The Social Justice Institute
Noted Scholars Seri
es presents:
Dr. Diana Taylor
Professor\, New York Univ
ersity
Co-sponsored by the Department of Theatre and Film\, Latin Ame rican Studies\, the Dean of Arts Office\, and the Transformative Memory Net work
WHEN & WHERE
September 22nd\, 12-1pm
on Zoom
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All events are free and open to the public.
What can we do when it seems that nothing can be done\, and doing nothing is not an option? How do communities hardest hit by Covid-19 transf orm the traumatic memories of loss into practices of repair? This talk will explore some of the theoretical and practical implications of these questi ons.
Diana Taylor is University Professor and Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish at New York University. She is the award-winning author of multiple books\, among them: Theatre of Cr isis (1991)\, Disappearing Acts (1997)\, The Archive and the Repertoire (2003)\, Performance (2016)\, and ¡Present e! The Politics of Presence (2020)\, and co-editor of Holy Terrors (2003)\, Stages of Conflict (2008) and Lecturas avanzadas de Performance ( 2011)\, among others. Taylor was the Founding Director of the Hemisphe ric Institute of Performance and Politics from 1998 to 2000. She is the rec ipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and several other major awards. In 2017\, Taylor was President of the Modern Language Association. In 2018 she was i nducted into the American Academy of Arts and Science. In 2021 she was awar ded the Edwin Booth Award for “outstanding contribution to the NYC theatre community\, and to promote integration of professional and academic theatre .”
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Noted Scholars Series presents:
“Historicizing Criminalized Sex Work\, Racialized Whorephobia\, and Fugitive Queerness Under Settler Colonial Rule”
WHEN & WHERE
October 6\, 12-1pm
on Zoom
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In this lecture I interrogate the limits and possibilities of a primary source from the settler colonial archive: prisoners’ records of those charged with prostitution-related offe nces in early 20th century Vancouver. My excavation opens a wind ow into complex dynamics of settler colonial rule\, racialization\, relatio ns of gender and sexuality\, and shifting geographies of work and leisure. Reading with and against the grain\, I ask: who were the ‘sporting women’ w ho serviced a diverse clientele in downtown brothels and on city streets? H ow and why were some men entangled in police surveillance? What can we lear n about the workers’ conditions of labour under carceral capitalism\, along side their queer networks of kin and care? On what grounds did moral entrep reneurs invest in the socio-legal regulation and stigmatization of sex work ? I consider how sex workers’ fight for sovereignty\, safety\, and security in 2021 remains as urgently necessary as it was more than a century ago.
Becki Ross is a long-time academic-activist in struggles for 2SLGBTQ+ liberation\, trans rights\, sex workers’ sovereignty \, and reproductive justice. Becki does her feminist anti-colonial teaching and research queerly in Sociology and the Social Justice Institute at UBC. With Jamie Lee Hamilton\, Becki co-founded the West End Sex Workers Memori al in Vancouver. Becki is the author of Burlesque West: showgirls\, sex \, and sin in Postwar Vancouver (2009)\, and articles in BC Studie s\, The Journal of Women’s History\, Canadian Theatre Review\, Sexualities\ , The Journal of the History of Sexuality\, Labour/le travail\, and The Conversation.
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Noted Scholars Series presents:
Dr. Y-Dang Troeung
Assistant Pr
ofessor\, English UBC
&
Dr. Thy Phu
P
rofessor\, Department of Arts\, Culture\, and Media\, University of Toronto
< span style="font-size: 20px\; color: #993300\;">“Refugee Archives across the Tr anspacific: Activating Anecdotes and Family Photography – A Conversation”
Co-sponsored by: The Social Justice I nstitute and the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs\, University of British Columbia
W
HEN & WHERE
October 27\, 12-1pm
on Zoom
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All events are free and open to the publi c.
How do we document the undocumented? Policy documents\, leg al briefs\, administrative files\, and so on feature refugees as objects of study. This conversation\, however\, will aim to shed light on the resourc es that refugees draw on to activate their own\, personal archives\, to enr ich\, nuance\, and even counter the seemingly objective reports associated with the so-called humanitarian regime. Thy Phu examines how domestic image s might help trace connections and estrangements\, the visual kinships that tie family members dispersed by war and other forms of violence. Y-Dang Tr oeung turns to a discussion of the archives of Cambodian refugee life\, con sidering the logic of “Cambodia’s minor anecdoting” and the family anecdote as an interruption of this Cold War episteme.
Thy Phu< /strong> is a Professor of Media Studies at the Department of Arts\, Cultur e\, and Media at UTSC. She is author and co-editor of five books: Pictu ring Model Citizens: Civility in Asian American Visual Culture\; Feeling Ph otography\; Refugee States: Critical Refugee Studies in Canada\; Warring Visions: Vietnam and Photography (forthcoming in Decem ber 2021)\, and Cold War Camera (forthcoming Spring 2022) . She is also Director of The Family Camera Network\, a collaborative resea rch project that engages local communities in the building of an antiracist public archive through the collection and preservation of family photograp hs and their stories. In 2017\, she was elected as member of the College of New Scholars\, Artists\, and Scientists at the Royal Society of Canada. Sh e is co-founder of the research group Critical Refugee + Migration Studies Network of Canada and co-editor of the peer-reviewed\, open-access journal\ , Trans Asia Photography.
Y-Dang Troeung is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. S he researches and teaches in the fields of transnational Asian literatures\ , critical refugee studies\, global south studies\, and critical disability studies. She is the author of the book Refugee Lifeworlds: Aphasia and the Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia (Temple University Press\, forthcoming Fall 2022). In the summer of 2021\, she was the lead organizer of the exhibition “Remembering Cambodian Border Camps\, 40 Years Later\,” h eld at Bophana Audiovisual Research Center in Phnom Penh. Her recent public ations can be found in Canadian Literature\, Brick: A Literary Magazine\, Amerasia Journal\, and Inter-Asia Cultural St udies.
