Category: Public Talks

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Prof Mohan Dutta, CARE, Massey University presenting at Philippine Association for Communication and Media Research, Inc (PACMRI) Masterclass 2024

Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE) is proud to share that Prof. Mohan Dutta, Massey University will be featuring at the PACMRI Masterclass 2024 on 11 October 2024 | 3PM Philippine Time on Zoom and Facebook LIVE with renowned scholars.

Date: 11 October 2024 | 3 PM Philippine Time via Zoom and Facebook Live

Discover the Culture-Centered Approach to Communication and Media Studies!

Are you passionate about amplifying marginalized voices and challenging dominant narratives? Join us for the fourth Philippine Association for Communication and Media Research, Inc. PACMRI Masterclass to explore a transformative framework that centers these communities in media and communication featuring renowned scholars Prof. Mohan Dutta from Massey University , Dr. Sudeshna Roy from Marquette University and Dr. Dazzelyn Baltazar Zapata from the University of the Philippines

Register for the Zoom session here: https://bit.ly/2024Masterclass3

#CultureCenteredApproach #CommunicationStudies #MediaStudies #SocialChange #RadicalDemocracy #PACMRIMasterclass #MohanDutta #SudeshnaRoy #DazzelynBaltazarZapata #UPLBCommunication #MasseyUniversity #MarquetteUniversity #UPDiliman #EmpowermentThroughMedia #AmplifyVoices #InclusiveCommunication

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CARE Talk | The Far-right and Islamophobic Hate: Lessons from the United Kingdom

19 August 2024 @ 8 pm NZST on Facebook LIVE!

Link to Facebook LIVE: https://www.facebook.com/share/dPPADYQYVEuT5yMo/

The Far-right and Islamophobic hate: Lessons from the United Kingdom

Abstract:

This panel, bringing in leading global anti-racist activists challenging Islamophobia, will address the nature of Islamophobia in white supremacist hate. It will explore the drivers of Islamophobic hate, intersections with rise of fascism, and the threat to democracy. 

Panelists:

Prof. Mohan J Dutta, Director, Center for Culture-Centred Approach to Research & Evaluation (CARE), Massey University.

Mohammed Owais, Director of the United Kingdom Indian Muslim Council (UKIMC)

Imam Waseem Razvi, Chair of the Alliance Against Islamophobia

Dr. Haroon Kasim, Ani Caste/Anti Racism Activist

#AntiRacism, #Islamophobia, #FarRight, #WhiteSupremacist, #UnitedKingdom, #UKRiots, #Fascism,

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Public Talk – CARE Visiting Academic Series: The Embodied Meaning Making of Museums – Presented by Professor Greg Dickinson, Colorado State University

CARE is excited about this upcoming Public Talk, a part of the CARE Visiting Academic Series: The Embodied Meaning Making of Museums – Presented by Professor Greg Dickinson – Professor and Chair Communication Studies, Colorado State University.

Tuesday,23rd April 2024 @ 11am Palmerston North City Library, 2nd Floor- Heritage Space and Livestream on CARE Facebook & CARE YouTube channel.

The presentation explores how contemporary rhetorical scholarship helps us weave together symbolic, material and embodied understandings of museums.

Museums are powerful cultural and communicative institutions. Museums are often and correctly understood as institutions of Western modernity, central to colonialism and imperialism, and are a location of crucial contestations of the relations among past, present, and future. They are also powerfully effective and affective technologies of communication. Understanding how to engage museums as communicative institutions depends on a rich understanding of the modes of museal communication.

In this presentation Prof. Dickinson will trace the communicative and rhetorical modalities of museums. Drawing on my, and my colleagues, research on US American museums—with particular attention to the Buffalo Bill Center of the West—he will focus on the rhetorical nature of collection and display practices within museums. While many within museum studies have explored both collecting and display, rhetoric scholars bring field-specific questions and concerns to these practices, questions and concerns that can enliven us to the political consequentiality of museums. Contemporary rhetorical scholarship helps us weave together symbolic, material, and embodied understandings of museums.

Livestream Links:

Facebook LIVE: https://www.facebook.com/events/1126142745176836
YouTube LIVE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG4pwEiJVhA
CARE Facebook Page:
https://www.facebook.com/CAREMassey
CARE YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF760E7rBst3U5GmJ5FhDDw
CARE Twitter page
https://twitter.com/CAREMasseyNZ

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CARE Special Presentation: Palestine Solidarity and Ramadan with Dr. Fatima Junaid, Tayyaba Khan and Anthony Green

Join us online on Tuesday 09 April 2024, 7pm for CARE’s Special Presentation on Palestine Solidarity and Ramadan with Dr. Fatima Junaid, Tayyaba Khan and Anthony Green.

A conversation around solidarity and the dissonance that Muslims are feeling during Ramadan and may feel at Eid as we keep seeing the Palestinian Genocide.

Supporting each other to keep going with the solidarity efforts and acknowledging that any effort is good as long as we are not silent. Please join us as we ponder on the question of what it means to have Eid in these times.

Livestream Links:

CARE Facebook Page:

https://www.facebook.com/events/957996199291968/

CARE YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF760E7rBst3U5GmJ5FhDDw

Reading:

Below is a document prepared by Anthony Green for the online talk supported by CARE – Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation.

A selection of some different perspectives on the uses of language and on ways of seeing – a few examples of texts and sources that may be of interest.

