Conferences

  • Nyaga D. (2024).  Ethical leadership: rethinking resistance in the age of neoliberal capitalism .CLD's 5th Annual International Conference
  •  Nyaga. D (2023). “Africa in the neoliberalist Western classroom in the age of Covid -19”XII  Decolonizing Conference, Speaking Out and Speaking Up in Fugitive Spaces, 
  • Nyaga. D. (2023). Opening Remarks. International Conference on Mental Health and Addiction.
  • Nyaga. D. (2023). Chair- International Conference on Mental Health and Addiction.
  • Nyaga. D. (2023). Session Chair: Mental health and addiction as a technology. International Conference on Mental Health and Addiction.
  • Nyaga. D. (2023). Session Chair: Critical recovery model, care and healing. International Conference on Mental Health and Addiction.
  • Nyaga. D. (2023). Session Chair: Mental Health in academic settings. International Conference on Mental Health and Addiction.
  • Nyaga. D. (2023). Presenter: Effects of COVID 19 in teaching and learning. International Conference on Mental Health and Addiction.
  • Nyaga. D., Woodman, D Alhuzail, A. Benhene, P.A (2023). Discussant: Effects of COVID 19 in teaching and learning. International Conference on Mental Health and Addiction.
  • Nyaga. D. (2023). Africa in the neoliberalist western classroom in the age of COVID-19. XXI Decolonizing Conference. Speaking out & Speaking Up in fugitive spaces. OISE University of Torronto.
  • Nyaga, D. Torres, R.A. Demi, S. (2023). Group Panel-Genealogy of Teaching and Learning as a Neoliberal Care Technology, School of Social Work, Algoma University. XXI Decolonizing Conference. Speaking out & Speaking Up in fugitive spaces. OISE University of Toronto.
  • Nyaga. D. (2023). Discussant.- lack, Francophone, Caribbean and African Canadians, and …a minority: How do we exist in the different societal spheres? XXI Decolonizing Conference. Speaking out & Speaking Up in fugitive spaces. OISE University of Toronto.
  • Panel Chair and Speaker. Torres, R. & Nyaga, D. (2023). Disturbing the Teaching Environment: Transdisciplinary Perspectives. In Algoma University 3rd Annual Research Week. March 29.
  • Nyaga. D. (2024). Keynote .speaker. Sault Ste Marie Family Services. New forms of Anti-Blackness in the age of cultural competence.
  • EDIN – Diversity Quarterly Meetup- Afrocentric Care In The Age of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion with Dr. Dionisio Nyaga, PhD.
  • Nyaga, D & Torres. R.A (2023)Shifting the Working/Teaching Environment: A Transdisciplinary Perspectives. Belgium.
  • Nyaga, D. Torres R.A, Demi. S. (2024). Effects of COVID-19 on Teaching and Learning: Stories of Black and Asian Faculty Members and Students in Northern Ontario. CASWE
  • Nyaga, D & Torres RA (2024).Genology of violent care. Health Worker Migration and Migrant Healthcare: Retrospect and Prospect. Canadian Sociological Association.
  • Nyaga. D (2023). Misreading and De-industrializing Social Work Code: The Black Psyche in  Care Technologies. The 11th North American Hybrid Conference on Spirituality and Social  Work. Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. 
  • Nyaga D., Demi, D, Torres, T.A, Chan W., Pino. F (2023). Panel Discussants. The Genealogy  of Violent Care: The Canadian Social Work Code of Ethics in Context. The 6th International  Conference on Public Policy (ICPP6). Toronto ON 
  • Nyaga D. (2023). Black trauma and ethics of care. Panel Discussants. The Genealogy of  Violent Care: The Canadian Social Work Code of Ethics in Context. The 6th International  Conference on Public Policy (ICPP6). Toronto ON 
  • Nyaga, D. (2023). Making the classroom Black: Trauma informed teaching and learning during Covid  19. International conference on mental health and addiction
  •  Nyaga, D. Woodman,D, Alhuzail, A, Adjei P. B. (2023) Teaching and learning in the age of covid 19:  Challenges and Opportunities .International conference on mental health and addiction.
