Seeking Expressions of Interest

Interim Institute Director, Institute for Intersectionality Studies
(start date July 1, 2024)

The Institute for Intersectionality Studies is inviting expressions of interest from continuing faculty members at the University of Alberta to fill the position of Interim Institute Director (start date July 1, 2024). Read more for a brief description of the position, required qualifications, and a summary of the draft vision and key goals of the proposed Institute. We hope to receive expressions of interest by May 1 - you are also invited to reach out to Dr. Siobhan Byrne, Director of IIS  for further information and discussion.

Decolonization in Context: South Africa

The Anti-Racism Lab and the Chair for Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation (CriSHET) at Nelson Mandela University is hosting the Decolonization in Context: South Africa workshop on April 17 from 5:00pm-6:45pm (Johannesburg time).

For more information and registration please visit here. 

Panelists: Farouk Abrahams (Aboriginal Business Council), Prof Babalwa Magoqwana (Nelson Mandela University), Dr Jenny du Preez (Nelson Mandela University).

Facilitator: Prof Nomalanga Mkhize (Nelson Mandela University)

The 2024 Festival of Teaching and Learning

Beyond Accessibility Checklists
Designing the Future

with Dr. Joanne Weber

Drawing from personal experience as a deaf scholar and her research on the application of aesthetic pragmatism to pedagogy and curriculum, Dr. Joanne Weber, Canada Research Chair explores what might lie beyond the current preoccupation with disability-specific accommodations and checklists associated with teaching and learning. For instance, we tend to study disability specific to individuals, ensuring their access to a specific technology or space, even for a specific time or task. But we rarely consider how disabled people co-exist in the same teaching and learning space. The increasing inclusion of people with disability also increases the likelihood that people with a variety of access strategies will share the same space, time or technology (Hofman et al., 2020). Dr. Weber explores how we might design teaching and learning experiences that support accessibility as a shared space rather than meeting individual needs.

When: May 7
Where: Edmonton Clinic Health Academy 2-140 and Online

Complete schedule of events coming soon. Please continue to check the Festival website!

Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture and Social Justice

Special Issue
Liveable Futures: Radical Imagination as Method/ 
Radical Imagination as Survival

The journal especially welcomes research papers (up to 7000 words), interviews (up to 3000 words), and creative submissions that explore:

• The role of arts-based or research-creation approaches in transformative social research.
• Research projects and practices grounded in an ethics of care and vulnerability, particularly with respect to children, young people, and other marginalized populations.
• Social movements as spaces for imagining and living alternatives to the status quo.
• The radical imagination as a lived, material, and collective activity that can survive on the boundaries of academic research and teaching.

EXTENDED DEADLINE for submissions: MAY 17, 2024
For more information please visit their website here.