Panels
Confirmed panel discussions - More will be added as panels are being confirmed by organizers
#11 - Activist Geographies: Teaching for Hope in Troubling Times
Chairs: Teresa Dawson1, CindyAnn Rose-Redwood1, Reuben Rose-Redwood1, University of Victoria1
Panelists: Dr. Jeff Corntassel, Dr. Emma Swan, Dr. Keith Cherry and Prof. Teresa Dawson
Description: Many of our students currently bring a range of overwhelming emotions with them to their Geography classes. From climate grief to despair caused by the reversal of hard-won social justice gains, we are teaching in unprecedented and troubling times. In such a context, how can we design our classes to allow students (and ourselves) to engage with the pressing issues that motivate them, whilst not being shut down in their learning by the weight of challenges that appear beyond their control? Panelists will be invited to discuss how they have designed (or redesigned) their courses, assignments and assessments for hopeful outcomes. In particular, how can we create the conditions in which students can continue to engage in timely, impactful activism that makes a difference, whilst also supporting them in doing so safely. Panelists will provide specific examples from across the discipline whilst inviting conversation about shared practices and opportunities for collaboration. Note: Teresa would like to present her work as a panelist. Whilst we could easily fill the rest of the panel with colleagues from UVic (and will if the program committee wishes us to), we would prefer to make this a welcoming space for colleagues from across Canada to join us in conversation and (hopefully) begin a national community of practice where we can share curricular examples and outcomes that support student activism. For that reason, we would initially leave 3/4 slots on the panel for others to join us. Anyone with questions, or who would like to participate is welcome to contact Teresa at tdawson@uvic.ca.
#21 - Changemaking Skills for Thriving Communities
Chairs: Ryan Hilperts and Sabrina Guzman Skotnitsky, University of Victoria School of Environmental Studies
Panelists: Ryan Hilperts, Sabrina Guzman-Skotnitsky, Sonia Furstenau, Two ES Undergraduate Students
Description: It is becoming increasingly apparent that addressing the affective domain of changemaking and building community at local scales is needed to help students build personal and collective resilience while contributing to social and/or environmental causes. Learning from local leaders’ stories of navigating and overcoming barriers to action, and mobilizing their neighbours, peers and unlikely allies, can have a profound and empowering impact on young people’s sense of efficacy and motivation to engage in changemaking. Furthermore, building relationships with mentors and potential collaborators is essential to resilience - the missing element of connection that many students long for in their Environmental Studies and Geography education. Led and moderated by Assistant Teaching Professor Ryan Hilperts and Sabrina Guzman Skotnitsky, M.A. from UVic’s School of Environmental Studies, this panel will discuss the interdisciplinary Community-Engaged Learning course “Changemaking Skills for Thriving Communities”. This innovative new course offered in Spring 2026 through UVic’s School of Environmental Studies and Transformative Climate Action program supported students to develop skills, competencies and dispositions for changemaking and apply them by working with peers on a community-defined project. The course incorporated a Changemaker Summit, bringing local community leaders together for a day of co-learning and connection. The centrepiece of the course is the co-created Changemakers Library, an online resource of interviews with local changemakers across British Columbia. This panel will feature students, instructors and community members sharing key learnings from the course and their lived experiences navigating challenges and opportunities at the local scale. Participants will gain access to the Changemakers Library website, insight into pedagogical approaches to community-centred course design, and will walk away with frameworks to consider the affective domain of working for change and building resilience at the community scale in classroom and community settings.
