March 31-April 1: 4R Virtual Conference

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March 31-April 1: 10am-2pm

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Examine how the Covid pandemic affect research, creative practice, and teaching at the Resilience, Resistance, Renovation and Rebirth Virtual Conference.

Schedule of speakers: 

All times are AZ time

March 31

• 10:00 – 10:30: Opening Notes and Welcome
• 10:30 – 11:00
  • Room A: Prashkandan Sengupta, NEED ECONOMY AS RESISTANCE: MIGRATED WORKERS OF INFORMAL SECTOR IN INDIA DURING PANDEMIC”
  • Room B: Samantha Cliford, Ways that you solved an issue brought by the pandemic that will grow and continue post-pandemic.”
• 11:00 – 11:30
  • Room A: Frederick and King, Collective Trauma and Perseverance: Authentic Human Connection and Empathy during COVID-19”
    o Room B: Tahara Coleman, Black Women’s Agency, COVID-19, & Transformative Call to Action
• 11:30 – 12:00
  • Room A: Karen Ferreira-Meyers, different staff development programmes undertaken at the University of Eswatini”
  • Room B: Tekla Babyak, Academic Conferences in the Covid Era: New Horizons of Accessibility for a Disabled Scholar
• 12:00 – 12:30
  • Room B: Melissa Gwyn “The Big Block”
• 12:30 -13:00
  • Room A: Isabella Cass, Kelly Roberts, “Adapting to How COVID-19 Enables and Constrains Work to Promote Access and Inclusion”
  • Room B: Angie Hansen, “Race, Teacher Education, and Multiethnic Literature”
• 13:00 – 13:30
  • Room A: Isabella Cass, Kelly Roberts, “Adapting to How COVID-19 Enables and Constrains Work to Promote Access and Inclusion”

April 1

• 1000 – 1030: Pato Hebert, “Lingering”
• 1100 – 1130: Debra Edgerton, Will Kinne, Collaborative Voices Interpreting Art and Healing
• 1130 – 1200: Hope Mokded, “Colorful Trauma”
• 1200 – 1230: Linh Dao, ” Inadmissibility: Translating immigration policy updates in the pandemic”
• 1230 – 1300: Maria V “Spiritual Debts”
• 1300 – 1400: Blizard and McCoin, “Rethinking the Liminal Space of Sound”