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Settler Ecologies: The Nature Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel

Join us for this zoom event. Irus Braverman will join us to discuss her latest book, Settling Nature: The Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel (2023, University of Minnesota Press). Drawing on more than seventy interviews with Israel’s nature officials and on observations of their work, this book explores the widespread ecological warfare practiced by the state of Israel. […]

Trans People and the Choreography of Reproductive Healthcare with Dr. A.J. Lowik

The Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice Noted Scholars Series presents Trans People and the Choreography of Reproductive Healthcare Dr. A.J. Lowik in conversation with Allison Campbell WHEN & WHERE Wednesday, January 24, 12:30-1:30pm Buchanan Tower 225 / Zoom Please RSVP below in advance A sandwich lunch will be served at 1:30pm. ABSTRACT […]

Between Reparations and Freedom with Dr. Rinaldo Walcott

This event is part of the GRSJ Noted Scholars Lecture Series, and is co-presented with the Faculty of Arts, the Faculty of Education, the Public Humanities Hub, and the Equity and Inclusion Office. In The Long Emancipation, Dr. Rinaldo Walcott posits that Black people globally live in the time of emancipation and that emancipation is definitely not […]

Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert with Dr. Sunaura Taylor

Co-presented by The Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice, and Ecologies of Social Difference Social Justice, UBC. Part of the GRSJ Noted Scholars Speaker Series. Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert an online book reading  with Dr. Sunaura Taylor WHEN & WHERE Wednesday, February 14, 12:00-1:00pm Zoom Please RSVP below in advance […]

Crip Colony: On the Ethics of the “Misrecognitive” with Dr. Sony Coráñez Bolton

The Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice Noted Scholars Series presents Crip Colony: On the Ethics of the “Misrecognitive” Dr. Sony Coráñez Bolton WHEN & WHERE Wednesday, Feb 28, 12:00-1:00pm Buchanan Tower 225 This event will be recorded but will not be livestreamed. Please RSVP below in advance A sandwich lunch will be […]

Bad Crip Feelings: On a Culture of Critique and the Tyranny of Hope, with Dr. Logan Smilges

The Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice Noted Scholars Series presents Bad Crip Feelings: On a Culture of Critique and the Tyranny of Hope Dr. Logan Smilges WHEN & WHERE Wednesday, March 13, 12:30-1:30pm Buchanan Tower 225 / Zoom Please RSVP below in advance A sandwich lunch will be served at 1:30pm. ABSTRACT […]