Wednesday October 9, 2024
3:30pm PT / 4:30pm MT / 5:30pm CT / 6:30pm ET / 7:30pm AT
Join academics, students, and activists across the country for a panel presentation to launch the Canadian Academics for a Just Foreign Policy (CAJFP) website.
In recent years, faculty and students who are critical of Canadian and Western involvement in international conflicts have experienced growing attacks. These attacks are associated with critical scholarship and activism on the Palestinian genocide, the Ukraine War, the conflict over Taiwan, and numerous other conflicts in South America, Africa, Europe, and West Asia. The targeting of faculty and students has had a chilling effect on scholarship.
The dearth of critical foreign policy scholarship in Canada is alarming given the generational shift in global geopolitics we are now witnessing. This moment sees the waning of Western hegemony and the emergence of a robust multipolarity. The potential benefits of this shift are tremendous, but so are the risks.
CAJFP seeks to build a network of faculty and students who will reaffirm the importance of academic freedom and free speech in relation to foreign policy. We also seek to support critical scholarship, pedagogy, and public educational events at institutions country-wide. Ultimately, we are advocating for a principled, evidence-based approach to the study and instruction of Canadian foreign policy, and a movement within academia to realign this policy in the interests of peace, justice, and international law
Speakers:
- Radhika Desai – Professor of geopolitics at the University of Manitoba
- Sabreena Ghaffar–Siddiqui – DEI educator, former Sheridan College professor
- Tamara Lorincz – PhD student at the Balsillie School of International Relations at the University of Waterloo
- Kevin MacKay – Anthropology professor at Mohawk College of Applied Arts and Technology
- Ghada Sasa – PhD student at McMaster University
- Janine Solanki – Chair of Mobilization Against War & Occupation (MAWO), editorial board member of Fire This Time Newspaper.
Co-sponsors:
Canadian Foreign Policy Institute, Mobilization Against War & Occupation (MAWO), Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War, Just Peace Alliance, International Manifesto Group, Geopolitical Economy Research Group, Canada Wide Peace & Justice Network (CWPJN)