Dr. Handel Kashope Wright Appointed as Senior Advisor to the President on Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence
In addition to advising President Ono on addressing issues of race, racism, representation and inclusive excellence, Dr. Wright will liaise with senior leaders, support the implementation of the Inclusion Action Plan, and develop an effective outreach strategy to the UBC community to advance understanding of race, racism and anti-racist strategies and facilitate town/gown relationships with anti-racism groups and communities of colour.
Metro Vancouver Forums on Systemic Racism
Recent events have brought the issue of systemic racism to the forefront prompting all orders of government and organizations to take a much closer look at racial discrimination and develop strategies to address this long standing issue.
In response, Metro Vancouver is hosting a series of forums on systemic racism for elected officials in the region featuring Dr. Handel Wright and a panel of storytellers, with discussion moderated by Kathryn Gretsinger, an award-winning CBC broadcaster. Storytellers include Neila Miled, recent PhD graduate of the Faculty of Education.
Cities as Sites for Transformative Change: How and Why Universities can Contribute
Date: December 1, 2020
Time: 11:00am – Noon
The presenters recent and SSHRC-funded project, entitled “Transforming city governments in response to disruptive change: meeting the challenges of colonization, inequity, and climate change,” is an example of collaborative efforts between UBC and municipal governments that seeks to understand how Canadian cities can transform as they address the complex challenges of colonization, inequity and climate change. Preliminary insights indicate that city staff are under pressure to deliver on set priorities and timelines with little time and resources to reflect on the theories, paradigms and worldviews that inform their decision-making. Through a learning journey, city staff, community partners and researchers will work to unearth the structures within which cities operate and test alternative ways of defining and solving problems. This collective journey will explore questions such as: What histories have shaped our institutions? What processes have led to the erasure of ethno-cultural groups such as Black communities? How can we decolonize our practices? What collaborations are needed for shared decision-making? And what are the enabling conditions for transformative change?
Black Activism in Education and Community: Asserting Black Presence in Canada with OmiSoore Dryden
Dr. OmiSoore Dryden, James R. Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies in the Faculty of Medicine and an associate professor in the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology at Dalhousie University. will be initiating the conversation on efforts on the part of colleges, universities and communities across Canada to assert Black presence and work towards systemic change.
Black Activism in Education and Community: Exposing Anti-Black Racism in Vancouver with Shelby McPhee
Our special guest for this event is Shelby McPhee will share stories and comments on how to recognize and address anti-Black racism. Shelby McPhee is a recent graduate of Acadia University who has been speaking out publicly on Anti-Black racism after he was racially profiled at Congress 2019 held at UBC last summer.
I don’t think we’re ready for this Jelly! Youth agency, the public sphere and the praxis of decolonizing the (South African) University
Public Lecture with Prof Handel Wright.
Indigenous Women in Documentary
The Doxa Documentary Film Festival panel on Indigenous Women in Documentary takes place on Monday, May 6th, 10:30am, at The Post, 110-750 Hamilton Street, Vancouver.
EDST Alumna, Dr. Dorothy Christian (Filmmaker and Associate Director of Indigenous Initiatives at the Teaching and Learning Centre at SFU) and EDST PhD student and CCIE member, Sonia Medel (Curator and Community Partnerships Coordinator at the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival) are on the panel alongside Marie Clements (Director of the soon to be released Red Snow), Jules Arita Koostachin (Filmmaker and Producer and PhD candidate with the Institute of Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia), and Kristy Assu (Production Supervisor of of the film Edge of the Knight). The panel offers a distinctive and important panel on the intersections of Indigeneity, gender, films, and representation in varied contexts of practice and action.
British Nigerian Actor Brings Two Internationally Acclaimed Plays to Vancouver’s Havana Theatre, 7 – 11 May
A British Nigerian actor who has been a regular visitor to British Columbia over the last ten years is returning to Vancouver with not one, but two plays at the Havana Theatre on Commercial Drive between 7th and 11th May.
Watch the seminar: “Are school textbooks decolonisable? Entanglements of the ‘colonial present’ in Israel and Palestine” by André Elias Mazawi
Watch Dr. André Elias Mazawi’s seminar hosted by the Comparative, International, and Development for International and Development Education Centre (CIDEC), OISE, UoT.
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.