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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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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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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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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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Data Science and Health (DASH): AI Meets Ethics Speaker Series “Health Data Foundations and Equitable AI”
Data Science and Health (DASH): AI Meets Ethics Speaker Series “Health Data Foundations and Equitable AI”
The UBC Data Science and Health (DASH) Research Cluster is excited to launch our new AI Meets Ethics Speaker Series! This series will explore the ethical implications of, and considerations for, implementing AI technologies in healthcare. The first session features DASH Cluster’s EDI Co-Lead, Dr. Charlene Ronquillo. This event is free and open to everyone […]
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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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Healthy Aging Research Seminar: Dr. Jennifer Cobb
Healthy Aging Research Seminar: Dr. Jennifer Cobb
Lecture Title: Genome Instability and Aging Speaker Biography: Dr. Jennifer Cobb is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology at the University of Victoria. Her research investigates the impact of cellular age on DNA double-strand break repair and nuclear organization. Dr. Cobb moved her research program to the University of Victoria in 2022 and continues […]
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How the Newborn Graphic Novel Found the Librarians It Needed
How the Newborn Graphic Novel Found the Librarians It Needed
End the semester with a bang by attending iSchool's final colloquia of the year, a thrilling talk on the history of comic books, graphic novels and teen librarians by Dr. Joe Sutliff Sanders (Cambridge). Special case study: Sandman by Neil Gaiman. Snacks provided! Where: Dodson Room (302), Irving K. Barber Learning Commons When: April 19, […]
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Advancing Climate Solutions in a Politically Polarizing World with Andrew Weaver
Advancing Climate Solutions in a Politically Polarizing World with Andrew Weaver
Part of the PWIAS Catalyst Program Advancing Climate Solutions in a Politically Polarizing World with Dr. Andrew Weaver, Professor in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of Victoria Over the last century, scientific understanding of the causes and consequences of global warming has evolved to the point that it is, for all […]
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2023 International Comic Arts Forum: Artist Talk Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
2023 International Comic Arts Forum: Artist Talk Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
Haida graphic artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas presents a keynote as part of the 2023 International Comic Arts Forum.
Global Health Lunch and Learn: Global Health and Decolonization
Global Health Lunch and Learn: Global Health and Decolonization
About the presentation: In this presentation, Dr. Sewankambo will speak about his longstanding career in global health and decolonization efforts within the field. About the presenter: Prof. Nelson K. Sewankambo MBChB, MSc, M.MED, FRCP, LLD (HC), a Professor of Medicine is the Principal (Head) of Makerere University College of Health Sciences and previously Dean of […]
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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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