Navigating Culture/Wars, Borderlands, and Queer Precarity
Wednesday, March 22nd, 12:00 PM in the Andrew W. Bouwhuis Library (Learning Center).
Free and Open to the Public
A Roundtable Panel featuring:
- Dr. Richard Reitsma, DMLLC at Canisius College. Dr. Reitsma will discuss parallels and intersections: anti-LGBTQIA+ & Racial Culture Wars from Buffalo to Bratislava, mass shootings, and the Ukraine War and the violence at the US Southern Border.
- Dr. Mark Congdon, Jr., Assistant Professor of Communications Studies within the School of Communication, Media and the Arts at Sacred Heart University. Dr. Congdon will describe the role of service learning for cross border resolution through virtual community engaged pedagogy to reimagine the classroom “borders” to work in solidarity.
- Kinny Torre, Ph.D. student and Graduate Fellow in the Department of Education at the University of Utah. Torre will discuss the plight of LGBTQIA+ Russians stuck in immigration limbo in Guam, a U.S. territory in the Marianas Islands.
In collaboration with DMLLC, Bouwhuis Library, VPAA, PSC/IR, HON, ULLC, and Campus Ministry.
If you cannot attend on Canisius campus, the event will be accessible, live remotely, via http://c.anisi.us/CultureWars