Cedar & Bamboo – Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Set throughout BC, “Cedar & Bamboo” explores the intercommunity histories and shared experiences of Chinese Canadians and First Nations.
Ab/Ob-jection: Encountering the City Through the Landscape of Youth
The “Ab/Objection” panel is a companion event to the opening of a critical, counter-conventional documentary photo exhibit of urban working class ‘girl’ culture.
The Inverted Gaze
François Cusset, author of the acclaimed book French Theory, investigates the queering of the French literary canon by American writers and scholars in this thought-provoking and free-minded journey across six centuries of literary classics and sexual polemics.
Africa at UBC: Performance, Projects and Pedagogy
The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts and the Centre for Culture, Identity and Education (CCIE) at UBC jointly present a panel with UBC faculty and student organizations working on Africa.
Learning to Listen: fostering critically reflexive and ethically committed listening practices amongst non-Indigenous pre-service teachers
Lisa Taylor and Curran Jacobs speak about their pedagogy aims to use Indigenous approaches to stories and storytelling as well as recursive reader response to provoke future teachers to practice critical self-examination and self-implication in the ongoing processes of settler colonialism, including the institution of schooling.
‘Presence’ in Colonisation: A Maori View
Dr. Carl Mika discusses the nature of Maori metaphysics and explores through Maori terminology how there was an emphasis on what was concealed about a thing as much as what lay before the self.
“Getting lost” with/in mixed methods: How mixed methods as nomad science can open doors in higher education research
In this paper, Dr. Daniel Newhart will start a conversation around the possibilities of mixed methods research from a qualitative perspective, rather than a quantitative perspective.
Diversity, Indigeneity and Education: Lessons from Aotearoa/New Zealand
This presentation by Dr. Angus Hikairo Macfarlane will be based on the question about how best to study the influence of culture on the advancement of educational policy and practice in New Zealand.
Documentary Film Screening and Book Discussion: Escape from Tibet
Nick Gray, an author and television producer who has been making award-winning documentaries for more than 30 years, captured the journey of Tibetan refugees trying to escape political oppression in his risky 1997 film “Escape from Tibet”.
(Critically) Re-imagining the PhD in Education
The Department of Educational Studies and The Centre for Culture, Identity & Education (in UBC’s Faculty of Education) present the Critical Dialogues on Education and Society Seminar Series, two interrelated colloquia on the future of the PhD in Edu