Thursday, September 29, 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 workshop invites participants to identify where misogynoir exists in their lives and begin the long processual work of learning how to uproot it. By the end of the workshop participants should be able to identify misogynoir, intervene when appropriate to stop misogynoir, and imagine new ways of relating to those who experience misogynoir.
Facilitator bio:
Moya Bailey is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication at Northwestern University. Her work focuses on marginalized groups' use of digital media to promote social justice and she is interested in how race, gender, and sexuality are represented in media and medicine. She is the digital alchemist for the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network and the Board President of Allied Media Projects, a Detroit-based movement media organization that supports an ever-growing network of activists and organizers. She is a co-author of #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice (MIT Press, 2020) and is the author of Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance (New York University Press, 2021).
In early December 2021, Humber officially launched a group for people who identify as white and/or as having white skin privilege to examine how they have been conditioned by their whiteness and how it shows up in their thoughts, feelings, and experiences, and within their institutions (home, work, educational, religious, etc.). The Unlearning Circle: Humber employees dismantling whiteness focuses on unpacking and dismantling white supremacy culture and unlearning it.
The Circle will hold its seventh session virtually on Wednesday, September 28 from 12:05 to 1:25 p.m.
Interested in joining the circle or have questions about it? For more information email theunlearningcircle@humber.ca, or visit its webpage where you can read all about it and access the meeting materials.
In his 2004 film The Corporation, Joel Bakan argues that corporations’ status as legal “persons” imbues them by law with psychopathic personalities. In his newest film, The New Corporation, Bakan takes aim at corporations’ new, and deceptive, claims to be conscientious. He argues these claims recast corporations as publicly-minded governors of society – rather than self-interested actors in need of governance – and thereby feed neoliberalism’s displacement of democracy with markets. In this lecture, Bakan will call us to action, discussing these arguments in light of corporate capitalism’s intersecting links to colonialism and racism; crises of climate and inequality; and the hollowing out of democracy.
Design Thinking is a proven Human-Centered Design approach for creating solutions. i.e problem-solving. Design Thinking starts with creating desirable solutions for those who will benefit from these solutions. These solutions must be feasible and viable to ensure the right impact on the desired users. This workshop is developed to provide you with essential design thinking techniques, mindsets and behaviours which will encourage you to problem solve.
Facilitator Bio: Raeshelle Morris holds a Masters in Leadership from the University of Guelph, and a double major honours Bachelor’s Degree in Management and Organizational Studies from the University of Western Ontario. She is also a certified project manager (PMP). She is trained in Creative Problem Solving, Values-Based Innovation through Values-Perspectives, Design Thinking, Change Management and Human-Centred Design. She has also obtained her Green Belt in Innovation Strategy Management through Innovation 360.
Workshop Overview:
a. Learn essential design thinking techniques, mindsets and behaviours.
b. Understand the Design Thinking Process.
c. Understand how to grow ideas into powerful solutions.
The next Black/African ERG meeting will be on Monday, September 26, 2022 at 5 p.m.. A special event is planned for the BAERG's 2nd anniversary.
If you are a member of the BAERG and do not have the meeting details, please contact the Co-Lead shernett.bennett@humber.ca or send an email to BlackERG@humber.ca.
BAERG Co-Chairs
Please join the Black/African Employee Resource Group (BAERG) in celebrating our second anniversary with a thought-provoking conversation featuring entrepreneur, former elected official, and author Celina Caesar-Chavannes!
This event is open to all Black-identified employees.
Please contact Shernett Bennett (shernett.bennett@humber.ca) or Lola Nelson (lola.nelson@humber.ca) for more information about this event or how to join the BAERG.
We are excited to share details for our eighth annual (and second virtual) Humber@TIFA interdisciplinary conference, “Climate in Crisis Activism, Apathy, and Responsibility: Social Responses to and Social Causes of the Current Climate Crisis.” To find the abstracts and bios for this year’s delegates, please refer to our Humber@TIFA website which will be updated by next week. Our conference will be hosted online by the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA.) .
To register for our conference, you must create a free TIFA account.
