Anti-Blackness, Imperfect Allyship & Being Antiracist
Handel Wright, Professor- Educational Studies, participated on a one hour moderated discussion (webinar) organized by Fraser Health in October 2020 on the topic “Anti-Blackness, Imperfect Allyship & Being Antiracist.”
The potential for Black Studies programs in Canada
Provost’s Speaker Series on Systemic Racism
Date: October 23, 2020
Building Black Studies in Canada: Moving beyond Anti-Racism Courses
Andrea A. Davis, Associate Professor, Department of Humanities, and Special Advisor on Anti-Black Racism Strategy, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, York University
Did Someone Say Black British Columbia? Rough Autobiographical Notes on Blackness and the Prospects of Black Studies at UBC
Handel Kashope Wright, Professor, Faculty of Education, and Director, Centre for Culture, Identity and Education, UBC Vancouver
African Canadian Response to the Pandemic and International Uprisings
People of African-descent have been hardest hit by current circumstances. Economic distress and unemployment has disproportionately affected this population in the West, and statistics show that more individuals of African descent have died from the virus than in most other populations. This month, as well, we have had to bear witness to the public lynching of George Floyd and the suspicious death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet in Canada. Two more names added to the long list of black people who continue to be targeted and/or killed by the police.
No pierden el humor: Post-disaster humor in Mexico
As part of the recent Mitacs funded research project ‘No pierden el humor: Post-disaster humor in Mexico’, Gabriella Maestrini, Shauna Butterwick and Larisa Enriquez Vasquez in collaboration with a group of students from UNAM in Mexico City cordially invite you to this seminar/ workshop.
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.
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.
We Will Not Be Silent: Discussing Human Rights in the Middle East
Dr. André Elias Mazawi, EDST, UBC, speaks at the Liu Institute for Global Issues.
Can the Displaced Speak? Lobby Gallery Opening Reception
Join EDST PhD Candidate and PSI Scholar, Neila Miled, and the PhotoVoice participants for a brief presentation and Q&A session followed by refreshments and light snacks.
Is This An African I See Before Me?
This public lecture was delivered by Dr. Handel Kashope Wright as part of the Museum of Anthropology’s Perceptions of Africa: A Dialogue series, which featured community-centred talks, discussion, and refl
Multiculturality, Multiculturalism and the Phenomenon of Cross-Cultural and Interfaith Marriage in Canada and the United States
In this keynote address paper, Dr. Handel Wright explores the phenomenon of cross-cultural and interface marriage in Canada and the United States.