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GRSJ 505C-101: Directed Readings in Advanced Feminist Studies
GRSJ 505-C-101: Directed Readings in Advanced Feminist Studies
Term 1/2
GRSJ 505 is available to GRSJ MA and PhD students. Some exceptions are made for non-GRSJ students. If you are interested in taking a Directed Readings course, please apply here: https://grsj.air.arts.ubc.ca/application-grsj-directed-studies/ (GRSJ students only).
If you are a non-GRSJ student, please email grsj.programsassistant@ubc.ca for more information.
GRSJ 505B-101: Directed Readings in Advanced Feminist Studies
GRSJ 505-B-101: Directed Readings in Advanced Feminist Studies
Term 2
GRSJ 505 is available to GRSJ MA and PhD students. Some exceptions are made for non-GRSJ students. If you are interested in taking a Directed Readings course, please apply here: https://grsj.air.arts.ubc.ca/application-grsj-directed-studies/ (GRSJ students only).
If you are a non-GRSJ student, please email grsj.programsassistant@ubc.ca for more information.
GRSJ 503D-201: Special Topics in Feminist Studies
Term 2
GRSJ 503E (3): Special Topics in Feminist Studies
Instructor: Dr. Rosanne Sia
What role does sound play in the making and unmaking of race and empire? Sound has been used to discipline and control racialized communities, marking certain bodies as “unruly,” “dangerous,” or “noisy,” and as a tool in imperial systems of communication, surveillance, and warfare over colonial and occupied territories. Yet, sound has also been a source of joy, solidarity, and world-making for marginalized communities. It can foster diasporic connections, subcultural communities, defiant claims to place, resistant acts of self-making, and alternative relationships with the non-human world. This special topics course explores the role of sound in building colonial infrastructures and in resisting oppressive imaginaries, while also offering students the opportunity to create and workshop their own creative sound-based projects.
The class will be held in Buchanan Tower 1099.
Wed | 12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | 2027-01-06 – 2027-02-10
Wed | 12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | 2027-02-24 – 2027-04-07
GRSJ 500B-201: Current and Global Issues in Social Justice
A two-term seminar organized around bi-weekly readings, discussions and faculty seminars.
Required for first year MA and PhD students.
Term 2
GRSJ 500B-201: Current and Global Issues in Social Justice
Instructor: Dr. John Paul Catungal
GRSJ_V 500B is the second part of a two-semester sequence of GRSJ_V 500 course offerings. As a core course for GRSJ graduate students, GRSJ_V 500B will provide theoretical and professional foundations for emerging scholars interested in interdisciplinary theories and praxes of social justice. Students in GRSJ_V 500B will develop key scholarly, methodological and professional skills in conversation and community with guest speakers drawn from the GRSJ Noted Scholars Series and some of GRSJ’s core and affiliate faculty members. Genealogies, ethics, politics and modalities of knowledge production will be key foci of GRSJ_V 500B, as will the very question of pursuing social justice in and through academic, artistic and activist practice and inquiry.
Students must complete GRSJ_V 500A-101 before enrolling in GRSJ_V 500B-201. Registration in GRSJ_V 500B-201 will not be permitted
The class will be held in Buchanan Tower 1099.
Wed | 12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | 2027-01-06 – 2027-02-10
Wed | 12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | 2027-02-24 – 2027-04-07
Of Floating Isles: On Growing Pains and Video Games
Kawika Guillermo
GRSJ 350B: Joy as Resistance
Term 2
GRSJ_V 350-201
Title: Joy as Resistance
Instructor: Dr. Isabel Machado
Description: Joy seems to be everywhere these days, from activist affirmations to neoliberal co-optations. Defined by Kristie Soares as “both a scholarly field and an activist movement dedicated to examining how joy functions as a form of political resistance among minoritized communities,” Critical Joy Studies is still an emerging field. Looking at the works of Imani Perry, Lindsay Stewart, adrienne maree brown, Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Miguel Valerio, among others, and using a special issue of the Journal of Festive Studies dedicated to “Joy as Resistance” as a starting point, we will look at how joy can fuel social movements and activate defiance and resistance while recognizing when joy can be understood as assimilation and accommodation, and be imposed as a tool to curtail and erase dissent. We will also think about how and when oppressed peoples need to ‘killjoy’ as a practice of resistance.
GRSJ 350A: Fandoms, Fan Cultures, and Social Justice
Term 1
GRSJ GRSJ_V 350A-101
Title: Fandoms, Fan Cultures, and Social Justice
Instructor: Dr. Kim Snowden
Description: This course explores various fandoms in the context of fan studies and social justice as spaces for negotiating identity, escapism, a means of collaboration and community, and as a form of activism. We will look at aspects of fandoms such as fan fiction and storytelling, shipping, politics in fandoms, cosplay, anti-fandoms and what Henry Jenkins calls “cultural convergence” – a form of participatory culture that speaks to the convergence of a group of fans, particularly around technology, new media, and social media. Particular attention will be give to the perceived social contract between fans and artists, creators, actors, etc. who frequently engage with fans. Students will analyze and engage with social justice and fan studies scholarship and various fandoms to understand how fandoms and fan cultures can, at times, be unsafe spaces that reproduce oppressive and harmful ideologies but can also be a place of liberation, collaboration and change for historically marginalized communities. Fandoms explored will come from the worlds of television, film, music, video games, literature, celebrity culture, social media and other areas of popular culture.