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Noted Scholars Series presents:
“Living Resurgence: Dre aming in Dangerous Times”
Co-sponsored by The Transformative Memory Network and the C entre for the Imaginative Ethnography
WHEN & WHERE
November 17th\, 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM
Venue: xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of Many Trees)\, Liu Institu
te
Seating is limited – RSVP to reserve yo ur seat in advance. Please note that all guests will be required to wear non-medical masks and have proof o f vaccination accompanied with a government-issued ID upon entrance .
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I se ek an invitation to a conversation on what Indigeneity means to the aboliti onist call for practices of “freedom” in places. It is to speak to the some times fraught and sometimes generous questions that are posed between Black and Indigenous Feminisms\, about land and about the after lives of enslave ment and what we might dream of just futures together if we think relationa lly\, in “constellations” rather than from silos (Simpson\, 2017). What is a promise of Indigenous economies as a practice of life making in place s in this moment rather than as a shadow of capitalism\; the lure of t urning Indigenous places into corporate mini-economies\, where the “implacable logic of debt takes over for the implacable logic of the white man’s burden…of the need for people cut off from circuits of capital accum ulation to develop their capacities\, to adjust to the standards of the mor e advanced world\, to reform their backward ways (Byrd\, et al.\,2018).”
Dian Million (Tanana Athabascan) is Associate Pr ofessor and Chair of the Department of American Indian Studies\, Affiliate faculty in Canadian Studies\, and the Comparative History of Ideas Program at the University of Washington in Seattle. Professor Million holds a Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from U.C. Berkeley. She is the author of Therapeutic Nations: Healing in an Age of Indigenous Human Rights \, along with s everal enduring articles: “There Is A River in Me: Theory From Life\,” “In tense Dreaming: Theories\, Narratives and Our Search for Home\,” and “Felt Theory: An Indigenous Feminist Approach to Affect and History.” A forthcomi ng work “Spirit as Matter: Resurgence as rising and (re)creation as ethos” in an edited collection on Indigenous Resurgence in the Age of Reconciliati on edited by Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark\, Aimée Craft\, and Hoku Aikau c ontinues her deep interest in affect and its’ power in Indigenous revitaliz ation and movement. Dr. Million centers her work on the effect/affect of ra cial capitalism/settler colonialism on Indigenous family and community heal th in North America. Informed by two generations of Indigenous Feminist sch olarship\, Dian Million seeks to illuminate the ways in which Indigenous li fe reorganizes and resurges in the face of colonial violence.
LOCATION:Liu Institute\, xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of Many Trees) GEO:49.269820;-123.256630 URL;VALUE=URI:https://grsj.arts.ubc.ca/events/event/living-resurgence-dream ing-in-dangerous-times-dr-dian-million/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://grsj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2021/09/EK_DianMillionPoster.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20211015T2341Z-1634341274.8987-EO-26146-40@10.19.146.15 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260516T032912Z CREATED:20211004T155637Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211201T180533Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20211201T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20211201T130000 SUMMARY: “Curating Detours: a Decolonial Guide to Hawaiʻi” DESCRIPTION: The Social Justice Institute Noted Scholars Series presents: D r. Vernadette Gonzalez Professor of American Studies and Director of the Ho nors Program at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa & Dr. Hōkūlani K. Aikau (Kanaka ‘Ōiwi) Professor at the University of Victoria in the Indigenous Go vernance Program “Curating Detours: a Decolonial Guide to Hawaiʻi” WHEN & [ …] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Social Justice Institute
Noted Scholars Series presents:
“Curating Detours: a D
ecolonial Guide to Hawaiʻi”
WHEN & WHERE
December 1
st
Zoom
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Prior to the COVID-19 Pandemic\, tourists visiting Hawai‘i vastly outnumbered local residents by more than 9.4 million to 1.4 million. The fourth smallest “state\,” Hawai‘i ranks tenth in visitors. Tourism\, a long with militarism\, is the core of Hawai‘i’s economic engine\, cementing tourist desire and satisfaction as the definitive concerns that shape the “health” of Hawaiʻi. Given how Hawaiʻi is overdetermined by tourism\, how m ight we offer a decolonial encounter with Hawai‘i as something worth unders tanding and engaging in? Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawaiʻi takes seriously the power of form and the reading practices\, imaginari es and publics produced by tourism and deliberately unsettles them. Our pre sentation will outline the ethical dimensions of the project and the ration ale for turning away from the guidebook genre toward a book that guides rea ders to decolonisation—a template and archive of place-based work and repre sentations aimed at achieving ea (life\, breath\, sovereignty). We will als o reflect on the kinds of responsibilities that emerge from this framework and what it means for people who visit or live in Hawaiʻi and for decolonza tion in other places.
Vernadette Gonzalez is P rofessor of American Studies and Director of the Honors Program at the Univ ersity of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Her areas of research include studies of touris m and militarism\, transnational cultural studies\, feminist theory\, postc olonial studies\, and cultural studies with a focus on Asia and the Pacific . She has a PhD in Ethnic Studies from the University of California\, Berke ley\, with a Designated Emphasis in Women\, Gender and Sexuality.
The Social Justice Institute
Noted Scholars Series presents:
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WHEN & WHERE
Zoom
January 12t
h\, 12-1 PM
All events are free and open to the publi c.
In this talk – a developing disciplinary intervention – I shift the lens of my own training from its longstanding focus on the so cio-cultural norms and conventions that underpinned British colonial rule i n India to consider the artefacts of colonial rule that shaped my own educa tion as a historian. Born to an Indian mother and German-Jewish father whos e lives were each indelibly marked by European conceptions of race\, yet ir reconcilably different in experience\, my curiosity coalesced early around cultural fault lines\, sites of hybridity\, pluralism\, and power. This tal k traces that emergent curiosity\, its intellectual and geographical meande rings through London\, Paris\, and India\, its distillation into questions and answers that found little resonance in the classrooms of my own higher education. Probing the often intimate\, personal\, reflective\, and emotion al pathways the lead us toward our research\, this talk invites listeners t o think with me about why we ask the questions we do and where our deepest learning takes place.
