Hearing Employability, Hearing Race (Jan. 25, 2024)

Faculty, students, and any other community members interested in reflecting on employability both as an auditory and racialized construct: please join Dr. Vijay Ramjattan (OISE/UofT) for the fifth event of the JHI Annual Seminar on Multilingualism: Reflecting on a Global Reality through Time, Space, Mind and Text. Dr. Ramjattan will draw on a study of how international students make sense of sounding employable for the Canadian labour market, which specifically details the ideological role of vocal accent in determining the racialized sound of employability. After presenting various examples from the study, the presentation will conclude with a call for public pedagogies that challenge individual and institutional listening practices in the context of the workplace.

This is a hybrid event: everyone is welcome! Light refreshments will be served for in-person attendees.

Thursday, January 25, 2024 @ 3:00-4:30pm
MN 5128
Please register if joining online: https://uoft.me/ramjattan