{"id":2928,"date":"2019-03-21T14:17:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T18:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=2928"},"modified":"2025-10-02T10:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:37:17","slug":"honouring-agnes-calliste-innovative-critical-race-and-intersectional-perspectives-in-canadian-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/event\/honouring-agnes-calliste-innovative-critical-race-and-intersectional-perspectives-in-canadian-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Honouring Agnes Calliste: Innovative Critical Race and Intersectional Perspectives in Canadian Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<p>The symposium will honour the scholarship of Dr. Agnes Miranda Calliste, 74, who spent her career as a Professor of Sociology at St. Francis Xavier University, and passed on Friday, August 31, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Calliste, born in Grenada, was a nationally and internationally celebrated academic. Her scholarship focused on the complex interrelation of migration, work, race, ethnicity and gender in Canada. Her ground-breaking interdisciplinary research with African-Canadian railway porters and Caribbean-Canadian nurses and domestic workers explored under-researched dimensions of our social history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Calliste studied not only the institutionalized oppression of such communities, but also their organized resistance. Her research is now widely cited by academics as essential reading in various fields. She also edited critically acclaimed collections, such as&nbsp;<em>Power, Knowledge and Anti-Racism Education<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Anti-Racist Feminism<\/em>, with Dr. George Dei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This symposium, inspired by Dr. Calliste\u2019s foundational work, showcases the relevance and richness of creative intersectional research and theorizing (including race\/ethnicity, colonialism, gender, class, citizenship, and sexuality) in extending the conceptual boundaries of understanding Canada\u2019s white settler colonial and racialized formations.&nbsp; The papers, presented by established and emergent Carleton scholars examines topics such as identity and masculinity in the Black and African diaspora, the disposability and resilience of Caribbean migrant labour, theorizing anti-colonial, anti-racist feminism, the transnationalism of racialized&nbsp;(Indian and Argentinian) communities, racism and power in Canadian children\u2019s literature, and positionalities of racialized feminist scholars and students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The symposium,&nbsp;composed of&nbsp;three chaired panels with continental breakfast and lunch&nbsp;included, will be held on November 23rd, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., at Residence Commons room 270. Please click&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-content\/uploads\/Agnes-Calliste-Full-Program2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>to view the program and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-content\/uploads\/Agnes-Calliste-Poster-3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>&nbsp;for the poster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This event is co-sponsored by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Sociology and Anthropology<\/a>, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Migration and Diaspora Studies<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/womensstudies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Women\u2019s and Gender Studies<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Latin American and Caribbean Studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[42],"cu_event_audience":[9],"class_list":["post-2928","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry","cu_event_type-sponsored","cu_event_audience-anyone"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2018-11-23T08:45:00","cu_event_end_date":"2018-11-23T15:15:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":"TC","cu_event_meeting_room":"270","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"Daiva Stasiulis","cu_event_email":"Daiva.Stasiulis@carleton.ca","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/2928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/2928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2930,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/2928\/revisions\/2930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=2928"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=2928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}