Practices and Strategies for Teaching and Learning During Crisis

This session will review the recently developed resource on Teaching During Global and Geopolitical Crisis, including an overview of the trauma-informed teaching and community care principles that informed its development. Participants will be invited to share the values that guide their teaching and to imagine ways that they might update their teaching materials and/or practices in line with this approach. The session is open to educators across the University of Alberta community and represents a starting point in crucial and timely conversations about capacity-building, accountability, and care. For more information visit HERE.

When: Feb. 27, 2024 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Where: Online; Please register HERE.  

27th Canadian Ethnic Studies Association Biennial Conference

The Canadian Ethnic Studies Association (CESA) invites theoretical and empirically-based contributions, individual papers and/or fully formed panels, standard papers or presentations in other formats (e.g., posters, roundtables, films) for its 27th biennial conference devoted to the theme “Colonial Legacies, Contemporary Crises and Contested Futures: Canada in an Interconnected World. For more information visit HERE.

The deadline for submission of proposals for papers, sessions, panels, roundtables, and poster presentations is May 1, 2024. The decisions on the submitted proposals will be communicated by June 1, 2024. Abstracts should be directed electronically to: cesa2024@ualberta.ca.

When: November 14-16, 2024
Where: University of Alberta, Edmonton

Decolonizing Methods: Unsettling Research

The KIAS Research Cluster in Advancing Social Methods and Training for Social Change is excited to announce the second Methods Seminar of the 2023-24 year, held in collaboration with the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology (iiQM).

When: Friday, March 8, 2024, 12:00-1:00pm
Where: In-person in Tory 12-15 (Political Science CoLab) and Virtual via Zoom. 

Please register here for the event and save it to your calendar. 

In this moderated conversation, three U of A scholars will reflect on the work of “decolonizing” research methods, drawing on their own situated experiences, practices, relationships, and areas of scholarship. Conversation will include attention to the very idea of ‘decolonizing’ research, and how people integrate this into their teaching. Moderators will briefly introduce the recent ‘Decolonizing’ Approaches to Research at uAlberta project in which the three panelists participated.

Panelists: Lana Whiskeyjack (Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts – Women’s & Gender Studies), Stephanie Montesanti (Associate Professor, School of Public Health), and Shirley Anne Tate (Professor, Faculty of Arts – Sociology Dept)

Moderators: Nancy Van Styvendale (Associate Professor, Faculty of Native Studies and Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Native Studies) and Audrey Medwayosh (Graduate Research Assistant, Faculty of Arts – Sociology Dept) 

The 3rd MEIS Monthly Meetings

Echoes of Resilience: Stories and Poetry From The Middle East

A Panel Discussion Featuring: 

• Dr. Iman Mersal, Associate Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, U of Alberta 
• Dr. Ghada Ageel Hamdan, Assistant Lecturer, Department of Political Science, U of Alberta
• Dr. Joseph Hill, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, U of Alberta

Panel Chair: Professor Michael Frishkopf, Department of Music, U of Alberta   

When:  Tuesday Feburary 27, 2024 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM (MST)
Where: Zoom Webinar | Free Registration HERE