What, You’re Calling Me A Racist?
Speakers: Dr. Sarita Srivastava (OCAD) and Dr. Fiona Nicoll (U of Alberta)
Join us as Canadian and Australian scholars present on, and engage in, a timely dialogue unpacking the emotions around racism, anti-racism, and the concept of white fragility.
About the speakers
Dr. Srivastava: “You’re calling me a racist?”: The Emotional Landscape of Racial Encounters
Dr. Sarita Srivastava is Dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, OCAD University. In her previous position as Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Gender Studies, Queen’s University, she developed graduate seminars in Transnational Theories of Race, Gender and Sexuality and undergraduate seminars such as race, sex and the body, and race gender and nation, and taught a Social Justice Practicum for many years. She was a founding Chair of the Equity Committee in the Department of Sociology. Full biography
Dr. Nicoll’s Presentation: Anti-Racism Beyond Racial Fictions of Fragility: Challenging the Epistemological and Affective Grounds of the White Possessive
Dr. Fiona Nicoll is a professor in the Faculty of Arts (Political Science) at the University of Alberta. She is also a founding member of the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association and edited its inaugural issue in 2005. She has a track record of working with Indigenous leaders, artists and academics, through social history curation, collaborative arts projects, teaching and joint research projects. She has published on Indigenous gambling in Australia and North America and brings expertise in critical race and whiteness studies, and the role of arts in creating and transforming knowledge, within and across conflict zones in settler-colonial states. Full biography
About the moderator
Dr. Malinda S. Smith the inaugural Vice Provost (Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) and a political science professor at the University of Calgary. She is a former Vice President of Equity Issues for the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences and currently serves as Chair of its Advisory Committee on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization. Full biography
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