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The 4th Annual Critical Indigenous, Race and Feminist Studies Student Conference – Precarity of Racialized Students’ Labour

May 1, 2021 @ 1:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Saturday May 1, 2021 from 1pm to 5:30pm AST
Conference Keynote
Harsha Walia 
is a South Asian activist and writer based in Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish Territories. She is the Executive Director of The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association. Walia has been involved in community-based grassroots migrant justice, feminist, anti-racist, Indigenous solidarity, anti-capitalist, Palestinian liberation, and anti-imperialist movements for over a decade. She is formally trained in law, and is the author of Undoing Border Imperialism (2013), and Border and Rule (2021).
Panel: Labour Precarity on Racialized Students’ Well-Being (Panelists: Tina Renier, Shreetee Appadu, Fallen Matthews and Sahana Kanabar)
Conference Registration required by April 28 2021: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/148423774505

Unceded Mi’kmaq Territory
Free Conference!
Conference Organizers: Racialized Students Academic Network
Conference Sponsors: Saint Mary’s University, Social Justice & Community Studies, Women & Gender Studies, Anthropology, Atlantic Canada Studies, International Development Studies, NSPIRG
For more information: cirfsconference@gmail.com

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