Assistant Professor Vidya Shah

Scholars’ Hub @ Home: New names, old places: What memorializing teaches us about who we are and who we might be

This webinar invites us to consider what our practices of naming, renaming, and memorializing teach us about our collective values and identities. Dr. Shah explores the importance of context, history, dialogue, and complicity in this process of raising our collective critical consciousness. Register

People of York U – Vidya Shah

“I started my career as an elementary school teacher, and they were some of the most magical years of my life. Teaching for me has become a journey of self-discovery, an encounter with the self. Education is ultimately an endeavour in being more human. It demands of us an ongoing commitment to living and working from our complex and often contradictory parts – the magical parts, the scared parts, the joyful parts, the engaged parts, the ignorant parts and the resistant parts.”