Day 3 (Saturday, March 7)
Schedule
| TIME | PROGRAM | LOCATION (at ¹û½´ÊÓƵ) |
| 10:00 am – 11:15 am | Presentation Sessions [In Person] & Poster Presentations [Online] | 1. Nexus Lounge (12th Floor) 2. 12-213 (SJE Dept) 3. 12-252 (SJE Dept) 4. Zoom |
| 11:30 am - 1:00 pm | Workshop [In Person] | 12-199 (Boardroom) |
| 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm | Muriel Fung Award Ceremony and Closing Remarks [In Person] | Nexus Lounge (12th Floor) |
Sessions (10:00 am – 11:15 am)
Presentation sessions are running concurrently.
Access, Inclusion, and Social Justice
Location: Nexus Lounge (¹û½´ÊÓƵ 12th Floor)
Aanchal Atre: A Needs-Based Assessment of Access and Awareness of University Resources for Queer South Asian Students
Jocelyn Shih: Stories of Becoming - The Development of Social Justice Capacities in Racialized School Administrators
Bliss Wong: Intergenerational cultural transmission - conceptualizing the (re)generation of culture in Chinese-Caribbean ethnic associations
Facilitator: Justin Chen
Teachers and the Taboo
Location: ¹û½´ÊÓƵ 12-213 (SJE Dept)
Madeline Jowett: Reading Between the Lines, Teacher Readiness to Teach and Discuss Sexually Explicit Literature
Maryna Saidova: Teachers’ Technology Competencies' Impact on Student Outcomes
Zaynab Alkari: Restoring Humanity - Teaching Palestine-Israel through Decolonial & Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
Facilitator: Zeyana Musthafa
Digital Learning Spaces
Location: ¹û½´ÊÓƵ 12-252 (SJE Dept)
Margaret Laidlaw: Building Online Social Movement Spaces for and through Learning and Justice
Rebekah Lowe: Creating Black Queer and Trans Joy and Building Community Through Podcasting
Heather Lawless: Sounding Off on Equity: Podcasting, Belonging and Community-Building
Facilitator: Qianhui Ma
Online Poster Presentations (10:00 am – 11:15 am)
All online poster presentations will take place over Zoom.
Schooling, Learning, and Belonging
Location: Zoom
Fiona Chen: Do Earlier Shared Reading, Enjoyment of Reading, Gender and Language Status Influence French Vocabulary Scores?
Yan Xiao: Community Learning as Generative Hope for Older Immigrants’ Emotional Well-being
Aliya Mustafina: Teachers’ effect on Students' Academic Performance in EQAO
Oluwasina Aderiye: Closing the Gap! Removing Communication Barriers When Interacting with Immigrant Parents
Iman Sherazi Syeda: What’s Your Position? Immigrant Women’s Experiences of Empowerment, Belonging, and Leadership Through Team Sports
Facilitators: Carolyn Oei, Latifa Soliman
Workshop (11:30 am - 1:00 pm)
Location: ¹û½´ÊÓƵ 12-199 (Boardroom)
Facilitators: Chanel Tsang, Ghazal Malik
Support: Jasmine El-Hacha
Grounded in the belief that hopeful thinking is a necessary scholarly practice in times of disruption, this workshop offers a shared creative space where participants are invited to exchange stories, images, and interpretations as they reimagine hope through collage making. The collage medium will be explored, inviting slowness and engagement with forms of knowing that extend beyond text and speech, and highlighting how creative practices can deepen reflection and reimagine educational possibilities.
Jacobs et al. (2023) highlight collage-making as a powerful method that enables participants to bring to the surface emotional and often hidden dimensions of experience as images become sources that support meaning-making and critical dialogue. Similarly, by engaging participants in selecting and assembling images from familiar media, collage-making and other art activities supports self-opening in ways that do not rely solely on verbal expression (Wang et al., 2019), promote care and provides an avenue to explore complex emotions (Dadich et al., 2025), as well as support activism and collective pedagogy (Desai, 2025).
Participants will be invited to engage in hands-on activity through collage making. Throughout the process, facilitators will offer guided prompts and opportunities for pair or small group sharing and reflection. Each participant will create their own collage reflecting their imagined futures to bring home as a reminder of the collective hope generated in this workshop.
References
Dadich, A., Watfern, C., Doran, B., & Boydell, K. (2025). Thinking and Caring With Arts-Based Research: An Assemblage of Methods to Promote Public Health. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 24.
Desai, D. (2025). Collective Art Activist Practice: A Pedagogy of Hope. Radical Teacher (Cambridge), 131(131), 28–36.
Jacobs, C., Barends, Z., Malgas, R., Bailey, L., & Williams, S. (2023). Exploring academic identities through collage-making: A collaborative autoethnographic project. Agenda (Durban), 37(2), 44–56.
Wang, G., Kim, Y. & Oh, Y. (2019). A case study on the collage art therapy for immigrant youths. Education and Information Technologies, 24, 1115–1129. -
Muriel Fung Award Ceremony & Closing Remarks (1:00 pm – 1:30 pm)
Location: Nexus Lounge (12th Floor)
Join the ¹û½´ÊÓƵ Graduate Students’ Association (GSA) for the announcement and celebration of the Muriel Fung Student Appreciation Award recipients, followed by closing remarks by the 2026 GSRC co-chairs Carolyn Oei, Haoyi Wang, and Maple Xiang.
