white supremacy. The researchers will be asked to position their paper in relation to the literature and to identify their unique contribution. In the meantime, the undergraduate and Masters student (along with another undergraduate student working for the internal collaborative research grant) will be working as a team and engaged in developing their voice, skills and confidence. This sees them keeping abreast of incidents and protest activities around racism locally and elsewhere, reporting and updating the research team and the larger group of scholars, collectively writing and submitting two opinion pieces or/and letters to newspaper editors or to Conversations, Rabble, Herizons or social media blogs/posts. They will also participate in campus student activities Making it Awkward: Conversations about Race and Black History Month.
Conference (June 2021): Having gone through the workshop, presenters will be able to present a more final version of their research, now solidly framed within critical race scholarship, to a larger audience. The conference will include two keynote speakers who will present on the state of race scholarship today and the implications for interdisciplinary and transnational scholarship. It will mainly be targeted at scholars interested in questions of racism and solidarity building. In addition, two undergraduate students (1 from this proposed project and 1 internal grant student) and one Masters student will form the student panel. Two PhD students will go through the scaffolded writing project like the other scholars. The doctoral student hired for this project will coordinate the conference with the support of the whole student team. Student volunteers from our respective programs will be recruited to help during the conference. The undergraduate/ Masters student team will showcase their antiracist voice activities using academically informed critical reflection. The Diversity Committee will co- sponsor by sharing its perspectives, environmental scan, issues and challenges and also outreach to municipal actors to attend the conference, particularly the community panel that they will help organize. The conference will be live-streamed, recorded and hosted on the Transnational Legal Justice Network (a network housed in Law) and Youtube to allow for greater reach and for post-conference public access. The conference will engage the researchers through these broader questions:
1. How do we challenge racism from our own spaces, disciplines and contexts? What do we have to offer to antiracism scholarship and community practice?
2. What are the convergences, overlaps and conflicts in the different ways we and our work are racialized and how do we make sense of them?
3. How do we build solidarity to recognize and support various social groups and communities whose experiences are very different from our own?
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How do we center Indigenous, Asian, or/and African knowledge frameworks and ways of knowing to transform current scholarship that is mainly framed through European experience and perspective?
Post-Conference Workshop (July 2021): A post-conference workshop will be organized to finalize the papers for an edited collection to be published through a university press (tbd; interest from the University of Alberta Press). Presenters will finalize their papers using updated knowledge and information at an intense writing and sharing workshop to ensure that their work is ready to be included for the edited collection of antiracism works. During this workshop, each participant will be paired with another researcher as means to provide critical and engaging feedback on their draft text. Each presenter will be given an opportunity to introduce their ideas (maximum five minutes) setting out how they came to the project and other relevant pieces. The paired respective discussant will then provide substantive
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