This is a collaborative event with the Queen's Collage Collective, the Queen's Black Academic Society, and the African and Caribbean Students' Association. Join us for a night of discussing our hopes and dreams for the future by creating vision boards together! This event will be facilitated over Zoom by folks from QCC, QBAS and ACSA. This will be a healing space where Black students from Queen’s can virtually gather, collage, and have open dialogues about our dreams, hopes and wishes for the year 2021. The overall goal of this event is to connect Black folks, especially Queen’s students together, promote other Black spaces on campus, and participate in this virtual space together by healing through creativity and community-care!

Please register here by Dec 10th.

WEBINAR

Please join us for the first Resources 4 Researchers @ Queen's (R4R@Q) webinar of the 2020-2021 season to be held on Wednesday December 9th from 2-3 ET.

The webinar is titled "What is in your EDII toolkit? Championing EDII practices in different disciplines" and is presented to you by the Office of the Vice-Principal Research in collaboration with the Human Rights and Equity Office.  It will be a Panel Discussion followed by Q&A session.  Please see the attached poster for full details.

Please register for this session by Monday December 7th.

Questions may be directed to Andrea Hiltz 

 

Facilitated by Lindsay Brant, Educational Developer, Indigenous Pedagogies and Ways of Knowing, Centre for Teaching and Learning

This informal discussion series is intended for anyone (faculty, grad students, staff etc.) currently doing decolonizing/Indigenizing work in their courses, and would value the opportunity for discussion with colleagues to form a virtual community of practice or circle of support.

Centre for Teaching and Learning
ctl@queensu.ca

Lecture 4: Dr. Jackie Davies, Cultural Studies 

This seven-part, online Zoom lecture series centres scholars' diverse experiences navigating the challenging world of academia. Speakers share what brought them to academia, some of the challenges they've faced, and how they have carved a space for themselves and others in their fields. By creating space for balanced representation and illuminating diverse lived realities in academic contexts, we might all be empowered to learn about our own journeys in academia.  

ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND! 

Queen’s is committed to an inclusive campus community with accessible goods, services, and facilities that respect the dignity and independence of persons with disabilities. The lecture series is available in an accessible format or with appropriate communication supports upon request. Please contact us by email at sociologyequitycommittee@gmail.com

THIS EVENT IS SUPPORTED BY QUEEN'S INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY FUND AND THE SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT 

Contact: Melissa Forcione 
melissa.forcione@queensu.ca 

Cost: Free

Register here
 

Please join us on Thursday, Nov 26 at 1:00 pm for a talk by Dr. Panos Hatziprokopiou, chaired by Dr. Reena Kukreja. This talk is co-sponsored by Migration Speaks. 

Everyone is welcome! 

Facets of uneven development in the European border regime: The economic geographies of migrant camps in Greece
In the aftermath of the so-called “refugee crisis” of 2015-16, the migration regime consolidating in Europe entails the management of newcoming populations through their accommodation in camps. This talk will account for neglected aspects of this process in the case of Greece, focusing on the everyday economic practices, interactions and networks emerging in, around and because of camps. Drawing on examples from recent filed research, it will highlight the “productive” functions and economic geographies of migrant camps.

Dr Panos Hatziprokopiou is Assistant Professor at the School of Spatial Planning & development, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has studied economics, sociology and human geography in Greece and the UK. His research interests focus on socio-spatial aspects of migrants’ settlement, labour market pathways, housing geographies and everyday interactions. He is currently involved in a European project on transnational figurations of protracted displacement and the role of mobility and connectivity.

Zoom : click here

Meeting ID: 974 1662 2727 

Passcode: 3.qMuy 

Black bodies continue to live through colonial violence. We must continually develop the power to re-write/re-tell our stories through our pain, vulnerabilities, suffering and resistances. In this conversation, George Dei draws upon the lessons of a personal travelogue of a Black/African body in academia to articulate the ‘spatiality of Blacknesses’ as shared and contested insurrections. Building on existing scholarship, Dei situates body, politics, Lands and geographies in discursive analysis and political practice of educational change.

The discussion highlights what it means to talk about Blacknesses, the effects of the geo-spaces of Blacknesses for progressive politics in the academy, and its implications for the Black scholar and Black scholarship within the current global context of anti-Blackness and anti-Black racism. Some questions this conversation will attempt to engage in are:  How does the spatiality of Blacknesses within the confines of institutions get instrumentalized? What does that look like in our institutions? Furthermore, how is the historical spatialization of Whiteness and the territoriality of Whiteness contested by Blacknesses? How is this resisted? How do racial spatiality and space-making gestures of Blacknesses become forms of institutional accounting? How are Black scholars envisioning and architecting new technologies of space-making that allow for the insurrection, disaffected and unruly Black scholar to be and inhabit space in academia? Beyond the interrogation of the capitalist consumption of Blacknesses, George Dei wants us to think about the when, why and how Black existence comes into [mainstream] public consciousness; and what to make of the paradox of asking us to understand working-class angst/anger with the economic system and yet deny Black rage, pain and suffering? 

Register here

International Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is marked annually on November 20th. It is a time to memorialize those who have been killed as a result of anti-transgender violence. TDOR acts to bring attention to the continued violence endured by the transgender community.

The event will be live-streamed on the Kingston Pride Facebook page

Screening of MOONLIGHT

Join on Zoom

Gender Matters Speaker Series

Injustices in the Globalized Food System: Migrant Agricultural Work in Canada and Greece
Speakers: Janet McLaughlin (Associate Professor, Health Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University; Co-founder and co-coordinator, Migrant Worker Health Project) and Reena Kukreja (Assistant Professor, Global Development Studies at Queen’s University)
 

Zoom
Meeting ID: 316 397 3452
Password: 92ZwFN

 

SOULFUL SINGING 

In these times of great change and stress, take a mid-week, mid-day wellness break to breathe, relax and connect in the circle of song.  Soulful Singing is an inclusive and uplifting meditative practice that promotes joy, mindfulness, creativity, and community. We share songs and chants through the oral tradition.  Come once, come weekly, come when you can.    

All are welcome to this free weekly event: students, staff, faculty, and friends of Queen's. Soulful Singing is for everyone from shower-singers to experienced choristers, including you! Drop-ins always welcome.   

Soulful Singing is offered by the Office of Faith and Spiritual Life and is facilitated by associate chaplain + singer-songwriter, the Rev. Wendy Luella Perkins.

Zoom

ID  811 202 230  
Password: 298083 
Room: From Wendy Luella's living room! 

 

Contact: Wendy Luella Perkins 
wendy.luella.perkins@queensu.ca