#26 - Rethinking Watershed Futures: Geographies of Neglect and Awareness in Diitiida / the Jordan River Watershed
Chairs: Neil Nunn, Allard School of Law
Panelists: Zannah Mattson, Environmental Design, University of Colorado Boulder and Wayne Jackaman, Jordan River Watershed Awareness
Description: Jordan River was once among the most salmon-producing watersheds on South Vancouver Island. Because of current and historic unsustainable energy production and mining this industrialized landscape sustains very little aquatic life. This panel session presents research and visual communication emerging from the South Island-based Jordan River Watershed Awareness (JRWA) initiative. It brings together three researchers who have collaborated on documenting and communicating the story of ecological degradation, industrialism, and ongoing colonial impacts in Diitiida, the Jordan River watershed.The Jordan River was once among the most salmon-producing watersheds on South Vancouver Island. However, due to both historic and ongoing unsustainable energy production and mining, this heavily industrialized landscape now supports very little aquatic life. This panel session presents research and visual communication emerging from the South Island-based Jordan River Watershed Awareness (JRWA) initiative. It brings together three researchers who have collaborated to document and convey the story of ecological degradation, industrial development, and the continuing colonial impacts in Diitiida, the Jordan River watershed.The panel will open with two short films produced by JRWA. The first, "Fragile Flow", is a 12-minute, image-driven and sound-driven work co-written, co-directed, and co-produced by JRWA and Pacheedaht Elder Bill Jones. The second is a 7-minute instructional infographic film that outlines the devastating history of the watershed and highlights the social and ecological dynamics that continue to constrain the watershed.Together, these films and presentations explore how visual storytelling, community-engaged research, and critical anti-colonial geographies work towards broader public awareness and can act as the spark for meaningful restoration in the Jordan River watershed.
#27 - Affective and Emotional Climate Resilience
Chair: Sarah Wolfe, Royal Roads University
Panelists: Lauren Smith, Stephanie Cote, Glen MacDonald, Yinuo Lu
Description: Since the early 2000’s, much has been written about emotion’s role in space and place, including the co-beneficial perspectives of geographies of affect and emotional geographies. The works of Bondi, O’Grady, Sultana, Pile — along with many others — provide a robust foundation to explore the intent and outcomes of emotions in relation to human interactions with their landscapes, resources, and behaviours. With the inequitable and unjust impacts of climate change increasingly realized, understanding emotional drivers of climate responses and resource use is a mission critical task. By understanding how emotions influence and are influenced by climate behaviours, we can better conceptualize strategies toward planetary resilience.This panel and workshop session will connect scholars who work with emotions and the climate, nature, landscapes, or resources, in any combination. Whether focused on fear, joy, empathy, love, hate, awe, or other emotions, and whether investigating affective experiences of climate change, motivational possibilities from specific emotions, or emotional attachment to space and place (for just a few examples), the work ahead is vast and potential interconnections are endless. We invite you to join us in a collaborative panel and workshop session that will highlight emerging scholars and novel research towards identifying emotions’ roles along pathways to climate resilience.Breakout groups:1. How can affective and emotional geographies resolve environmental and climate problems and build societal resilience?2. What connections does geography have, or need, to other disciplines for conceptual and methodological insights?3. How would we define a conceptually and methodologically expansive and applied research agenda for affective and emotional geographies?We aspire, with participant interest, that these breakout groups could lead to a manuscript published in Canadian Geographies.
#36 - Abortion Geographies: Collective Care and Spatialities of Resistance
Chairs: Mantha Katsikana and Amanda De Lisio, York University
Panelist: Martha Paynter, University of New Brunswick; Clare Heggie, University of New Brunswick; Emily Mills, Brock University; Amanda De Lisio, York University; Mantha Katsikana, York University
Description: Amid the global rise of far-right and conservative politics, abortion has become a central focus of public debate, disproportionately affecting those who do not conform to white, cisheteropatriarchal norms of motherhood (Beutin, 2023; Ross & Solinger, 2017). Within geography, a growing field of abortion geographies has emerged, particularly following the overturning of Roe v. Wade in the United States (Mills & DeLaet, 2024; Calkin et al., 2022; Thomsen et al., 2022) and in response to legislative reforms and grassroots mobilizations around the world (Freeman & Rodríguez, 2024; Suárez-Baquero et al., 2024; Fischer, 2019, 2020). Despite this expansion, the field remains heavily U.S.-centric. In Canada, where abortion has been decriminalized, provincially regulated, and publicly funded since 1988, geographical research has focused mainly on rural-urban disparities in provision and the mobilities of abortion seekers (Sethna & Doull, 2013). Non-geographical literature has highlighted barriers to access, and the ongoing impacts of colonial medical and obstetric violence (Jones et al., 2024; Paynter & Heggie, 2024; Shaheen-Hussain et al., 2023; McKenzie et al., 2022), yet questions of space, place, and spatial justice remain underexplored.This panel addresses these gaps by examining the geographies of abortion through embodied, affective, and lived dimensions of abortion-related care and organizing. It adopts feminist geographical approaches that foreground spatial (in)justice and emphasize the urban, suburban, rural, and cross-border spatialities that shape abortion access, experience, and resistance. The session aims to broaden geographical understandings of abortion beyond U.S.-centric frameworks, to centre spatialities of care, collective organizing, and transnational solidarity, and to illuminate spatial strategies that confront far-right sensibilities and restrictive governmentalities. It further aims to generate interdisciplinary dialogue among scholars, practitioners, and community organizers. Potential presenters may include feminist geographers, reproductive health practitioners, legal advocates, community-based abortion rights organizers, and others engaged in scholarship or activism related to abortion access and care.
