2025 National Day of Remembrance of the Quebec City mosque attack and action against Islamophobia Commemorative Lecture
2025 National Day of Remembrance of the Quebec City mosque attack and action against Islamophobia Commemorative Lecture
º«¹úÂãÎè's Office of the Deputy Provost Student Life and Learning, invites the º«¹úÂãÎè community to a special Commemorative Lecture dedicated to honouring the victims of the January 29, 2017, Quebec City Mosque shooting and fostering greater awareness and action against Islamophobia.
The lecture, entitled Trajectories of Hate: Remembering Quebec City in a time of Rising Islamophobia, will be delivered by Professor Nadia Hasan, an assistant professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies and the Director of the Islamophobia Research Hub at York University. Professor Hasan is an expert on systemic racism and Islamophobia in legal, administrative, and discursive regimes and their relation to Muslim life.
As part of the event, the Centre Culturel Islamique de Québec Memorial Award will be presented to a student who has shown exceptional dedication to promoting the inclusion of Muslims within Quebec and Canadian society.
Through this commemoration, we aim to remember and honour those affected by Islamophobia, strengthen our collective commitment to combatting discrimination, and promote the dissemination of research and scholarship to foster understanding and unity.
The event is open to all members of the º«¹úÂãÎè community and welcomes the participation of the general public.
This event is held in partnership with Muslim Awareness Week.
The event will be held at 3:30 pm on Wednesday, January 29, in the Robert Vogel Council Room (Leacock 232).
Trajectories of Hate: Remembering Quebec City in a time of Rising Islamophobia
This commemorative lecture marks eight years since unspeakable hate and violence was visited upon the CCIQ mosque in Quebec. Eight years later, the survivors of this vicious attack courageously continue their journey to heal - even in the face of rising Islamophobia, legal and bureaucratic challenges that resurrect traumas, and novel methods of targeting and dehumanizing Muslim communities around the world. Through an analysis of recent incidents of hate, discrimination and the curtailment of civil liberties, this lecture reflects on trends in evolving forms of Islamophobia, Muslim community responses to these trends, and the trajectory of this social and political climate in Canada.