Indigenous Literatures from Coast to Coast: Round table with Louis-Karl Picard-Sioui, Nathan Adler and Sarah Henzi
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 […]
Children’s Health and Wellbeing Assessment: A strengths-based app to measure FNIM children’s well-being with Dr. Nancy Young and Mia Bourque
The presentation will focus on the Aaniish Naa Gegii: the Children’s Health and Well-being Measure© (ACHWM), a strengths-based and culturally relevant app developed to measure the health and well-being of […]
ILS Book Talk Series with authors of “Valley of the Birdtail”, Doug Sanderson & Andrew Sniderman
Join Indigenous Legal Studies at the Allard School of Law for the return of in-person ILS Book Talk Series on March 6, 2023. We are pleased to host the authors […]
You Are On Indian Land: Crossing the Borders of Truth, Reconciliation and Redress
In this session of REDI’s Indigenous Speaker Series, we will have a conversation with Grand Chief Mike Kanentakeron Mitchell, director of You Are On Indian Land (1969), and learn more about […]
Dancing Through: An Indigenous Woman’s Journey through Cancer
Join us for a special screening of this documentary following Madelaine McCallum’s journey as an Indigenous woman grappling with a cancer diagnosis, navigating the western medical system, and ultimately using […]
Marlee Kline Lecture in Social Justice: Skirting Around Colonialism
ABOUT THE LECTURE: The Marlee Kline Social Justice Lecture honours the memory of Marlee Gayle Kline. This lectureship not only recognizes Marlee’s rich contribution to the law school community but […]
A Poem is a Possibility: writing toward a healthy outlook With Rena Priest
This offering looks at poetry as a tool for shifting the lens through which we view the world, and writing our way into new patterns of seeing. We’ll do writing […]
Feeling welcomed: Creating space for Indigenous voices in brain and mental health research
Research on Indigenous communities has historically been conducted using a one-sided approach, with researchers having little knowledge of Indigenous culture, minimal concerns surrounding community needs or desires, and without giving […]
Art makes tangible the pain inside our bodies, revealing and healing oppression with Sharifah Marsden
Trauma survivors are often threatened with their very lives if they say the words that describe the trauma. When words are too painful to find or speak, art softly sits […]
My Privilege, My Responsibility: A Higher Calling To Do Better in an Era of Truth, Reconciliation & Redress with Sheila North
In commoreration of February (14th), a day to honour the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, the Office of Respectful Environments, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at the Faculty of Medicine invites […]
