NAJC Redress 2008 registration form.pdfDates: Saturday September 20, 2008
Location/Time: 9:00am-12:00pm
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Randy Enomoto
Philomena Essed, Ph.D.
Monika Kin Gagnon
Raj Gill
Audrey Kobayashi, Ph.D.
Moderator:
Randy Enomoto was born during the internment in 1944 where he grew up in Bralorne BC and the Cariboo. He has worked 30 years with the BC Public Service both in the capacity of a line worker (social worker), trainer of social workers and as a manager (multiculturalism, employment equity and anti-racism). He received the Silver Award from B.C. Public Service for his work on employment equity. Randy has served as President of the Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens’ Association, and as President of the National Association of Japanese Canadians. He co-edited a book on anti-racism, Race, Racialization, and Antiracism in Canada and Beyond (University of Toronto Press. 2007). He currently volunteers for an oral history project of Tonari Gumi, a community social service agency.
Keynote Speaker:
Philomena Essed, Ph.D., is an international and interdisciplinary scholar with a deep interest in the combination of theory-practice. She is the author of Everyday Racism: Reports from Women of Two Cultures (Hunter House, 1990); Understanding Everyday Racism: An Interdisciplinary Theory (Sage, 1991) and Diversity: Gender, Color and Culture (University of Massachusetts Press, 1996). Other books include the co-edited volumes Race Critical Theories (Blackwell, 2002); Refugees and the Transformation of Societies: Agency, Policies, Ethics and Politics (Berghahn 2004) and A Companion to Gender Studies (Blackwell 2005; CHOICE outstanding academic title, 2005). In progress are, Cloning Cultures, which examines the privileging of certain homogeneities and cultures, and Humanizing Leadership, a long-term study based on life narratives of (women’s) alternative practices of power and social change. Philomena is affiliated researcher of Utrecht University's, Research Institute Culture and History, Graduate Gender Program. She has been involved in disability and diversity research and in gender policy development in the Netherlands. She advises on the implementation of European nondiscrimination law as (deputy) member of the Dutch Equal Treatment Commission. Philomena participates in studies of identity and equity interventions in South Africa and she continues to support scholarship and policy efforts on behalf of women, immigrants and minorities in Europe and the United Sates. Before coming to Antioch, she held a tenured position as Senior Researcher at the University of Amsterdam and Visiting Professor at the University of California, Irvine. She earned her PhD in Social Science from the University of Amsterdam (1990, cum laude).
Panelists:
Marcia Crosby is currently a second year PhD student at in the Art History, Visual Art and Theory Department at UBC. Since 1996, she has been an instructor in First Nations Studies and the English Departments at Malaspina University College, Nanaimo, B.C.-now Vancouver Island University. She completed M.A. in Art History (UBC), and a BFA, with a Minor in English (UBC), for which she received an award for Most Promising Student in Canadian Literature. She has written and published essays about art, art practice and theory in books and catalogues, many of which have been presented at national and international conferences. Her first published essay “The Construction of the Imaginary Indian” (in Vancouver Anthology Ed. Stan Douglas, 1991) has been republished in other texts and is still currently used in art history courses in North America and Europe. More recently, she has written seminal essays in the following exhibition catalogue publications: The Group of Seven in Western Canada (2002); The Legacy of Bill Reid: A Critical Enquiry (2004); Emily Carr: New Perspectives (2006), the forward to Unsettling Encounters: First Nations Imagery in the Art of Emily Carr (Gerta Moray, 2006). Her current catalogue essay for Rebecca Belmore’s exhibition, Rising to the Occasion, Vancouver Art Gallery (June – October, 2008) is on traumatic memory, and performance art. Like many of her social art history based essays, her work focuses on uneven power relations, racism, on-going forms of colonialism and the formation of contemporary aboriginal histories in art practice. In relation to this conference, it may be important to note that Crosby and Dr. Roberta Kremer (former Director of the Holocaust Centre) co-wrote a position paper to address contemporary issues of the racism experienced by Aboriginal students in schools in B.C., which was commissioned by the Aboriginal Education Branch of British Columbia (2001). It was tabled and never used.