#44 - Closing the Distance: Methods for Engagement Towards Energy Transitions in Rural Contexts
Chair: Tamara Krawchenko, University of Victoria
Panelists: Sinead Earley, University of Northern British Columbia; Maya Willard-Stepan, University of Victoria; Katherine Pearce, Community Energy Association; Tamara Krawchenko, University of Victoria; Kara Shaw, University of Victoria
Description: Rural and remote communities are critical sites for the renewable energy transition, hosting immense potential for renewable energy development. However, given the land-intensive requirements of renewable energy technologies, rapid energy transition will have substantial impacts for rural communities in BC and beyond, impacts that have the potential not only to exacerbate existing injustices imposed by inherited energy systems, but also those imposed by colonization and histories of extractive resource development. Advancing energy transition in ways that are responsive to these inherited realities as well as the contemporary aspirations and constraints of rural communities is thus both a pressing and complex challenge. Meeting this challenge requires finding ways to center the diverse concerns and interests of rural and remote communities in transition planning. Papers on this panel will explore the methods and findings of the Northern Regional Energy Dialogues Project; challenges and opportunities for regional governance approaches to energy transition, and a territorial analysis of the energy economy in northern British Columbia.
#45 - Power for People: Planning, Policy and Capacity in Northern BC Energy Transitions
Chair: Kara Shaw, University of Victoria
Presenters: Sara Chitsaz, University of Victoria; Tamara Krawchenko, University of Victoria; Sinead Earley, University of Northern British Columbia; Megan MacDonald, University of Victoria; Kara Shaw, University of Victoria.
Description: Community engagement in the Northern Regional Energy Dialogues identified a range of crucial knowledge gaps and capacity constraints that are impeding energy transitions in northern BC, including a lack of systematic energy-economy modelling or regional-scale planning processes to support decision-making, misaligned policy frameworks, limited professional skills and training programs, and community-scale tensions arising from political polarization and mis/disinformation campaigns. This panel will present initial projects addressing these gaps. Papers will present the results of a survey developed using a participatory approach to centre Northern voices in generating inclusive and actionable insights relating to northern identity, environmental experiences and attitudes, and energy futures; a comparative analysis of frameworks for regional energy-economy planning, and how these might be applied to British Columbia’s existing energy planning framework to incorporate regional approaches that more fully integrate community energy planning with economic development strategies and land-use planning, and two case studies of community responses to failures of regulatory and transition planning frameworks.
#47 - Dialogues in Human Geography Forum on Indigenous Legal Geographies
Chair: Reuben Rose-Redwood, University of Victoria
Presenter: Sarah Hunt / Tłaliłila’ogwa, University of Victoria
Panelists: Michael Fabris, University of British Columbia; Styawat / Leigh Joseph, Simon Fraser University; Deborah McGregor, York University.
Description: "This panel session is a Dialogues in Human Geography Forum on the theme of Indigenous Legal Geographies. It will consist of a presentation by Indigenous geographer Sarah Hunt / Tłaliłila’ogwa, followed by commentaries from panelists, an author response, and open discussion.”
#57 - Celebrating Professor Margaret Walton-Robert’s life and work
Chairs: Alison Mountz1, Nadine Schuurman2, Robert McLeman McLeman3
Affiliations: 1University of Toronto Scarborough, 2Simon Fraser University, 3wilfrid laurier university
Description: Professor Margaret Walton-Roberts died at the age of 57 on August 11, 2025. This session will provide time and space to remember and celebrate her life and work. Margaret was a phenomenal scholar, instructor, and administrator, and a beloved colleague, advisor, and friend to many people around the globe. Her networks spread far and wide, from her undergraduate days in the United Kingdom, to graduate school at the University of British Columbia, to field work in South Asia, to her 23 years of service on faculty in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies and at the Balsillie School of International Affairs at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. Margaret was a prolific economic, cultural, and feminist geographer and scholar of international migration. She researched and wrote about transnational networks and economic circuits forged between the Punjab and British Columbia, the gendering of care and the global migration of health care professionals, and local immigration partnerships and settlement services in Ontario. A few colleagues will open this session with brief remarks, followed by an “open mic” where all are invited to share stories and reflections on Margaret’s life and her many important contributions as a scholar. This session accompanies a special forum published early in 2026 in Canadian Geographies.
