October 24, 2019, 6:30-9pm @ Innis Town Hall
We are delighted to invite you to the first event of the List for fall 2019. This event builds on last year’s salon “Min(d)ing Our Data,” which addressed issues of data mining, surveillance, Google’s remaking of the Toronto Waterfront, and the University. To continue this discussion, we are excited to screen a series of three short films, entitled Screening Surveillance, “that use near future fiction storytelling based on research to highlight potential social and privacy issues that arise as a result of big data surveillance.” The producer of the series, sava saheli singh, and Nehal El-Hadi, one of the screenplay writers, will join us to discuss this important work.
After the films, we welcome you to stay for a drink, some food, and some amazing live music by our very own colleague Sugar Brown (aka Ken Kawashima), and to hear about the ongoing work of the List. We have been busy between salons and are eager to share brief updates with you about ongoing work on the precarious status students initiative, and a new and exciting SSHRC funded research project that will see us study U of T!
September 2019: Welcome back to the List!
HOLD THE DATE: Pedagogies of Complicity: Finance, Mining, and the University – November 29, 2018
December 7, 2017: The Politics of Bargaining in Higher Education: Building Cultures of Solidarity
The Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Avenue
7:00 P.M.
February 10, 2017: Bordering Injustice: How Should We Respond to Trump’s Ban?bordering20injustice20town20hall-21 4pm
February 16, 2017: Fighting Fees from Canada to South Africa
The Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Avenue
February 16, 2017, 7:00 P.M.
Wheelchair accessible
This panel explores a growing crisis in Canadian post-secondary
education. The Canadian Federation of Students’ National Day of
Student Action, held last November 2, 2016, brought attention to the
fact that an overwhelming number of Canadian university students voted
to fight growing student debt and the erosion of quality public
education. University students in Ontario are particularly hard hit as
they pay the highest fees in the country.
This salon will explore this crisis from the perspective of student
organizers in Canada (Ontario and Quebec) and South Africa. The aim is
to explore the politics of student fees, debt, and student
mobilization in Canada and South Africa and ask not only how fees work
and how they are being fought, but how student mobilizations and
demands differ and overlap across these different contexts.
Moderator:
Alessandro Delfanti is an Assistant Professor of Culture and New Media
at the University of Toronto. He is the author of “Biohackers” (Pluto
Press, 2013) and was a member of the San Precario anti-precarity
network in Italy.
Speakers:
Marise Hopkins is student at the University of Toronto at Mississauga
(UTM) and the Vice-President External at the UTM Student Union
(UTMSU). She is an active campaigner for the Canadian Federation of
Students’ Fight Fees campaign.
Leigh-Ann Naidoo is a student at the School of Education at the
University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg (WITS), South Africa. She
has been actively involved in the WITS chapter of the #FeesMustFall
movement, and the #RhodesMustFall campaign at the university of Cape
Town, which is the subject of her current research.
Kyle McLoughlin is currently an M.A student in Anthropology at
Concordia University. He was an elected representative of the
Concordia Student Union, sat on the University senate, and worked as a
strike organizer in the Sociology and Anthropology undergraduate
faculty during the 2012 student strikes. In addition, he was active in
a community group called Free Education Montreal.
Richard Wellen is a Professor at the Department of Social Science at
York University and the President of the York University Faculty
Association. He has published extensively on the political economy of
higher education in Canada and the politics of mass higher education.
March 27, 2017: Special event of The List on the future of Indigenous space on campus. Details TBA
the-list.ca 