You are warmly invited to attend the 2025-26 academic year’s Educational Justice lecture (formerly the Equity Studies in Education lecture).
This year we are delighted to welcome Dr. Sadiah Qureshi. Dr. Qureshi hold the Chair in Modern British History at the University of Manchester. Her research interests intersect on race, science, and empire-building in the modern world. Her first book, called Peoples on Parade: Empire and Anthropology in Nineteenth Century Britain (University of Chicago Press, 2011), examined human exhibitions in 19th c Britain, and the wider contributions of these exhibitions to public attitudes about race and racialized differences.
Her most recent book, Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction was published by Allen Lane/Penguin in 2025. In this work, Dr. Qureshi examines how histories of extinction are bound up in histories of empire and genocide. Winner of the 2025 Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal by The Royal Society for excellence relating to the history of science, philosophy of science, or social function of science, we are thrilled that she will be Visiting Scholar at the Cassidy Centre for Educational Justice between March 23-31, 2026. Feel free to email the Centre (ccej@sfu.ca) if you have questions about her visit.
Dr. Qureshi’s scholarship has great relevance for scholars and students of the social sciences, environment, and the sociocultural foundations of education. In particular, institutionalized discourses about racialized others in relation to empire-building is of central concern in educational studies of public pedagogy. And more so, the importance of understanding the role such discourses play in shaping how we (educators, students) learn about racialized others in contexts of empire and colonization.
Her visit and public talk were made possible with support from many academic units and we are delighted to invite colleagues, students, staff, and interested others to this public event at SFU Burnaby campus (details below and attached). Please RSVP to hold your seat (note: Instructors who wish to bring a class/students to the talk, please email the Centre to RSVP for a larger group).
Or to RSVP a larger/class group, email: ccej@sfu.ca
