Conference Schedule
13th Annual Decolonizing Conference — March 12–14, 2026 • OISE, University of Toronto
1Day 1 — March 12, 2026
Registration / Light Breakfast
Get name tags, conference booklet
Opening Ceremony
Plenary 1
African Elders (Dr. Paul Adjei, Nana Kwabena Asamoah, Nana George J. Sefa Dei, Sylvia Parris) Panelists will offer powerful frameworks to challenge Western, carceral, and individualistic models of schooling, governance, and justice while articulating relational, restorative, and humanizing pathways for rebuilding educational and social systems.
Indigenous Knowledge, Cluster 1
CHAIR: Dr. Daniela Bascuñán Dr. Daniela Bascuñán, Interrupting temporal technologies of settlement in the Ontario curriculum (12 MINS) Lois Boody, Disrupting Colonial Land Relations in Urban K-12 Schools: Indigenous Land Education as Pedagogy for Socio-Ecological Justice (12 MINS) Ernest Akrofi Obeng, Fugitive Pedagogies and Anti-Colonial Resistance: Reclaiming Teacher Preparation in Ghana’s Higher Education Spaces (12 MINS)
Indigenous Knowledge, Cluster 2
CHAIR: Shay Colley Dr. Suleyman Demi, Effect of Decentralization on Environment Sustainability in Ghana (12 MINS) Kariuki Kirigia, Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene: Recentring Life in Wildlife Conservancies in Kenya (12 MINS) Nathalie Lozano Neira, Reclaiming the Body as Territory: Ancestral Echoes and Em-bodied Return in Abya Yala and Turtle Island (12 MINS)
Indigenous Knowledge, Cluster 3
CHAIR: Denise Edwards Dr. Eunice Fonyuy Fondze-Fombele, Reweaving Communal Memory: The Girl Child, Epistemic Justice, and Decolonial Possibilities in Werewere Liking’s The Amputated Memory (12 MINS) Mary Louisa Lum, Modern Man on the Horns of the Dilemma: Decolonizing the Mind in Nkemngong Nkengasong’s God was African (12 MINS) Dr. Comfort Fatimoh Sheidu, Indigenous Knowledge as Decolonial Praxis: Reclaiming Ancestral Wisdom for Peacebuilding and Social Transformation in West Africa (12 MINS) Dr. Esther O. Ohito & Dr. Maureen Olel (non-presenting), Luo Epistemologies and the Decolonial Pursuit of Educational and Planetary Justice (12 MINS) Isaiah Phillip Smith, Performing Climate Change: A Qualitative Exploration of Theatre for Development in Community Awareness and Dialogue (12 MINS)
Indigenous Knowledge, Cluster 4
CHAIR: Gayatri Thakor Adria Kurchina-Tyson, Interspecies Intimacies: Finding the space (and source) for kinky desires (12 MINS) Michelle Ajisebo McElwaine Abimbola, Ifá, Consummate Educator: Sacred Stories and Human Narratives (12 MINS) Professor Maria Mackay & Associate Professor Mat Jakobi, Colonial Shadows in Australian Higher Education: Storying Aboriginal Academic Resistance (25 MINS) Gayatri Thakor & Jasmine Rice, Desettling, Reframing and Disrupting Urban-Nature Reflections in Tkaronto (12 MINS)
Indigenous Knowledge, Cluster 5
CHAIR: Dr. Chrystal Toop, The Indigenous Death Movement (12 MINS) Sindisiwe Zungu, Interrogating Gender Identity and Stereotypes in South African Higher Education: A Qualitative Study of Student Narratives at Howard College, University of KwaZulu-Natal (12 MINS) Suad Ahmed, On Becoming Otherwise: Toward an Ethical, Political, and Unconscious Theory of Identity (12 MINS)
Indigenous Knowledge, Cluster 6
CHAIR: Kirk Mark David Pollock, “Don’t Stop until the deaths in custody stop” – Indigenous Social Justice Association: 20 years of solidarity in the struggle to stop Aboriginal deaths in custody (30 MINS) Dr. Paul Banahene Adjei, Mavis Dako-Gyeke Ophelia Affreh, & Nana Safo-Kantanka Osei-Bonsu, African Indigenous Elders’ Critical Teachings (ElderCrits): An Unchartered Pathway for Educational Reforms (30 MINS)
Identity
CHAIR: Kruti Patel & Ibtihal Mustafa Kruti Patel, The “Hindoo Invasion”: Rising Anti-Indian Sentiment, Horizontal Hostility, and the Fallacy of Canadian Multiculturalism (12 MINS) Dr. Jaspreet Bal, Indian Transnational Repression, Sikh Sovereignty and Identity in Canadian Public Education Systems (12 MINS) Meral Choudhry, Decolonizing Islamophobia: Reclaiming Decolonial Identity through Resistance, Agency, and Transformative Pedagogy in Ontario Public Education (12 MINS) Dr. Neil Theodore Ramjewan, The Lost Child in the Settler Psyche: Childhood, Trauma, and Reconciliation in the Survivors Speak Report (12 MINS)
Institutional Resistance, Cluster 1
CHAIR: Maryam Dharas, The Discursive Architecture of Genocide Denial: Israeli Prime Ministerial Rhetoric and the Devaluation of Palestinian Life (12 MINS) Dr. David Anderson, Elizabeth Underhill (submitted), Dr. Lisa McIntosh, Dr. Marie-France Berard, Museum Educators’ Perspectives: Complicating the Colonial Narratives in Canadian Heritage Museums (25 MINS) Habibatou Camara, Anatomy of a Breakdown: Mali’s Democratic Undoing (12 MINS)
Lunch and Learn
Institutional Resistance, Cluster 2
CHAIR: Meral Choudhry Dr. Anila Zainub, Muslim Integration in Canada and Decoloniality (12 MINS) Sabeena Tariq (VIRTUAL), Understanding the Lived Experiences of Muslim Women Facing Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Racism at the University of Calgary (12 MINS) Suad Ahmed, Through our Eyes: On the Social and Emotional Worlds of Somali Youth (12 MINS) Sadia Anjum, Global South Women: Coloniality of Leadership in Higher Education in Canada (12 MINS) Sunandha Shanmugaraj, From Ananthi to Anna: Teacher Colonization of Student Names Among Tamil Canadians (12 MINS)
Institutional Resistance, Cluster 3
CHAIR: Sev Arslan WORKSHOP Mesha Maloney, “Support” or Surveillance?: A Decolonial Examination of Misconduct, Trauma, and Power in Anti-Trafficking Systems
Institutional Resistance, Cluster 4
CHAIR: Gayatri Thakor Mohamed Yusuf, Investigating the Long-Term Role of Mentorship in Overcoming the Systematic Academic Achievement Gap for Black Male Graduate Students in Canada (12 MINS) Gayatri Thakor, An Anti-Colonial Collective Embodied Ethic of Care: Nourishing the Heart, Mind, Body, and Soul (12 MINS) Roilui Sin, Post-Secondary Students’ Perceptions on Seeking Help for Adverse Childhood Experiences from Educators During High School (12 MINS)