Dr. Tara Mayer is an Ass ociate Professor of Teaching in The Social Justice Institute at UBC. A hist orian of colonial South Asia\, her scholarship traces material and aestheti c exchanges between India\, Britain\, and France in ways that blur the boun daries of her discipline. She explores the deeply reciprocal processes of a ppropriation\, assimilation\, and influence that took place at the intersec tions of European and South Asian material culture and the role of racism a nd colonial power in shaping these exchanges. She has served as a research consultant for international exhibitions on Indian art\, Orientalism\, and European portraiture and has forged new collaborative partnerships between UBC and the Museum of Vancouver. Her teaching practice is centred on challe nging historical norms and values around objectivity\, neutrality\, and saf e-space. Her most recent project is an interview series entitled On Fee ling and Knowing: Radical Conversations About Teaching and Learning. URL;VALUE=URI:https://grsj.arts.ubc.ca/events/event/things-i-learned-but-wa s-not-taught-with-dr-tara-mayer/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://grsj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2021/12/EK_TaraMayer.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251008T2231Z-1759962682.8194-EO-26419-40@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260516T032912Z CREATED:20220128T213721Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220228T183454Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220207T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220207T130000 SUMMARY: “Race\, the Nation State and Policing” with El Jones & Vicki Chart rand DESCRIPTION: The Social Justice Institute’s Graduate Student Association Pr esents: El Jones Poet\, journalist\, educator\, activist\, and scholar & Vi cki Chartrand Associate Professor of Sociology\, Bishop’s University “Race \, the Nation-State and Policing” WHEN & WHERE Zoom February 7th\, 12-1 PM PST RSVP All events are free and open to the public. This panel is the firs t in […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The Social Just
ice Institute’s Graduate Student Association Presents:
< span style="color: #993300\;">“Race \, the Nation-State and Policing”
WHEN & WHERE
Zoom
February 7th\, 12-1 PM PST
All events are free and open to the public.
This panel is the first in the Social Justice Instit ute Graduate Student Associations’ event series\, “Just Futures: Thinking T hrough Abolition and Transformative Justice\,” dedicated to engaging broade r academic\, artist\, and activist communities in conversations around comb ating anti-Black racism on campus and reflecting on Canada’s histories of c olonialism\, surveillance\, policing\, and incarceration. This series emerg ed as a response to instances of racial profiling that occurred at UBC and hope that through this free panel\, we can invite students\, faculty\, and communities from across so-called North America to learn about abolition so that we can end racial profiling on campuses for good.
El Jones is a poet\, journalist\, educat or\, activist\, and scholar. She is the author of Li ve From the Afrikan Resistance! which uses poetry to explore issues including feminism\, prison justice\, and abolition. El Jone s was the fifth Halifax poet-laureate (2013-5) and recipient of the 2016 Bu rnley “Rocky” Jones human rights award for her work in community and prison justice. She co-founded Black Power Hour\, a live radio show hosted on CKDU that blends hip hop with discussions of political\, cultural\, and social issues relevant to Black people. She recently received a PhD in Cultural St udies at Queen’s University.
Vicki Chartrand is a Mama and Associate Professor in the Sociol
ogy Department at Bishop’s University and Adjunct Professor at t
he Univer
sity of Ottawa. Her current research is concerned with historica
l and contemporary links between the criminal justice system and settler co
lonialism\, Indigenous grassroots work to address violence against Indigeno
us women\, and alternative understandings and practices of justice and acco
untability. In addition to her research she is the recipient of the 2017/20
18 Divisional Teaching Award\, the founder and Director of the Centre for Justice Exchange\, Prisoner Struggles Editor for the Journal of Prisoners on Priso
n\, and sits on several editorial boards.
The Social Justice Institute
Noted Scholars Series presents:
“At the Margins: Borders in the age of a Pandemic”
Co-sponsore d by the President's Office and the Centre for Culture\, Education\, and Id entity
WHEN & WHERE
Zoom
February 9
th\, 12-1 PM
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The Social Justice Institute
Noted Scholars Series presents:
“Being wi th Water”
Co-sponsored by the Transformative Memory Network
WHEN & WHERE
February 16th\, 12 PM to
1:00 PM
Venue: Michael Smith Laboratories\, Room 102
& Livestreamed
Seating is limited – RSVP to reserve your seat in adva nce. Please note that all guests will be required to wear non-medic al masks and have proof of vaccination accompanied with a government-issued ID upon entrance.
R SVP for this event are now closed.
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Grounded in Nibi miina waa aki inaakonigewin: Indigenous governance in relationship with land and water\, Aimée Craft will share her work with the Nibi Declaration and activ ities generated by the Decolonizing Water project and working within Indige nous laws and governance mechanisms\, including in the revitalization of Cr ee laws and working with nations who are considering their ways of recogniz ing the spiritedness and agency of nibi (water). Asking how to be in good r elation and uphold our responsibilities to the land and its Indigenous peop les\, Rita Wong will consider how water teaches us so much about where to f ocus our attention and energy in this precarious moment. From its response to illegitimate pipelines on unceded Coast Salish land\, to fertile valleys and destructive hydro dams on Dane Zaa territory\, water is one of the bes t teachers we could hope to learn from. After introducing their work\, Aimé e and Rita will have a conversation about how to sustain the necessary work of caring for the health and well-being of the waters that we are part of.
Rita Wong is a poet-scho lar who attends to the relationships between water justice\, ecology\, and decolonization. She has co-edited an anthology with Dorothy Christian entit led Downstream : Reimagining Water\, based on a gathering that brought together e lders\, artists\, scientists\, writers\, scholars\, students and activists around the urgent need to care for the waters that give us life.
A re cipient of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop Emerging Writer Award\, Wong is the author of current\, clima te (Wilfrid Laurier UP 2021)\, beholden (Talonbooks\, 2018\, with Fred Wah)\, undercurrent (Nightwood\, 2015)\, perpetual (Nightwood\, 2015\, with Cindy Mochizuki)\, sybil unrest (Line Books\, 2008\, with Larissa Lai)\, forage (Nightwood\, short-list ed for the 2008 Asian American Literary Award for Poetry\, winner of Canada Reads Poetry 2011)\, and monkeypuzzle (Press Gang\, 1998).
