STUDY IN ACTION 2013:
A grassroots undergraduate and community research conference
Featuring contributions to social and environmental justice research by students, community organizers, and artists
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, MARCH 16-17, 2013
at Concordia University, MONTREAL
info: www.qpirgconcordia.org/studyinaction
Workshop and panel topics include:
Radical Pedagogy – The Quebec Student Strike – Migration – Indigenous Sovereignty – Gentrification – Public Space – Food Security – Gender & Feminism – Decolonization – Police & Policing – Alternative Media – Prisons – Language & Culture (full details below)
– Free & welcome to all!
– Wheelchair accessible.
– Free childcare on-site during the conference.
– Whisper translation in English and French will be available
– Vegan lunch served on Saturday and Sunday
– Attend one panel, workshop or event, or attend them all!
* As part of Study In Action:
ART IN ACTION
MARCH 11-17 at Concordia University
7th Floor, 1455 de Maisonneuve West
ART IN ACTION highlights creative expression on social and environmental justice issues through diverse mediums.
INFO: https://www.qpirgconcordia.org/?p=4299
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STUDY IN ACTION is a grassroots undergraduate and community research conference featuring contributions to social and environmental justice research by students, community organizers, and artists. Co-presented by QPIRG McGill and QPIRG Concordia, this year’s conference will take place between March 14-17th.
STUDY IN ACTION SCHEDULE (MAY 16-17)
SATURDAY MARCH 16th
* 9:30am – People’s Potato, 7th Floor (1455 de Maisonneuve West)
Breakfast
* 10:30am – Room H-763 (1455 de Maisonneuve West)
PANEL: Whose strike was it, anyway?
– Alex Matak (Geography, Concordia University): What Kind Of Allies Are These?: reflections on power and politics within the 2012 student strike at Concordia University
– Gabrielle Bouchard (2110 Centre For Gender Advocacy & Women’s Studies Students Association at Concordia University): General Assemblies, Robert’s rules and safe space: The 19th Century is over; get over it!
– more speakers to be confirmed
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* 12pm – People’s Potato, 7th Floor (1455 de Maisonneuve West)
Lunch
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* 1:30pm – Room H-763 (1455 de Maisonneuve West)
PANEL: What’s School Got to do with it?
– Lily Hoffman (McGill University): Critical Pedagogy and racial identity at the Highlander Folk School
– Allison Jones (Anthropology, McGill University): Learning by Doing: Discovering Home-learning in Montreal
– Members of the Montreal Rad School: Unschooling and freeschools – So education can begin
* 1:30pm – Room H-767 (1455 de Maisonneuve West)
WORKSHOP: “A $400,000 Fence and other stories”: An Introduction to the prison system
Presented by the Termite Collective
* 1:30pm – Room H-769 (1455 de Maisonneuve West)
WORKSHOP: Indigenous Reconciliation
Presented by Canadian Roots Exchange (CRE)
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* 3:30pm – Room H-763 (1455 de Maisonneuve West)
PANEL: Migration in Precarious Space
– Seble Samuel (Anthropology & Geography, McGill University): Labour Rights & Temporary Foreign Workers
– Members of Solidarity Across Borders: Migrant Justice Solidarity and Food Accessibility
– Sarine Makdessian (Anthropology, Concordia University): Memory, Space, Identity: South Asian urban migration trajectory in Park Extension
* 3:30pm – Room H-767 (1455 de Maisonneuve West)
PANEL: Treaties, nation-states, and indigenous sovereignty / (Un)Masking Policed Bodies
– Kiley Goyette (Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University): We are all Treaty People”: New geographies of Non-Native solidarity in Idle No More?
– Keara Yim (Women’s Studies and Human Geography, Concordia University): Lines of force: Critiques of nationalism at the intersection of migrant justice and indigenous sovereignty
– Adrianna Disman (Simone du Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University): Indigenizing Catholicism: The Canonization of Kateri Tekakwitha
– Cassie Smith (School of Community and Public Affaires, Concordia University): Criminalizing Work, Colonizing Identity: Indigenous Sex Workers and the Canadian State
* 3:30pm – Room H-769 (1455 de Maisonneuve West)
WORKSHOP: Making Your Research Relevant: How to turn an academic paper into a news story
Presented by the Montreal Media Coop and the CKUT News Collective
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SUNDAY, MARCH 17th
* 10am: People’s Potato, 7th Floor (1455 de Maisonneuve West)
Coffee and snacks
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* 10:30pm – Room H-763 (1455 de Maisonneuve West)
PANEL: No Cops, No Condos, Food for All!
– Fred Burrill (POPIR-Comité Logement): Gentrify This! A Student’s Guide to Understanding and Resisting Gentrification
– Elyse Ireland, Sonja Washer, Meagan Bristowe and Anne Preston (Geography, McGill University): Food Deserts: A Montreal Case Study
– Patrick DeDauw (McGill University): Those kids will believe now that it’s a friend who’s talking!”: Feel-Good Policing, Targeting Youth, and a Party for Flik
* 10:30am – Room H-767 (1455 de Maisonneuve West)
WORKSHOP: Welcome to Nazareth House: Documentary filmmaking as an Arts-Based Intervention & Community Empowerment
Presented by Andrea Palmer (Social Work, McGill University)
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* 12pm – People’s Potato, 7th Floor (1455 de Maisonneuve West)
Lunch
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* 1:30pm – Room H-763 (1455 de Maisonneuve West)
PANEL: Gendered Spaces
– Éliane Gélinas (Women’s Studies, Concordia University): Think critically about street art and graffiti: A feminist perspective
– Lily Hoffman (McGill University): A Deviant Bride to Be
– more speakers to be confirmed
* 1:30pm – Room H-762
WORKSHOP: Transformative Justice 101: Confronting Community Violence without the Cops or the Courts
Presented by Life After Life
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* 3:30pm – Room H-763
CLOSING PANEL: Culture and Race: Languages of Resistance
– Shaina Agabyani (McGill University): The Experience of Racialized Students at McGill
– Aaron Barcant (Concordia University): Language and Power: Examples from the Caribbean
– Khelisem Rivers (S?wx?wú7mesh and Kwakwa?ka?’wakw) – involved with Idle No More efforts on the Coast Salish Territories (“British Columbia”), active with Indigenous language revitalization efforts, organizing within the framework of decolonization and the restoration of Indigenous land-based culture.
– Chelsea Vowel (Métis, Plains Cree from Lac Ste. Anne, Alberta) — teaches Inuit youth under Child Protection and blogs as âpihtawikosisân; passionate about law, culture and language, and trying to deconstruct harmful myths with the hope that there can be a restructuring and renewal of the relationship between Canadians and indigenous peoples
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STUDY IN ACTION is a joint project of QPIRG Concordia & QPIRG McGill.
INFO: www.qpirgconcordia.org/studyinaction – studyinaction@qpirgconcordia.org – 514-848-7585