For a Diverse—as in, Different University. Or, Not that kind of Equity.
Event Speaker: Dr. rosalind hampton (University of Toronto)
Event Date and Time: Thursday, April 27 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. EST
Event Format: Zoom webinar (Zoom link will be sent upon registering below); this session will include a 45-minute talk followed by a moderated 45-minute Q&A session with the audience. ASL interpretation and live captioning will be provided.
Event description: In her book, Black Racialization and Resistance at an Elite University, hampton offers a series of questions to frame a discussion of Black people’s academic service in / for the neoliberal university:
Given the university’s foundations and role in society, is an ‘equitable and diverse’ university possible? How do we respond to the expectation that Black, Indigenous, and other racialized people are the ones responsible for ‘diversifying’ and ‘decolonizing’ the university? For whom do we do such work? And how do we manage the potential for this work to be used to validate and further entrench the very relations it claims to undo? (2020, p. 138)
In this talk, Professor hampton revisits and engages these questions, bringing her previous research findings into conversation with her examination of changes in Canadian academia in the years since then. She will consider how dramatic spikes in institutional discourse and policy related to equity, diversity, inclusion, and decolonization; antiblack racism, Black faculty hires, and Black Studies are impacting universities in Canada. Have our aims and strategies shifted in relation to those of the institutions? Professor hampton will offer analysis and concrete examples that invite us to think collectively about how we continue to remain vigilant in studying, teaching, organizing and struggling for a different university.
Speaker Bio: Dr. rosalind hampton works as an Assistant Professor of Black Studies in the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. Her areas of teaching and supervision are centred on Black radical thought, racialized social relations, Black feminist life writing, arts, and creative practice. As a scholar and activist, Dr. hampton is especially interested in anticolonial, anticapitalist solidarities within and beyond academia. She is the author of Black Racialization and Resistance at an Elite University (UTP, 2020), and her current research and writing examine Black Studies initiatives in Canadian universities, Black student activism and coalition building, and critical-creative praxis in Black Studies research and pedagogy.
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