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“Virtual Justice”: How Indigenous Courtworkers supported clients during COVID and why it matters

“Virtual Justice”: How Indigenous Courtworkers supported clients during COVID and why it matters

Online webinar: “Virtual Justice”: How Indigenous Courtworkers supported clients during COVID and why it matters. Co-Sponsors: Indigenous Research Support Initiative, Peter A. Allard School of Law, Native Courtworker and Counselling Association of BC PDF: Indigenous Courtworkers Poster PDF: ICW Virtual Hybrid Research Project Final Report Tues September 27 2022

Recording and Photos: Community Making and Black Flourishing Through the Scarborough Charter

Recording and Photos: Community Making and Black Flourishing Through the Scarborough Charter

On May 13 and 14, the University of British Columbia held the inaugural Inter-Institutional Forum of the Scarborough National Charter on Anti-Black Racism and Black Inclusion in Canadian Higher Education. The forum included a public symposium, co-hosted by UBC and Simon Fraser University, on May 14. You may view the full program here. You may […]

Black Professors Talking About Teaching, Researching and Learning While Black in Canadian Academy

Black Professors Talking About Teaching, Researching and Learning While Black in Canadian Academy

A book launch held for the recently published book Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy: Teaching, Learning, and Researching while Black (University of Toronto Press, 2022). The event was hosted by the Equitable Leadership Network of the Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa.

Ngũgĩ in the American Imperium: An ICWT Book Launch

Ngũgĩ in the American Imperium: An ICWT Book Launch

This book launch event outlines Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s work and the reach of his thinking, chiefly within the US and areas of its closest hegemony, joining artists, activists, critics and scholars (often the same) from the Caribbean through North America to Hawai‘i. Discussants/contributors include Carolyn Cooper, Simon Gikandi, Marcial González, Patricia Penn Hilden, David Lloyd, […]

Addressing the Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy

Addressing the Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy

Thursday, March 31 2022 |  10:00 – 11:30 am PST |  2:00- 3:30 pm EST Recording As part of our #BlackAfterFebruary series we present: Addressing the Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy   Chair/Moderator: Handel Kashope Wright Speakers: Awad Ibrahim Tamari Kitossa Malinda Smith Handel Kashope Wright   Interlocutors: Nombuso Dlamini Isaac Saney Panel Description: Join […]

BAF: Fitting (Out-Fitting) In

BAF: Fitting (Out-Fitting) In

Tuesday, March 29, 2022 10:00 – 11:00 am PST  |  1:00 – 2:00 pm EST Recording   As part of our #BlackAfterFebruary series we present: Fitting (Out-Fitting) In Abstract How does one go about de-colonizing a mind, starting with one’s own? This is a question the Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o himself wrestled with. Part […]

Video: Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy (book launch)

Video: Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy (book launch)

Recording of book launch organized by University of Toronto Press February 25th, 2022. The essays in the book make visible the submerged stories of Black life in academia. They offer fresh historical, social, and cultural insights into what it means to teach, learn, research, and work while Black. Editors: Awad Ibrahim, Tamari Kitossa, Malinda S. […]

Video: Putting Black British Columbia History to Work, Prof. Handel Wright

Video: Putting Black British Columbia History to Work, Prof. Handel Wright

Black History Month event on February 7, 2021 hosted by BC Black History Awareness Society. Guest Speaker: Prof. Handel Kashope Wright, Director, Centre for Culture, Identity & Education, UBC.

Making Space for Africa and Approaches to Diversity, Representation and Social Justice: Starting with a Book Collection

Making Space for Africa and Approaches to Diversity, Representation and Social Justice: Starting with a Book Collection

December 9, 2021 This event marks the generous donation of the joint library of Kogila Adam-Moodley (Prof. Emerita, Educational Studies, UBC) and Heribert Adam (Prof. Emeritus, Sociology & Anthropology, SFU) to the CCIE and UBC Library.

Place, Power, and the Production of Subjectivity: Taking a spatial turn in Arab Studies

Place, Power, and the Production of Subjectivity: Taking a spatial turn in Arab Studies

23 September, 2021 Examining the relationship between place, power, and the production of subjectivitya in the Arab region – both historically and today. In this panel, we engage with three scholars from the region, Dr. Omar AlShehabi, Dr. Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab, and Dr. Amal Ghazal, whose writings explore the ways in which colonialism, knowledge production, and geography animate the lived experiences of people in the Arab region.