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9th Annual Social Work Research Symposium -- April 29: Interdisciplinary Conversations on Social Transformation and Critical Practices

Posted on 3 March 2016

Organized by the School of Social Work at 91��ɫ, the Critical Social Work and Social Justice Research Symposium aims to foster critical education, research and practice in relation to critical social work and social transformation in order to promote contemporary, historical, social, political and economical context, both locally and globally.

Symposium Date: April 29, 2016

Program

Time	Event
8:30 - 9:00	Registration
9:00 - 9:30 Room S802	Welcome Barbara Heron, Director, School of Social Work Teresa Macias, Chair, Research and Ethics Committee, School of Social Work
9:30 - 10:15 Room S802	KEYNOTE 1 Chair: Teresa Macias Title: A paradox or a productive contradiction? A proposal to historicize discourses and scholarship on skilled immigrants’ labour market integration Dr. Soma Chatterjee School of Social Work, 91��ɫ
10:15 -10:30	Break
10:30 -11:45 Room S802	SESSION 1 (Inter)national social work articulations and struggles Chair: Mary Goitom Pedagogy Under Siege in Palestine: Community Action and Education an Anti-colonial struggle - Najwa Silwadi & Peter Mayo, 91��ɫ Gender Diversity Within Islam: Moving Beyond Patriarchal Binaries - Mahum Ahmed, 91��ɫ Design and Social Work in Post-disaster Community Rebuilding in Ya'an of Sichuan, China - Hok Bun KU, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Lighten Up: Exploring Skin Lightening Practices among Canadian South Asian Women - Amrit Dhillon, 91��ɫ
11:45 -12:45	Lunch
12:45 - 1:30 Room S802	KEYNOTE 2 Chair: Ruth Koleszar-Green Title: Re-Search is a Journey: Connecting to the Spirit & Ways of Knowledge Dr. Bonnie Freeman School of Social Work, McMaster University
1:30-2:45 Room S802	SESSION 2 CRSP Graduate Scholarship Special Issue Chair: Wendy McKeen and Anne O’Connell Journey to Freedom Act: The work of heritage in the making of the Vietnamese subject in Canada and the erasure of the Vietnam war - Anh Ngo, 91��ɫ “The Brains of a Nation”: A Critical Analysis of Discourses of Nationalism in Canadian Mental Hygiene Movement Literature from 1918-1921 - Edward Wong, 91��ɫ
2:45 -3:00	Break
3:00-4:15 Room S802	CONCURRENT SESSIONS 3 Panel 3.1: Practical and Pedagogical Innovations and Challenges Chair: Helen Gateri Face Cards: Policing Practices Impact on Racialised Youth in the Jane/Finch community - Emily Alston-O'Connor, 91��ɫ Clutching Our Pearls: Client Perspectives of Threat, Criminalization, and Surveillance in ‘Client Resistance’ - Poe Liberado, 91��ɫ The Social Organization of Social Work Placements: An Institutional Ethnography Examining Relations of Race and Neoliberalism in Field Education - Sinthu Srikanthan, 91��ɫ
Room S 801	Panel 3.2: The Politics of Social Work Chair: Soma Chatterjee "(Building) a Political Agenda for Social Work"- Filipe Duarte, Carlton University The Politics of Social Work: Do Racialized Social Workers Belong in the Practice Space of Public Policy? - Candies Kotchapaw, 91��ɫ Reproducing Racism and Whiteness In Canada: Discourses in Ontario’s Local Food Movement - Abrah McKeen, 91��ɫ
4:15 – 4:30	Closing remarks