We strongly encourage you to ask your friends, colleagues, and students to register as TIFA members so that they too will be able to participate in conference events. If you need any help registering, please consult the FAQ page.
The schedule of the conference recently went live on the festival calendar, and beginning September 1, you will be able to register for individual panels.
Festival Calendar: https://festivalofauthors.ca/calendar
After creating your free membership, you must register for each Humber@TIFA event separately. If you scroll down, you can find our events labeled “Climate in Crisis” with our distinctive conference art by Angela Aujla.
There will be a keynote on Friday, September 23 at 5:30 p.m. with Nikki Sanchez. Nikki Sanchez is a Pipil and Irish/Scottish academic, land defender, media maker, environmental spokesperson, and decolonization expert. You can see more of her work on the VICELAND series RISE or in her TEDx talk "Decolonization is for Everyone." She is an activist, author, and educator, as well as the founder and director of Decolonize Together. The theme of her keynote is on Challenging Climate Grief and Apathy.
There are also four panels on Saturday, September 24 starting at 9 a.m. We encourage you to join us and to ask questions. With such a small virtual conference, your engagement would be greatly appreciated.
9 a.m.: Climate in Crisis: Reading into the Environmental Emergency (film and literature)
This panel explores the stories being told in response to the climate crisis, including analysis of eco-weird stories manifesting the fear and anxieties of climate change. While the discussion will be wide-ranging, it will grapple with questions about whether or not Eco-SF predicts the future or models potential scenarios and how water scarcity could be the driving force of our dystopic future. The discussion will be built around close readings of texts including All Quiet in Vikaspuri, a graphic novel by Sarnath Banarjee, Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, and the filmography of globally acclaimed, Academy Award-winning director Bong Joon-Ho.
11 a.m.: Climate in Crisis: Pedagogies of Resilience and Hope
This panel will explore various ways in which educational approaches and disciplines are, or should, be responding to the climate crisis. Discussion will move from looking at specific disciplines, including teaching about the need to create sustainable fashion and exploring a framework for teaching Climate Change Education, to broader approaches around how hope and resilience-based education can help to overcome the increasing prevalence of eco-anxiety.
1 p.m: Climate in Crisis: Stories from the Front Lines of the Environmental Crisis
Specific stories from various front lines of the climate crisis are explored in this panel. This includes an analysis of how art can offer a critique of the environmental racism faced by the Sámi in Sápmi, specifically looking at how art created through the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems can go beyond a visual representation of the climate crisis to engage in meaningful debate on the urgency of our climate responsibility. There will also be a presentation on research that engages politically active youth in Mi’kma’ki that sought to identify connections between political activism and climate grief. Finally, the differing views on sustainable architecture will be examined, with a specific analysis of the role of the architect and the choice of sustainable logic become central to the design process of sustainable architecture, with a specific focus on the development of Danish social housing.
3 p.m.: Climate in Crisis: The End of International Experiential Learning?
This panel focuses on the urgent need to rethink global or international experiential learning programs in response to the climate crisis. Canadian university campuses are quickly returning to pre-Covid “normal,” and international programming is again in high demand among students. The research presented in this panel explores a wide range of the responsibilities for institutions and individuals within Canadian higher education at a time of climate crisis.
Thank you for your support!
Humber@TIFA co-chairs
Jennifer Marotta & Dave Miller
We are excited to share details for our eighth annual (and second virtual) Humber@TIFA interdisciplinary conference, “Climate in Crisis Activism, Apathy, and Responsibility: Social Responses to and Social Causes of the Current Climate Crisis.” To find the abstracts and bios for this year’s delegates, please refer to our Humber@TIFA website which will be updated by next week. Our conference will be hosted online by the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA.) .
To register for our conference, you must create a free TIFA account.
We strongly encourage you to ask your friends, colleagues, and students to register as TIFA members so that they too will be able to participate in conference events. If you need any help registering, please consult the FAQ page.
The schedule of the conference recently went live on the festival calendar, and beginning September 1, you will be able to register for individual panels.
