TOPIC: When are you a refugee? A war-child's perspective on multiculturalism
DATE: Thursday, February 16, 2012
TIME: 12. 30 -13.45
VENUE: TELUS CONVENTION CENTRE
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| Speaking to Students in Airdrie about multiculturalism |
PAST EVENTS
Occasion: Multicultural Day
Topic: Diversity and Refugee Experience
Date: Thursday, December 22, 2011
Time: 9.00 am-12.00
Venue: Ecole Airdrie Middle School
332 1st Ave NE, Airdrie
OCCASION: READING AND PRESENATION
multiculturalism, exclusion and integration
Books: Trifles and Carcass Valley
Place: Forest Lawn Library
Salient Themes
1) Uneasiness in multicultural settings
2) Being wary of the different other
3) Genuine fear of people different from us
4) Raising kids effectively and honestly in multicultural societies
5) What it's like to be a curious and thought-loving 'refugee'
6) What I hate about multiculturalism
7) Police, 'visibility and invisibility'
8) On being othered in Canada and Sudan
9) Immigrants and 'US'
10) South Sudan Independence
11) Goodness/badness of 'discretion/discretness'
12) Racism/Anti-Racism/Reverse Racism
Past readings and presentations
More to be listed.