This event is organized by Dr. Lilach Marom and Dr. Ann Chinnery, and hosted by Equity Studies in Education.
Gina Csanyi-Robah, Vancouver educator and executive director of the Canadian Romani Alliance, will speak at SFU on March 19th to shed light on the ongoing struggle against anti-Gypsy discrimination in Canada. This event commemorates the UN’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (March 21st).
Csanyi-Robah will be joined by Dr. Shayna Plaut (Canadian Museum for Human Rights) and Dr. Margareta Matache (Harvard) to introduce the recently published landmark report, Confronting Major and Everyday Discrimination: Romani Experiences in Canada. This in-depth field study, a collaboration between the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University and the Canadian Romani Alliance, documents previously uncounted experiences of everyday discrimination—including racial slurs, stereotype-based questioning, social exclusion, and the systematic underestimation of Romani people in Canada.
The talk will also explore the lasting impact of the Roma Genocide during the Holocaust and the persistence of anti-Gypsyism affecting Romani communities today.
Attendees will gain insight into the historical and present-day challenges of Canada’s Roma population, with the opportunity to engage in an open discussion and ask questions.
Presenters
- Gina Csanyi-Robah
- Dr. Shayna Plaut
- Dr. Margareta Matache
Date/Time
Wednesday, March 19
Time: 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
Place
Research Hub
SFU Burnaby Campus, EDUC 8515
(Online with Zoom is optional)
A Fireside Chat with the Editor and Authors of A Sociopolitical Turn in Science Education: Towards Post-Pandemic Worlds
This will be a hybrid event with some contributors joining the conversation online.
Continuing our event series celebrating Faculty of Education members’ book publications, this month Drs. Cristiano Moura and Ana Maria Navas Iannini host a Fireside Chat for the launch of A Sociopolitical Turn in Science Education: Towards Post-Pandemic Worlds. The 19-chapter volume was edited by Dr. Moura with contributions, including Dr. Navas Iannini’s chapter, from authors representing 13 countries. Taking the COVID-19 pandemic as a starting point – and understanding the pandemic as an event that exposes science-society relationships in their complexities – this book offers provocations for the science education community. The chapters analyze aspects of the practices, conceptualizations, aims, core values, research traditions, institutions, affectivities, and aesthetics of science education from diverse points of view and propose new directions for the future of science education that centre political conversations.
Presenters’ bios:
Dr. Cristiano Barbosa de Moura is an assistant professor in science education. His research interests focus primarily on how historical, philosophical, and sociological approaches to science can foster justice-centred science education in K–12 and teacher education contexts. He is currently editor-in-chief of Science & Education (Springer). His current projects aim to interrogate the de-politicized character of the Nature of Science (NOS) in science education: reflecting on the boundaries of science education and on what the socio-political turn in science education might mean for an acute post-pandemic global crisis.
Dr. Ana Maria Navas Iannini is an assistant professor in informal science education and museum studies. Her research interests include controversies in informal learning environments, public engagement with science and technology, socioscientific issues and museums, care and museum workers’ emotions, and collective mindfulness in science museums. Her current SSHRC-funded research examines science museums' responses and lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic through qualitative case studies from Brazilian, Canadian, Portuguese, and Finnish institutions.
Presenters
- Cristiano Barbosa de Moura
- Ana Maria Navas Iannini
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