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.
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
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
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