Institutional Resistance, Cluster 5
CHAIR: Laurie Davey-Quantick, Inclusivity and Equity Practices of Canadian Grassroot International Aid Organizations (12 MINS) Rohini Patel & Kim Hong Nguyen, Resisting Chemical Futures Through Museum Politics (12 MINS) Yongzhi (Jim) Huang, Education as Liberation: Reading Ongoing Coloniality through Fiscal Visibility (12 MINS)
Institutional Resistance, Cluster 6
CHAIR: Dr. Paul Adjei Baraa Abuzayed, Mitch, Natasha Rayman, Zainab Naqvi, Recognizing Anti-Palestinian Racism in the Academy: A Queen’s University Case Study (30 MINS) GROUP PANEL Dr. Karim Wissa & Jermal Jones, Beyond the Optics: Liberation, Institutional Capture, and the Limits of EDI/DEI in Predominantly White Institutions (30 MINS)
Epistemic Resistance, Cluster 1
CHAIR: Dr. Michelle Bailey VIRTUAL Iyanuoluwa Akinrinola, Recognizing Africa, Honouring Canadians of African Descent (12 MINS) Dr. Gifty Seiwaa Nyarko, Release from Epistemic and Political Colonizing Relation in Ghanaian Education: Influence of Transformational Leadership in Ghana’s Colleges of Education (12 MINS) Lee Stevens, Delinking Colonialism from Neoliberalism and Institutional Ethnography: Towards a New Framework for Understanding Social Assistance in Canada (12 MINS) Chloe Dugied, Ontario University EDI Strategic Plan Analysis: Power Embedded in Policy Discourse (12 MINS)
Epistemic Resistance, Cluster 2
CHAIR: Ernest Obeng VIRTUAL Sabeen Siddiqui, The Intimate Technologies of War: Architecture and Violence in the Reconstruction of the Hawma during the Battle of Algiers (12 MINS) SPEECH Nana Appa Korankye VII, Impact of Neo-colonialism on contemporary geo politics (12 MINS) Dr. Isaac Nortey Darko, Indigenous North and Indigenous South Solidarity: The Path to Unmasking Coloniality (12 MINS) Palvi Sidana, Too Young for Liberation? The Violence and Contradictions of Anti-DEI Politics in the Early Years (12 MINS)
Epistemic Resistance, Cluster 3
CHAIR: Dr. Kenneth Gyamerah, Shaela Ali, & Sunandha Shanmugaraj, Examining Ontario Pre-Service Teachers’ Knowledge and Preparedness for Anti-Racist, Anti-Oppressive, and Social Justice Education (25 MINS) Lee Stevens, Sabeena Tariq (VIRTUAL), Hussain Durrani (VIRTUAL), Dr. Yahya El-Lahib, Using Theory to Decolonize Methodology: A Collaborative Reflection (25 MINS) Colin Tucker, Before the Audience Coheres: Marking Persistent Coloniality in Performing Arts Form (25 MINS)
Epistemic Resistance, Cluster 4
CHAIR: Lois Boody VIRTUAL Sabi Kamilah Hinkson, Fugitive Futures: Black Feminist, PVEST, and Afrofuturist Pedagogies Toward Liberation in STEM Education (12 MINS) Korina Thomas-Reynolds, “The Math Ain’t Mathin’”: The epistemicide of Black youth in Canadian mathematics classrooms (12 MINS) Mr. Don Howell & Dr. Verna Knight, Unmasking Colonial Legacies in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in the Caribbean (25 MINS)
Epistemic Resistance, Cluster 5
CHAIR: Kirk Mark Dr. Siham Elkassem, Dr. Nuha Dwaikat-Shaer, Dr. Bryn King, Amilah Baksh, Gaza, Genocide, and the Politics of Weepy Universalism (25 MINS) Sadia Anjum, Rebuilding Solidarity: Lateral Violence, Root Causes, and Recommitting to Anti-Racism (12 MINS) Dr Dominik Jackson-Cole, Joris Lechêne, Dr Lucia Kula (all attending), Decoloniality of connectedness as a tool for unmasking ongoing coloniality of higher education (25 MINS)
Institutional Resistance, Cluster 7
CHAIR: Deborah Buchanan-Walford Dr. Marva J Ferguson, Removing the Mask- Truth Telling and Consequences, The Realities of Speaking Truth to Power (12 MINS) Dr. Ardavan Eizadirad & Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui, From EDI to Thriving Communities: Reclaiming Authentic Equity Work through Storytelling amid Anti-Woke Backlash (12 MINS) Andrea Barrow & Dr. Alana Butler, Decolonizing Educational Leadership: An Equity-Centered Case Study in a small Ontario town (25 MINS)
Institutional Resistance, Cluster 8
CHAIR: Sylvia Parris-Drummond & Dr. Suleyman Demi V. Pauahi Souza, State Violence and Land Defense in Hawai’i: Performing Solidarity, Economic Investment, and Cultural Impact on Kānaka Maoli in Canadian Institutional Interests (12 MINS) Dr. Paul Banahene Adjei, Mavis Dako-Gyeke Ophelia Affreh, & Nana Safo-Kantanka Osei Bonsu, Kente Fabric of Asante People of Ghana as an Epistemic Gift to the Academy: The Pedagogical Implications for Transformative Education (30 MINS) VIRTUAL: Osholene Upiomoh, Revealing Authentic African Bloodlines: Mapping Pre-Colonial Realities Beyond Colonial Borders (12 MINS)
Institutional Resistance, Cluster 9
CHAIR: Gayatri Thakor Dr. Michelle Bailey, Disrupting the Narrative: Storytelling as a Decolonial Praxis Against Intellectual Enslavement (12 MINS) Ava-Udeane Ellis, Mockery as Freedom: The Philosophy of Jab Jab (12 MINS) Juthi Jamila, Un-selfie by Rumi: Decolonial Possibilities through Ishraqi Philosophy and the Ethics of the Nafs (12 MINS) Ce Cil Kim, Teaching Anti-Racism to Post Secondary Students Through Children’s Books (12 MINS) Tara Thomas, Decolonizing Baking and Pastry Arts Education: Challenging Culinary Coloniality in Ontario’s Post-Secondary Institutions (12 MINS)
Closing Ceremony
| Time | Room Number | Event / Session | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6:30 AM – 8:30 AM | 12-210 (SJE Lounge) | Registration / Light Breakfast | Get name tags, conference booklet |
| 8:45 AM – 10:15 AM | Library | Opening Ceremony | |
| 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM | Library | Plenary 1 | African Elders (Dr. Paul Adjei, Nana Kwabena Asamoah, Nana George J. Sefa Dei, Sylvia Parris) Panelists will offer powerful frameworks to challenge Western, carceral, and individualistic models of schooling, governance, and justice while articulating relational, restorative, and humanizing pathways for rebuilding educational and social systems. |
