DEI: The Good, The Bad & The Performative

Thursday, 10 October 2024 | 2:30 p.m. | Founders Assembly Hall, 152 Founders College, Keele Campus, York University

YCAR is please to co-present the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies' Annual Lecture, featuring a roundtable on the possibilities and limitations of institutionalized Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives.

The roundtable will explore various fields such as higher education, broadcasting, news organizations and politics and the ways in which racialized and other marginalized people with progressive politics are initially welcomed in spaces of power, becoming symbols (or tokens) of progress in achieving “diversity and inclusion,” only to then be gaslighted, vilified or face reprisals for espousing their views.

Lecture will be moderated and hosted by GSWS faculty members Nadia Hasan (YCAR Faculty Associate) and Bianca Beauchemin.

This event is sponsored by the following York University units: Faculty of LA&PS, VPRI, Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, York Centre for Asian Research, The Harriet Tubman Institute, Founders College, The Black Canadian Studies Certificate, Centre for Feminist Research, IRDL, YUFA Race Equity Caucus, and the Graduate Program in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies.

More information and presenters' bios at the GSWS Annual Lecture webpage.