Festival Calendar: https://festivalofauthors.ca/calendar
After creating your free membership, you must register for each Humber@TIFA event separately. If you scroll down, you can find our events labeled “Climate in Crisis” with our distinctive conference art by Angela Aujla.
There will be a keynote on Friday, September 23 at 5:30 p.m. with Nikki Sanchez. Nikki Sanchez is a Pipil and Irish/Scottish academic, land defender, media maker, environmental spokesperson, and decolonization expert. You can see more of her work on the VICELAND series RISE or in her TEDx talk "Decolonization is for Everyone." She is an activist, author, and educator, as well as the founder and director of Decolonize Together. The theme of her keynote is on Challenging Climate Grief and Apathy.
There are also four panels on Saturday, September 24 starting at 9 a.m. We encourage you to join us and to ask questions. With such a small virtual conference, your engagement would be greatly appreciated.
9 a.m.: Climate in Crisis: Reading into the Environmental Emergency (film and literature)
This panel explores the stories being told in response to the climate crisis, including analysis of eco-weird stories manifesting the fear and anxieties of climate change. While the discussion will be wide-ranging, it will grapple with questions about whether or not Eco-SF predicts the future or models potential scenarios and how water scarcity could be the driving force of our dystopic future. The discussion will be built around close readings of texts including All Quiet in Vikaspuri, a graphic novel by Sarnath Banarjee, Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, and the filmography of globally acclaimed, Academy Award-winning director Bong Joon-Ho.
11 a.m.: Climate in Crisis: Pedagogies of Resilience and Hope
This panel will explore various ways in which educational approaches and disciplines are, or should, be responding to the climate crisis. Discussion will move from looking at specific disciplines, including teaching about the need to create sustainable fashion and exploring a framework for teaching Climate Change Education, to broader approaches around how hope and resilience-based education can help to overcome the increasing prevalence of eco-anxiety.
1 p.m: Climate in Crisis: Stories from the Front Lines of the Environmental Crisis
Specific stories from various front lines of the climate crisis are explored in this panel. This includes an analysis of how art can offer a critique of the environmental racism faced by the Sámi in Sápmi, specifically looking at how art created through the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems can go beyond a visual representation of the climate crisis to engage in meaningful debate on the urgency of our climate responsibility. There will also be a presentation on research that engages politically active youth in Mi’kma’ki that sought to identify connections between political activism and climate grief. Finally, the differing views on sustainable architecture will be examined, with a specific analysis of the role of the architect and the choice of sustainable logic become central to the design process of sustainable architecture, with a specific focus on the development of Danish social housing.
3 p.m.: Climate in Crisis: The End of International Experiential Learning?
This panel focuses on the urgent need to rethink global or international experiential learning programs in response to the climate crisis. Canadian university campuses are quickly returning to pre-Covid “normal,” and international programming is again in high demand among students. The research presented in this panel explores a wide range of the responsibilities for institutions and individuals within Canadian higher education at a time of climate crisis.
Thank you for your support!
Humber@TIFA co-chairs
Jennifer Marotta & Dave Miller
Join us in this virtual workshop session over lunch to learn how to get started in SoTL Research.
This workshop includes examples from past SoTL projects.
Facilitator bio: As an innovation researcher, academic entrepreneur and activist, Dr. Ginger Grant's passion is innovation management - the design, development and implementation of innovation strategies that transform corporate culture and drive engagement and high-performance teams for competitive advantage. She has held senior leadership positions and consulted in various fields, including engineering, telecommunications, education, transportation, government, law, software development, gaming and the creative industries.
Join us in supporting and empowering survivors of sexual violence through the Take Back the Night event.
Your registration guarantees you food and swag at the event, so sign up today. The event will include a Resource Fair to connect students with on-campus support and programming, addresses and performances from members of the Humber community, sign-making to rally the community, and a march to take back the night. There will also be speakers and events all week leading up to the event. Check out the @CPEPteam Instagram page for event information and details.
Commuting from Lakeshore Campus to North Campus
There will be a bus leaving at 4:45 p.m. from Lakeshore residence to North Campus. The bus will return to Lakeshore residence at 7:45 p.m. from North Campus.