| 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM | OI 2296 | Indigenous Knowledge, Cluster 1 | CHAIR: Dr. Daniela Bascuñán Dr. Daniela Bascuñán, Interrupting temporal technologies of settlement in the Ontario curriculum (12 MINS) Lois Boody, Disrupting Colonial Land Relations in Urban K-12 Schools: Indigenous Land Education as Pedagogy for Socio-Ecological Justice (12 MINS) Ernest Akrofi Obeng, Fugitive Pedagogies and Anti-Colonial Resistance: Reclaiming Teacher Preparation in Ghana’s Higher Education Spaces (12 MINS) |
| 7-178 | Indigenous Knowledge, Cluster 2 | CHAIR: Shay Colley Dr. Suleyman Demi, Effect of Decentralization on Environment Sustainability in Ghana (12 MINS) Kariuki Kirigia, Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene: Recentring Life in Wildlife Conservancies in Kenya (12 MINS) Nathalie Lozano Neira, Reclaiming the Body as Territory: Ancestral Echoes and Em-bodied Return in Abya Yala and Turtle Island (12 MINS) | |
| 7-162 | Indigenous Knowledge, Cluster 3 | CHAIR: Denise Edwards Dr. Eunice Fonyuy Fondze-Fombele, Reweaving Communal Memory: The Girl Child, Epistemic Justice, and Decolonial Possibilities in Werewere Liking’s The Amputated Memory (12 MINS) Mary Louisa Lum, Modern Man on the Horns of the Dilemma: Decolonizing the Mind in Nkemngong Nkengasong’s God was African (12 MINS) Dr. Comfort Fatimoh Sheidu, Indigenous Knowledge as Decolonial Praxis: Reclaiming Ancestral Wisdom for Peacebuilding and Social Transformation in West Africa (12 MINS) Dr. Esther O. Ohito & Dr. Maureen Olel (non-presenting), Luo Epistemologies and the Decolonial Pursuit of Educational and Planetary Justice (12 MINS) Isaiah Phillip Smith, Performing Climate Change: A Qualitative Exploration of Theatre for Development in Community Awareness and Dialogue (12 MINS) | |
| OI 2286 | Indigenous Knowledge, Cluster 4 | CHAIR: Gayatri Thakor Adria Kurchina-Tyson, Interspecies Intimacies: Finding the space (and source) for kinky desires (12 MINS) Michelle Ajisebo McElwaine Abimbola, Ifá, Consummate Educator: Sacred Stories and Human Narratives (12 MINS) Professor Maria Mackay & Associate Professor Mat Jakobi, Colonial Shadows in Australian Higher Education: Storying Aboriginal Academic Resistance (25 MINS) Gayatri Thakor & Jasmine Rice, Desettling, Reframing and Disrupting Urban-Nature Reflections in Tkaronto (12 MINS) | |
| 12-252 | Indigenous Knowledge, Cluster 5 | CHAIR: Dr. Chrystal Toop, The Indigenous Death Movement (12 MINS) Sindisiwe Zungu, Interrogating Gender Identity and Stereotypes in South African Higher Education: A Qualitative Study of Student Narratives at Howard College, University of KwaZulu-Natal (12 MINS) Suad Ahmed, On Becoming Otherwise: Toward an Ethical, Political, and Unconscious Theory of Identity (12 MINS) | |
| Library | Indigenous Knowledge, Cluster 6 | CHAIR: Kirk Mark David Pollock, “Don’t Stop until the deaths in custody stop” – Indigenous Social Justice Association: 20 years of solidarity in the struggle to stop Aboriginal deaths in custody (30 MINS) Dr. Paul Banahene Adjei, Mavis Dako-Gyeke Ophelia Affreh, & Nana Safo-Kantanka Osei-Bonsu, African Indigenous Elders’ Critical Teachings (ElderCrits): An Unchartered Pathway for Educational Reforms (30 MINS) | |
| CTL 11-164 | Identity | CHAIR: Kruti Patel & Ibtihal Mustafa Kruti Patel, The “Hindoo Invasion”: Rising Anti-Indian Sentiment, Horizontal Hostility, and the Fallacy of Canadian Multiculturalism (12 MINS) Dr. Jaspreet Bal, Indian Transnational Repression, Sikh Sovereignty and Identity in Canadian Public Education Systems (12 MINS) Meral Choudhry, Decolonizing Islamophobia: Reclaiming Decolonial Identity through Resistance, Agency, and Transformative Pedagogy in Ontario Public Education (12 MINS) Dr. Neil Theodore Ramjewan, The Lost Child in the Settler Psyche: Childhood, Trauma, and Reconciliation in the Survivors Speak Report (12 MINS) | |
| 7-105 | Institutional Resistance, Cluster 1 | CHAIR: Maryam Dharas, The Discursive Architecture of Genocide Denial: Israeli Prime Ministerial Rhetoric and the Devaluation of Palestinian Life (12 MINS) Dr. David Anderson, Elizabeth Underhill (submitted), Dr. Lisa McIntosh, Dr. Marie-France Berard, Museum Educators’ Perspectives: Complicating the Colonial Narratives in Canadian Heritage Museums (25 MINS) Habibatou Camara, Anatomy of a Breakdown: Mali’s Democratic Undoing (12 MINS) | |
| 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM | 12-130 (Nexus Lounge), 12-213 (SJE Board Room), 12-199 (SJE Board Room), 12-252 (SJE Air Space) | Lunch and Learn | |
| 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM | CTL 11-164 | Institutional Resistance, Cluster 2 | CHAIR: Meral Choudhry Dr. Anila Zainub, Muslim Integration in Canada and Decoloniality (12 MINS) Sabeena Tariq (VIRTUAL), Understanding the Lived Experiences of Muslim Women Facing Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Racism at the University of Calgary (12 MINS) Suad Ahmed, Through our Eyes: On the Social and Emotional Worlds of Somali Youth (12 MINS) Sadia Anjum, Global South Women: Coloniality of Leadership in Higher Education in Canada (12 MINS) Sunandha Shanmugaraj, From Ananthi to Anna: Teacher Colonization of Student Names Among Tamil Canadians (12 MINS) |
| Library | Institutional Resistance, Cluster 3 | CHAIR: Sev Arslan WORKSHOP Mesha Maloney, “Support” or Surveillance?: A Decolonial Examination of Misconduct, Trauma, and Power in Anti-Trafficking Systems | |
