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.
Outsider Within: Reworking Anthropology in the Global Age
CCIE is please to announce the publication of CCIE Associate Faye V. Harrison’s newest book, “Outsider Within: Reworking Anthropology in the Global Age.”
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.”
Intercultural Competence and Pedagogical Tact: Teachers’ Narratives of Handling Cultural Diversity
A presentation by Dr. Neda Forghani-Arani, Research Associate and Lecturer, Education and Human Development Department, University of Vienna, Austria.
Nationalism as Identification and Division Introducing Rhetorical Analysis in the Teacher Education Curriculum
In this presentation Dr. Kris Rutten discusses what we can learn from ‘new rhetoric‘ (focusing on the work of the American rhetorician Kenneth Burke [1897-1993]) about (national) identity and explores how nationalism can be taught from such a rhetorical perspective.
Women and Higher Education in Iran: Negotiating Between Modernity and Tradition
Professor Goli Rezai-Rashti provides an analysis of women’s access to higher education in Iran, which has varied over the last 30 years, and their continuously limited participation in the job market.