Hi all, this is Mohammed Nabilsi writing my first blog post for RISE Team!
This past Friday, RISE Team attended the fifth SD Clark Symposium on the Future of Canadian Society, at the East Common Room in Hart House, downtown Toronto. Topics included Racism, Islamophobia and Antisemitism.
Robert Brym, SD Clark professor of sociology at the University of Toronto gave an introduction about the event first. University of Calgary Professor Abdie Kazemipur presented after that on “Between Populism and Political Correctness: Islamophobia in Canada”. Then University of Toronto professor Akwasi Owusu-Bempah's presentation was on “Race and Incarceration: The African Canadian Experience”. University of McGill professor Morton Weinfeld presented on “Antisemitism in Canada: Past and Future”. Following that, our own Professor Neda Maghbouleh provided “critical comments” and tied all three presentations together while providing an outlook on the future of Canadian society.
A focus of the event was to investigate legal facilitators and obstructions to racism, Islamophobia, and Antisemitism.
The floor was open to the audience to ask questions to the panel after each presentation and talk about what needs to be done to limit these institutional obstructions. Proceedings from the event will be published in 2020.
This past Friday, RISE Team attended the fifth SD Clark Symposium on the Future of Canadian Society, at the East Common Room in Hart House, downtown Toronto. Topics included Racism, Islamophobia and Antisemitism.
Robert Brym, SD Clark professor of sociology at the University of Toronto gave an introduction about the event first. University of Calgary Professor Abdie Kazemipur presented after that on “Between Populism and Political Correctness: Islamophobia in Canada”. Then University of Toronto professor Akwasi Owusu-Bempah's presentation was on “Race and Incarceration: The African Canadian Experience”. University of McGill professor Morton Weinfeld presented on “Antisemitism in Canada: Past and Future”. Following that, our own Professor Neda Maghbouleh provided “critical comments” and tied all three presentations together while providing an outlook on the future of Canadian society.
A focus of the event was to investigate legal facilitators and obstructions to racism, Islamophobia, and Antisemitism.
The floor was open to the audience to ask questions to the panel after each presentation and talk about what needs to be done to limit these institutional obstructions. Proceedings from the event will be published in 2020.