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Education for Our Times: Towards a Culture of Peace, Nonviolence and Social Justice

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A McMaster University-Gandhi

Peace Festival Conference

October 1, 2017 McMaster Innovation Park, 175 Longwood Road South, Hamilton

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

9.00 am - 9.30 am (Atrium)

Conference Registration

9.30 am - 10.15 am (Room 1ABCD)

Opening RemarksChandrima Chakraborty (Gandhi Peace Festival Conference Chair)

Patrick Deane (McMaster University President and Vice-Chancellor)

10.15 am - 11.15 am (Room 1ABCD)

Plenary Lecture & DiscussionIntroduction by Arshad Ahmad (Paul R. MacPherson Institute for Leadership, Innovation and Excellence in Teaching)

The Hon. Bob Rae (Senior Partner, Olthuis Kleer Townshend; Distinguished Professor, University of Toronto; former Premier and Parliamentarian)

“Education, the Key Public Policy of our Times”

11.15 am - 12.30 pm

Concurrent Panels

Room 1CD: Arts and the Community: McMaster Connections

Moderator, Susie O’Brien (McMaster University)

Kaitlin Debicki (creative arts)

Sarah Olutola (young-adult fiction writer)

Simon Orpana (graphic novelist)

Chukky Ibe (poet)

Room 1AB: Strategies of Nonviolence

Chair, Gary Warner (McMaster University)

Nandi Bhatia (Western University), “Language and Social Change in Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj”

Jill Carr-Harris (University of Toronto), “Gandhi’s Influence on Two Contemporary Indian Women Leaders”

Roomana Hukil (McMaster University), “Gandhian Inspired Environmentalism in India”

12.30 pm - 1.30 pm

Lunch

1.30 pm - 2.30 pm

Concurrent Panels

Room 1CD: A Roundtable with Community Organizations

Moderator, Arun Jacob (McMaster University)

Jay Carter, Evergreen Community Storefront

Mary Jo Leddy, Romero House: Walking with Refugees

Jahan Zeb and Suaad Issa, Global Peace Centre Canada

Room 1AB: Re-Thinking Dominant History and Institutional Learning

Chair, Shamika Shabnam (McMaster University)

Chandra Mohan (Central University of Gujarat), “‘Essentializing’ the status of the Fourth World (Aboriginal) in the Education of Our Times: Challenges in Inclusiveness”

Geeta Mehta (Emeritus, M.D. College, Mumbai), “Education: Toward a Culture of Peace”

Nagina Parmar (Ryerson University), “Strategies for Inclusive and Culturally Competent Classroom: A Pilot Study”

2.30 pm - 3.45 pm (Room 1ABCD)

Art, Resistance, Social Justice: Artists in Conversation, Moderator, Aparna Sundar (Azim Premji University, Bangalore)

R. Cheran (poet)

Mary Jo Leddy (nonfiction writer)

Nirmala Thomas (fiction writer)

3.45 pm - 4.30 pm

Concurrent Panels

Room 1CD: Mentorship for Our Times

Moderator, Sarah Wahab (McMaster University)

Maroussia Hajdukowski-Ahmed (Emeritus, McMaster), Noelie Sankara (Educational Scholar/Activist, Burkina Faso), and Eiman Elwidaa (Swedish University of Agricultural Science), “Gandhi, Freire and Mentoring Newcomers: Our Experience as Mentee and Mentor”

Christopher Anand, Tanya Bouman, Curtis d’Alves, Chris Schankula, Vasav

Shah, Srinidhi Shaw, Chinmay Sheth, and Rumsha Siddiqui (McMaster),

“Software: Tool for Change”

Room 1AB: Youth and Social Justice

Moderator, Cindy Gangaram (Ryerson Middle School)

Najiba Ali Sardar, Bangladeshi Youth for Social Justice

Krish Bilimoria, Richa Shah, and Vraj Vaidya, McMaster Hindu Student’s Association

Jennifer Hompoth, New Generation Youth Centre

4.30 pm - 5.00 pm

Tea/coffee Break

5.00 pm - 5.45 pm: (Room 1ABCD)

Closing Lecture & DiscussionIntroduction by Anne Pearson (Gandhi Peace Festival Chairperson)

Henry Giroux (McMaster University Professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest; The Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy)

“What is the Role of Higher Education in a Time of Legitimized Violence?”

5.45 pm - 6.00 pm (Room 1ABCD)

Closing RemarksRama Singh (Gandhi Peace Festival Organizing Committee)

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This conference is supported by:

International Offi ce, McMaster University

Faculty of Humanities, McMaster University

MacPherson Institute for Leadership, Innovation and Excellence in Teaching, McMaster University

President’s Offi ce, McMaster University

Offi ce of Community Engagement, McMaster University

Institute of Globalization and the Human Condition, McMaster University

Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)Humanities Research Council Humanities Research Council Humanities Research Council Humanities Research Council Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)