Friday, November 4, 2022 - 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
The Centre for Human Rights, Equity & Inclusion (Centre) is pleased to invite you to its Equity and Inclusion Dialogue series for the 2022-2023 academic year. Online registration is now open for this event. View the flyer for event details. Limited seating available.
View the full listing of the Centre’s 2022-2023 Equity & Inclusion Dialogue series.
Workshop Description:
This session adopts racism as a given and works towards providing a clear frame for unlearning, disrupting and dismantling racism at the individual, institutional and systemic levels. The overall goal of the session is to provide steps and tools for dismantling racism at all levels.
- To situate self both as a site of racist oppression and an agent of racial change
- To explore ways of addressing institutional policies and practices (educating for an anti-racist/anti-oppressive future)
Facilitator Bio:
Dr. Kathy Hogarth Ph.D
Dr. Kathy Hogarth is Dean and a Professor in the Faculty of Social Work at Wilfrid Laurier University. Her primary areas of research, service and teaching are on critical race, racism and equity in Canada and international contexts. Her 2018 book A Space for Race: Decoding Racism, Multiculturalism and Post Colonialism in the Quest for Belonging in Canada and Beyond engages in a critical examination of some of the major discourses related to original/settler/immigrant and, particularly, racialized belonging. She has extensive experience in the work of equity, diversity and inclusion, and is particularly interested in organizational and societal transformation that leads to more equitable and just worlds.
