(Version française, plus bas)
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 !
STUDY IN ACTION SCHEDULE (MAY 16-17)
SATURDAY MARCH 16th
* 9:30am - People’s Potato, 7th Floor (1455 de Maisonneuve West)
Breakfast
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* 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 : Making Your Research Relevant : How to turn an academic paper into a news story
Presented by the Montreal Media Coop
* 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
– 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
– more speakers to be confirmed
* 3:30pm - Room H-769 (1455 de Maisonneuve West)
WORKSHOP : “A $400,000 Fence and other stories” : An Introduction to the prison system
Presented by the Termite Collective
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-767 (1455 de Maisonneuve West)
PANEL : Unmasking Policed Bodies
– 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
* 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 (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and Kwakwa̱ka̱’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
Université Concordia, MONTRÉAL
info : http://qpirgconcordia.org/studyinaction/fr/
Des étudiant-e-s de premier cycle et des militant-e-s communautaires s’uniront pour présenter leur recherche militante sur la justice sociale lors des panels suivants :
– À qui la grève ? La grève générale étudiante
– À quoi sert l’école ?!
– La migration dans les espaces précaires
– Les traités, les États-nations et la souveraineté des peuples autochtones
– Pas de flics, pas de condos, bouffe pour touTEs
– Le genre et les espaces
– (Dé) masquer les corps policiers
– Culture et race : langues de la résistance
Les ateliers communautaires suivants seront présentés lors de la fin de semaine d’Études en Action :
– Faites plus avec vos travaux d’université : comment transformer vos travaux en reportage
– La réconciliation des jeunes autochtones et les mouvements sociaux autochtones
– Prison 101
– Le film documentaire comme une intervention axée sur les arts et l’autodétermination des communautés
– La justice transformatrice 101 : faire face à la violence communautaire sans flics ou tribunaux
– Gratuit et ouvert à tous et toutes !
– Accessible aux fauteuils roulants.
– Service de garde disponible sur place lors de la conférence.
– De la traduction chuchotée en français et en anglais sera disponible.
– Un dîner végétalien sera servi le samedi et le dimanche.
– ÉTUDES EN ACTION & ART EN ACTION sont des projets conjoints de QPIRG Concordia et de QPIRG McGill.
HORAIRE D’ÉTUDES EN ACTION (16-17 MARS)
SAMEDI 16 MARS :
* 9h30 : Patate des peuples - 7e étage, Pavillon Hall (1455 de Maisonneuve Ouest)
Déjeuner et inscription
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* 10h30 : Salle H-763 (1455 de Maisonneuve Ouest)
PANEL : À qui la grève ? La grève générale étudiante
– 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
* 12h : Patate des peuples - 7e étage, Pavillon Hall (1455 de Maisonneuve Ouest)
Dîner
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* 13h30 : Salle H-763 (1455 de Maisonneuve Ouest)
PANEL : À quoi sert l’école ?!
– 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
– L’école radicale de Montréal : Non-scolarisation et écoles-libres - Alors l’éducation peut commencer
* 13h30 : Salle H-767 (1455 de Maisonneuve Ouest)
ATELIER : Faites plus avec vos travaux d’université : comment transformer vos travaux en reportage
Presenté par le Coop de média de Montréal
* 13h30 : Salle H-769 (1455 de Maisonneuve Ouest)
ATELIER : La réconciliation des jeunes autochtones et les mouvements sociaux autochtones
Presenté par Canadian Roots Exchange (CRE)
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* 15h30 : Salle H-763 (1455 de Maisonneuve Ouest)
PANEL : La migration dans les espaces précaires
– Seble Samuel (Anthropology & Geography, McGill University) : Labour Rights & Temporary Foreign Workers
– Membres de Solidarité sans frontière : Bouffe pour toutes et tous !
– Sarine Makdessian (Anthropology, Concordia University) : Memory, Space, Identity : South Asian urban migration trajectory in Park Extension
* 15h30 : Salle H-767 (1455 de Maisonneuve Ouest)
PANEL : Les traités, les États-nations et la souveraineté des peuples autochtones
– 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
* 15h30 : Salle H-769 (1455 de Maisonneuve Ouest)
ATELIER : Prison 101
Présenté par le Termite Collective
DIMANCHE 17 MARS :
* 10h : Patate des peuples - 7e étage, Pavillon Hall (1455 de Maisonneuve Ouest)
Déjeuner
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* 10h30 : Salle H-763 (1455 de Maisonneuve Ouest)
PANEL : Pas de flics, pas de condos, bouffe pour touTEs
– 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
* 10h30 : Salle H-767 (1455 de Maisonneuve Ouest)
ATELIER : Le film documentaire comme une intervention axée sur les arts et l’autodétermination des communautés
Presenté par Andrea Palmer (Social Work, McGill University)
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* 12h : Patate des peuples - 7e étage, Pavillon Hall (1455 de Maisonneuve Ouest)
Dîner
— -
* 13h30 : Salle H-763 (1455 de Maisonneuve Ouest)
PANEL : Le genre et les espaces
– 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
* 13h30 : Salle H-767 (1455 de Maisonneuve Ouest)
PANEL : (Dé) masquer les corps policiers
– 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
* 13h30 : Salle H-762 (1455 de Maisonneuve Ouest)
ATELIER : La justice transformatrice 101 : faire face à la violence communautaire sans flics ou tribunaux
Presenté by Life After Life
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* 15h30 : Salle H-763 (1455 de Maisonneuve Ouest)
PANEL DE CLOTURE : Culture et race : langues de la résistance
– Shaina Agabyani (McGill University) : The Experience of Racialized Students at McGill
– Aaron Barcant (Concordia University) : Language and Power : Examples from the Caribbean
– Khelisem Rivers (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and Kwakwa̱ka̱’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
— -
ÉTUDES EN ACTION est un projet conjoint de QPIRG Concordia et de QPIRG McGill.
INFO : studyinaction@qpirgconcordia.org / 514-848-7585 / www.qpirgconcordia.org/studyinaction
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