| OI 2296 | Institutional Resistance, Cluster 4 | CHAIR: Gayatri Thakor Mohamed Yusuf, Investigating the Long-Term Role of Mentorship in Overcoming the Systematic Academic Achievement Gap for Black Male Graduate Students in Canada (12 MINS) Gayatri Thakor, An Anti-Colonial Collective Embodied Ethic of Care: Nourishing the Heart, Mind, Body, and Soul (12 MINS) Roilui Sin, Post-Secondary Students’ Perceptions on Seeking Help for Adverse Childhood Experiences from Educators During High School (12 MINS) | |
| 7-178 | Institutional Resistance, Cluster 5 | CHAIR: Laurie Davey-Quantick, Inclusivity and Equity Practices of Canadian Grassroot International Aid Organizations (12 MINS) Rohini Patel & Kim Hong Nguyen, Resisting Chemical Futures Through Museum Politics (12 MINS) Yongzhi (Jim) Huang, Education as Liberation: Reading Ongoing Coloniality through Fiscal Visibility (12 MINS) | |
| OI 2286 | Institutional Resistance, Cluster 6 | CHAIR: Dr. Paul Adjei Baraa Abuzayed, Mitch, Natasha Rayman, Zainab Naqvi, Recognizing Anti-Palestinian Racism in the Academy: A Queen’s University Case Study (30 MINS) GROUP PANEL Dr. Karim Wissa & Jermal Jones, Beyond the Optics: Liberation, Institutional Capture, and the Limits of EDI/DEI in Predominantly White Institutions (30 MINS) | |
| 7-105 | Epistemic Resistance, Cluster 1 | CHAIR: Dr. Michelle Bailey VIRTUAL Iyanuoluwa Akinrinola, Recognizing Africa, Honouring Canadians of African Descent (12 MINS) Dr. Gifty Seiwaa Nyarko, Release from Epistemic and Political Colonizing Relation in Ghanaian Education: Influence of Transformational Leadership in Ghana’s Colleges of Education (12 MINS) Lee Stevens, Delinking Colonialism from Neoliberalism and Institutional Ethnography: Towards a New Framework for Understanding Social Assistance in Canada (12 MINS) Chloe Dugied, Ontario University EDI Strategic Plan Analysis: Power Embedded in Policy Discourse (12 MINS) | |
| 7-162 | Epistemic Resistance, Cluster 2 | CHAIR: Ernest Obeng VIRTUAL Sabeen Siddiqui, The Intimate Technologies of War: Architecture and Violence in the Reconstruction of the Hawma during the Battle of Algiers (12 MINS) SPEECH Nana Appa Korankye VII, Impact of Neo-colonialism on contemporary geo politics (12 MINS) Dr. Isaac Nortey Darko, Indigenous North and Indigenous South Solidarity: The Path to Unmasking Coloniality (12 MINS) Palvi Sidana, Too Young for Liberation? The Violence and Contradictions of Anti-DEI Politics in the Early Years (12 MINS) | |
| 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM | Library | Epistemic Resistance, Cluster 3 | CHAIR: Dr. Kenneth Gyamerah, Shaela Ali, & Sunandha Shanmugaraj, Examining Ontario Pre-Service Teachers’ Knowledge and Preparedness for Anti-Racist, Anti-Oppressive, and Social Justice Education (25 MINS) Lee Stevens, Sabeena Tariq (VIRTUAL), Hussain Durrani (VIRTUAL), Dr. Yahya El-Lahib, Using Theory to Decolonize Methodology: A Collaborative Reflection (25 MINS) Colin Tucker, Before the Audience Coheres: Marking Persistent Coloniality in Performing Arts Form (25 MINS) |
| 12-252 | Epistemic Resistance, Cluster 4 | CHAIR: Lois Boody VIRTUAL Sabi Kamilah Hinkson, Fugitive Futures: Black Feminist, PVEST, and Afrofuturist Pedagogies Toward Liberation in STEM Education (12 MINS) Korina Thomas-Reynolds, “The Math Ain’t Mathin’”: The epistemicide of Black youth in Canadian mathematics classrooms (12 MINS) Mr. Don Howell & Dr. Verna Knight, Unmasking Colonial Legacies in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in the Caribbean (25 MINS) | |
| 12-199 | Epistemic Resistance, Cluster 5 | CHAIR: Kirk Mark Dr. Siham Elkassem, Dr. Nuha Dwaikat-Shaer, Dr. Bryn King, Amilah Baksh, Gaza, Genocide, and the Politics of Weepy Universalism (25 MINS) Sadia Anjum, Rebuilding Solidarity: Lateral Violence, Root Causes, and Recommitting to Anti-Racism (12 MINS) Dr Dominik Jackson-Cole, Joris Lechêne, Dr Lucia Kula (all attending), Decoloniality of connectedness as a tool for unmasking ongoing coloniality of higher education (25 MINS) | |
| 12-130 | Institutional Resistance, Cluster 7 | CHAIR: Deborah Buchanan-Walford Dr. Marva J Ferguson, Removing the Mask- Truth Telling and Consequences, The Realities of Speaking Truth to Power (12 MINS) Dr. Ardavan Eizadirad & Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui, From EDI to Thriving Communities: Reclaiming Authentic Equity Work through Storytelling amid Anti-Woke Backlash (12 MINS) Andrea Barrow & Dr. Alana Butler, Decolonizing Educational Leadership: An Equity-Centered Case Study in a small Ontario town (25 MINS) | |
| 7-178 | Institutional Resistance, Cluster 8 | CHAIR: Sylvia Parris-Drummond & Dr. Suleyman Demi V. Pauahi Souza, State Violence and Land Defense in Hawai’i: Performing Solidarity, Economic Investment, and Cultural Impact on Kānaka Maoli in Canadian Institutional Interests (12 MINS) Dr. Paul Banahene Adjei, Mavis Dako-Gyeke Ophelia Affreh, & Nana Safo-Kantanka Osei Bonsu, Kente Fabric of Asante People of Ghana as an Epistemic Gift to the Academy: The Pedagogical Implications for Transformative Education (30 MINS) VIRTUAL: Osholene Upiomoh, Revealing Authentic African Bloodlines: Mapping Pre-Colonial Realities Beyond Colonial Borders (12 MINS) | |
| 7-162 | Institutional Resistance, Cluster 9 | CHAIR: Gayatri Thakor Dr. Michelle Bailey, Disrupting the Narrative: Storytelling as a Decolonial Praxis Against Intellectual Enslavement (12 MINS) Ava-Udeane Ellis, Mockery as Freedom: The Philosophy of Jab Jab (12 MINS) Juthi Jamila, Un-selfie by Rumi: Decolonial Possibilities through Ishraqi Philosophy and the Ethics of the Nafs (12 MINS) Ce Cil Kim, Teaching Anti-Racism to Post Secondary Students Through Children’s Books (12 MINS) Tara Thomas, Decolonizing Baking and Pastry Arts Education: Challenging Culinary Coloniality in Ontario’s Post-Secondary Institutions (12 MINS) | |
| 6:45 PM – 7:45 PM | Library | Closing Ceremony |
2Day 2 — March 13, 2026
Registration / Light Breakfast
Get name tags, conference booklet
Opening Ceremony
More information coming soon.
