Dr Erin Wunker, Mount Allison University Monday, April 14 @ 4:00 – 5:30pm Buchanan Tower, Room 599, UBC Abstract: The title of this talk, “Public Poetics, Public Women”, is meant to signal the double task of the literary scholar to look at historic contexts as well as material conditions of literary production. These are the contexts in […]
Ecologies of Social Difference Social Justice @ UBC Evening panel: Vancouver as the Greenest City? – A Social Justice Perspective Time: Thursday May 22, 2014, 6-9pm Venue: C680 – HSBC Hall, UBC Robson Square Address: 800 Robson St, Vancouver, BC V6Z 3B7 Panel discussion, Q&A, and a reception following the event Snack and drinks are provided […]
You are invited to attend: KAPWA Festival CLOSING CEREMONIES UBC Institute of Asian Research, CK Choi Building June 20, 2014, Friday, 5:00-7:00 p.m. Program 5:00-5:30 – Light Refreshments 5:30-5:40 – Welcome and Introductions 5:40-5:50 – KAPWA Festival Highlights 5:50-6:00 – Presentation of an original Monterona painting gift to the Office of the UBC Dean of […]
Join us on Wednesday September 10 at 4pm for the launch of Dr. Amin Ghaziani’s new book There Goes the Gayborhood, published by Princeton University Press. A lecture by the author will be followed by a reception. Gay neighborhoods, like the legendary Castro District in San Francisco and New York’s Greenwich Village, have long provided sexual […]
Dr. Martin Cannon Associate Professor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education /University of Toronto Dr. Martin Cannon suggests that a “raceless story of sexism” is being told when it comes to addressing federal recognition injustices in Canada. The tendency is to detach the confluence of racialization and gender discrimination because sexism is thought of as […]
Panelists: Ngwatilo Mawiyoo Musician, actress, published poet and graduate creative writing student at UBC Jerilynn Webster Idle No More organizer, hip-hop performing artist, and aboriginal educator Alessandra Santos Artist, translator, and Assistant Professor, Dept. of French, Italian, and Hispanic Studies, UBC The relationship between art and activism is one of myriad discordant and harmonious […]
A Department of English event: B(l)ack Home in the Medieval Garden: Time, Space, and Race in Jessie Redmon Fauset’s Medievalism Dr. Cord J. Whitaker Assistant Professor of English, Wellesley College Jessie Redmon Fauset was the most published woman novelist of the Harlem Renaissance, literary editor of the NAACP’s Crisis, and the editor who discovered […]
An Audre Lorde Fall Festival event Spoken Word / Dialogue / Feast Building on a western hemisphere tour with her interactive oracle project “The Lorde Concordance,” a series of rituals mobilizing the life and work of Audre Lorde as a dynamic sacred text, Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ interactive lecture will clarify the technology of mothering and othering ourselves. […]
An Audre Lorde Fall Festival event Audre Lorde – The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 brings to light a little-known chapter of the writer’s prolific life, a period in which she helped ignite the Afro-German Movement and made lasting contributions to the German political and cultural scene before and after the fall of the Berlin […]
Social Justice @ UBC Noted Scholars Lecture Series We have a very full house for this event, but you are welcome to come and take a chance. We suggest that you get there early in order to get a seat. Dr. Catriona Sandilands Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies York University Plants have been […]