Our Stud
ents Are Dying: Touring the University Abyss4-6pm BuTo 225
Dr. Mimi Khúc is a leading disability stud ies scholar whose work is situated at the intersection of care work\, art p ractice\, and community making. She will spend a week in residency at UBC h olding workshops for students\, staff\, faculty\, and community members int entionally devised to help us think through our relationship to one another \, the structure of the university\, and our intellectual and creative work . All events are open to the public.
Our Stud
ents Are Dying: Touring the University Abyss
4-6pm BuTo 225
Our students are dying. This is a reality many of us\, including stude nts themselves\, have not been able to face. We have not been able to look directly at the mental health crisis happening beneath the veneer of our be autiful universities—a crisis the pandemic has only exacerbated. Dr. Mimi K húc invites us to confront this crisis together\, sharing what she has lear ned from students during her mental health tour across the U.S over the pas t seven years. Participants will have the opportunity to co-create a UBC Ar chive of Unwellness.
Tarot for the Apocalypse: Engaging Unwell
ness through Critical Arts Praxis
4-6pm BuTo 225
Kickin g off a communal durational exhibit that will be open for contributing and engaging throughout the week\, this event engages Dr. Mimi Khúc’s Asian Ame rican Tarot and offers participants the opportunity to co-create a tarot ca rd as a community.
Our Ableist Syllabi: Toward an Access- and
Care-Centered Classroom\, or\, Reading Our Syllabi for Filth
4-6pm BuTo 225
What if education was not a system of achievement and inculcation into hyperproductivity but a transformative care project? The p andemic has revealed the contours of unwellness in our universities as neve r before\, making it clear that “business as usual” in our classrooms not o nly cannot serve the needs of our students but also actually contributes to their deepening experiences of unwellness. Dr. Mimi Khúc makes the case fo r the necessity of access- and care-centered teaching\, offering this pedag ogy workshop where participants will work together to explore what teaching might look like if care were our first learning objective. Bring your actu al syllabi to this workshop where we will collectively conduct “access audi ts” to root out all the ways ableism creeps into our teaching and begin gro unding our classrooms in collective care.
Drop-In Office Hours with Students\, Staff\
, Faculty\, and Community Members
10-11am Buchanan Tower 999A
Towards an Archive
of Unwellness and Care
4-6pm BuTo 225
Dr. Mimi Khúc wil l facilitate a closing event for the durational exhibit created throughout the week. Participants will engage the communal archive that has excavated UBC unwellness to take stock of where we are and where we need to go as we move towards collective care.
Drop-In Office Hours with Students\, Staff\, Faculty\, an
d Community Members
1-2pm Buchanan Tower 999A
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Graduate Student Workshop
3-5
pm BuTo 225
Join Dr. Mimi Khúc in a discussion on how to do ethical\, interventional work within the unethical (and soul-crushing) structures of the academy. Spoiler: she doesn’t know\, but we will figure this out toget her!
This residency is hosted by the UBC Centre for European Studies with co-sponsorship by UBC Asian Canadian a nd Asian Migration Studies\, the UBC Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexualit y & Social Justice\, the UBC Public Humanities Hub\, and the Waterloo Centr e for German Studies Diversity Grant.
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