The Social Just
ice Institute’s Graduate Student Association Presents:
< span style="color: #993300\;">“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 Instit ute Graduate Student Associations’ event series\, “Just Futures: Thinking T hrough Abolition and Transformative Justice\,” dedicated to engaging broade r academic\, artist\, and activist communities in conversations around comb ating anti-Black racism on campus and reflecting on Canada’s histories of c olonialism\, surveillance\, policing\, and incarceration. This series emerg ed 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\, educat or\, activist\, and scholar. She is the author of Li ve From the Afrikan Resistance! which uses poetry to explore issues including feminism\, prison justice\, and abolition. El Jone s was the fifth Halifax poet-laureate (2013-5) and recipient of the 2016 Bu rnley “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 St udies at Queen’s University.
Vicki Chartrand is a Mama and Associate Professor in the Sociol
ogy Department at Bishop’s University and Adjunct Professor at t
he Univer
sity of Ottawa. Her current research is concerned with historica
l and contemporary links between the criminal justice system and settler co
lonialism\, Indigenous grassroots work to address violence against Indigeno
us women\, and alternative understandings and practices of justice and acco
untability. In addition to her research she is the recipient of the 2017/20
18 Divisional Teaching Award\, the founder and Director of the Centre for Justice Exchange\, Prisoner Struggles Editor for the Journal of Prisoners on Priso
n\, and sits on several editorial boards.