# 58 - What are critical geographies, and what can, and should, they be?
Chair: Onyx Sloan Morgan, UBC Okanagan
Session organizers: ACME Collective
Panelists: Reuben Rose-Redwood, Department of Geography, UVic; Sarah Hunt, School of Environmental Studies, UVic; May Farrales, Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University; Emily Eaton, Department of Geography & Environmental Studies, University of Regina; Darius Scott, Department of Geography, McGill University; Araby Smyth, Department of Geography & Environment, Mount Allison University.
Description: What are critical geographies? What can, and should, critical geographies be? Over the last year, the ACME Collective has organized panels at geography conferences in the UK and the United States on what are critical geographies, sites of possibility, and sites of contention. These panels have been uniquely place-based, seeking to hear from geographers across the discipline on pressing topics and potentialities from the places in which panelists work, live, and organize. At the 2026 CAG gathering, we intend to hear from critical geographers located across Canada on what they perceive critical geographies to be, its contradictions and possibilities as a field. Panelists will be invited to share their perspectives in this ACME-organized session.
#69 - Authors meet readers: Let Geography Die
Organizers: Rachel Silvey, Alison Mountz
Chair: Rachel Silvey, University of Toronto
Panelists: Trevor Barnes, UBC, Matt Farish, University of Toronto, Alison Mountz, University of Toronto, Patricia/ Tish Lopez, University of Washington, Kira Williams, University of Toronto, Roberta Hawkins, University of Guelph, Andrew Burridge, Macquarie University
Description: The story of geographical research and education at Harvard University has a mythological status in the discipline. Closing under mysterious circumstances in the late-1940s, the loss of geography at Harvard holds wider reverberations for the fate of other programs across the United States of America. Drawing on their book, Let Geography Die, Alison Mountz and Kira Williams conduct an investigation into this loss, unearthing personal and institutional secrets that drove the sudden closure of the program at the precise moment it reached its apex. Inextricably bound to and at the heart of this narrative are the hidden personal lives of the queer men recruited to build geography at Harvard - the same ones later blamed for its demise.Mountz’s and Williams’s investigation weaves together several histories: the enactment of homophobic policies under McCarthyism designed to purge queer people from university campuses and government offices; a university president with little regard for the social sciences on a personal mission to dissolve education; fierce, if failed, university politicking to rescue and then resuscitate the program; personal queer lives hidden in the plain sight of campus; and two contemporary political geographers on a mission to memorialise the queer people blamed for society’s ills.This panel explores critical themes related to Let Geography Die, such as homophobia, gender, the politics of science, persecution of suspected socialists and academic freedom. Further, connected to all of these themes, is the spectre of haunting itself - how the trauma of the past continues to erupt into the present. Through this discussion, we aim to review and advance some issues affecting geography as a discipline today across distinct national settings, including Canada, the US, and Australia.
#83 - End Times: Challenges and Opportunities for Women and Queer of Color Geographies Now
Chair: Sharon LuK, Simon Fraser University
Panelists: Sharon LuK, Simon Fraser University; May Farrales, SFU; JP Catungal, UBC; Davina Bhandar, UVic; Katherine Acachoso UVic
Description: This round table stages a dialogue amongst faculty (at various stages of our careers) to reflect on current challenges to advancing women and queer of color geographies in our research, teaching/training, and social practices. How are "end times" crises and their particular manifestations in higher education and culture affecting our work? We hope to use this space to name our challenges and explore how we are finding or building support to move through them. It may also be possible to generalize certain experiences and develop approaches or networks to transform particular conditions of constraint, as they come up in our classrooms, hallways, offices, etc.