Plenary 2
Transnational and Local Struggles and Strategies (Desirée Gonzalez, Andrea Vásquez Jiménez, Dr. Amal Madibbo, Hadiya Rodrique, Andre Stephens) Panelists will speak about how Black communities across the world build solidarity, mutual aid, and protective networks, imagining liberation as collectively held, locally rooted, and globally connected.
Plenary 3
Cross-Racial Dialogue (Dr. Amanda Buffalo, Nigel Barriffe, Derik Chica, Sayema Chowdhury, Harpreet Ghuman, Dr. Arlo Kempf, Dr. Vidya Shah, Monica Tang) Panelists will highlight how cross-racial coalitions can resist punitive systems, challenge surveillance and criminalization, and advance community-based, humanizing alternatives.
Epistemic Resistance, Cluster 6
CHAIR: Dr. Suleyman Demi Desiree Gonzalez, Restorative Containers and Liberatory Possibility at the Santa Barbara County Jail: A Qualitative Community Fieldwork Project (15 MINS) Renée Whittaker, Care is Necessary (15 MINS) Dr. Ardavan Eizadirad & Dr. Rai Reece, Decolonizing Community Re-Entry: Effective Case Studies of Community-Led Programs to Support Formerly Incarcerated Individuals in Ontario (30 MINS)
Epistemic Resistance, Cluster 7
CHAIR: Dr. Francisco J. Villegas Georgiana Mathurin, Centring the Voices of Black Women With Precarious Immigration Status (15 MINS) Dr. Yecid Ortega, Noise, Ritual, Resistance: Plural Ways of Knowing as Decolonial Refusal (15 MINS) Romana B. Mirza, Unfiltered Voices: Digital Storytelling, Dress, and Decolonial Listening in Muslim Women's Self-Representation (15 MINS)
Linguistic Spatiality, Cluster 1
CHAIR: Nicole Perryman Utamika Cummings van Zyl, Black Body Monologues: Interrogating Through Poetry, Encounters of a Black Body in Predominantly White Academic Spaces (15 MINS) Dr. Sunday Israel Oyebamiji, Echoes of Colour Discrimination in Refugee Protection Regime: The Experience of Africans Fleeing the Russia-Ukrainian War (15 MINS) Lindsey Nkem, Approaching and muddling through feeling the some or many things of possibility's importance to liberation (15 MINS) Qetsia Misenga, I Am a Black Woman. I Am Supposed to be Strong": Understanding the Historical Roots of the "Strong Black Woman" Trope (15 MINS) Youeal Abera, The Affordability of Archiving: An Analysis of Rukeyser's The Book of the Dead and the Obscuration of White Supremacy (15 MINS)
Linguistic Spatiality, Cluster 2
CHAIR: Dr. Isaac Nortey / CO-CHAIR: Ce Cil Kim PANEL DISCUSSION Dr. Beverly-Jean Daniel, Dr. Rhonda C. George, Dr. Alana Butler, Dr. Camisha Sibblis, Shaunette George, Sonia Lewis, Navigating and negotiating for self-actualization: Exploring the experiences of Black Canadians within higher education
Linguistic Spatiality, Cluster 3
CHAIR: Dr. Verna Knight Claudette Rutherford, Radical Acts of Love: Mothering Black Sons and the Impact on Bonding and Attachment (15 MINS) Andrea Vásquez Jiménez, Replication of Policing and Carceral Functions: Youth Association for Academics, Athletics, and Character Education (YAAACE) (30 MINS)
Linguistic Spatiality, Cluster 4
CHAIR: Verne Hippolyte-Smith Maya Revell, Envisioning Desirable Environmental Futures through Black Girlhood Pedagogy (15 MINS) Christine Apiot Okudi, Joyce Kinyanjui, Mary Otieno, Jennifer L. O'Donoghue, Perspectives on agency from adolescent girls in the Karamoja Cluster in Kenya and Uganda (30 MINS) Paul Banahene Adjei & Professor George Dei, "The Door of 'No' Returns": African Elders Critical Teachings (ElderCrits) as a Conveyor Belt of Re-Uniting Global Diasporic Africans (30 MINS) Verne Hippolyte-Smith, Deathscapes to (Land)scapes (15 MINS)
Linguistic Spatiality, Cluster 5
CHAIR: Thanuja Thananayagam Majorie Namara Rugunda, Local Hire as Racial Code: Racialized Labor in the International Schools in Africa (15 MINS) Yetunde Banjo, The Devaluation of foreign credentials and its impact on career trajectories of professional African immigrant women in the Canadian labour market (15 MINS) Ololade Monisola Ajibowo, Navigating Borders: The Journey and Struggles of Nigerian Women Entrepreneurs in Lisbon, Portugal (15 MINS)
Critical Allyship
CHAIR: Trecia Knight Natasha Pravaz, "Allyship", Indigeneity and Jewish Anti-Zionist Activism from Abya Yala to Palestine (15 MINS) Shizza Fatima, Decolonization and Islamic Thought: An Intellectual History of Islamic Anti-colonial Thought in the Middle East and South Asia (15 MINS) Aakriti Kapoor, Towards Radical Relationality and Youth Participatory Policy: Rethinking Participatory Methodologies Through Black-Dalit Solidarities (15 MINS) Frankie Condon & Kim Hong Nguyen, Fast Anti-Racism: University Anti-Racism Statements and the Suppression of Anti-Racist, Decolonial Dissent (30 MINS)
Lunch
Enjoy a vibrant spread of diverse cuisines, bringing together global flavours.
