Watch: “Look! Listen! Speak! Eat! : Chinese Pride on the Table” by Yao Xiao
I take this presentation as an opportunity to share with you how “decolonization” might be Sinicized, and how a Chinese subject like myself might engage with decolonization differently. Based on autobiographical stories, research projects, and informal conversations with community friends, I unpack the affect of Chinese pride for its decolonial relevance in at least two landscapes: (1) in a landscape of international intellectual work, the anxiously ascending Sinophone interests in dealing with/learning beyond Euro-American academic influences; (2) in a landscape of grassroots lives and activism, the mixed compassion, commitment, as well as confusion in speaking with/learning from people who situate and still struggle in webs of metropoles and margins.
“Decolonization: Myth and Reality” by Uchenna Okeja
Theories and practices of decolonization vary across the world. The meaning of the concept is also a matter of contestation. To get to the core of the phenomenon, I propose to consider it as both myth and reality. In this lecture, I examine the ways theories and practices of decolonization across the world are both myth and reality. The argument I make is that the theories and practices of decolonization must cut through their myth to get to the reality they seek. Drawing on the example of South Africa, I conclude with a brief reflection on how this goal can be achieved.
Watch the Symposium: Decolonize This! International Theorizing and Praxis of Decolonization
The Centre for Culture, Identity and Education, in collaboration with the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at UBC, organized a symposium on decolonizing approaches to culture and education, at the Peter Wall Institute on November 26th, 2018.
Watch: “Escape from Tibet” Book Discussion
Each year, thousands of Tibetan refugees, many of them children, risk death from exposure and frostbite to escape political oppression by climbing over the highest mountain range in the world, the Himalayas. Nick Gray, an author and television producer who has been making award-winning documentaries for more than 30 years, captured this journey in his risky 1997 film Escape from Tibet. Among the group of refugees he followed were Pasang and Tenzin, young brothers who became the focus of the film that Gray has now turned into a book: an “astonishing true record of endurance, of the triumph of the human spirit, told as a real-life adventure story.” Tenzin joins Gray to talk about their collaboration, their journey and where the brothers are today.
Watch: We Too Are “ IDLE NO MORE”: Closing Plenary – UBC Indigenous Initiatives
We Too Are “ IDLE NO MORE”: UBC’s Non-Indigenous Scholars and the Politics of Engaging Indigeneity
Closing Plenary: UBC Indigenous Initiatives
Chair: Handel Wright
Presenters: Anna Kindler – Vice Provost, Academic & Linc Kesler – Senior Advisor to President on Aboriginal Affairs.
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.