The Centre for Learning, Social Economy & Work and the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education are pleased to announce the inaugural Jack Quarter Lectureship on the Social Economy, featuring Dr. Priscilla Ferreira.
Popular Education and the Economics of Abolition
The inaugural Jack Quarter Lectureship on the Social Economy
June 2, 2023, 5.00-6.00pm ET
OISE/UofT Auditorium, 252 Bloor St. West, Toronto
Reception to follow in the OISE Nexus Lounge
Dr. Priscilla Ferreira will discuss experiences of mutual-aid economies in popular education initiatives co-created in Brazil and the US as a popular educator and community-engaged scholar. Dr. Ferreira will reflect on the role of scholars of economic justice in perpetrating or dismantling the intellectual industrial complex and suggest ideas on how to engage activist scholarship guided by the principles of solidarity economy and racial and epistemic justice.
Dr. Priscilla Ferreira is an Afro-Brazilian feminist, abolitionist, and social justice educator, and an Assistant Professor of Geography and Latinx & Caribbean at Rutgers University. Dr. Ferreira’s work and activism focus on Black solidarity economies, Black geographies, and community-engaged pedagogies and scholarship.
For more on the legacy of Prof. Jack Quarter and the Jack Quarter Lectureship on the Social Economy, see here: https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/clsew/events/jack-quarter-lectureship-social-economy
Region
Ontario, Toronto
Categories
CED Around the World, Conceptual Frameworks & Approaches, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Racialized Communities, Research, Stories & Experiences
