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Connecting Online Safely
Connecting Online Safely
UBC experts explore the subject of how youths can cope with and develop healthier approaches to social media, cyberbullying, and more.
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Subject – Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
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Dr. Richard B. Splane Lecture in Social Policy
Dr. Richard B. Splane Lecture in Social Policy
Reparations in Social Work: A Progressive Model for Change with Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard Black Canadians are owed reparations for the harms endured during enslavement and the harmful impacts that continue to haunt Black Communities. In this lecture, Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard addresses the often-asked question “How do we engage in meaningful reparations?” In 2020, […]
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CGSHE Trainee Research Symposium
CGSHE Trainee Research Symposium
The Centre for Gender & Sexual Health Equity is proud to present our next Trainee Research Symposium! The symposium will showcase ten-minute presentations by CGSHE trainees from UBC and SFU on intersectional approaches to gender equity and sexual health, followed by a Q&A session. Moderated by UBC Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. A.J. Lowik. The CGSHE Trainee […]
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UBC 23 24 Indigenous Cultural Safety Program Community Building Event
UBC 23 24 Indigenous Cultural Safety Program Community Building Event
Wednesday, March 29, 2023, 12:00 - 1:00 pm, in-person, at the First Nations Longhouse Link to event: https://ubc2324.med.ubc.ca/event/ubc-23-24-students-facilitators-community-building-event/ The UBC 23 24 team is excited to invite the entire UBC 23 24 community to sit with us, share some food and get to know each other! This includes all UBC Health Professional students and leadership […]
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Peer-Led Intervention Work to Promote Dignity
Peer-Led Intervention Work to Promote Dignity
A UBC public dialogue event centered around the importance of peer-led work, with formerly incarcerated lived-experience speakers.
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Celebrating IBPOC Voices in Youth Climate Action
Celebrating IBPOC Voices in Youth Climate Action
What does it mean to celebrate diversity and incorporate cultural values and practices into climate action work? How can we better amplify the voices of Indigenous, Black and People of Colour (IBPOC) community members? If these are questions that spark your interest, our upcoming event is for you! 🎉Celebrating IBPOC Voices in Youth Climate Action […]
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Trans Day of Visibility Gender-Affirmation Free Store
Trans Day of Visibility Gender-Affirmation Free Store
*refreshments provided! We are hosting a FREE shopping experience in the SVPRO lounge, Orchard Commons, 4061, for all 2S, trans, nonbinary, and otherwise gender creative individuals! Come find your style! Clothing Donations accepted until March 30th. Drop off at SVPRO, between 8:30-4:30 M-F.
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Exploring tensions and opportunities of community-university engagement work within colonial systems
Exploring tensions and opportunities of community-university engagement work within colonial systems
Event Description This event is an opportunity to engage in meaningful self-reflection and discuss the colonial systems at play within our community engagement work. Our objectives are to foster increased awareness, build interconnectedness between units, and ultimately drive meaningful change. By the end of the event, we hope that you will feel more connected to […]
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Supporting our Two Spirit Friends and Relatives: The importance of allyship in healing
Supporting our Two Spirit Friends and Relatives: The importance of allyship in healing
The Indian Residential School Survivors Society (IRSSS) in collaboration with UBC Learning Circle will be hosting a conversation about the importance of cultivating safe spaces for 2SLGBTQ+ people for healing. We will be centering our shift as a society to consciously make space for our people who are frequently forgotten about in healing spaces. This […]
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Abolish Border Imperialism: Climate Migration, Racial Capitalism, and Empire
Abolish Border Imperialism: Climate Migration, Racial Capitalism, and Empire
We are pleased to welcome writer and organizer Harsha Walia on April 6th for a talk on climate migration, racial capitalism, and border imperialism. Harsha Walia has been involved in community-based grassroots migrant justice, feminist, anti-racist, abolitionist, anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements for over two decades, including No One Is Illegal, Defenders of the Land, and the DTES Women’s Memorial March Committee. She […]
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Queer Worldmaking in Mental Health
Queer Worldmaking in Mental Health
About the Talk Dr. Meera Dhebar will review traditional cis-heteronormative colonialist assumptions embedded within the discourses and professional practice of mental health systems. She will discuss the centering of queer of colour cultural knowledge, queer theory, and queer of colour critiques to move beyond the current models of LGBT competencies and affirming therapy to a practice […]
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What do East Asian Buddhists call their books and why?
What do East Asian Buddhists call their books and why?
Almost all scholars of East Asian Buddhism refer to Buddhists’ books as either the “Three Baskets” or the “canon”. But either term denotes a collection of thousands of individual books, whether in manuscript or printed form. Many premodern Japanese Buddhist temple librarians used another term, shōgyō 聖教 (shengjiao), possibly meaning the noble teachings. This presentation will explore […]
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IBPOC Voices: A Conversation with Jorden Hendry
IBPOC Voices: A Conversation with Jorden Hendry
The Office of Respectful Environments, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at the Faculty of Medicine invites you to join us in a conversation with Jorden Hendry. Jorden Hendry is Tsimshian/settler and a member of the Lax Kw’alaams band with nine years of experience contributing to reconciliation and anti-racism in the health and educational system. As a PhD student […]
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Gender/Sex/ual Diversity: Towards More Liberatory Theory & Measurement
Gender/Sex/ual Diversity: Towards More Liberatory Theory & Measurement
About the Talk Many scientific approaches to gender/sex/uality rely on binaries, and are limiting, inaccurate, and a cause of harm, especially to marginalized groups. In this talk, Dr. Sari van Anders discusses new research about gender/sex/uality that is built for and from gender/sex/ual diversity. These approaches include “the gender/sex 3×3” – a new and simple framework for asking […]
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Inclusive Teaching: Inclusive Syllabus Studio – April 19, 2023
Inclusive Teaching: Inclusive Syllabus Studio – April 19, 2023
Please note, this session will be held in-person in the IKBLC Seminar Room 2.22. Pre-registration is required. Teaching inclusively involves supporting the success of a diverse mix of learners, with different social identities, life experiences and ways of knowing. A key aspect of inclusive teaching is supporting student’s sense of belonging within a program of […]
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UBC Pre-Med Diversity Symposium
UBC Pre-Med Diversity Symposium
The UBC Pre-Med Diversity Symposium is an annual faculty-sponsored event designed to encourage people from all walks of life to apply to medical school. This event is tailored to potential applicants who may face additional barriers to applying for medical school for reasons that may include, but are not limited to, having a non-science background, […]
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UBC 23 24 Indigenous Cultural Safety: Creating Excellence in the Arenas of Truth, Reconciliation and Academia
UBC 23 24 Indigenous Cultural Safety: Creating Excellence in the Arenas of Truth, Reconciliation and Academia
Join the Office of Respectful Environments, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (REDI) on Thursday, April 27 for UBC 23 24 Indigenous Cultural Safety: Creating Excellence in the Arenas of Truth, Reconciliation and Academia. Part of the REDI Indigenous Speaker Series, this virtual session features Dr. Nadine Caron, Co-Director of the UBC Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Health, […]
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CGSHE Spotlight Series | Decolonizing Research & Practice with Rachel Olson
CGSHE Spotlight Series | Decolonizing Research & Practice with Rachel Olson
About the speaker: Rachel Olson is a citizen of the Tr’ondek Hwech’in First Nation from the Yukon territory. She is a founding director of the Firelight Group, where she co-leads the traditional knowledge/traditional land use program area and leads the Indigenous health research team. Rachel has a Master of Research in Social Anthropology from the […]
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