Category Archives: Forum

The SANSAD Forum is a space for the discussion of issues of urgent concern to members and friends of SANSAD. Its goal is to develop understanding, solidarity, and direction for change. People are welcome to propose issues that concern them, explaining their urgency if necessary, and focusing them into questions as much as possible. Both questions and responses will be published on the site at the discretion of the moderator. People who raise questions are advised to request particular individuals whose response they consider valuable by email. Comments can be posted directly on the site.

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Book Release and Panel Discussion

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“the un-surmounted 1500 feet

between the scuttled Komagata Maru

and One-Couver’s brazen shoreline

have yet to be breached“

Join us on Saturday, 15 October at 2:30 pm at Surrey City Centre Library to celebrate the release of Exit Wounds, Tariq Malik’s collection of poems. The afternoon gathering will begin with a Land Acknowledgement followed by introductions. Then, Tariq Malik will read from Exit Wounds; his readings will be interspersed by discussion of selected poems by Ajmer Rode, Surjeet Kalsey, and Sadhu Binning. Themes such as displacement, racism, and belonging in Malik’s poetry will lead us to Ian Rocksborough-Smith joining the discussion to highlight the recent floods in Pakistan and the compelling need for climate justice.

Chin Banerjee Memorial Lecture on Anti-Racism

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Robyn Maynard to deliver the inaugural Lecture titled “Rehearsals for Living”

Join us on 13 October 2022, 7-9 pm, Room 1420-1430, SFU Harbour Centre

The annual Professor Chin Banerjee Memorial Lecture in Anti-Racism, co-hosted by SFU’s Institute for the Humanities, Dr. Hari Sharma Foundation,  West Coast Coalition Against Racism (WCCAR), and South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy (SANSAD), is to commemorate the life, work, and political activism of Professor Chin Banerjee, who passed away on July 29, 2020. Chin leaves behind a legacy of activism in the service of the humankind. He inspired many people to fight for a better world of secular democracy and human rights, and his example and inspiration lives on. This year’s inaugural lecture will be given by Robyn Maynard, influential author of Policing Black Lives. Robyn will be talking about her new book (coauthored by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson), Rehearsals for Living, a captivating book that is part debate, part dialogue, part lively and detailed familial between two razor-sharp writers convening on what it means to get free as the world spins into some new orbit.
SPEAKER
Robyn Maynard is an author and scholar based in Toronto, where she holds the position of Assistant Professor of Black Feminisms in Canada in the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Toronto-Scarborough.
MODERATOR
Glen Coulthard is Yellowknives Dene and an Associate Professor in the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program and the Departments of Political Science at the University of British Columbia.
EVENT DETAILS: Thursday, October 13, 2022
7:00PM–9:00PM, Room 1420–1430
SFU Harbour Centre (registration not required) Learn More
CONTACT: Huyen Pham Communications Coordinator insthum@sfu.ca
The Institute for the Humanities respectfully acknowledges the traditional, unceded and continually occupied territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), səl̓ilw̓ ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), kʷikʷəƛ ̓ əm (Kwikwetlem) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) peoples.

SANSAD Stands in Solidarity with Pacific Gateway Hotel Workers’ Rally on 12 May 2022

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Standing in support with the Pacific Gateway Hotel Workers are SANSAD and Hari Sharma Foundation members and community activists Harinder Mahil, Premrajah Chelliah, Abi Ghimere, Sadhu Binning, Sukhwant Hundal, and Ajay Bhardwaj. Representatives of several unions came to show their support as well.

Photos: Courtesy of Ajay Bhardwaj, Harinder Mahil, and Stephanie Fung