Indigenous Women in Documentary
The Doxa Documentary Film Festival panel on Indigenous Women in Documentary takes place on Monday, May 6th, 10:30am, at The Post, 110-750 Hamilton Street, Vancouver.
EDST Alumna, Dr. Dorothy Christian (Filmmaker and Associate Director of Indigenous Initiatives at the Teaching and Learning Centre at SFU) and EDST PhD student and CCIE member, Sonia Medel (Curator and Community Partnerships Coordinator at the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival) are on the panel alongside Marie Clements (Director of the soon to be released Red Snow), Jules Arita Koostachin (Filmmaker and Producer and PhD candidate with the Institute of Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia), and Kristy Assu (Production Supervisor of of the film Edge of the Knight). The panel offers a distinctive and important panel on the intersections of Indigeneity, gender, films, and representation in varied contexts of practice and action.
British Nigerian Actor Brings Two Internationally Acclaimed Plays to Vancouver’s Havana Theatre, 7 – 11 May
A British Nigerian actor who has been a regular visitor to British Columbia over the last ten years is returning to Vancouver with not one, but two plays at the Havana Theatre on Commercial Drive between 7th and 11th May.
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.
Decolonize This! International Theorizing and Praxis of Decolonization
The presentations interrogated the myths and realities underpinning decolonial theory and praxis and articulated more context specific approaches in social justice projects from decolonizing the university in South Africa, Palestine and Canada through performing decolonization through dance in Latin America and examination of everyday cultural practice in China to a transnational rejection of the modern/colonial imaginary and the gesturing toward a decolonial approach to equity education.
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
History Makes the Difference: Race and the Margins of Curriculum
Presentation by Professor Jennifer Kelly, Visiting Scholar at The Centre for Culture, Identity and Education (CCIE), University of British Columbia. #History #Blackness #Race #Antiracism #Education #Curriculum #Canadian-ness
Iranian/Canadians: Homeland, Diaspora and Belonging
This event featured panelists Alireza Sadeghi (Allameh Tabatabayi University), Shadi Mehrabi (University of Alberta), Nasim Perikazadi (University of British Columbia), Nilofar Shidmehr (Simon Fraser University), and Taha Vosta (University of British Columbia). #Iranian #Multicultural Education #Nation #Diaspora #Hijab #Poetry #Identification #Canadian-ness
Poetry rendition and African storytelling
Poetry reading by Neal Hall (international award-winning poet) & African storytelling by Comfort Ero (African Stage Association), presented by the African Studies Program and the Centre for Culture, Identity and Education (CCIE), University of British Columbia. #African-Canadian #African-American #Poetry #Storytelling #Performative #Antiracism Education