Palestine-Solidarity-and-Ramadan–9-Apr-2024Download

Presenters:

Dr. Fatima Junaid

Dr. Fatima Junaid is an experienced consultant and educator working within public and private sector for over a decade. Dr. Junaid has done extensive research with marginalized communities including refugees, women, migrants and fishers’ communities. She focuses on developing mechanisms of support for better wellbeing outcomes. Currently she is a Senior lecturer at Massey University and a member of the several wellbeing (academic and professional) organisations. She also runs a social media support network group for Pakistani women in academia.

Dr Junaid can be reached at f.junaid@massey.ac.nz or

https://www.linkedin.com/in/fatimajunaid1/

Tayyaba Khan

Founder and trustee of Khadija Leadership Network, the New Zealand (NZ) Peace Ambassador for the European Muslim League, former Director of Advocacy at the Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner, and a community development practitioner with over 15 years of experience having worked with the migrant and refugee communities in The Occupied Territories of Palestine, Australia, United Kingdom and New Zealand. Tayyaba currently sits on the governance board of Mixit & Belong Aotearoa. She is also a regular panellist on RNZ’s ‘The Panel’, and ‘The AM Show’.

Anthony Green

Originally from the UK, he worked as a teacher of English and Literature, first in the UK and then, for eighteen years in Singapore. In the six months’ period after the mosque attacks, and again in the 2020 “anniversary,” he served as spokesperson for the Muslim Association of Canterbury

His writings include books commissioned by Muis (Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura, Singapore’s Islamic Council), dealing with all aspects of the development and work of that body: its history, mosque-building programme, Hajj organisation, and more. His own work includes a history of how people travelled by sea from Southeast Asia to journey to Mecca for the Hajj. His interest is in people’s stories, particularly of those who are “unsung” – what the poet Brian Patten called, “the loose change history spent without caring.”

Image by Palestinian photographer Hosny Salah, currently living in Palestine Gaza Strip

https://pixabay.com/users/hosnysalah-10285169/

CARE Twitter page:

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The Urgency of Addressing Palestinian Mental Health in Times of Genocide: Special Presentation

A conversation with Dr Samah Jabr

Through her responses to a series of wide-ranging questions, Dr. Samah Jabr, Head of the Mental Health Unit within the Palestinian Ministry of Health, gives essential insights into the ways to understand Palestinian mental health before, during, and after catastrophe and genocide. By invoking the principle of “observing and learning” from Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, Dr. Jabr challenges western pathologizing and individualizing around mental health, and offers a community-centered and liberatory alternative framework.

Professor Walid Adel Afifi, Dept of Communication; Associate Dean, Division of Social Science, University of California – Santa Barbara

Associate Professor Guido Veronese, in Clinical and Community Psychology, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy.

Visiting at Gaza Community Mental Health Program, Gaza where I teach Family Therapy.

Dr. Samah Jabr, consultant Psychiatrist, Head of the Mental Health Unit, MoH

Acknowledgements:

Image by Palestinian photographer Hosny Salah, currently living in Palestine Gaza Strip

Link: https://pixabay.com/users/hosnysalah-10285169/

Music: Native American Drums 2 Hours, Royalty Free Music by Kevin MacLeod

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Professor Mohan Dutta Unpacks the Colonial Concept of Divide and Rule

A talk by Prof. Mohan Dutta on Colonial Divide & Rule

In this insightful lecture, Professor Mohan Dutta critically analyzes the colonial divide and rule strategy, examining its historical implementation and its enduring relevance in contemporary contexts. He elucidates how this strategy has been employed to exert control over colonial subjects and draws connections to present-day scenarios. Professor Dutta illustrates the perpetuation of this divide and rule tactic through strategies aimed at fragmenting Maori communities, separating them from ethnic migrant groups. Moreover, he delves into the transformative process of decolonization, emphasizing its role in fostering connection and unity among diverse communities.

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CARE Public Talk: White Supremacy, the Intersections of Anti-Māori Hate and Anti-Migrant Racism: The Targeting of Te Tiriti

White Supremacy, the Intersections of Anti-Māori Hate and Anti-Migrant Racism: The Targeting of Te Tiriti This talk explores the convergence between anti-Māori hate and anti-migrant racism in the context of the attack on Te Tiriti. It notes that the white supremacy that seeks to undermine Te Tiriti is also the ideology that seeks to silence and expel migrants of colour. Based on the analysis, it argues for migrant- Māori solidarity based on Te Tiriti as the foundation for sustaining social cohesion in Aotearoa.

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CARE Public Talk: Freedom and/or Justice? Tensions In The Liberal Paradigm for Regulating Harmful Speech by Prof. Cherian George

Join us for Professor Cherian George’s Public Talk at the Business Studies (Central) Building, Massey University, BSC B1.08 COMMS Lab. Or join us virtually via the Livestream on our social media platforms.

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/CAREMassey/videos/310113508573077

CARE YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXwelom8Ac4

The norms and institutions of democracy and human rights are on the back foot around the world. They clearly need to be strengthened. This work has been disrupted and delayed not only by democracy’s opponents but also from within. There are recurring, divisive debates within liberal democracies concerning how much society should tolerate discriminatory speech. This talk searches for guideposts to navigate the contested terrain between free speech and social justice.

Cherian George is a professor of media studies at Hong Kong Baptist University’s School of Communication, and the director of its Centre for Media and Communication Research. His books include Hate Spin: The Manufacture of Religious Offence and its Threat to Democracy (2016); and Red Lines: Political Cartoons and the Struggle against Censorship (2021).