A free screening of Fail to Appear, a film from UBC professor Antoine Bourges, followed by a discussion featuring the filmmaker.
part of the PWIAS Catalyst Program Panel Discussion with Dr. Robert Clifford, Allard Law School and Dr. Jocelyn Stacey, Allard Law School Moderated by Dr. Jo-ann Archibald Q’um Q’um Xiiem, Emeritus College Cohort Robert Clifford will highlight how the project of Indigenous law revitalization and the reality of climate crisis necessarily interact, so that Indigenous theories and methodologies for Indigenous law revitalization and […]
Join us for an end-of-day author talk and social event! Map enthusiast Kris Bulter's The Drink Map Book: British Temperance Maps of the 1800s is due out next spring! In the midst of rapidly growing cities and soaring rates of alcohol consumption, British temperance groups faced resistance in the accepted notion of ’neighbourhood needs’ and […]
Join UBC’s Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies (FHIS) for a conversation on contemporary Indigenous literatures with authors Louis-Karl Picard-Sioui and Nathan Adler, and Sarah Henzi, Assistant Professor at SFU. Following their most recent publications, we will talk about the current exchanges, challenges, and barriers that exist for English- and French-speaking Indigenous writers in […]
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, […]
UBC experts explore the subject of how youths can cope with and develop healthier approaches to social media, cyberbullying, and more.
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 […]
A UBC public dialogue event centered around the importance of peer-led work, with formerly incarcerated lived-experience speakers.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