Monika Kin Gagnon, Ph.D., has published widely on art, cultural politics and media, and teaches in Communication Studies at Concordia University. She is author of Other Conundrums: Race, Culture and Canadian Art (2000) and with Toronto video artist, Richard Fung and eleven artists, 13 Conversations About Art and Cultural Race Politics (2002), translated in 2006 as Territoires et Trajectoires: 14 dialogues sur l¹art et les constructions raciales, culturelles et identitaires. Her essay, “Tender Research: Field Notes from the Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre,” which considered the NIMC’s gardens and landscape was published in the Canadian Journal of Communication (2006). “Cinematic Imag(in)ings of the Japanese Canadian Internment” appears in Reel Asian: Asian Canada on Screen (Coach House 2007). Current projects include “Archiving R-69,” which is exploring cultural memory, film and archives, in a collaboration with her late artist father she calls “Posthumous Cinema.” She is also part of the York-university research group, “Canada and the Films of Expo ‘67.”
Raj Gill is the Director of Prosperity Circles Coaching International in BC Canada. She is a trainer certified by the International Centre for Nonviolent Communication in California. Her practice includes Coaching and Training in Inclusive Leadership Adventures, Communication with Compassion and Emotional Intelligence. Over the past seven years Raj has coached entrepreneurs, youth, couples and inmates to get results through their ideas, words and actions (IWA). Her work also includes curriculum development and teaching with Cowichan Intercultural Society, the Justice Institute of BC., UBC, Langara College and Correctional Service of Canada. Raj brings over 30 years of experience in teaching, training and facilitation to her practice. Two of Raj’s role models are Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. She is a strong believer in the power of compassion and human connection for resolving conflicts and creating universal success.
Audrey Kobayashi, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Geography at Queen’s University. A native of British Columbia, she completed a B.A. (1976) and M.A. (1978) at the University of British Columbia, and a PhD (1983) at UCLA. She has taught in Geography and East Asian Studies at McGill University from 1983 to 1994 when she came to Queen's, initially as Director of the Institute of Women's Studies (1994 to 1999) and thereafter as Professor of Geography. She has spent time as a visiting professor at the University of British Columbia, University College, London, and most recently at Canterbury University, Christchurch, New Zealand. In 1994, she was a Fulbright Fellow at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. Other positions include President of the Canadian Association of Geographers (1999-2001), and Editor, People Place and Region, Annals of the Association of American Geographers.
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Randy Enomoto was born during the internment in 1944 where he grew up in Bralorne BC and the Cariboo. He has worked 30 years with the BC Public Service both in the capacity of a line worker (social worker), trainer of social workers and as a manager (multiculturalism, employment equity and anti-racism). He received the Silver Award from B.C. Public Service for his work on employment equity. Randy has served as President of the Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens’ Association, and as President of the National Association of Japanese Canadians. He co-edited a book on anti-racism, Race, Racialization, and Antiracism in Canada and Beyond (University of Toronto Press. 2007). He currently volunteers for an oral history project of Tonari Gumi, a community social service agency.
Keynote Speaker:
Philomena Essed, Ph.D., is an international and interdisciplinary scholar with a deep interest in the combination of theory-practice. She is the author of Everyday Racism: Reports from Women of Two Cultures (Hunter House, 1990); Understanding Everyday Racism: An Interdisciplinary Theory (Sage, 1991) and Diversity: Gender, Color and Culture (University of Massachusetts Press, 1996). Other books include the co-edited volumes Race Critical Theories (Blackwell, 2002); Refugees and the Transformation of Societies: Agency, Policies, Ethics and Politics (Berghahn 2004) and A Companion to Gender Studies (Blackwell 2005; CHOICE outstanding academic title, 2005). In progress are, Cloning Cultures, which examines the privileging of certain homogeneities and cultures, and Humanizing Leadership, a long-term study based on life narratives of (women’s) alternative practices of power and social change. Philomena is affiliated researcher of Utrecht University's, Research Institute Culture and History, Graduate Gender Program. She has been involved in disability and diversity research and in gender policy development in the Netherlands. She advises on the implementation of European nondiscrimination law as (deputy) member of the Dutch Equal Treatment Commission. Philomena participates in studies of identity and equity interventions in South Africa and she continues to support scholarship and policy efforts on behalf of women, immigrants and minorities in Europe and the United Sates. Before coming to Antioch, she held a tenured position as Senior Researcher at the University of Amsterdam and Visiting Professor at the University of California, Irvine. She earned her PhD in Social Science from the University of Amsterdam (1990, cum laude).
