Research – Educate – Agitate
Join us on March 13th and 14th as we showcase research and knowledge with a community organizing focus!
Details:
Date- Friday March 13th (5pm-930pm), Saturday March 14th (830am-530pm)
Location – McKinnon Building, University of Guelph
(See Schedule Below)
OPIRG-Guelph’s Social and Environmental Justice Symposium is a convergence of academic and community research, activism, and art focused on social and environmental justice issues. We are aiming to make research more accessible to all and to foster deeper relationships and idea sharing between academics and community activism. Our goal is to support the development of research that is useful to community based campaigns and projects working for social change and fostering a space for this exchange to take place. We would like to encourage opportunities for students and community members energy and work to be useful as a valuable resource to improve community organizing. This symposium will highlight community – based social justice research by students and community groups.
This conference is for the campus AND the community. Whether you are a student, community member, organizer, mobilizer, or just curious of activism we encourage you to come out and participate! We are working to challenge the shift our understandings of the role of research and foster a space for academics and activists to collectively examine and engage with community issues through creative and alternative skill and idea sharing.
This is beyond your typical research conference. We are fostering a space for research presentations, panels, roundtables, breakout groups, multimedia and art displays, interactive activities, zines and more.
What else to expect:
-FREE FOOD
-Rebel Knowledge Fair: Zines, Books, Posters and DIY Apparel
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-Gallery Walk: History of Guelph Activist Art
-Free Film Screening
-After Party at Atmosphere
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The space is wheelchair and scooter accessible. If you have any specific needs in order to feel comfortable please let us know. symposium@opirgguelph.org
Schedule
(See Full Details here – http://opirgguelph.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/SEJS_schedule.pdf)
Friday March 13th
5:30PM
Traditional Opening and Land Acknowledgment
6:00-7:30pm
Freedom to Learn: Challenging the Education Paradigm in Ontario (room MCKN 117)
7:45-9:30pm
FILM: The Internet’s Own Boy (2014, 105 min.) (room MCKN 117)
Co-presented with Guelph Film Festival
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Saturday March 14th
8:30 AM
Breakfast, Coffee, Registration (registration is free)
9:15– 10:30
Capitalism isn’t working: What else is there? (room MCKN 227)
The Borders Crossed Us: Understanding the Impacts of Immigration Laws and Borders in Canada (room MCKN 117)
Food Industrial Complex: A Conversation on GMO’s and Pesticides (room MCKN 228)
10:45 – 12pm
Seeds of Change: Exploring and Unpacking Food Justice Movements (room MCKN 227)
Slapp Suits: Slapping movements into silence (room MCKN 117)
We are the Ocean: The Knowledge Within Indigenous Feminisms & it’s Relationship to the Academy, Activism and Social Structures (room MCKN 228)
12-12:45
Lunch
12-12:45
Climate Justice and the Dilemmas of Sustainable Development (room MCKN 117)
Presented by John Devlin, Associate Proffesor in Rural Planning and Development, UofG
12:45 – 2:00
Mining: Canada’s toxic legacy (room MCKN 117)
Resisting the Rise of Anti-Muslim Violence (room MCKN 227)
Politics of Trauma: Alternative Healing Strategies (room MCKN 228)
2:15 – 3:30
We don’t want your Pipelines: Strategies for Challenging Pipelines in Ontario (room MCKN 227)
Using Academia to further Indigenous Sovereignty (room MCKN 117)
Ontario’s Electricity Future – Nuclear or Renewable? (room MCKN 228)
3:45 – 5:00pm
The Impact of Environmental Movements on Indigenous Sovereignty (room MCKN 227)
The Power of Storytelling: Using Stories to Create Change and Understanding (room MCKN 228)
Money walks: Strategies for Divestment from Mining, Fossil Fuels and Israeli Apartheid (Room MCKN 117)