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de Sève Cinema, Concordia Library Building - 1400 de Maisonneuve O., Rm. LB-125
Co-presented by Tadamon! (http://tadamon.resist.ca)
Salim Vally: "Apartheid: from South Africa to Palestine"
Harsha Walia: "De-constructing Knowledge from an Activist Perspective"
Vivian Namaste: "Community Based Research; Principles and Practices of Knowledge for Change"
the second annual Study In Action Conference at Concordia University. This year's overarching theme is Social 
and Environmental Justice.
Our vision is to provide an opportunity for students and for people outside the academic community to come together to work and discuss their approaches to social justice, and to create a forum for showcasing undergraduate research. Our objectives are to provide an opportunity for students and for people outside the academic community to come together to work and discuss their approaches to social justice, and to create a forum for showcasing undergraduate research. The conference will not only benefit the undergraduate students and community organizations participating, we also envision building networks that will enrich student groups, university faculties and the broader Montreal university culture. Read more about who are...
The conference consists of keynote panelists, presentations and panels of undergraduate papers and community groups, a closing plenary/strategy building session and a end-of-conference benefit dance party.
- Cultural Imperialism(s) and the Colonial Project
- Critiquing and Creating Discourses on Health
- From Queer Theory to Queer Communities
- Solidarity with Migrant Labour
- Resource (Mis)management: Terrains of Struggle
- Activism Film-making on a Shoestring
- Art as Sites of Social Transformation
- The Tar Sands and their Impact on Everything
- Patrolling Race; Securing the Nation
- Sex Workers' Rights - Theory and Practice: Making the Links, Becoming an Ally
- Building Student Social and Environmental Justice Movements
- The Immigrant Workers Centre
- The Social Justice Committee
- No One Is Illegal Montreal
- Sustainable Concordia
- Q-team
- Haiti Action Montreal
- Solidarity Across Borders
- Concordia University Television (CUTV)
- "Justice for Adil"
- Stella / L'amie de mamie
- Tadamon
- The People's Potato
and more...
The conference's opening keynote panel takes place on Thursday, April 17th at the de Seve cinema of Concordia Univeristy. The conference takes place on April 19th and 20th on the 7th floor of Concordia University's Hall building in Montreal, Quebec.
The full detailed schedule is now available on the <Conference Schedule> page. Registration is free and lunch is provided on both days.
Study In Action is presented by QPIRG Concordia with the generous support of Concordia and McGill faculty departments and schools, student associations and unions, and many campus and community organizations. See our list of sponsors...
The conference is free and open to all, but pre-registration is highly appreciated! Please call or e-mail to pre-register and reserve your spot. If you don't register, no worries, you can still attend. Pre-registration simply allows us to know how many people to expect and reserves you a spot in the event that the conference becomes full. Register here...
Movements for social justice include all peoples' struggles for self-determination and against any form of social and economic domination, whether appearing as global power imbalance or local injustice. Environmental justice-based approaches recognize that the effects of environmental degredation are not equally distributed across the world's peoples; instead, the brunt of environment-based harm is borne by racialized communities, working class and impoverished people, indigenous peoples, and other populations marginalized by global
systems of domination and inequality. Therefore, environmental justice requires that analysis and organizing around environmental issues follow principles of anti-oppression (or, anti-racist, anti-colonial, anti-sexist, anti-classist, and anti-neoliberal principles), and seeks pro-environment solutions that help redress inequality along all axes of domination. The organizers of Study in Action hope to bring these two approaches together, first, to counter the belief that struggles against environmental destruction and social domination must be held apart, second, to highlight the concrete ways in which these struggles already play out together, and third, to point to potentials for increasing understanding, solidarity, and cooperation between social movements and pro-environment movements.
The organizers of Study in Action hope to bring these two approaches together, first, to counter the belief that struggles against environmental destruction and social domination must be held apart, second, to highlight the concrete ways in which these struggles already play out together, and third, to point to potentials for increasing understanding, solidarity, and cooperation between social movements and pro-environment movements.