Wong works to support Indigenous communities’ efforts towards justice and h ealth for water\, having witnessed such work at the Peace River\, the Wedzin Kwa\ , Ada’itsx/Fairy Creek\, the Columbia River\, the Fraser River\, the Salish Sea\, and the Arctic Ocean watershed. She understands that wh en these waterways are healthy\, life (including people) will be healthy to o\, and that we cannot afford to endanger and pollute the waters that susta in our lives.
An Associate Professor in Critical and Cultural Studies at Emily Carr University of Art and Design\, Wong has also served her facu lty association as a steward and president. She completed her PhD at SFU\, where her dissertation focused on Asian North American cultural production. As an instructor\, Wong values the processes of open dialogue\, critical i nquiry\, respect for difference\, and attentive listening as an important b asis for lifelong learning.
Aimée Craft is a n award-winning teacher and researcher\, recognized internationally as a le ader in the area of Indigenous laws\, treaties and water. She holds a Unive rsity Research Chair Nibi miinawaa akiinaakonigewin: Indigenous governance in relationship with land and water.
An Associate Professor at the Fa culty of Common law\, University of Ottawa and an Indigenous (Anishinaabe-M étis) lawyer from Treaty 1 territory in Manitoba\, she is the former Direct or of Research at the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and the founding Director of Research at the National Cent re for Truth and Reconciliation. She practiced at the Public Interest Law C entre for over a decade and in 2016 she was voted one of the top 25 most in fluential lawyers in Canada. In 2021 she was awarded the prestigious Canad ian Bar Association President’s Award and was named the Early Career Resear cher of the Year Award at the University of Ottawa.
Prof. Craft prior itizes Indigenous-lead and interdisciplinary research\, including through v isual arts and film\, co-leads a series of major research grants on Decolon izing Water Governance and works with many Indigenous nations and communiti es on Indigenous relationships with and responsibilities to nibi (water). S he plays an active role in international collaborations relating to transfo rmative memory in colonial contexts and relating to the reclamation of Indi genous birthing practices as expressions of territorial sovereignty.
Breathing Life Into the Stone Fort Treaty\, her award-winning book\, focuses on understanding and interpr eting treaties from an Anishinaabe inaakonigewin (legal) perspective. T reaty Words\, her critically acclaimed children’s book\, explains trea ty philosophy and relationships.
She is past chair of the Aboriginal Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association and a current member of the Spe aker’s Bureau of the Treaty Relations Commission of Manitoba.
The Social Justice Institute
Noted Scholars Series presents:
“A Tunnel to a Sacred Place: Resistance to the Carceral Ge ographies of Militarism in Hawai’i.”
Co-sponsored by the Transformative Memory Networ k
WHEN & WHERE
Zoom
March 9th\, 12-
1 PM
RSVP's for this event are now closed.
All events are free and open to the public.
The Social Justice Institute
Graduate Student Association Presents:
"Race\, Abolition\, and Transformative Justice"
WH
EN & WHERE
March 14\, 12-1:30pm
Online
Event
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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (she/they) is a nonbinary femme disabled writer and disability and transformative justice movement worker of Burgher and Tamil Sri Lankan\, Ir ish and Galician Romani ascent. They are the author or co-editor of nine bo oks\, including (with Ejeris Dixon) Beyond Survival\; Strategies and St ories from the Transformative Justice Movement\, Tonguebreaker\, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice\, and Bodymap. A Lambda Award wi nner who has been shortlisted for the Publishing Triangle five times\, they are the 2020 Jean Cordova Award winner “honoring a lifetime of work docume nting the complexities of queer experience” and are a 2020 Disability Futu res Fellow. Raised in rustbelt central Massachusetts and shaped by T'karont o and Oakland\, they currently make home in South Seattle\, Duwamish terri tories. brownstargirl.org
The Social Justice Institute
Noted Scholars Series presents:
Co-sponsored by the U BC's President's Office & the Centre for Culture\, Identity & Education
WHEN & WHERE
Zoom
March 16th\, 12-1 PM
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All events are free and open to the public.
2022 Art + Memory + Justice Symposium Presents:
WHEN & WHERE
March 19\, 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Online Event
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This symposium explores the contingent\, emergent\, resilient\, gestures of care that have emerged duri ng global pandemic times\, and illuminates their entanglements with memory and art practices. While sociopolitical and economic ruptures have no doubt devastated many\, we also have witnessed how communities have galvanized g rassroots efforts to care for communities\, while also fomenting shifts tow ards social justice. This symposium invites guests to contend with the ever yday collective strategies of care as hybrid and interrelational spaces whe re experiential and transgenerational knowledge condense with the urgency a nd the creativity to imagine and generate diverse formats to cope\, confron t\, or transform the ongoing precarization of life as well as rethink and s hape possible futures.
The symposium interrogates the conditions that place art\, memory\, and care to the private and consanguinity sphere\, le aving the work of memory to the past\, and relegating the social practice o f facilitating community care as an illegible\, non-artistic practice. Thro ugh contending with these intersections\, we explore the transformative pot ential of collective strategies of care.
How have art and cultural in itiatives that have emerged through strategies of care\, been enacted by co mmunities during the pandemic? What everyday care acts can be made visible through arts practice? How have structural and historic senses and orders b een disrupted through collective strategies of care?
“Resilient Cartographies: Everyday strategies of social justice that (re)e merged during pandemic times” is Supported and sponsored by UBC’s Memory & Justice Research Stream and Transformative Memory Network.
The Social Justice Institute
Graduate Student Association Presents:
"When Things Fall Apart: Conflict\, Crisis\, & Collective Healing in Activist Movements"
WHEN & WHERE
March 21\, 5:00-6:30pm
Gr
een Collage\, The University of British Columbia
All events are free an d open to the public.