Plenary 4
Global Indigeneities (Juliana Rodriguez Barrera, Cristina Jaimungal, Dr. Maria Mackay, Sandra Stryes, Dr. Njoki Wane) Panelists will position Indigenous knowledge as a critical framework for disrupting racialized violence, resisting assimilationist policies, and building collective futures.
Creative Media and Artificial Intelligence, Cluster 1
CHAIR: Annalissa Crisostomo Trecia Knight, Decolonizing AI: Building Ethical and Trustworthy Technology (15 MINS) Maimuna S Khan & Yahya El-Lahib, Algorithmic imperialism: AI and the coloniality of state surveillance and migration control of Muslim bodies (30 MINS) Wanyi Yin, Listening as Decolonial Praxis: Witnessing and Arts-Based Pedagogy in Diagnostic Schooling Contexts (15 MINS) Dr. Ardavan Eizadirad & Dr. Manu Sharma, Using Podcast Pedagogies to Disrupt and Reimagine Academic and Community Work (15 MINS)
Equity in Healthcare
CHAIR: Thanuja Thananayagam Dr. Sandra Dixon, Unmasking Coloniality: Decolonizing Counseling Psychology for Black and Racialized Liberation (15 MINS) Emilia C Zamora Moncayo, Exploring Indigenous Praxis of Well-being and Mental Health: A Feminist-Decolonial Ethnography in Kichwa Communities of Ecuador (15 MINS) Monika Barbe Welzel, Burnout in the Making: The Systemic Unfolding of Relational Rupture in Community Intervention Work (15 MINS) Patty Douglas, Stories of Decolonial Praxis: Talking with Māori and Pacific families about autism support and teacher education (15 MINS)
Solidarity, Cluster 1
CHAIR: Hibah Sidat Dr. Vidya Shah, Dr. Sayema Chowdhury, Harpreet Ghuman, Cross-Racial Solidarity as Anti-Racist, Activist Leadership (30 MINS) Randeep Nota, Stories of Anti-racism Training and Allyship (15 MINS) Sanaa Ali-Mohammed & Fahad Ahmad (non-presenting), Palestine Solidarity, Canadian Settler Philanthropy, and the Colonial Politics of Distraction (15 MINS)
Solidarity, Cluster 2
CHAIR: Nicole Perryman Co-CHAIR: Ce Cil Kim Kavya Harshitha Jidugu, Debrahminizing and Decolonizing the Diasporic Plate: Gustatory Politics among South Asian Students in Canada (15 MINS) Suparna Chatterjee & Aastha Khatri, "Good evening, Ma!, African Students in India" Some First Thoughts (30 MINS) Dr. Hezekiah Usman & Dr. Hosea O. Patrick (PHD), Neocolonialism, Multinational Corporations and Conflict in Africa: An Examination of Oil Conflicts in Nigeria (30 MINS)
Solidarity, Cluster 3
CHAIR: Kathy Lewis Kathy C. Lewis, Intra- and Ultra-Black/African Community Solidarity: Our Ancestral Voice of Truth (15 MINS) WORKSHOP Dr. Sabrina Jafralie, Mapping Memory: Afroheritage.ca and the Storytelling of Black Canadian Belonging (30 MINS)
Solidarity, Cluster 4
CHAIR: Dr. Francisco J. Villegas Nathalie Lozano Neira, Theory from the Wound: Embodied Memory, Land Relationality, and Anti-Colonial Futures (15 MINS) Haohao Chen, The role of nationalism in revolutionary movements and decolonization: Looking beyond nostalgia for "national" bonds and orienting ourselves towards the "seething present" (15 MINS) ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION Vashti Esinam Kamassah, Mohamed Rage, & Chloe Dugied, Expected to Lead, Left to Burnout: Black Educators and Burden of Representation (30 MINS)
Closing Ceremony
More information coming soon.
| Time | Room Number | Event / Session | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6:30 AM – 7:30 AM | 12-210 (SJE Lounge) | Registration / Light Breakfast | Get name tags, conference booklet |
| 8:00 AM – 8:45 AM | Library | Opening Ceremony | More information coming soon. |
| 8:45 AM – 10:15 AM | Library | Plenary 2 | Transnational and Local Struggles and Strategies (Desirée Gonzalez, Andrea Vásquez Jiménez, Dr. Amal Madibbo, Hadiya Rodrique, Andre Stephens) Panelists will speak about how Black communities across the world build solidarity, mutual aid, and protective networks, imagining liberation as collectively held, locally rooted, and globally connected. |
| 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Library | Plenary 3 | Cross-Racial Dialogue (Dr. Amanda Buffalo, Nigel Barriffe, Derik Chica, Sayema Chowdhury, Harpreet Ghuman, Dr. Arlo Kempf, Dr. Vidya Shah, Monica Tang) Panelists will highlight how cross-racial coalitions can resist punitive systems, challenge surveillance and criminalization, and advance community-based, humanizing alternatives. |
| 12:15 PM – 1:45 PM | OI 2279 | Epistemic Resistance, Cluster 6 | CHAIR: Dr. Suleyman Demi Desiree Gonzalez, Restorative Containers and Liberatory Possibility at the Santa Barbara County Jail: A Qualitative Community Fieldwork Project (15 MINS) Renée Whittaker, Care is Necessary (15 MINS) Dr. Ardavan Eizadirad & Dr. Rai Reece, Decolonizing Community Re-Entry: Effective Case Studies of Community-Led Programs to Support Formerly Incarcerated Individuals in Ontario (30 MINS) |
| 7-178 (Peace Lounge – LHAE) | Epistemic Resistance, Cluster 7 | CHAIR: Dr. Francisco J. Villegas Georgiana Mathurin, Centring the Voices of Black Women With Precarious Immigration Status (15 MINS) Dr. Yecid Ortega, Noise, Ritual, Resistance: Plural Ways of Knowing as Decolonial Refusal (15 MINS) Romana B. Mirza, Unfiltered Voices: Digital Storytelling, Dress, and Decolonial Listening in Muslim Women's Self-Representation (15 MINS) | |
| 7-162 (LHAE) | Linguistic Spatiality, Cluster 1 | CHAIR: Nicole Perryman Utamika Cummings van Zyl, Black Body Monologues: Interrogating Through Poetry, Encounters of a Black Body in Predominantly White Academic Spaces (15 MINS) Dr. Sunday Israel Oyebamiji, Echoes of Colour Discrimination in Refugee Protection Regime: The Experience of Africans Fleeing the Russia-Ukrainian War (15 MINS) Lindsey Nkem, Approaching and muddling through feeling the some or many things of possibility's importance to liberation (15 MINS) Qetsia Misenga, I Am a Black Woman. I Am Supposed to be Strong": Understanding the Historical Roots of the "Strong Black Woman" Trope (15 MINS) Youeal Abera, The Affordability of Archiving: An Analysis of Rukeyser's The Book of the Dead and the Obscuration of White Supremacy (15 MINS) | |
