WATCH AND LEARN: Culture as Pedagogy on Work and Identity in the Health Care Sector
In this talk, Professor Kaela Jubas will discuss findings from a two-year study exploring the pedagogical functions of popular culture.
New Reading? Ruptures and Continuities: A Lecture
This lecture by Professor Mikko Lehtonen is based on a recently concluded research project, “New reading communities, new ways of reading,” that gathered fresh knowledge on how young people in Finland actually read today.
Exploring and Promoting Multiculturalism and Related Discourses
This town hall served as an exploratory and planning meeting on multiculturalism and related discourses and brought together UBC faculty and graduate students from such research areas as multiculturalism, anti-racism, interculturalism, transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, cultural studies, social cohesion and identity/identification politics.
African Education: Worldviews, Ways of Knowing & Pedagogy
This one-day symposium brought together leading and emerging scholars and experts who have undertaken research in areas that in one way or the other lend to understanding of the African learner.
Multiculturalism With(out) Guarantees: The Anti-Racism Alternative Symposium
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the UBC Faculty of Education, this day-long symposium brought together UBC faculty, students and administers, along with leading experts in the field and members of the local community in order to explore both the possibilities and limitations of integrative anti-racism as an alternative discourse to multiculturalism.
Indigenous Knowledges and the Environment Symposium
This full-day symposium offered perspectives on the global environmental crisis from the lens of Indigenous knowledges.
Youth Research Symposium
The Youth Research Symposium showcased the role of interdisciplinary research in rethinking conceptualizations of ‘marginalized’ youth identity’, debates on youth subcultures versus post-subcultures, issues of gender, sexuality and social exclusion, and the history of policing and surveillance of young bodies over time and across national spaces.
Rethinking Youth Culture and Identity
Even in these postmodern times identity continues to be the site of intense work on the part of youth and scholars. This symposium explored new ways of looking at youth as phenomenon, thinking about youth activity and identity formation, examining linkages with cultural policies and/or other forms of civic pluralism, so as to better understand contemporary realities of young peoples lives and future directions of youth studies.
Social Justice Praxis: Theory, Research and Activism on Campus and in the Community
A series of 4 panel discussions presented by UBC’s Centre for Culture, Identity & Education (CCIE) and Centre for Race, Autobiography, Gender and Age (RAGA).
We Too Are “ IDLE NO MORE”: UBC’s Non-Indigenous Scholars and the Politics of Engaging Indigeneity
Drawing on the urgent Idle No More Indigenous Movement, this one-day symposium brings together Indigenous and non-indigenous administrators, faculty and graduate students from a wide variety of disciplines and units to showcase the work of non-Indige