In this time of intense g lobal crisis\, political unrest\, and social polarization\, for many activi sts and progressives\, the greatest devastation has come from within our ow n communities: Moments in which our shared values have seemed to fail us. C onflicts that tear our relationships apart. The collapse of social networks that we relied upon to give us strength and meaning. In the midst of betra yal and despair\, what can we do? How can Transformative Justice and the po litics of love lead us back into right relationship with ourselves\, others \, and the work of making change? Join Kai Cheng Thom\, mediator and healer \, for an embodied dialogue on choosing love at the end of the world.
Hosted by the SFU Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies
WHEN & WHERE
March 25th\, 6-8 PM
SFU Woodward's Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
149 West Hstings Street
Vancouver\, BC
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This is the story of a child raised in Canada by parents who embraced a puritanical version of Isl am to shield them from racism. The author explores the joys and sorrows of growing up in a fundamentalist Muslim household\, wedding grand historical narratives of colonialism and migration to the small intimate heartbreaks o f modern life. In revisiting the beliefs and ideals she was raised with\, C haudhry invites us to reimagine our ideas of self and family\, state and ci tizenship\, love and loss.
Ayesha S. Chaudhr y is the Canada Research Chair in Religion\, Law and Social Justic e and Professor of Islamic studies and Gender studies at the University of British Columbia. She is a Member of the College of the Royal Society of Ca nada\, and a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Fellow. She has held residential fellow ship at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Study at UBC and the Radcliff e Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She is the author of The Colour of God (Oneworld\, HarperCollinsIndia\, 2021) and Domestic Viole nce and the Islamic Tradition: Ethics\, Law\, and the Muslim Discourse on G ender (Oxford University Press\, 2014). Dr. Chaudhry’s research focuses on Islamic law and theology.
Catered dinner will be serv ed to all registered attendees. While quantities last.
The Social Justice Institute
Noted Scholars Series presents:
“An aformative Impulse. Chest Punch. A Working Paper on Bass"
Co-sponsored by the UBC Pre sident’s Office & Centre for Culture\, Identity & Education
WHEN & WHERE
Zoom
March 30th\, 12-1 PM
RSVPs for this event are now closed.
All events are free and open to the public.
In this presentation I share some preliminary thoughts on music\, sound\, and groo ve\, focusing specifically on the bass\, basslines\, and bass sounds. I bui ld on scholarship in black studies\, sound studies\, and studies of black p opular culture and black music\; I hold steady Richad Iton’s “anaformative impulse” to think about how black music\, and the bass\, resists hierarchy\ , hegemony\, and administration\, and interrupts colonial narratives by rea rticulating them in ways that unsettle prevailing knowledge systems.
Katherine McKittrick is Profes sor of Gender Studies and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies at Queen’s University. She authored Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartogra phies of Struggle (UMP\, 2006) and edited and contributed to Sylvi a Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis (DUP\, 2015). Her most recent monog raph\, Dear Science and Other Stories (DUP\, 2021) is an explorati on of black methodologies.
The Social Justice Institute
Graduate Student Association Presents:
"When
Things Fall Apart: Conflict\, Crisis\, & Collective Healing in Activist Mov
ements"
WHEN & WHERE
April 5th\, from 12-3 PM
Online Event
All events are free and open to the public.
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Decolonizing Justice ft. Michaela Mcgui re is the fourth and final virtual event from the UBC Social Justice Instit ute's speaker panel series on Abolition of Police and Prisons\, entitled "J ust Futures: Thinking Through Abolition and Transformative Justice"
The Social Ju stice Institute Presents:
Please join us as we celebrate the Social Justice Institute's 10th anniversary (30th anniversary as a cen ter) and inaugural talk for the Noted Scholar's Series.
This event is free and open to public\, as an open space of dialogue and encounter for friends\, associ ates\, alumni\, and faculty emerita as well as GRSJ's faculty\, graduate an d undergraduate students\, and staff. It also serves a a launch to GRSJ's N oted Scholar's Series 2022-2023\, titled “Knowledge Twilights\, sensorial a esthetics\, and epistemic justice.” This year's inaugural talk\, “Negative Accumulation or The Racial Event That Which Happens Without Time\,” will be given by professor Denise Ferreira da Silva.
The event will begin at 5 pm at the Ponderosa Commons. The Institute's new director Dr. Nora Angel es will welcome participants with opening remarks which will be followed by a 40 minute talk and a 15 minute Q&A by Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva. Foll owing\, there will be a champagne toast celebrating the institute\, light r efreshments\, and an open space of exchange for participants.
Featuring the 1st Noted Scholar's Series 2022-2023 talk:
Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva
Co-sponsored by GRSJ's Graduate Student Associa tion and the Faculty of Arts
Negative accumulation\, Denise Ferreira da Silva offers
\, invites a shift in thinking in line with the black and indigenous antico
lonial\, anticapitalist\, and anti-imperialist radical traditions. As an im
age\, it captures the trajectory of black and indigenous (of the Americas\,
Africa\, and Asia and the Pacific) persons and populations in the past fou
r hundred years or so. As such\, like the image of unpayable debt\, it supp
orts the statement that decolonization is the only appropriate descriptor f
or the goal of any ethico-political program designed to confront global cap
ital.
WHEN & WHERE
September 21st\
, 5-7pm
Ponderosa Commons - Ballroom
Please RSVP
below in advance
Note: This is an in-pe rson event that will not be recorded or livestreamed.
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Denise Ferreira da Silva is an academic and an artist. She is currently a Profes sor at GRSJ at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver\, Canada) and an Adjunct Professor at Monash University’s Architecture\, Design\, and Art (Melbourne\, Australia).
S
he is the author of Toward a Glo
bal Idea of Race (University of
Minnesota Press\, 2007)\, and U
npayable Debt (Sternberg Press\
, 2022) and co-editor (with Paula Chakravartty) Race\, Empire\, and the Crisis of the Subprime (Johns Hopkins University Press\, 2013). He
r several articles have been published in leading interdisciplinary journal
s\, such as Social Text\, Theory\, Culture & Society\, PhiloSOPHIA\, Gr
iffith Law Review\, <
span style="font-weight: 400\;">Theory & Event\, The Black Scho
lar\, to name a few. She has he
ld visiting professorships at leading universities\, such as University of
Pennsylvania\, the University of Sao Paulo\, New York University\, and the
University of Copenhagen. Next spring\, she will occupy the International C
hair in Contemporary Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at the Univ
ersity of Paris 8 (Paris\, France).
