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 Arek Dakessian, who will present their chapter Imagining defragmented university spaces (Chapter 12). After a short introduction about the chapter itself and the real-world problem it aimed to articulate, the session will morph into a knowledge-exchange roundtable with participants around the following question: given structural realities outside the immediate control of QMU and other UK universities, how might we establish our classrooms and universities as spaces of anti-racism and education in practice? What strategies do you employ in your academic discipline and in everyday practice towards this, and what can we learn from each other’s practice in this regard?

There is no expeectation to read the chapter beforehand, but if you have time to do so, 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