About this Event
Please join faculty from across Simon Fraser University's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) for a conversation about the globally entangled and intersectional workings of imperialism and anti-colonial struggles as they converge in the place(s) where we live, work, and learn. Light refreshments will be served!
ROOM CHANGE: The event has moved to Blusson Hall 10031
Panelists
Maral Aguilera-Moradipour
Maral Aguilera-Moradipour is an Assistant Professor of Asian refugee literatures and cultures in the Department of World Languages and Literatures and the Global Asia Program at Simon Fraser University. After completing her PhD at Western University in English Language and Literature and a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Toronto Scarborough, in Media Studies, she joined Simon Fraser University in 2024.
Her research interests include critical refugee studies; cultural studies; digital humanities; diasporic literature and theory; Indigenous literature and thought; and critical race and gender studies. Her research brings together critical refugee studies and Global Asia perspectives for understanding the literary and visual cultures of southeast and southwest Asian refugees—two regions where refugee-making has resulted from the Global North’s proxy wars in Asia. She is particularly interested in how refugee art undermines settler-colonial national narratives in solidarity with Indigenous resistance. Developing her research at the intersections of Asian, diaspora, and Indigenous literary and cultural studies, she foregrounds the importance of place-based concepts that emerge from such rich and diverse epistemologies and ontologies.
Mariam Georgis
Mariam Georgis is an Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University. As a scholar of global Indigenous politics, her teaching and research takes a global approach to colonialism, Indigeneities, and southwest Asia (Middle East). Globalizing colonialism to think about multiple frontiers of empire – Western and non-Western – and the complexity of race, borders and Indigeneities, she is engaged in research that builds a transnational understanding of Indigeneities, self-determination, sovereignty, and decolonization. Grounded in her positioning as an Assyrian, Indigenous to present-day Iraq, dis/replaced to stolen Indigenous lands in present-day Canada, she uses decolonial and Indigenous feminist approaches to disrupt and challenge contemporary understandings of southwest Asian politics and societies.
Prior to joining SFU and relocating to the unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples, she was a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow in Mamawipawin: Centre for Indigenous Governance and Community Based Research and the Department of Political Studies at the University of Manitoba.
Prof-Collins Ifeonu
Prof-Collins Ifeonu is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Simon Fraser University. He completed his doctoral degree in Sociology from the University of Alberta. He has a broad range of academic interests, particularly focusing on the intricate connections between Canada’s labor, migration, and education policy, and their subsequent effects on the lived experiences of racialized international students. His doctoral research is a qualitative exploration of the social and political integration of international students from sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean in Canada. This project centers the sense-making processes of these students as they assess their decisions to further their education in Canada, relationship to Black-themed racial justice organizing, and navigation of several forms of precarity.
Nicholas Reo
Nick Reo is an Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies at Simon Fraser University. He is an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians (Anishinaabe). He uses Indigenous methodologies to study and participate in Indigenous knowledge practices, Indigenous land and sea tenure, and Indigenous language revitalization. Reo also works to create spaces for Indigenous international knowledge exchange and expansion of Indigenous kinship networks. He holds a Canada Excellence Research Chair (2023-2031) focused on Coastal Regeneration and Relationalities.
Moderator
Nadine Attewell
Nadine Attewell is Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University, where she also directs the undergraduate program in Global Asia. She is the author of Better Britons: Reproduction, National Identity, and the Afterlife of Empire (2014) and is currently at work on a second SSHRC-funded book entitled, Archives of Intimacy: Racial Mixing and Asian Lives in the Colonial Port City. She has published articles in Postcolonial Text, topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures of the Americas, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Journal of Asian American Studies, and Verge: Studies in Global Asias. She sits on the editorial board of Trans Asia Photography.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Blusson Hall 10031, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Dr, Burnaby, Canada
CAD 0.00
