Please join us as our current and past QMU colleagues discuss their chapter contributions to Anti-Racism in Education: Stories of Growing Activism, https://www.criticalpublishing.com/anti-racism-in-education edited by Dr Geetha Marcus and Dr Stefanie Van de Peer. The events will explore the stories of how scholars, researchers and teachers at QMU became part of anti-racist teaching activism through their own growing understanding of racism in education.

In each session, we will have space for questions and discussion and hope to provide a space for learning and sahring of practice. We ask that you commit to these principles explained by Building the Anti-Racist Classroom.

In this session, we welcome Dr Michelle L Elliot and Zaynab Akhtar, who will present their chapter Walking the talk: stepping into difficult conversations in occupational therapy education (Chapter 14). Michelle and Zaynab invite interested attendees to please read their chapter in advance of the session in order for the discussion to be informed by their stories, as a starting point. Chapter 14 - Walking the talk: stepping into difficult conversations in occupational therapy education. This session will encourage attendees to bring experiences, reflections, learnings, strategies (etc) into the conversation space - moving 'talk' into 'walk' and what 'difficult' conversations mean in this work.

You can access both physical and digital copies of Anti-Racism in Education: Stories of Growing Activism through QMU Library. 

Facilitator: Vikki Hill

For further details, please contact Vikki Hill in the LEAD Centre – vhill@qmu.ac.uk

Other events in this series:

• Dr Geetha Marcus - Ethno-cultural conflict and learning for sustainability: Why anti-racism matters?
  Thursday 2^nd November 2023, 12.30-1.30pm, Room 3162 Booking link

• Dr Michelle L Elliot and Zaynab Akhtar - Walking the talk: stepping into difficult conversations in occupational therapy education (Chapter 14)
  Monday 27^th November 2023, 1-2pm, TEAMS Booking link
   
• Dr Anthony Schrag, Creative strategies for unknowing: taking risks to encourage equitable relationships in the classroom (Chapter 9)
  Wednesday 6th December 2023, 10-11am, Room 0050 Booking link
   
• Bianca Mastromonico, White is the colour of my name: anti-racism in theatre and performance praxis (Chapter 10)
  Tuesday 9^th January 2024, 1-2pm, Room 2175 and TEAMS Booking Link
   
• Dr Arek Dakessian, Imagining defragmented university spaces (Chapter 12)
  Tuesday 16th January 2024, 3-4pm, Room 2171 and TEAMS Booking Link
   
• Anne O’Donnell, Mad studies and anti-racism (Chapter 11)
  Wednesday 7th February 2024, 12-1pm, Room 2176 and TEAMS Booking Link
   
• Dr Simon Hoult, Changing worldviews through study visits (Chapter 3)
  Wednesday 21^st February 2024, 12-1pm, Room 2173 Booking Link
   
• Dr Geetha Marcus, Learning to Love
  Thursday 14^th March 2024, 1-2pm, Room 2174 Booking Link