Discovering University Worlds. Critical perspectives on our own institution

The day-long event on January 13 is the wrap-up final conference for the “Discovering university worlds” project, funded by SSHRC.

Short presentations by numerous students and faculty will be given, presenting research on different aspects of the university (U of T, in our case).

The gathering will be held in the anthropology department in the St George campus.

10.00 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS: Tania Li. Why study our own university?

10.15 PANEL 1: U Of Tears: student-led research

Student-led research including Karuna Sinha on COVID 19, Olivia Bernard and Vallari Patel on “Dropping out”, Alyanna Denise Chua on international students, Huibin Lin on recruiting in China, Lena Yuan on “Being evaluated”. Moderator: Girish Daswani

11.45 KEYNOTE: Bobby Lee and Tristan Ahtone / landgrabu.org project

Cambridge historian Bobby Lee and US Indigenous journalist Tristan Ahtone explain the public history website ‘landgrabu.org’, on the unjust enrichment of US ‘land grant’ universities.

2.15 PANEL 2 : U of T as employer

Justin Holloway on unionization at U of T; Michelle Buckley and Kiran Mirchandani on outsourcing; Emiri Katakawa on campus policing, Deb Cowen on the Censure U of T campaign. Moderator: Tania Li

3.30 PANEL 3: Activism, politics and money at U of T

Amanda Harvey-Sanchez on Divestment; Mike Lawler on Food Security; Alejandro Paz on Hearing Palestine; and Chelsea Tao on innovation and intellectual property. Moderator: Mark Hunter