Watch: We Too Are “ IDLE NO MORE”: Panel 3 – Education
We Too Are “ IDLE NO MORE”: UBC’s Non-Indigenous Scholars and the Politics of Engaging Indigeneity
Panel 3: Education
Chair: Gerald Fallon
Presenters: Cynthia Nicol (Curriculum and Pedagogy), Jeannie Kerr (Educational Studies), and Cash Ahenakew (Educational Studies)
Watch: We Too Are “ IDLE NO MORE”: Panel 2 – Community Engagement
We Too Are “ IDLE NO MORE”: UBC’s Non-Indigenous Scholars and the Politics of Engaging Indigeneity
Panel 2: Community Engagement
Chair: Hartej Gill
Presenters: Leonie Sandercock (Community and Regional Planning), Alden Habacon (Intercultural Understanding), Amy Perreault, Hanae Tsukada, Sarah Ling (Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology) & Candis Callison (Journalism).
Watch: We Too Are “ IDLE NO MORE”: Panel 1 – The Humanities
We Too Are “ IDLE NO MORE”: UBC’s Non-Indigenous Scholars and the Politics of Engaging Indigeneity
Panel 1: The Humanities
Chair: Gerald Fallon
Presenters: Paige Raibmon (History),Margery Fee (English), Henry Davis (Linguistics Department) & Jan Hare (Language and Literacy in Education).
Watch: We Too Are “ IDLE NO MORE”: Welcome remarks & Opening Plenary Panel
We Too Are “ IDLE NO MORE”: UBC’s Non-Indigenous Scholars and the Politics of Engaging Indigeneity
Welcome: Elder Larry Grant.
Opening Plenary Panel: Blye Frank, Dean of Education, and Jo-ann Archibald, Associate Dean of Indigenous Education.
Canadian Multicultural Education After the Death of Multiculturalism by Handel Wright
This session presents two tales of Canadian multiculturalism in general and multicultural education in particular. The invitation is for us to consider what the future of diversity education ought to be locally and nationally given the contradictory state of affairs of complacently hegemonic Canadian multiculturalism and multicultural education on the one hand and passé, challenged and undermined multiculturalism and multicultural education on the other.
Women and Higher Education in Iran: Negotiating Between Modernity and Tradition
Professor Goli Rezai-Rashti provides an analysis of women’s access to higher education in Iran, which has varied over the last 30 years, and their continuously limited participation in the job market.
Postcolonialism and Critical Pedagogy
The only activism I know
Keynote speaker: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University
Panel Discussion: Sneja Gunew, Renisa Mawani, and Prabhsharanbir Singh
Service Learning for Social Justice and Cultural Studies Praxis
Cultural Studies Methodology, Sociality and the Praxis of Project Citizen
Introduction: Handel Wright, Linc Kesler, and Sunera Thobani
Keynote speaker: Awad Ibrahim, University of Ottawa
Panel Discussion: Shauna Butterwick, Maryam Nabavi, and Marilou Carrillo
Anti-racism and Critical Race Feminist Theory
Race, Space and Prostitution
Introduction: Handel Wright, Linc Kesler, and Sunera Thobani
keynote speaker: Sherene Razack, University of Toronto
Panel Discussion: Annette Henry, Indira Prahst, and Benita Bunjun.
Indigenous Praxis and World Majority Peoples’ Identity Politics
We Own Ourselves: The Role of Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Self-Definition and Self-Determination in Indigenous Justice
Introduction by Handel Wright, Linc Kesler, and Sunera Thobani
Panel Discussion by Rain Daniels, Dorothy Christian, and Charles Menzies.