Her artistic works includes the films Serpent Rain (201 6)\, 4Waters-Deep Implicancy (2018)\, Soot Breath/Corpus Infinitum (2020)\, in collaboration with Arjuna Neuman\; and the rela tional art practices Poethical Readings and Sensing Salon\, in collaboratio n with Valentina Desideri. She has exhibited and lectured at major art venu es\, such as the Centre Pompidou (Paris)\, Whitechapel Gallery (London\, MA SP (Sāo Paulo)\, Guggenheim (New York)\, and MoMa (New York). She has also written for publications for major art events (Liverpool Biennale\, 2017\; São Paulo Biennale\, 2016\, Venice Biennale\, 2017\, and Documenta 14) and feature (essays and interviews) in art publishing venues\, such as Canadian Art\, Texte Zur Kunst\, and E-Flux.
Accessibility : Ponderosa Commons has an external accessible ramp and accessible wa shroom available.
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by Kabir Qurban and UBC Researcher
WHEN & WHERE
October 26th\, 12-1pm
Buchanan Tower 1099
Please RSVP below in advance
Note: This is an in-person event that will not be recorded or livestreamed.
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Family re lations have proved a major source of both strength and vulnerability for U yghurs and their diaspora activism. For years\, this importance has been ex ploited by the Chinese government to control Uyghurs inside and outside of China. From the government perspective\, Uyghur family relations are both a convenient tool and a liability in their attempt to silence the activism. This presentation tells the story of a significant rise and development in Uyghur diaspora grassroot activism during the peak years of large scale mas s incarceration of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang (2017–2020). It relates ho w family relations and kinship became both a main motivating and inhibiting factor for this activism. It follows several young Uyghurs who turned into activists when they lost contact with their parents\, siblings\, spouses o r children in Xinjiang to examine their motivation and trajectories of acti vism. Based on fieldwork among diaspora activists and discourse analysis of social media activism\, the presentation explores how a new demography of young\, well educated and well integrated Uyghurs in the diaspora who had k ept silent to protect their families back home (and to a degree their own privileges) after 2017 took up activ ism as a response to losing their loved ones. For some of them\, re-connect ion with their families has led to renewed silence after 2020\, as the Chin ese government has been seeking to reinstate these control mechanisms by mo unting pressure on the relatives of activists. Our talk is the story of this intense and ever-transforming rel ationship between Uyghur kinship and Uyghur activism\; kinship can motivate activism and summon international solidarity around it\, but it has also b een used to control and split it and may now be partially-responsible for i ts decline.
Accessibility: Buchanan Tower 1099 is accessible by elevator. There are gendered washrooms in the stairwell and a gender-neutral\, accessible wash room on the 1st floor.
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The Social Ju stice Institute Noted Scholars Series presents
by Dr. Mary Zournazi< /strong>
WHEN & WHERE
November 30th\, 12-1pm
Please RSVP below in advance
Note: Due to inclement weather\, the talk has been moved to Zoom.
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This paper will explore how to understand the vital role of reparati
on in thinking through the questions of justice and creative practice. As a
film maker and documentarian\, I am interested in how to create images and
points of view that enable different modes of storytelling that engage wit
h and provide the context for traumas\, memories and everyday experiences t
hat often occluded from chronicles of history. Drawing on works of Melanie
Klein\, Judith Butler and others\, I explore some of the conceptual and pra
ctical considerations for a new kind of justice and approach to image makin
g and non-violence. In the paper\, I will present some of my own visual app
roaches to these considerations and I will show clips from two of my recent
documentaries.
Dr. Mary Zournazi is an Australian film maker\, author and cultur
al philosopher. Her multi-awarding winning documentary Dogs of Democracy (2
017) was screened worldwide. Her most recent documentary film\, My Rembetik
a Blues is a film about life\, love and Greek music. She is the author of s
everal books including Key words to War\, Hope - New Philosophies for Ch
ange\, Inventing Peace with the German filmmaker Wim Wenders and
most recently Justice an
d Love with Rowan Williams.
Accessibility: Buchanan Tower 1099 is accessible by elevator. There are gendered washrooms in the stairwell and a gender-neutral\, accessible washroom on the 1st floor.
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by Dr. Mila Zuo
WHEN & WHERE
December 7th\, 12-1pm
Buchanan Tower 1099
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Note: This is an in-pers on event that will not be livestreamed.
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I propose an analytic of vulgarity in order to consider the matter of (and with) Chineseness. Through a decons tructive mode rooted in promiscuous encounters between traditional Chinese epistemologies and post/continental philosophy\, I offer a new materialist theory of flavor aesthetic-affects grounded in the lower sense-making of ta ste\, scent\, and touch. In particular\, I analyze the sexual-racialized ch arisma of global Chinese women film stars through the Chinese medicinal fla vors of bitter\, sweet\, pungent\, salty\, and sour. Drawing from my recent monograph Vulgar Beauty: Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium (Duke University Press\, 2022)\, I demonstrate how the vulgar has become a way for disobedient women to adopt oppositional stances against white sup remacist racism\, Chinese colonialism\, heteropatriarchy\, gender and sexua l normativities\, and capitalist work. Finally\, I will discuss my filmmaki ng praxis with works such as Car nal Orient (2016) and Kin (2021) through which similar themes are explored through experimenta l narrative cinema.
Mila Zuo is an assistant professor in the Department of Theatre and Film at UBC. Her resea rch areas include transnational Asian cinemas\; film-philosophy\; abject ep istemologies\; star studies\; digital and new media\; and critical theories of gender\, sexuality\, and race and ethnicity.