  • Nyaga D. (2023 ) Algoma University 3rd Annual Research Week (Co-Presenter-Disturbing the teaching  environment: A transdisciplinary perspective. Focussed on Afrocentric teaching and learning. 
  • Nyaga. D. (2023). Session chair.Mental health and addiction as a technology. International Conference on mental health and addiction. Algoma University. 
  • Nyaga. D. (2023). Session chair. Critical recovery model, care and healing. International Conference on  mental health and addiction. Algoma University. 
  • Nyaga. D. (2023). Session Co-chair. Queer and trans issues regarding mental health and substance use.  International Conference on mental health and addiction. Algoma University.
  • Nyaga. D. & Meghan McKracken (2023). Session chair. Substance use. International Conference on  mental health and addiction. Algoma University 
  • Nyaga. D., Torres, R.A & Deb Woodman (2023). Host and moderator. International Conference on  mental health and addiction. Algoma University 
  • Nyaga D. (2022) Session Chair: Teaching approaches and ethics of care under Covid-19 regime .Centre for Leadership and Diversity University of Toronto-Focus on research series (Presenter), focused on  teaching and learning Africa 
  • Nyaga D. (2022) Beyond codified ethics: Jungle and the ethics of non-violence in teaching and  learning.Centre for Leadership and Diversity University of Toronto-Focus on research series  (Presenter), focused on teaching and learning Africa 
  • Nyaga D. (2022 ) Disturbing the teaching environment:Algoma University 3rd Annual Research Week  
  • Nyaga. D. (2023). Afrocentric Care in the age of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. Diversity quarterly meetup:  
  • Nyaga. D (2023). Misreading and de-industrializing social Work code: The Black psyche in care Technologies. Tenth Annual International conference on spirituality and Social work.
  • Nyaga. D. (2023)CASWE-ACTFS Annual Conference.
  • Onishenko, D. & Nyaga, D (2021). Effects of Covid-19 on homeless Youths, Maritime Inter disciplinary Arts Seminar (MIDAS) Webinar, University of New Brunswich, St. John
  • Nyaga D. (2021). International conference on public policy, 3rd Annual CLD conference . Topic focused  on social work teaching and learning. 
  • Nyaga, D. (2020). African/Black Ubuntu philosophy and ethics, Ryerson University.
  • Torres, R. & Nyaga, D. (2018). Child welfare and Subversion of Neo-Liberal  Governmentality: A Praxis of Filipino Women in Canada.3 Voices Child Welfare Conference  Series Service users, service providers, & academics/researchers/traditional knowledge  keepers: working together for better child welfare. Faculty of Social Work, Mc Master  University, Hamilton, Ontario  
  • Torres, R. & Nyaga, D. (2017). Empowerment and Social Justice Perspective: Social Work Research as Inconsolable Mourning. 10th Annual Social Work Research Forum. Wilfrid  Laurier’s Faculty of Social Work  
  • Nyaga. D. (2016) Gendered Citizenship and Labour. A case study of Paid Filipino male live in caregivers in Toronto. 16th OISE Graduate Student Research Conference 
  • Nyaga D. (2016). Curriculum on the body. A look at the colonial system in Canadian schools.  CIARS 2016 "Decolonizing Conference
  • Nyaga D. (2015). Re-imaging Black Migrant Masculinity: Lived Experiences of Black  Kenyan Man in Toronto. ENGAGE 2015: Making the Familiar Strange in the Social  World 15th Annual Graduate Student Conference Department of Sociology and  Anthropology. 
  • Nyaga D. (2015). Re-Reading science and Research. Praxis of ‘Mugumo’ tree. Society for  the Advancement of Science in Africa 
  • Nyaga.D. (2014).Is There a Place for Decolonization of Research by Indigenous Peoples?  Praxis from the Indigenous Peoples of Kenya on the “Mugumo” (fig) Tree. Decolonizing  Anti-Racism Conference. York University 
  • Nyaga.D. (2008). The pedagogy of Mugumo Tree. Decolonizing Spirit Conference. OISE  University of Toronto

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