| Library | Linguistic Spatiality, Cluster 2 | CHAIR: Dr. Isaac Nortey / CO-CHAIR: Ce Cil Kim PANEL DISCUSSION Dr. Beverly-Jean Daniel, Dr. Rhonda C. George, Dr. Alana Butler, Dr. Camisha Sibblis, Shaunette George, Sonia Lewis, Navigating and negotiating for self-actualization: Exploring the experiences of Black Canadians within higher education | |
| 12-252 (Air Space – SJE) | Linguistic Spatiality, Cluster 3 | CHAIR: Dr. Verna Knight Claudette Rutherford, Radical Acts of Love: Mothering Black Sons and the Impact on Bonding and Attachment (15 MINS) Andrea Vásquez Jiménez, Replication of Policing and Carceral Functions: Youth Association for Academics, Athletics, and Character Education (YAAACE) (30 MINS) | |
| 12-130 (Nexus Lounge) | Linguistic Spatiality, Cluster 4 | CHAIR: Verne Hippolyte-Smith Maya Revell, Envisioning Desirable Environmental Futures through Black Girlhood Pedagogy (15 MINS) Christine Apiot Okudi, Joyce Kinyanjui, Mary Otieno, Jennifer L. O'Donoghue, Perspectives on agency from adolescent girls in the Karamoja Cluster in Kenya and Uganda (30 MINS) Paul Banahene Adjei & Professor George Dei, "The Door of 'No' Returns": African Elders Critical Teachings (ElderCrits) as a Conveyor Belt of Re-Uniting Global Diasporic Africans (30 MINS) Verne Hippolyte-Smith, Deathscapes to (Land)scapes (15 MINS) | |
| 7-105 (LHAE) | Linguistic Spatiality, Cluster 5 | CHAIR: Thanuja Thananayagam Majorie Namara Rugunda, Local Hire as Racial Code: Racialized Labor in the International Schools in Africa (15 MINS) Yetunde Banjo, The Devaluation of foreign credentials and its impact on career trajectories of professional African immigrant women in the Canadian labour market (15 MINS) Ololade Monisola Ajibowo, Navigating Borders: The Journey and Struggles of Nigerian Women Entrepreneurs in Lisbon, Portugal (15 MINS) | |
| 12-199 (Board Room) | Critical Allyship | CHAIR: Trecia Knight Natasha Pravaz, "Allyship", Indigeneity and Jewish Anti-Zionist Activism from Abya Yala to Palestine (15 MINS) Shizza Fatima, Decolonization and Islamic Thought: An Intellectual History of Islamic Anti-colonial Thought in the Middle East and South Asia (15 MINS) Aakriti Kapoor, Towards Radical Relationality and Youth Participatory Policy: Rethinking Participatory Methodologies Through Black-Dalit Solidarities (15 MINS) Frankie Condon & Kim Hong Nguyen, Fast Anti-Racism: University Anti-Racism Statements and the Suppression of Anti-Racist, Decolonial Dissent (30 MINS) | |
| 1:45 PM – 3:15 PM | 12-130 (Nexus Lounge), 12-213 (SJE Board Room), 12-199 (SJE Board Room), 12-252 (SJE Air Space) | Lunch | Enjoy a vibrant spread of diverse cuisines, bringing together global flavours. |
| 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM | Library | Plenary 4 | Global Indigeneities (Juliana Rodriguez Barrera, Cristina Jaimungal, Dr. Maria Mackay, Sandra Stryes, Dr. Njoki Wane) Panelists will position Indigenous knowledge as a critical framework for disrupting racialized violence, resisting assimilationist policies, and building collective futures. |
| 5:15 PM – 6:45 PM | 12-199 (Board Room) | Creative Media and Artificial Intelligence, Cluster 1 | CHAIR: Annalissa Crisostomo Trecia Knight, Decolonizing AI: Building Ethical and Trustworthy Technology (15 MINS) Maimuna S Khan & Yahya El-Lahib, Algorithmic imperialism: AI and the coloniality of state surveillance and migration control of Muslim bodies (30 MINS) Wanyi Yin, Listening as Decolonial Praxis: Witnessing and Arts-Based Pedagogy in Diagnostic Schooling Contexts (15 MINS) Dr. Ardavan Eizadirad & Dr. Manu Sharma, Using Podcast Pedagogies to Disrupt and Reimagine Academic and Community Work (15 MINS) |
| OI 2279 | Equity in Healthcare | CHAIR: Thanuja Thananayagam Dr. Sandra Dixon, Unmasking Coloniality: Decolonizing Counseling Psychology for Black and Racialized Liberation (15 MINS) Emilia C Zamora Moncayo, Exploring Indigenous Praxis of Well-being and Mental Health: A Feminist-Decolonial Ethnography in Kichwa Communities of Ecuador (15 MINS) Monika Barbe Welzel, Burnout in the Making: The Systemic Unfolding of Relational Rupture in Community Intervention Work (15 MINS) Patty Douglas, Stories of Decolonial Praxis: Talking with Māori and Pacific families about autism support and teacher education (15 MINS) | |
| Library | Solidarity, Cluster 1 | CHAIR: Hibah Sidat Dr. Vidya Shah, Dr. Sayema Chowdhury, Harpreet Ghuman, Cross-Racial Solidarity as Anti-Racist, Activist Leadership (30 MINS) Randeep Nota, Stories of Anti-racism Training and Allyship (15 MINS) Sanaa Ali-Mohammed & Fahad Ahmad (non-presenting), Palestine Solidarity, Canadian Settler Philanthropy, and the Colonial Politics of Distraction (15 MINS) | |
| 7-105 (LHAE) | Solidarity, Cluster 2 | CHAIR: Nicole Perryman Co-CHAIR: Ce Cil Kim Kavya Harshitha Jidugu, Debrahminizing and Decolonizing the Diasporic Plate: Gustatory Politics among South Asian Students in Canada (15 MINS) Suparna Chatterjee & Aastha Khatri, "Good evening, Ma!, African Students in India" Some First Thoughts (30 MINS) Dr. Hezekiah Usman & Dr. Hosea O. Patrick (PHD), Neocolonialism, Multinational Corporations and Conflict in Africa: An Examination of Oil Conflicts in Nigeria (30 MINS) | |
| 12-130 (Nexus Lounge) | Solidarity, Cluster 3 | CHAIR: Kathy Lewis Kathy C. Lewis, Intra- and Ultra-Black/African Community Solidarity: Our Ancestral Voice of Truth (15 MINS) WORKSHOP Dr. Sabrina Jafralie, Mapping Memory: Afroheritage.ca and the Storytelling of Black Canadian Belonging (30 MINS) | |
| 7-162 (LHAE) | Solidarity, Cluster 4 | CHAIR: Dr. Francisco J. Villegas Nathalie Lozano Neira, Theory from the Wound: Embodied Memory, Land Relationality, and Anti-Colonial Futures (15 MINS) Haohao Chen, The role of nationalism in revolutionary movements and decolonization: Looking beyond nostalgia for "national" bonds and orienting ourselves towards the "seething present" (15 MINS) ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION Vashti Esinam Kamassah, Mohamed Rage, & Chloe Dugied, Expected to Lead, Left to Burnout: Black Educators and Burden of Representation (30 MINS) | |
| 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM | G162 Auditorium | Closing Ceremony | More information coming soon. |
3Day 3 — March 14, 2026
Registration / Light Breakfast
Get name tags, conference booklet
Opening Ceremony
More information coming soon.
