Re-Igniting Critical Race: A symposium on Contemporary Accounts of Racialization in Canada

Date: November 2, 2012

Location: IKB 1014

Please RSVP to: osgoodeworkshop@gmail.com

Despite its vast contribution to legal scholarship, CRT as a lens is absent within the contemporary law school curriculum. It is for this very reason, the conveners are compelled to re-ignite interest in CRT and infuse the institutional structure with a new mode of engagement. The symposium will seek to address the definitional contours of CRT, the distinctions between American and Canadian CRT and its pragmatic constraints and challenges. We will inquire into how CRT is used to interrogate the law in modern times, notwithstanding aboriginal, ability/dis-ability, class, feminist, post-colonial and queer influences. Our conversation, therefore, is a starting point and a point of departure to critically engage in self-reflection. For more information including the programme and materials please visit the symposium website here.