#61 - Geographies of Immigration Detention
Chair: Alison Mountz, University of Toronto Scarborough
Discussant: Leah Montange
Panelists: Andrew Burridge, Jennifer Bagelman, Patricia Lopez, Kate Motluk
Description: Across the globe, states continue to invent and implement myriad mechanisms through which to intercept, detain, and deport vulnerable migrants. Policies across wealthy, migrant-receiving countries continue to retreat from the provision of asylum, shrinking available pathways to safety. Political figures routinely name migration as one of the major challenges of our time, and frame refugees, asylum-seekers, and other vulnerable migrants as invading threats that contribute to all social ills. This framing is then used as justification for the extreme policies of externalization, protracted detention, and the violent process of deportation. While modern immigration detention and other forms of migrant containment have proliferated and increased across the globe at alarming rates, these practices are far from new. Rather, these practices are the latest manifestation of familiar, racialized efforts to contain particular populations. Colonial histories not only inform these contemporary efforts, but violently erupt in the present, haunting people, places, and communities. Critical scholarship has already successfully begun to interrogate current detention and containment practices. The political moment and the stakes for migrants ensnared in its web makes sustained attention necessary and urgent. This panel session will begin to make sense of the politics of detention and the impact these policies have had on the lives of migrants in specific places. Our exploration of detention will range from considering histories and colonial antecedents, the political economy of detention, and innovative carceral forms.
#99 - Decolonizing and Indigenizing the CAG: A Fireside Chat with Knowledge Keepers
Chair: Deondre Smiles, University of British Columbia
Panelists: Deondre Smiles, Matt Fuller, Razz Routly, Melinda Quintero, Maya Weeks, Owen Lee, Jugal Patel.
Description: In 2022, the CAG approved a new Standing Committee of the CAG for Decolonizing and Indigenizing the Professional Association. The rationale for this Committee is steeped in the recognition that as a profession and discipline, Geography has played and continues to play an active role in shaping the settler colonial enterprise in what is now called Canada, subjecting Indigenous Peoples to ongoing colonial and racist violence, and Land dispossession (Hunt 2014; Daigle 2016). Kobayashi and Peake (2000) outline, “the discipline played a founding role in establishing the systems of imperialist expansion and colonial power through which the western world became a dominant center and its white inhabitants became normative, authoritative, and privileged” (399).Unique to the CAG, this Committee includes two Knowledge Keepers. The Committee recognizes that Knowledge Keepers are generally understood to be those who have been taught by Indigenous Elders within their community. Their roles are flexible and the Committee works collaboratively with them. Their work includes: Providing insight and feedback on ideas and actions related to our work plan; Guiding actions and decision making; Being present to help us remain grounded in our work; Asking the ‘hard’ questions; Providing guidance on how to elevate Indigenous ways/knowledges in the professional association; and Advising on how to foster culturally safe spaces in the CAG.During the 2025 Annual Meeting in Ottawa, the D&I Committee hosted a “fireside chat” with the Committee’s two Knowledge Keepers, Adele ᒪᐢᑿᓱᐤᐏᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau and Celeste Smith (Oneida), about their observations and involvement in the work of this Committee and the CAG as a whole. The session was very positively received.The D&I Committee wishes to organize a 2026 edition, featuring the new Knowledge Keepers; we are currently in the process of selecting these individuals and will notify the conference organizers once they join the Committee.
#100: New Directions in Qualitative GIS: Towards Critical Geographies of Resistance and Resilience
Chairs: Sophia Jewell, University of Alberta; Nadine Schuurman, Simon Fraser University
Panelists: Theresa Dearden, University of British Columbia; Carolina Monteiro De Carvalho, University of Victoria; Sophia Jewell, University of Alberta; Ayla De Grandpre, University of British Columbia; Nadine Schuurman, Simon Fraser University.
