RESPECT Summer School on
Multiculturalism in Canada:
Critical Engagements with Diversity and Inequality
Larkin Building
15 Devonshire Place, Room 200
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
RSVP to [email protected]
by Wednesday May 8
The Osaka University RESPECT (Revitalizing And
Enriching Society Through Pluralism, Equity And
Cultural Transformation) Summer School 2015 in
Multicultural Studies at the University of Toronto is
designed to give Japanese graduate students a
critical first-hand experience with multiculturalism in
Canada: both its possibilities and challenges.
Students from Osaka University will present their
research findings from this intensive program
alongside graduate students at the University of
Toronto, who will elaborate on many dimensions of
this central theme. This joint graduate student
workshop is an exciting opportunity for cross-cultural
communication and the development of comparative
and critically nuanced understandings of this broad
and rich concept. For more information about the
RESPECT Program, please visit
http://www.respect.osaka-u.ac.jp/en/.
RESPECT Summer School on
Multiculturalism in Canada:
Critical Engagements with Diversity and Inequality
Event Schedule
10:00 AM- 10:05 AM
Introduction by Prof. Shiho Satsuka (Department of
Anthropology)
10:05 AM- 11:40 AM
Osaka Student Presentation and Discussion- “Reflections
on Multi-Culturalism in Toronto by Japanese Students”
Moderator, Prof. Stephen Muller, RESPECT program,
Osaka University
11:40 AM- 12:00 PM
Nicholas Feinig, Jennifer Gibson, Felicia Perricelli - “On
Cross-Cultural Understandings of Diversity and Solidarity”
12:00 PM- 1:00 PM
Lunch Break (to be provided by the Asian Institute)
1:00 PM- 1:20 PM
Erika Finestone (Ph.D. Student, Anthropology) - “ReSearching Our Own Backyards: An Exploration of
Indigenist Research in the Settler Colonial Context”
1:20 PM- 1:40 PM
Joey Youssef (Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology- “Between
California and the Egyptian Desert: Transnational
Experiences of Sacred Space”
1:40 PM- 2:00 PM
Matthew Medeiros (M.A. Student, Anthropology) “Producing Subjectivities: Language, Education, and the
learning of the ‘Learning Disabled’ Student”
2:00 PM- 2:20PM
Johanna Pokorny (Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology) “Different Neurologics”
2:20 PM- 3:00PM
Discussion and Closing Remarks