Her book Vulgar Beauty: Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium (Duke
University Press\, 2022) focuses on the affective racialization of Chinese
women film stars\, demonstrating the ways which vulgar\, flavourful beauty
disrupts Western and colonial notions of beauty. Accompanying research can
be found in Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory\,
Celebrity Studies Journal\, Journal of Chinese Cinemas\, Femi
nist Media Histories journal\, and in various anthologies. In ad
dition to her scholarly work\, Zuo writes\, directs\, and produces narrativ
e films\, visual essays\, documentaries\, and music videos. Her short films
have screened in international film festivals and universities\, including
Carnal Orient
(2016) which premiered at Slamdance Film Festival\, and her short narra
tive film Kin (2021)\, which was the recipient of the 2019 Oregon Me
dia Arts Fellowship\, and screened at HollyShorts Film Festival.
Accessibility: Bu chanan Tower 1099 is accessible by elevator. There are gendered washrooms i n the stairwell and a gender-neutral\, accessible washroom on the 1st floor .
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A bstract:
In the context of climate change\, large infras tructure adaptation projects fortify against increasingly bad weather to pr otect the status quo. If infrastructure is a substrate for life and sociali ty that suggests what is possible\, we argue that a transformative feminist response to climate change demands different kinds of infrastructure: infr astructures that support other collective\, social\, material\, and multisp ecies ways of being in common. Feminist infrastructure for better weatherin g is a proposal and a practice that emerges from seven years of collaborati on across various projects. As The Weathering Collective (which al so includes artist Tessa Zettel)\, we experiment in building and maintainin g alternative climate change infrastructures. Collectively\, in passing\, a nd unspectacularly\, these help us practice supported vulnerability and neg otiated shelter across difference\, and create possibilities for non-transa ctional curiosity and care.
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Astrida Neimanis is Associate Professor \, Canada Research Chair in Feminist Environmental Humanities\, and Directo r of the FEELed Lab at UBC Okanagan (Kelowna\, Canada)\;
Jenn ifer Mae Hamilton is Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies at UNE (A rmidale\, Australia) and founder of CoWS (The Community Weathering Station) . Since 2015\, Jennifer and Astrida have been been experimenting\, researc hing\, writing\, and making together: as co-coordinators of COMPOSTING Femi nisms and the Environmental Humanities\; as co-convenors of Hacking the Ant hropocene 2016-2018\, and (with Tessa Zettel) as founding members of The We athering Collective. Their most recent co-authored publication is “Feminist Infrastructures for Better Weathering” (Australian Feminist Studies\, 2021 ).
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Please join us via zoom
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This presentation begins with the questions: What are t he working assumptions that determine a significant site of analysis or a p opular theoretical model? What intellectual products can come out of workin g under and within white supremacist\, unequal power structures? Focusing s pecifically on the emergence of social anthropology during the interwar per iod\, I discuss the ways that Europe’s fear of imperial decline led to a fr enzied effort towards colonial development\, with Africa as a key site of “ empire strengthening” and white racial consolidation. The rhetoric of colon ial development depended both on the intellectual mapping of Africa and the attendant paternalism hidden in the language of African (“native”) welfare and protection. These processes were structured in and through an ironic “ anti-racist” discourse that condemned the racism of Nazism while accepting the international hierarchical racial and imperial order that justified Eur opean colonial rule as a civilizing “trusteeship.” While the presentation f rames the political and economic context of the rise of social anthropology through the colonial process\, it is ultimately about the enduring theoret ical consequences of this colonial confrontation.
Jemima Pi erre (Ph.D.) is Professor in the Department of African American Studies and the Department of Anthropology at UCLA. She is also a Research Associate a t the inaugural Center for the Study of Race\, Gender and Class at the Univ ersity of Johannesburg. Her research and teaching interests are located in the overlaps between African Studies and African Diaspora Studies and engag e three broad areas: 1) race and political economy\; 2) transnationalism an d diaspora and\; 3) the cultural politics of knowledge production. She is t he author of The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Polit ics of Race (Chicago). Her next book\, Of Natives\, Ethnics\, and True Negr oes: A Counter-History of Anthropology\, is forthcoming with Duke Universit y Press. She is also continuing work on her manuscript\, “Haiti: The Second Occupation.” Dr. Pierre’s essays on global racial formation\, Ghana\, Hai tian studies\, immigration\, and African diaspora theory and politics have appeared in several academic journals including\, Transforming Anthropology \, American Anthropologist\, Current Anthropology\, Anthurium\, Journal of Anthropological Sciences\, Cultural Anthropology\, Feminist Review\, Social Text\, Identities\, Cultural Dynamics\, Current Anthropology\, Journal of Haitian Studies\, Latin American Perspective\, Philosophia Africana\, Poli tique Africaine\, Black Scholar\, Sapiens\, and Boom California.
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Online Event - please register: bit.ly/cisar-toc
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Recept ion to follow
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Abstract:
This talk draws on three y ears of collaborative research on freshwater fish futures carried out with and through the Institute for Freshwater Fish Futures. It examines the ways our network of collaborators have navigated the impacts of SARS-CoV-2 on o ur work. Taking seriously our responsibilities to protect immunocompromised communities and colleagues\, and honoring our duties to disrupt extractive research paradigms\, this talk examines how we center duties of reciprocit y\, care\, and disability justice in our work\, and envisions what conserva tion research can look like when it takes seriously the responsibility to d ismantle structural violences and barriers that shape many current environm ental research paradigms in so-called Canada today.
