Activist Scholarship and Radical Praxis Lecture Series

Come to the Activist Scholarship and Radical Praxis Series

The goals of the series are:

• to generate a dialogue regarding the role of feminist intellectual inquiry in struggles for social justice,

• to explore the relationship between scholars and oppressed communities, and

• to promote models of activist scholarship.

Speakers:

	Marie Battiste Dr. Marie Battiste is a Mi’kmaq from the Potlo’tek First Nation in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. She is full professor in the Department of Educational Foundations, Academic Director of the Aboriginal Education Research Centre in the College of Education at University of Saskatchewan, and co-Director of the Humanities Research Unit in the College of Arts and Sciences. A mother of three, she and her husband J. Youngblood Henderson have made Saskatoon their home after many years living in Eskasoni, Nova Scotia, a Mi’kmaw reserve where Marie worked in two First Nations schools. Marie has several earned degrees: Ed. D. (1984) Stanford University; Ed. M. (1974); Harvard University; B.S. (1971) University of Maine, Farmington and received two honorary degrees: 1997 University of Maine, Farmington and 1987 St. Mary's University. She has published widely and remains involved in research on Aboriginal education, languages and teachers and teacher education. She is the recipient of the Distinguished Research Award in 2004, the first woman to receive this award at the University of Saskatchewan. She is co-author of (2000) Protecting Indigenous Knowledge: A Gobal Challenge. Saskatoon, SK: Purich Press, which won a Saskatchewan Book Award in 2001; and editor of (2000) Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision. Vancouver: UBC Press, and senior editor of (1995) First Nations Education in Canada: The Circle Unfolds. Vancouver: UBC Press. Time: 6.30pm Date: Thursday March 17th, 2005 Location: Room 548, Faculty of Social Work, 246 Bloor St West, at Bedford Near St George Subway
	Andrea Smith Andrea Smith (Cherokee) is a longtime anti-violence and Native American activist and scholar who is co-founder of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, a national organization that utilizes direct action, critical dialogue and grassroots organizing to address this critical issue. Andrea is widely published on issues of violence against women of color and as one of the nation's leading experts on the topic, is a highly-sought after speaker. Andrea's extensive writings and lectures also focus on Native American studies, feminism, and religious traditions. Andrea was the Women of Color Caucus chair of the National Coalition Against Sexual Assault and co-founder of the Chicago chapter of Women of All Red Nations. She served as the Coordinator of the First Color of Violence national conference held in 2000 at University of California, Santa Cruz. This important gathering brought together activists and scholars to explore and strategize around the relationships among racism, colonialism, homophobia, and gender violence in the lives and histories of women of color. A Second national conference was held in 2002 at the University of Illinois at Chicago with Smith serving on the conference planning committee. As a scholar, Andrea has taught Native American and Women's studies courses and for her academic excellence, has received numerous honors and awards. She holds a B.A. from Harvard University in Comparative Study of Religion, a Masters of Divinity from the Union Theological Institute and a PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in History of Consciousness. Andrea teaches in the Department of Native American Studies at the University of Michigan. Time: 6.30pm Date: Thursday April 28th, 2005 Location: Room 548, Faculty of Social Work, 246 Bloor St West, at Bedford Near St George Subway
	Margo Okazawa-Rey is Visiting Professor of Women's Studies and Director of the Women's Leadership Institute at Mills College. She is also Professor Emerita of Social Work at San Francisco State University and has held the Jane Watson Irwin Chair in Women's Studies at Hamilton College and the Jack Gray Chair in Humanities at the University of Hartford. Professor Okazawa-Rey's articles on transnational feminist praxis, militarism, feminist movements and critical multicultural education are published in journals such as Affilia, Social Justice, Peace Review and the Asian Journal of Women's Studies. She is co-editor of the groundbreaking women's studies textbook Women's Lives, Multicultural Perspectives (McGraw Hill 2004), which has been adopted in women's studies programs across the U.S. and Canada. Professor Okazawa-Rey's scholarship is informed by a lifetime of activism. In the 1970s, she was a member of the Combahee River Collective, a black feminist group that developed the theory of intersectionality as a basis for feminist praxis. She is co-founder of the East Asia-U.S.-Puerto Rico Women's Network against Militarism, a transnational project that generates feminist analyses and resistance to U.S. militarism and is a Board member of WomanVision, WAND Education Fund and the Women of Color Resource Center. Organizing Against Militarism: "Loving in the War Years?" Featuring Spoken Word over Beats and Music by MAEWON Light refreshments served Date: Thursday October 28 Time: 6.30pm Location: Room 548, Faculty of Social Work, 246 Bloor St West, at Bedford Near St George Subway
	Nandita Sharmais in the School of Social Sciences, Atkinson department at York University where she is engaged in research regarding the consequences of displacement. She is examining the links between the present crises facing an ever growing number of people actively involved in international migration and the policies of national governments that facilitate the entry and subsequent marginalization of specific groups of migrants in nationalized labour markets. She examines the connective role that the globalization of capitalism, racism and patriarchies plays in these processes of displacement and exploitation. Nandita is a founding member of the international campaign: Open the Borders! as well as the anti-biopiracy organization, Basmati Action Group which is opposed to all forms of life patenting (including the US patent given to Rice Tec Corporation for basmati rice). No Borders! Resisting White Nationalism, Imperialism and Illegality Time: 6.30pm Date: Thursday Nov 25th, 2004 Location: Room 548, Faculty of Social Work, 246 Bloor St West, at Bedford Near St George Subway

On and Off Campus: Queer Activism and the Legacy of Michael Lynch

A Forum presented by Sexual Diversity Studies at University College and supported by the Department of English, U of T

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Why activist scholarship?

What is activist scholarship?

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