8th Annual New College Conference on Racism and National Consciousness | Land & Freedom | 31 Oct 2009

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                                 Announcing
                                      THE 8TH ANNUAL
                        NEW COLLEGE CONFERENCE ON
                  RACISM & NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS

                         SATURDAY OCTOBER 31, 2009
                                   10 AM  - 5:30 PM
            WETMORE HALL - 21 CLASSIC AVE. @ SPADINA
                            UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

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This year the Annual New College Conference on Racism & National
Consciousness will be looking at the issue of land and its relation
to the struggle for freedom and human dignity.  Beginning with
President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and the beacon of change which is
the Bolivarian Revolution in Latin America, our attention will shift
to the Indian Subcontinent, where capitalist imperialism, militarism,
and genocidal state terror have ravaged vast tracts of the present day
nation-states of Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and Sri Lanka. Subse-
quently taking up the issue of African Liberation and the need for a
Pan-African Consciousness, we present a Keynote address delivered by
the Chairman of the African People's Socialist Party, Omali Yeshitela,
and then conclude with a discussion on "Land and Indigenous Peoples".

This year will also mark the official launch of the first edited volume of

exciting incisive activist scholarship to have emerged out of this conference

series: The White Supremacist State: Eurocentrism, Imperialism, Colonialism,

Racism (please see attached for book cover).  Copies of this collection of

critical essays will be available for purchase.

This conference is free and open to all.  For the past seven years
it has attracted over 300 scholars, students, activists, writers,
community and cultural workers from a wide spectrum of interests.
Lunch will be provided.   PLEASE REGISTER with the New College
Programs Secretary at [email protected] well ahead of the
date so we can cater for enough food for everyone.

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CONFERENCE PROGRAM
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10am - 10:15am
Welcome
Principal of New College, Shahrzad Mojab

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10:15am - 10:25am
Conference Introduction
Anrold H. Itwaru

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10:25am - 11:25am
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Maria Paez Victor.
                  Title: "From conquistadores, Dictators and Multinationals
                           to the Bolivarian Revolution"

11:25am - 11:40am
Discussion

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11:40am - 11:45am
Break
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11:45am - 12:30pm
BOOK LAUNCH: "THE WHITE SUPREMACIST STATE: EUROCENTRISM,
                        IMPERIALISM, COLONIALISM, RACISM"
     EDITED BY:   ARNOLD H. ITWARU

This work of activist scholarship has emerged out of the RACISM &
NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS Conference throughout the past seven years.
Scholars who have contributed to this volume include Ward Churchill,
Arnold H. Itwaru, Sunera Thobani, Natasha Ksonzek, Ella Shohat and
Robert Stam, Henry Giroux, Nandita Sharma, Julia Sudbury, Marianne
Vardalos, Lorne Foster.

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12:30pm - 1:00pm
Lunch
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1:00pm - 2:15pm
Panel I: "Nations, Nation-States, and the Holocaust of Modernity"
Panel Convener/Co-ordinator: Umesh Sharma

Speaker: Navyug Gill
     Title: "Cultivating Cultivators: Notes on the Regulation of the
               Means and Modes of Production in Colonial Punjab"

Speaker: Jessica Chandrashekar
     Title: "Sexual Violence Against Tamil Women and the Construction
              of 'humanness' in Sri Lanka"

Speaker: Harsha Walia
     Title: "Colonialism, Capitalism, and the Making of the Apartheid
               System of Migration and Control in Canada"

2:15pm - 2:30pm
Discussion

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2:30pm - 2:45pm
Break
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2:45pm - 3:45pm
Second Keynote: Omali Yeshitela
                        Chairman of The African People's Socialist Party
               Title: "National Consciousness and African Liberation"

3:45pm - 4:10pm
Discussion

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4:10pm - 4:20pm
Break
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4:20pm - 5:20pm
Panel II: "Land and Indigenous Peoples"

Speaker: Asad Ismi
     Title: "The pivotal role of Indigenous Peoples in the
               Latin American Revolution"

Speaker: TBA

5:20pm - 5:35pm
(Discussion)

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Web: http://racismandnationalconsciousness.wordpress.com/
Email: [email protected]
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                           CONFERENCE CO-ORDINATORS
 
        | ARNOLD H. ITWARU | NATASHA KSONZEK | UMESH SHARMA |

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        SUPPORTED BY THE OFFICE OF THE PRINCIPAL, NEW COLLEGE,
                             UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
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