{"id":77002,"date":"2022-03-10T11:42:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T16:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=77002"},"modified":"2022-03-18T07:47:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T11:47:02","slug":"upcoming-panel-to-celebrate-recognize-black-women-in-academia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2022\/03\/upcoming-panel-to-celebrate-recognize-black-women-in-academia\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming panel to celebrate, recognize Black women in academia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Issues of under-representation, community and how anti-Blackness and sexism compound for Black women academics will be among the many topics on the table during an upcoming panel celebrating and recognizing Black women in the academy.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_77006\" style=\"width: 167px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77006\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-77006\" src=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FunkeAladejebi.jpg\" alt=\"A head-and-shoulders photo of a woman in a collared shirt\" width=\"157\" height=\"164\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-77006\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assistant Professor Funk\u00e9 Aladejebi in the Department of History at University of Toronto, author of Schooling the System: A History of Black Women Teachers and co-editor of the forthcoming collection, Unsettling the Great White North: Black Canadian History.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Assistant Professor and multidisciplinary scholar Charlotte Henay in Brock\u2019s Centre for Women\u2019s and Gender Studies will moderate the virtual discussion Wednesday, March 16 amongst three panelists:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Professor Dolana Mogadime<\/strong> in the Department of Educational Studies at Brock University and Faculty Chair of the President&#8217;s Advisory Committee on Human Rights, Equity and Decolonization (PACHRED) at Brock.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_77003\" style=\"width: 135px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77003\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-77003\" src=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/CamishaSibblis.jpg\" alt=\"A closeup photo of a woman's face\" width=\"125\" height=\"155\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-77003\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assistant Professor Camisha Sibblis in the Department of Sociology at University of Toronto, Adjunct Professor at the University of Windsor\u2019s School of Social Work and author of the \u201cMorris Report,\u201d the first Impact of Race and Culture Assessment report applied in the criminal sentencing of a Black defender in Ontario.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Assistant Professor Funk\u00e9 Aladejebi<\/strong> in the Department of History at University of Toronto, author of <em>Schooling the System: A\u00a0History\u00a0of Black Women Teachers <\/em>and co-editor of the forthcoming collection,\u00a0<em>Unsettling the Great White North: Black Canadian\u00a0History.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Assistant Professor Camisha Sibblis<\/strong> in the Department of Sociology at University of Toronto, Adjunct Professor at the University of Windsor\u2019s School of Social Work and author of the \u201cMorris Report,\u201d the first Impact of Race and Culture Assessment report applied in the criminal sentencing of a Black defender in Ontario.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_77004\" style=\"width: 156px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77004\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-77004\" src=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/CharlotteHenay.jpg\" alt=\"A head-and-shoulders photo of a woman with dark hair and purple lipstick\" width=\"146\" height=\"198\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-77004\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assistant Professor and multidisciplinary scholar Charlotte Henay in Brock\u2019s Centre for Women\u2019s and Gender Studies.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The panelists will engage with students and faculty members to discuss Black women and their choice of study, misogynoir (the unique form of anti-Black sexism faced by Black women), the token syndrome and balancing competing obligations.<\/p>\n<p>The event is sponsored by the Centre for Women\u2019s and Gender Studies, the Brock University Faculty Association and PACHRED. Everyone is invited to this virtual event, which will include ASL interpretation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What:<\/strong> Black Women in Academe: A Virtual Panel<br \/>\n<strong>When:<\/strong> Wednesday, March 16 from 5:30 to 7 p.m.<br \/>\n<strong>Where:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ca\/e\/black-women-in-academe-virtual-panel-tickets-288794400827\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Please register through Eventbrite to attend<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issues of under-representation, community and how anti-Blackness and sexism compound for Black women academics will be among the many topics on the table during an upcoming panel celebrating and recognizing Black women in the academy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":77008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9794,7,1,4,38],"tags":[152,8441,3587,98,522,6841,1254,1426],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77002"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77013,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77002\/revisions\/77013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}