Youth and Media: Literacies Old and New
This paper by Dr. Michael Hoechsmann focused on how changes in access to technology have facilitated new conditions for young people to shoot, cut and mix multimodal texts, and the emergence of the Internet as ’home theater’ for a global audience has enabled youth to communicate across borders and across the street.
Teaching Whiteness in a Multicultural Context and Color-blind Era
This presentation by Dr. Zeus Leonardo centered around the critical theme of whiteness.
Creating a Multicultural Nation: The Educational Role of Media
Professor Ien Ang discusses how the media can play a constructive role in promoting the creation of a multicultural nation.
Hello Kitty: the Work of Nature in the Age of Digital Communication
This presentation by Dr. Jody Berland addressed the increasing visibility of animals in contemporary image culture.
Metropole: A Film Screening & Conversation with Directors
CCIE was pleased to feature a showing of the feature documentary, METROPOLE, a visual essay that explores the everyday dimensions of social class in urban North America.
Writing in English: an act of mimicry or betrayal—a discontinuous presencing of borderlines
Book Launch for Shirin and Salt Man by Nilofar Shidmehr.
High Anxiety? An exploration of the pedagogy of difference and the body in popular Hollywood film
In this presentation, Dr. Andrew Thornton aims to explore the seemingly self-aware and ironic, even postmodern, construction of the imagery of the heroic body in popular Hollywood film.
Black History Month – February 2009
The Centre for Culture, Identity and Education presents a series of talks for Black History Month.
Free Public Premiere of the Short Film: The Making of a Perfect Storm: The Unruly Salon
Talented director NFB award-winning Thomas Buchan trains his sensitive lens on the formidable barriers to access, community, and educational equity spoken about by UBC students with disabilities whom he interviewed
alongside the performers, artists, scholars and faculty.
Visceral Cosmopolitanism: From Alterity to Mere Difference
Professor Mica Nava will discuss some of the conceptual and historical issues raised in her book “Visceral Cosmopolitanism: Gender, Culture and the Normalisation of Difference.”