Freire for Today: New Directions in Critical Pedagogy
This event featured panelists Prof. Ana Cruz (St. Louis Community College), Prof. Walter Kohan (State University of Rio de Janeiro), Prof. Sam Rocha (UBC Department of Educational Studies), and discussant Prof. Vanessa Andreotti (UBC Department of Educational Studies). #Paulo Freire #Critical Pedagogy #Political Education #Deaf Studies #Everyday Relevance #Praxis
History’s Schools/Today’s Struggles: Why Activist Learning and Struggle Knowledge Matters
Seminar with Dr. Aziz Choudry, Canada Research Chair in social movement learning and knowledge production, Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University; Visiting Professor at the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation, Faculty of Education, University of Johannesburg. #Social Movements #Activist Learning #History #Everyday Struggles #Knowledge Production #Social Justice
Wither Cultural Studies? Dissent, Despair, and Pedagogy in Hong Kong
In this seminar, Professor Stephen Chan reflected on recent experiences in civil disobedience, social antagonism, and political prosecution in Hong Kong and share his insights on the intellectual project of Cultural Studies. #Cultural Studies #Hong Kong #Pedagogy #Affect #Dissent #Future
African Delegates: Health and HIV/Aids Grassroots Initiatives Symposium
This symposium brought together African delegates working on the front lines of the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Music, Culture and Indigenous Thought in Busoga, Uganda: Cultural Survival and Revival at Mpambo, the African Multiversity
In this talk, Paul Wangoola discusses the field recordings of Shawn Hall.
Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS) Triennial Conference
This conference, on the theme “Literature For Our Times”, addressed the role and function of literature in the twenty-first century through keynote speeches, paper presentations, panel discussions and literary readings.
Glo/cal Citizenship, Music and Inclusive Education
The Unruly Salon series shows the power of persons with disabilities to represent their own experiences as a valued part of humanity, humans, being together across borders of many kinds.
Innocent by Contamination: Queer World-Making, Ethnicity and Technicity in Samuel R. Delany’s in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
This talk by Dr. Thomas Foster, University of Washington, forms part of his current book project, which is focused on the exploration of cyberpunk convention by writers and artists of color and is tentatively entitled Ethnicity and Technicity: Race, Nature, and Culture in the Cyberpunk Archive.
Transnational Place-Making: Food, Justice, and Autonomy
Professor Devon G. Peña will discuss his collaborative research with the South Central Farmers Feeding Families, a grassroots organization that established the largest urban farm in the United States and is now involved in a regional campaign for food democracy.
The Misadventures of Critical Thinking
Presentation by Dr. Jacques Rancière, Emeritus Professor of Aesthetics and Politics at the University of Paris VIII.