Official inauguration of the Air Canada Professorship on Anti-Racism
Nov 2, 2022 — All day
The Faculty of Education invites alumni, friends, and members of the University community to join us, in person or virtually, for the official inauguration of the Air Canada Professorship on Anti-Racism and the appointment of Professor Awad Ibrahim to the role. This launch event will feature Professor Ibrahim’s presentation “Thinking through the work of anti-racism: A poetic conversation expanding from arts to politics.” Reserve your seat today.
Description
Situated squarely within a post-George Floyd moment – where we were traumatized and the ugly face of systemic racism stared us in the face – this presentation asks: what is the work anti-racism? In this junctural moment, I will argue, the work of anti-racism crosses three distinct yet interrelated areas. The primary work of anti-racism, I first contend, is to enable people to critically situate themselves in time and space and at the same time question the adequacy of that location; second, to fully humanize ourselves and others; third and finally, to open cracks so that a better, environmentally friendly, peaceful, wide-awake and fully conscious future is brought into existence. These three areas have direct implications for the work of the Air Canada Professor on Anti-racism, in the context of teaching and learning within the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Education and beyond.
Awad Ibrahim
Full professor and recipient of the Air Canada professorship on anti-racism
Awad Ibrahim is a Curriculum Theorist with special interest in economy of hospitality (Derrida), cultural studies, Hip-Hop, youth and Black popular culture, social foundations (i.e., philosophy, history and sociology of education), social justice and community service learning, diasporic and continental African identities, ethnography and applied linguistics. He has researched and published widely in these areas. Professor Ibrahim obtained his PhD from OISE, the University of Toronto, and has been with the Faculty of Education of the University of Ottawa since 2007.
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