3:15pm – 4:45pm

  Presented by

  Deborah Buchanan-Walford

  Chaired by

  Wonuola Yomi-Odedeyi

• 6.03 Creative resistances: Art, memory, and collectivity

  Multi-Paper

  Day 3

  3:15pm – 4:45pm

  Chaired by

  Alana Butler

  • (de)collective: Performing the nuances of decolonizing individual/collective practice

    Presented by Aisha Lesley Bentham, Mariel Belanger, Mariló Núñez

  • Promoting culturally sustaining pedagogy through storytelling and digital museums

    Presented by Ardavan Eizadirad, Jennifer M. Straub

  • Racialized creatives’ experiences & trajectories in Brampton, Ontario

    Presented by Talveen Kaur Saini

  • The Nkyinkyim museum: Healing for people of African descent from the legacies of colonialism and enslavement

    Presented by Mary Yeboah

• 6.04 Capitalism and coloniality: Countering the logics of Land as resource

  Multi-Paper

  Day 3

  3:15pm – 4:45pm

  Chaired by

  Suleyman M Demi

  • Appropriating Black life through fictitious markets: Carbon markets in African Indigenous spaces

    Presented by Kariuki Kirigia

  • Decentring Whiteness within environmental studies: Anti-colonial reflections on environmental justice

    Presented by Gayatri Thakor, Lois Boody

  • Decolonizing happiness: Exploring Indigenous ways of knowing [of happiness] and challenging capitalist consumerism

    Presented by Natasha Shokri

  • Engaging in critical anti-colonial theorizing as social agents and creative resistors

    Presented by Maya Revell

• 6.05 Centering the intersections of disability and race

  Multi-Paper

  Day 3

  3:15pm – 4:45pm

  Discussant

  Yvonne Simpson

  Chaired by

  Abeer Mirza

  • I will haunt you first, this time

    Presented by Kai Butterfield

  • Special education teacher perceptions of racialized students in special education

    Presented by Carolyn Tinglin

• 6.06 Migration, identity, and solidarities

  Multi-Paper

  Day 3

  3:15pm – 4:45pm

  Chaired by

  Zainab Zafar

  • Anti-colonial re-assessment of the early twentieth century Sikh migration story in Canada

    Presented by Guntas Kaur

  • Problematizing the essentialized post-colonial subject through epistemological re-imaginings of migration, identity and belonging

    Presented by Pirasanya Gnanasuntharam

  • The historical narrative of First Nations peoples in Canada’s citizenship guide

    Presented by Narjes Hashemi, Nikasha Tangirala

  • Who is an Indigenous person

    Presented by Veronica Fynn Bruey

• 6.07 De/anti-colonial African education: Challenges, possibilities and responsibilities

  Interactive Symposium

  Day 3

  3:15pm – 4:45pm

  Presented by

  Ann E. Lopez, Daniel Yelkpieri, Nana George Dei, Njoki Wane, Paul Banahene Adjei

  Chaired by

  John Castillo

• 6.08 It takes a village to punch a nazi: Māori and Asian solidarities against fascism in Aotearoa

  Group Panel

  Day 3

  3:15pm – 4:45pm

  Presented by

  Arama Rata, Kirsty Fong, Mengzhu Fu, Sina Brown-Davis, Tāwhana Chadwick

  Chaired by

  Fatima Zafar

• 6.09 Precarity Collective: Rountable panel on precarious academic labour

  Group Panel

  Day 3

  3:15pm – 4:45pm

  Presented by

  Katie Bannon, Nadia Habib, Sheryl Nestel, Stephanie Latella, Vannina Sztainbok, Zoë Newman

  Chaired by

  Thanuja Thananayagam

• 6.10 Drum circle

  Workshop

  Day 3

  3:15pm – 4:45pm

  Presented by

  Patty Krawec

  Chaired by

  Mandeep Ajimal

• 6.11 Revisiting scripted Land acknowledgments in the classroom

  Workshop

  Day 3

  3:15pm – 4:45pm

  Presented by

  Hafeeza

  Chaired by

  Idil Ugut

• 6.12 Travel culture, (im)mobilities, and possible futures

  Workshop

  Day 3

  3:15pm – 4:45pm

  Presented by

  Nisha Toomey

  Chaired by

  Rebecca Guo

• 6.13 Using memoirs and auto-ethnographic narratives to create space for underrepresented voices in secondary humanities courses

  Workshop

  Day 3

  3:15pm – 4:45pm

  Presented by

  Leonora Masini, Nada Samih-Rotondo

  Chaired by

  Mo Jeewa