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This conference is free and open to all. Each year for the past seven
years it has attracted scholars, students, activists, writers, commu-
nity and cultural workers from a wide spectrum of interests. Lunch
will be provided. Please register at [email protected] well
ahead of the date so we can cater for everyone.

For updates on conference proceedings; short clips of our featured
Keynotes; video footage of previous conferences; local and interna-
tional news/commentary; and information pertaining to upcoming events/
actions, visit our website @

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CONFERENCE PROGRAM (Tentative)
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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.
Topic: “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: Umesh Sharma
Title: “Beasts of Burden: White Terror, the Pale continent, and
the Racial World Order”

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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2:30pm – 3:30pm
Second Keynote: Omali Yeshitela
Chairman of The African Socialist International
Title: “National Consciousness and African Liberation”

3:30pm – 4:00pm
Discussion

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4:00pm – 4:15pm
Break
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4:15pm – 5:15pm
Panel II: “Land and Indigenous Peoples”
Panel Convener/Co-ordinator: TBA

Speakers: TBA

5:15pm – 5:30pm
Discussion

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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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