Panelists:
Marcia Crosby is currently a second year PhD student at in the Art History, Visual Art and Theory Department at UBC. Since 1996, she has been an instructor in First Nations Studies and the English Departments at Malaspina University College, Nanaimo, B.C.-now Vancouver Island University. She completed M.A. in Art History (UBC), and a BFA, with a Minor in English (UBC), for which she received an award for Most Promising Student in Canadian Literature. She has written and published essays about art, art practice and theory in books and catalogues, many of which have been presented at national and international conferences. Her first published essay “The Construction of the Imaginary Indian” (in Vancouver Anthology Ed. Stan Douglas, 1991) has been republished in other texts and is still currently used in art history courses in North America and Europe. More recently, she has written seminal essays in the following exhibition catalogue publications: The Group of Seven in Western Canada (2002); The Legacy of Bill Reid: A Critical Enquiry (2004); Emily Carr: New Perspectives (2006), the forward to Unsettling Encounters: First Nations Imagery in the Art of Emily Carr (Gerta Moray, 2006). Her current catalogue essay for Rebecca Belmore’s exhibition, Rising to the Occasion, Vancouver Art Gallery (June – October, 2008) is on traumatic memory, and performance art. Like many of her social art history based essays, her work focuses on uneven power relations, racism, on-going forms of colonialism and the formation of contemporary aboriginal histories in art practice. In relation to this conference, it may be important to note that Crosby and Dr. Roberta Kremer (former Director of the Holocaust Centre) co-wrote a position paper to address contemporary issues of the racism experienced by Aboriginal students in schools in B.C., which was commissioned by the Aboriginal Education Branch of British Columbia (2001). It was tabled and never used.
Monika Kin Gagnon, Ph.D., has published widely on art, cultural politics and media, and teaches in Communication Studies at Concordia University. She is author of Other Conundrums: Race, Culture and Canadian Art (2000) and with Toronto video artist, Richard Fung and eleven artists, 13 Conversations About Art and Cultural Race Politics (2002), translated in 2006 as Territoires et Trajectoires: 14 dialogues sur l¹art et les constructions raciales, culturelles et identitaires. Her essay, “Tender Research: Field Notes from the Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre,” which considered the NIMC’s gardens and landscape was published in the Canadian Journal of Communication (2006). “Cinematic Imag(in)ings of the Japanese Canadian Internment” appears in Reel Asian: Asian Canada on Screen (Coach House 2007). Current projects include “Archiving R-69,” which is exploring cultural memory, film and archives, in a collaboration with her late artist father she calls “Posthumous Cinema.” She is also part of the York-university research group, “Canada and the Films of Expo ‘67.”
Raj Gill is the Director of Prosperity Circles Coaching International in BC Canada. She is a trainer certified by the International Centre for Nonviolent Communication in California. Her practice includes Coaching and Training in Inclusive Leadership Adventures, Communication with Compassion and Emotional Intelligence. Over the past seven years Raj has coached entrepreneurs, youth, couples and inmates to get results through their ideas, words and actions (IWA). Her work also includes curriculum development and teaching with Cowichan Intercultural Society, the Justice Institute of BC., UBC, Langara College and Correctional Service of Canada. Raj brings over 30 years of experience in teaching, training and facilitation to her practice. Two of Raj’s role models are Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. She is a strong believer in the power of compassion and human connection for resolving conflicts and creating universal success.
Audrey Kobayashi, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Geography at Queen’s University. A native of British Columbia, she completed a B.A. (1976) and M.A. (1978) at the University of British Columbia, and a PhD (1983) at UCLA. She has taught in Geography and East Asian Studies at McGill University from 1983 to 1994 when she came to Queen's, initially as Director of the Institute of Women's Studies (1994 to 1999) and thereafter as Professor of Geography. She has spent time as a visiting professor at the University of British Columbia, University College, London, and most recently at Canterbury University, Christchurch, New Zealand. In 1994, she was a Fulbright Fellow at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. Other positions include President of the Canadian Association of Geographers (1999-2001), and Editor, People Place and Region, Annals of the Association of American Geographers.
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