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Podcast: The World is in Crisis – What Role Should Our Universities Play?

With today’s world in crisis, what should the role of the university be? And why are our public universities so underfunded? And how can they continue to serve their communities? Annette Henry (GRSJ Emerita) and Michelle Stack (GRSJ Faculty Associate/Education UBC) tackled these big questions and more on the Don’t Call Me Resilient podcast recorded live in front of an audience at UBC.

V. Pauahi Souza Receives Most Impactful Paper Award

Congratulations to GRSJ PhD Candidate V. Pauahi Souza who recently received the Most Impactful Paper Award at the 2025 International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC) at University of Hawai'i Mānoa. Pauahi was a

Open Call: GRSJ’s Yao Xiao co-edits Critical Arts Journal Special Issue

GRSJ sessional instructor, Dr. Yao Xiao, is co-editing a special issue of Critical Arts: North South Cultural Media Studies. The deadline for abstract submission is April 15, 2025. This special issue is an international collaboration, co-edited

CSIS Pedagogy Project Receives OER Rapid Innovation Grant

Congratulations to GRSJ PhD candidate Allen Baylosis and GRSJ faculty member Dr. Isabel Machado, who have received an OER (Open Educational Resources) Rapid Innovation Grant to support the development of an open pedagogy project in Machado’s CSIS

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The Beauty in BIPOC: A Pop-Up Photography Exhibit

March 14, 2025 - April 4, 2025

co-sponsored, Lecture, Public

The Long Arc of Fascism: An Action Oriented Teach-In

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

312 Main Street

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