Postcolonialism and Critical Pedagogy
The only activism I know
Keynote speaker: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University
Panel Discussion: Sneja Gunew, Renisa Mawani, and Prabhsharanbir Singh
Service Learning for Social Justice and Cultural Studies Praxis
Cultural Studies Methodology, Sociality and the Praxis of Project Citizen
Introduction: Handel Wright, Linc Kesler, and Sunera Thobani
Keynote speaker: Awad Ibrahim, University of Ottawa
Panel Discussion: Shauna Butterwick, Maryam Nabavi, and Marilou Carrillo
Anti-racism and Critical Race Feminist Theory
Race, Space and Prostitution
Introduction: Handel Wright, Linc Kesler, and Sunera Thobani
keynote speaker: Sherene Razack, University of Toronto
Panel Discussion: Annette Henry, Indira Prahst, and Benita Bunjun.
Indigenous Praxis and World Majority Peoples’ Identity Politics
We Own Ourselves: The Role of Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Self-Definition and Self-Determination in Indigenous Justice
Introduction by Handel Wright, Linc Kesler, and Sunera Thobani
Panel Discussion by Rain Daniels, Dorothy Christian, and Charles Menzies.
Cultural Studies as Praxis by Dr. Handel Wright, an H.M. Tory Chair in Cultural Studies Invited Lecture Presentation
In this lecture, entitled “Cultural Studies as Praxis,” Dr. Handel Wright ‘takes cultural studies personally’, drawing on experience, identity and the personal to indicate how and why the author is proponent of and is working on developing a model of cultural studies as social justice praxis despite the constraints academia in general and of the university as an institution in particular. While this account acts in its own way as an argument for conceptualizing cultural studies as praxis, the primary focus is more modestly on my own autobiographical account as a specific case. In fact, an autobiographical approach is employed precisely to be specific and in the attempt to avoid the pitfalls of over generalization and the authority of authenticity.