Watch: “Hello Kitty: The Work of Nature in the Age of Digital Communication” by Dr. jody Berland
The featured speaker is Dr. jody Berland, York University. In this presentation, Dr. Berland addresses the increasing visibility of animals in contemporary image culture and how such images are so closely aligned with the signs and practices of technoculture.
Watch: “More Enviromentalisms”
“More” Environmentalisms
Daniel Vokey (Chair, EDST, Fac. Of Ed Environmentalism Caucus); Jody Berland (York University, Humanities); Maraym Nabavi (EDST); Don Krug (CUST)
Indigenous Knowledges and the Environment Symposium
November 23, 2007
8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Ponderosa Centre, Arbutus & Dogwood Room
Watch: “Shifting Tides: Indigenous Responses to Climate Change “
Shifting Tides: Indigenous Responses to Global Climate Change
Stephanie Peter (PPP, Chair); Larry Grant (Musqueam Elder and UBC Prof); Shaunna Morgan (Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources); Mona Belleau (Inuk youth); Arona Ngari (Director‐Cook Islands Meterological Services); Imogen Ingram (Secretary‐Koutu Nui), and Tekeu Framhein (Vice President‐Koutu Nui)
Indigenous Knowledges and the Environment Symposium
November 23, 2007
8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Ponderosa Centre, Arbutus & Dogwood Room
Watch: “Creating a Multicultural Nation: The Educational Role of Media” by Professor Ien Ang
The featured speaker is Professor Ien Ang, University of Western Sydney. In this presentation, Professor Ang explores the constructive role that media can play in promoting the creation of a multicultural nation.
Watch: “Teaching Whiteness in a Multicultural Context and Color-blind Era” by Dr. Zeus Leonardo
The featured speaker is Dr. Zeus Leonardo, University of California, Berkeley. In this presentation, Dr. Leonardo explores the critical theme of whiteness, appraising the conceptual and strategic understanding of this concept through the prisms of white reconstructionism and abolitionism.
Watch: “Youth and Media: Literacies Old and New” by Dr. Michael Hoechsmann
The featured speaker is Dr. Michael Hoechsmann. In this lecture, Dr. Hoechsmann addresses how changes in access to technology have facilitated both new conditions and new challenges for the reception and conception of youth voice and expression.
Watch: “Integrative Anti-Racism Alternative” by Professor George Sefa Dei
Keynote Address at the “Multiculturalism With(out) Guarantees: The Integrative Anti-Racism Alternative” University of British Columbia, Vancouver. (April 2, 2007). The keynote speaker is Professor George Sefa Dei. In this keynote address, Professor Dei offers offers some critical points in theorizing “integrative anti-racism,” as well as draws attention to the pressing need for new questions in the field of anti-racism.
Interview with Handel Wright by Carole Wallace Link editor
Interview quoted in Link, a semi-annual newsletter put out by the Network of Centres and Institutes in Education at UBC (NCIE). Interview with Dr. Handel Wright, conducted by Carole Wallace. In this interview, Dr. Handel Wright sits down with Link editor, Carole Wallace, to discuss his work at CCIE and the path that lead him to found CCIE and take up a Canadian Research Chair at UBC.
Audio Interview with Handel Wright on BC BUZZ show “In the Spotlight” discussing Canadian and American multiculturalism
Interview with Handel Wright featured on BC BUZZ show “In the Spotlight,” conducted by Dave Garb. (February 19, 2007). In this interview, Dr. Handel Wright discusses some of the differences between Canadian and American multiculturalism, as well as talks about a vision of Canada that is not grounded upon a mere celebration of difference, but upon a deeper and more sustained conceptualization of equity.
Interview with Handel Wright – Equity Matters
Interview with Handel Wright – Interview quoted in Equity Matters is a newsletter published Equity Office at the University of British Columbia. Interview with Dr. Handel Wright, conducted by Senior Equity Advisor, Margaret Sarkissian. (November 2006). This interview provides an overview of Dr. Wright’s academic and activist contributions.