DATES: November 8 - 10, 2018

Donations are welcome and appreciated. They will go towards supporting the conference, which is entirely volunteer-led, as well as to supporting the centre.

Please note that donations are not conference tickets.

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CIARS is pleased to announce that it is holding its XI Decolonizing Conference for critical dialogues on the theme of "Dialoguing and Living Well Together: Decolonization and Insurgent Voices".

Using a Decolonizing perspective, the conference hopes to explore new meanings of "living well together" outside of White mythology (in Derrida"s terms) and the capitalist paradigm. We ask: how do we bring non-Western epistemologies to a terrain that has existed through a long-exercised White Mythology? What Indigenous experiences speak to the possibility of living well together in new futures? What additional dimensions of the above can be gleaned from the constant mobility of bodies, identities, subjectivities and relations?

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KEYNOTES

• Molefi Kete Asante

• Marie Battiste

• Sandy Grande

• Gloria Ladson-Billings

PLENARY PANELS

• Plenary 1: Trumpism and the rise of the alt-right

• Plenary 2: Reframing Intersectional theory

• Plenary 3: Indigenous concepts

• Plenary 4: Fall Institute: Decolonizing our learning spaces

SESSION THEMES

• Traditional Indigenous knowledge systems for Living Well

• Biodiversity and the Capitalization of Nature

• Water, Life and Communities

• The Anthropocene and the Racialization of Resources

• Migration, Exploitation and Resistance

• White Mythology and other Epistemologies

• Sustainable Economies, Food Sovereignty and Living Well

• Anti-Muslim Racism

• Imperialism, Militarism, and Islamophobia

• Black and Indigenous Futurisms

• Race, Education and the Academy

• Counter-Visions of Education

• Indigenous Resurgences and New Possibilities

• Race and Gender Violence

• Race, Culture and New Media

• Race, Policing and the Justice System

• Blackness and Anti-Blackness

• Whiteness and White Supremacy

• Anti-Racist Feminisms

• Race, Queer, and Disability

• Reframing Intersectionalities

• "Mixed" Race Identities

• Race, Immigration and Resettlement

• The Nation State, Citizenship and International Development

• Language, Race, and Education

• Spiritualities and Land

• Pedagogies and Land

• Environmental Coloniality

• Race, Environment and Health

• Interculturalism and Decoloniality