The Social Justice Institute’s Graduate Student Association Presents:
El Jones
Poet, journalist, educator, activist, and scholar
&
Vicki Chartrand
Associate Professor of Sociology, Bishop’s University
“Race, the Nation-State and Policing”
WHEN & WHERE
Zoom
February 7th, 12-1 PM PST
All events are free and open to the public.
This panel is the first in the Social Justice Institute Graduate Student Associations’ event series, “Just Futures: Thinking Through Abolition and Transformative Justice,” dedicated to engaging broader academic, artist, and activist communities in conversations around combating anti-Black racism on campus and reflecting on Canada’s histories of colonialism, surveillance, policing, and incarceration. This series emerged as a response to instances of racial profiling that occurred at UBC and hope that through this free panel, we can invite students, faculty, and communities from across so-called North America to learn about abolition so that we can end racial profiling on campuses for good.
El Jones is a poet, journalist, educator, activist, and scholar. She is the author of Live From the Afrikan Resistance! which uses poetry to explore issues including feminism, prison justice, and abolition. El Jones was the fifth Halifax poet-laureate (2013-5) and recipient of the 2016 Burnley “Rocky” Jones human rights award for her work in community and prison justice. She co-founded Black Power Hour, a live radio show hosted on CKDU that blends hip hop with discussions of political, cultural, and social issues relevant to Black people. She recently received a PhD in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University.
Vicki Chartrand is a Mama and Associate Professor in the Sociology Department at Bishop’s University and Adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa. Her current research is concerned with historical and contemporary links between the criminal justice system and settler colonialism, Indigenous grassroots work to address violence against Indigenous women, and alternative understandings and practices of justice and accountability. In addition to her research she is the recipient of the 2017/2018 Divisional Teaching Award, the founder and Director of the Centre for Justice Exchange, Prisoner Struggles Editor for the Journal of Prisoners on Prison, and sits on several editorial boards.
