The Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (GRSJ) at the University of British Columbia (UBC) is committed to ensuring critical advances in knowledge, democratic communities, and equity in scholarship, research, and teaching.

How hasn’t it been useful? GRSJ kind of helped me understand how I wanted to live in the world, how I wanted to be as a human.

Lau Mehes
GRSJ Alumni

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2024-25 Noted Scholars Speakers Series: Term 2 Line Up Announced

 
We're excited to announce the line up of talented speakers we have planned for the 2024/25 Noted Scholars Speakers Series in Term 2.

Transpacific Undisciplined

 
Congratulations to GRSJ's Christopher Patterson on the publication of Transpacific Undisciplined (University of Washington Press). He is co-editor along with Lily Wong, American University and Chien-ting Lin, National Central University in Taiwan.

Translating disaster resilience: How values, world view, and politics complicate interpretation and implementation

 
GRSJ Director, Dr. Nora Angeles and her PhD advisee Dr. Sunya Zaman have co-published in the International Journal of Distaster Reduction. Their paper, Translating disaster resilience: How values, world view, and politics complicate interpretation
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Upcoming Events

Lecture, Public

Migrant Girls, Sound, and Remaking Space with Rosanne Sia

November 21, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Free


co-sponsored, Noted Scholars Lecture Series

Academic Freedom, Sex, and the Politics of Hate with Dr. Rana M. Jaleel

January 22, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
RSVP


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