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Bettina L. Love
Plenary 5
CIARS Summer (Ghana) Institute (Dr. Paul Adjei, Prof. Vincent Adzahlie-Mensah, Dr. Nana George Dei, Prof. Hope Pius Nudzor) Panelists will position African ElderCrit as a critical and generative intervention for epistemic liberation, drawing on African Indigenous philosophies, oral traditions, spirituality, and communal governance.
Lunch
Enjoy a vibrant spread of diverse cuisines, bringing together global flavours.
Indigenous Knowledges, Cluster 7 / Equity
HYBRID Amy Desjarlais, Amahla Johnson, Aasiya Hussain (virtual), Zev Mair (virtual), Mike Pham (virtual), Giinwi ntam wii-Nishnaabemying: Our turn to speak Anishinaabemown. An experiential journey through love, shadows, and sunshine (75 MINS) V.T Nayani, A body born to fail, but not without with help first (15 MINS)
Epistemic Resistance, Cluster 8
BOOK PANEL Dr. Ardavan Eizadirad, Dr. Andrew B. Campbell (DR ABC), Dr. Zuhra Abawi, Dr. Stephanie Tuters, Activist Leadership for Inclusive Schools: Dismantling Coloniality and Reimagining Educational Leadership in Canada
Creative Media and Artificial Intelligence, Cluster 2
Hardeep Shergill, The Story About The Komagata Maru: Affirming Sikh Identities Within Classrooms (15 MINS) Paul Akpomuje, Blackness for Sale: Collections, Auction Block, and (Anti)racist (Counter)framing in Cyber Marketplace (15 MINS) Yahya El-Lahib & Maimuna S Khan, Disabled bodies and cross-border mobility: Interrogating the coloniality of AI through surveillance and border control (30 MINS)
Student Group
Toni Mars-Ligondé-Essono (Antonide Ligondé) and students, We are R.I.S.E. - Revolutionaries and Imaginative Students Explorers - Our humanity matters
In-conversation with Kathy and Verne
More information coming soon.
Symposium
A symposium honouring Dr. Nana George Dei's intellectual kinship, global influence, mentorship, and intergenerational impact.
Conference Social
Join us for an evening of celebration and connection with good food, lively music, and great company! This is a separate event. Purchase tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/a-joyful-wrapup-social-to-end-the-conference-in-style-tickets-1978678333159?aff=oddtdtcreator
| Time | Room Number | Event / Session | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6:30 AM – 8:30 AM | 12-210 (SJE Lounge) | Registration / Light Breakfast | Get name tags, conference booklet |
| 8:45 AM – 10:15 AM | G162 (Auditorium) | Opening Ceremony | More information coming soon. |
| 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM | G162 (Auditorium) | Keynote Speaker | Dr. Bettina L. Love |
| 11:45 AM – 1:15 PM | G162 (Auditorium) | Plenary 5 | CIARS Summer (Ghana) Institute (Dr. Paul Adjei, Prof. Vincent Adzahlie-Mensah, Dr. Nana George Dei, Prof. Hope Pius Nudzor) Panelists will position African ElderCrit as a critical and generative intervention for epistemic liberation, drawing on African Indigenous philosophies, oral traditions, spirituality, and communal governance. |
| 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM | 12-130 (Nexus Lounge), 12-213 (SJE Board Room), 12-199 (SJE Board Room), 12-252 (SJE Air Space) | Lunch | Enjoy a vibrant spread of diverse cuisines, bringing together global flavours. |
| 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM | 12-213 (SJE Board Room) | Indigenous Knowledges, Cluster 7 / Equity | HYBRID Amy Desjarlais, Amahla Johnson, Aasiya Hussain (virtual), Zev Mair (virtual), Mike Pham (virtual), Giinwi ntam wii-Nishnaabemying: Our turn to speak Anishinaabemown. An experiential journey through love, shadows, and sunshine (75 MINS) V.T Nayani, A body born to fail, but not without with help first (15 MINS) |
| 12-130 (Nexus Lounge) | Epistemic Resistance, Cluster 8 | BOOK PANEL Dr. Ardavan Eizadirad, Dr. Andrew B. Campbell (DR ABC), Dr. Zuhra Abawi, Dr. Stephanie Tuters, Activist Leadership for Inclusive Schools: Dismantling Coloniality and Reimagining Educational Leadership in Canada | |
| 12-199 (Board Room) | Creative Media and Artificial Intelligence, Cluster 2 | Hardeep Shergill, The Story About The Komagata Maru: Affirming Sikh Identities Within Classrooms (15 MINS) Paul Akpomuje, Blackness for Sale: Collections, Auction Block, and (Anti)racist (Counter)framing in Cyber Marketplace (15 MINS) Yahya El-Lahib & Maimuna S Khan, Disabled bodies and cross-border mobility: Interrogating the coloniality of AI through surveillance and border control (30 MINS) | |
| Library | Student Group | Toni Mars-Ligondé-Essono (Antonide Ligondé) and students, We are R.I.S.E. - Revolutionaries and Imaginative Students Explorers - Our humanity matters | |
| 4:45 PM – 5:30 PM | G162 (Auditorium) | In-conversation with Kathy and Verne | More information coming soon. |
| 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM | G162 (Auditorium) | Symposium | A symposium honouring Dr. Nana George Dei's intellectual kinship, global influence, mentorship, and intergenerational impact. |
| 8:30 PM – 11:30 PM | Conference Social | Join us for an evening of celebration and connection with good food, lively music, and great company! This is a separate event. Purchase tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/a-joyful-wrapup-social-to-end-the-conference-in-style-tickets-1978678333159?aff=oddtdtcreator |