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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

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 York University, 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
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Program

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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, York University
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, York University
  • Gender Diversity Within Islam: Moving Beyond Patriarchal Binaries - Mahum Ahmed, York University
  • 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, York University
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, York University
  • “The Brains of a Nation”: A Critical Analysis of Discourses of Nationalism in Canadian Mental Hygiene Movement Literature from 1918-1921 - Edward Wong, York University
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, York University
  • Clutching Our Pearls: Client Perspectives of Threat, Criminalization, and Surveillance in ‘Client Resistance’ - Poe Liberado, York University
  • The Social Organization of Social Work Placements: An Institutional Ethnography Examining Relations of Race and Neoliberalism in Field Education - Sinthu Srikanthan, York University
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, York University
  • Reproducing Racism and Whiteness In Canada: Discourses in Ontario’s Local Food Movement - Abrah McKeen, York University
4:15 – 4:30
Closing remarks