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 […]
Social Justice @ UBC Noted Scholars Lecture Series The Intimate Public Sphere: Thinking Through the Skin Dr. Chris Lee Associate Professor of English and Director of Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies, UBC Before 1947, the vast majority of Chinese in Canada were men, most of whom were separated from extended families in China. […]
Social Justice @ UBC Noted Scholars Lecture Series The Intimate Public Sphere: Thinking Through the Skin Dr. Anika Stafford Postdoctoral Fellow, History Department, Simon Fraser University Lecturer, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, University of British Columbia The plight of many queer and transgender high school students has recently been under media […]
Social Justice @ UBC Noted Scholars Lecture Series Four Theses on Posthuman Feminism January 28, 12-1pm Liu Institute, Multipurpose Room, 6476 NW Marine Drive RSVP here Come early to guarantee seating! Dr. Rosi Braidotti’s talk will outline the main tenets of feminism after the posthuman turn. The four theses are: that feminism […]
Social Justice @ UBC Noted Scholars Lecture SeriesThe Intimate Public Sphere: Thinking Through the Skin Dr. Leslie Roman Professor, Educational Studies, Faculty of Education University of British Columbia In this talk Dr. Leslie Roman asks, how do public pedagogical texts mobilize particular meanings about whose bodies/minds matter or figure? How do they articulate particular affective […]
Social Justice @ UBC Noted Scholars Lecture SeriesThe Intimate Public Sphere: Thinking Through the Skin Dr. Tania Murray Li Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto Canada Research Chair, Political Economy and Culture of Asia Drawing on two decades of ethnographic research in Sulawesi, Indonesia, Dr. Tania Murray Li offers an intimate account of […]
Social Justice @ UBC Noted Scholars Lecture Series The Intimate Public Sphere: Thinking Through the Skin Dr. Trevor Birkenholtz Associate Professor Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Editor, Environment and Society Section, Geography Compass Dr. Trevor Birkenholtz‘s presentation argues that there is a (re)feminization of domestic and agrarian labor in […]
Please note that this event is on a Tuesday, rather than our usual Wednesday for the GRSJ event series Social Justice @ UBC Noted Scholars Lecture Series The Intimate Public Sphere: Thinking Through the Skin Dr. Phanuel Antwi Assistant Professor, Department of English University of British Columbia Working with Catharine Parr Traill’s 1855 manual, […]
What alternative model of visuality does the spatial/epistemic formation of queer diaspora offer? How does this model of queer visuality transform our understanding of time and space, history and memory? To answer these questions, I identify what I term “the aesthetic practices of queer diaspora”: these are aesthetic practices that engage the visual register and that negotiate diasporic movement in multiple geographic locations.
Engaging critical theory as well as contemporary art and performance, Dino Dinco and Jonathan M. Hall solicited the personal testimony of a thirty-seven year-old gay man (and close friend of Dinco’s), who acted as a “living text.” Their work culminated in the collaborative live performance, Crystal Methology, examining crystal meth addiction, gay homelessness, cross-dressing, and survival sex. This experiment provoked broader questions concerning student willingness and agency and liberal anxiety. With this course, Dinco and Hall attempted to flip the often classist and racist noblesse oblige model of “community engagement,” pulling apart ideas of what community and engagement can look like and questioning who gets to embody and represent community. Their efforts resulted in both failure and success.
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