Description: Over the past two decades, qualitative GIS has emerged as a critical challenge to traditional Cartesian knowledge systems which dominated many Eurocentric geographies of the past. Recognized by many researchers as a decolonial and participatory approach to mapping which centres the voices of community members (Dadpour et al., 2023; Saxinger et al., 2021; Musiol, 2020; Couling et al., 2019), qualitative GIS offers new avenues for rethinking geographies of resistance and resilience. The purpose of this session is to further explore the potential of qualitative GIS as a critical and participatory approach to community research. How can new methods in qualitative GIS contribute to critical geographies of resistance and resilience, particularly in the context of marginalized communities? How can participatory geographies inform our understanding of inclusion, decolonization, and sustainable development? Through a panel discussion, this session brings together interdisciplinary scholars working at the intersections of migration, sustainability, feminist geography, climate action, and health geography. Focusing on topics such as community mapping in Nepal following the 2015 earthquake (Theresa Dearden, University of British Columbia), urban resilience within informal settlements in the Global South, (Dr. Carolina Monteiro De Carvalho, University of Victoria), experiences of political refugees in Canada (Sophia Jewell, University of Alberta), as well as more-than-human relationships and environmental change along Mission Creek, BC (Ayla De Grandpre, University of British Columbia), each paper acts as a case study in community resilience and resistance across times and space. In applying qualitative GIS through a range of methodological techniques, such as narrative cartography, sketch maps, deep mapping, VGI, and participatory GIS-these papers showcase emerging trends in the field and directions for further research. In putting these papers in dialogue, this panel opens up a critical conversation on innovative methods for applying qualitative GIS to empower communities and map ongoing processes of resistance and resilience.
#102 - Managed retreat: decisions and visions for climate resilient Canadian communities
Chair: Brent Doberstein, University of Waterloo
Panelists: Brent Doberstein, University of Waterloo, Dr. Kearney Copeland, University of Guelph, Ben Cross, University of Waterloo, Mandie Yantha, UBC Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, Sheridan Hill, University of Waterloo.
Description: Managed retreat is emerging as a viable strategy for reducing disaster risks and adapting to the realities of climate change in many Canadian communities. The proposed panel, “Managed retreat: decisions and visions for climate resilient Canadian communities” will convene academics, researchers, and practitioners to explore the complex decisions involved in designing proactive and equitable retreat projects. Panelists will discuss the multifaceted challenges of making decisions about managed retreat, from deciding what triggers retreat, to decisions about types of community engagement, to decisions about the most effective use of ‘retreat lands’. Special emphasis will be placed on exploring how proactive community visioning can guide retreat initiatives, ensuring that projects not only reduce current hazards but also address future climate risks in ways that promote social equity and strengthen community resilience. The discussion will highlight existing cases from around the world that showcase promising and innovative approaches that centre the needs of diverse community stakeholders, fostering equitable outcomes and minimizing unintended harms. The panel will conclude with an overview of the capacity-building and training resources being developed by the NFRF-I-funded Retreating From Risk (RFR) project, which aims to empower communities, practitioners, and decision-makers with the tools and knowledge required for effective managed retreat. Attendees will leave with insights and connections to resources that support the use of managed retreat for climate-resilient communities across Canada.
#103 - Teaching geography for the future
Moderator: Claire Hay, University of the Fraser Valley
Panelists: Shannon Fargey, University of Victoria, Zoe Meletis, University of Northern British Columbia, Tara Holland, Simon Fraser University
Description: The higher education landscape in Canada is changing. To remain resilient in the face of gen AI and technologies yet to emerge, global challenges, and meet our disciplinary responsibilities to reconciliation, geographers in Canadian higher education need to consider the ways in which we engage learners. Indigenous teaching and learning pedagogy, collaborative learning spaces, land-based learning, alternative grading, and other approaches provide us with opportunities to teach for the future.
This panel discussion will bring together experienced geographers to share their approaches as we discuss ways to teach geography for the future. We will share strategies, explore challenges, and engage in conversation about the future of geography education. At the end of this session, participants will be able to: 1) Reflect on their current teaching approaches; 2) Articulate current challenges in geographic education today; 3) Consider alternative teaching approaches to support future students, global challenges, and reconciliation.
#105: Palestine is the mirror: research, solidarity and academic freedom on Canadian campuses
Chairs: Kendra Strauss, Simon Fraser University and Norma Rantisi, Concordia
Panelists: Hulya Arik, University of Toronto, Jamila Ewais, Concordia, Anna Zalik, York University, Mostafa Henaway, Concordia.
Session Description: This panel session explores geographers’ research, solidarity and activism in support of the struggle for Palestinian liberation. It grapples with the ways that institutional and political responses to the Palestine exception, anti-Palestinian racism, and the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) reflect the weaponization of civil discourse and antisemitism, posing serious yet highly selective challenges to academic freedom and political speech on campuses. These challenges align with the neoliberalization and corporatization of universities, the power of donors in an era of declining public funding, and the rootedness of our institutions in the logics of settler colonialism and racial capitalism.