6th CIRFS Conference: Racialization, Institutions and Movements

The Racialized Students Academic Network (RSAN) presents the sixth Critical Indigenous, Race, and Feminist Studies Student Conference (CIRFS) on Saturday, April 27th, 2024. The focus of this conference is on racialization, institutions, and movements. Specifically, the conference will be a site for the examination, engagement, and interrogation of the multiple effects of racialization within diverse institutions and movements (ie. public and private sectors, non-profit, academia, grassroots).

The conference is being held in person at Mount Saint Vincent University, at the McCain Centre Room 105/106.

Keynote Plenary:

Lynn Jones is African-Nova Scotian and was born and raised in Truro. Lynn, who currently lives in Halifax, has been a life-long civil and human rights activist, an educator, a community archivist, community and labour organizer, and currently a reparation activist.

Michelle Paul is a mother, treaty rightsholder, water protector, land defender, advocate, and activist. Her rights-based advocacy work is within Indigenous communities in solidarity with allies to resist colonial infringements on Mi’kmaw sovereignty. She was a key water defender within the Alton Gas Resistance movement in Mi’kmaki.

Fatima Jaffer is of Kenyan South Asian origin, and a longtime activist in Vancouver, the traditional unceded lands of the Coast Salish Peoples. She is a former editor of Kinesis, Canada's national feminist newspaper, and has written for various national and international newspapers, magazines, and academic journals.

Panel 1: Contesting Racialization within Non-profits & Institutions
Panel 2: Challenging Racism to Promote Health and Well-Being
Panel 3: Negotiations & Responses to Processes of Racialization in Institutions

Admission for this conference is on a sliding scale from $0-$50. No one will be turned away. The sliding scale concept is an anti-capitalist collective approach where those who have more pay more and those who have less pay less (or $0). After registration, please make payment by e-transfer to [email protected] but cash payment will be accepted at the conference. Your contribution will support future CIRFS conferences.

CIRFS is organized by Racialized Students Academic Network (RSAN) which is an independent autonomous network of/for Indigenous and Black students/alumni and students/alumni of colour in Kjipuktuk, Mi'kmaki.

Host or Publisher RSAN (Racialized Students Academic Network)