Bio:
< p>Red River Métis anthropologist and researcher-artist Dr. Zoe Todd (she/th ey) blends their creative talents with their knowledge of innovative resear ch methods and Indigenous philosophy to examine and advocate for the comple x relationships between Indigenous sovereignty and freshwater fish conserva tion in Canada. Dr. Todd is a co-founder of both the Institute for Freshwat er Fish Futures and the Indigenous Environmental Knowledge Institute (IEKI) at Carleton University. In 2020\, Dr. Todd was elected to the Royal Societ y of Canada’s College of New Scholars. In 2018\, they were a Yale President ial Visiting Fellow. Dr. Todd holds their BSc in Biological Sciences and an MSc in Rural Sociology\, both from the University of Alberta\, and a PhD i n Social Anthropology from the University of Aberdeen. URL;VALUE=URI:https://grsj.arts.ubc.ca/events/event/fishy-futures-and-envir onmental-kin-studies-disrupting-extractive-paradigms-through-freshwater-fis h-based-research/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://grsj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2023/01/Zoe-Todd.headshot.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20230311T0335Z-1678505708.2187-EO-27156-40@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260516T032912Z CREATED:20230118T213233Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230310T203056Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230322T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230322T130000 SUMMARY: Sound Geography: Place as Musical Primer DESCRIPTION: Please join us via zoom: Abstract: This talk will li sten to how musicians compress place–actual corners\, stages\, live perform ances\, and the social worlds that developed them–into song. In addition to the pressing of these grounds into sound\, we will listen together to how musicians also offer new spatial imaginaries that […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
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Abstract: This talk will listen to how musicians compress place--actual corners\, stages\, live performances\, and the social worlds that developed them--into song. In ad dition to the pressing of these grounds into sound\, we will listen togethe r to how musicians also offer new spatial imaginaries that invite a differe nt relationship to place\, one that does not presume possession\, but a tem porary stewardship of who and what was there before. To enhance our hearing of cities as vibrant holdings of the sounds of people in passing and perpe tuity\, we will listen in counterpoint to songs with “non-musical” archival castaways (the detritus of record collectors\, scrapbooks\, oral histories \, touristic collectables\, etc.). By pairing songs with unexpected accompa niments\, the talk has two hopes: 1. to imagine\, through music\, the camou flaged movements of people on the move and the things they bring with them\ , and 2. to work in a migratory analytical mode that moves between sound\, object\, and place.
Bio: Alexandra T. Vazquez in an associate profe ssor in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University. Her r esearch and teaching interests focus on music\, popular performance\, Carib bean aesthetics and criticism\, U.S. Latina and Latin American Studies\, ra ce and ethnicity\, and feminist theory and biography. Vazquez is the author of the recently released The Florida Room (Duke University Press\, 2022). Her previous book\, Listening in Detail: Performances of Cuban Music (Duke University Press 2013)\, won the American Studies Association’s Lora Romero Book Prize in 2014. Her work has been featured in such journals as small a xe\, American Quarterly\, Social Text\, women and performance\, and the Jou rnal of Popular Music Studies\; and in the edited volumes Nonstop Metropoli s: A New York City Atlas\, Keywords for Latina/o Studies\, Reggaeton\, The Tide Was Always High\, and Pop When the World Falls Apart. You can also fin d her writing on the great Celia Cruz on NPR’s “Turning the Tables” series. Vazquez is a proud graduate of the New World School of the Arts high schoo l in Miami\, Florida.
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The UBC Knowledge Exchange Unit and UBC Co mmunity Engagement are co-hosting UBC’s inaugural Partnering in Research Conference on June 15\, 20 23
One of our speakers
On June 15\, join us at UBC Robson Square to explore the ethical\, cultural and political challenges of partnered research and develop strategies for driving real change. At UBC's Partnering in Research Conference\, we're bri nging together 200 faculty\, staff\, students and community partners from a cross BC to discuss how we can collaborate meaningfully for greater impact. Open to UBC faculty\, staff\, graduate students and external partners who collaborate with UBC.
The Social Ju stice Institute Noted Scholars Series presents
by Dr. Jasbir Puar
Sept
ember 27th\, 1-2pm PT
Buchanan Tower 225
This event is free and open to the public. Sandwiche s will be provided for in-person registrants.
Please wear a mask if you intend to attend this even t.
Unfortunately\, there will no longer be an online component of this event.
Pl ease RSVP below in advance to attend.
No te: A waitlist will be used for the in-person lecture should the event reac h capacity. You will be contacted if space opens up.
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Each year\, our department hosts a Noted Schola rs Speaker Series to bring our faculty\, students\, and community members i nto a generative space for exchange and discussion with the work of noted s cholars and artists. This interdisciplinary series aims to engage with crit ical ideas and creative work at the radical edges of scholarly\, artistic\, and activist work. This year's Series will explore and question the ways t hat entire populations can fall within hierarchies of both physical and cog nitive ability\; the ways that negative feelings about our bodies can both foreclose and open new avenues of thought\; and the ways that crip methods can help consider the parallels and intersections of studies in settler col onialism\, racial capitalism\, empire\, queer theory\, refugee narratives\, and permanent war.
Jasbir K. Puar is a professor at
UBC's Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality\, and Social Justice. She is
the author of the award-winning books The Right to Maim: Debility\, Ca
pacity\, Disability (2017)\, which has been translated into Spanish an
d Portuguese\, and Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Time
s (2007)\, available in French and Spanish\, re-issued as an expanded
version for its 10th anniversary (2017)\, and forthcoming in Greek and Port
uguese. Her articles have been published in journals such as Social Tex
t and South Atlantic Quarterly\, mainstream venues such as
Puar is also co-author of exhibitions for the Sharjah Architecture Triennial (2019) and the Sharjah Art Biennial (2023). She is t he recipient of the 2019 Kessler Award from the Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies (CLAGS) at CUNY\, which recognizes lifetime achievement in and impa ct on queer research and organizing.
Please include any additional access requests or questions in th e RSVP form above.
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by Karen Lord
October 18\, 12-1pm
Buchanan Tower 225
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In her science fiction\, Barbadian author Kar en Lord uses real and fictional differences in human cognitive abilities to imagine societies shaped by other norms and expectations of what constitut es neurotypical behaviour. Concepts of personhood\, adulthood\, class\, and disability vary as a result\, thus demonstrating how the standards for soc ial inclusion and exclusion are rarely absolute.
In this ta lk\, Lord will focus on three characters as examples: Ntenman\, who lacks e mpathic ability but still attempts to achieve status in a society of empath s\; Serendipity\, who has rejected the highly developed telepathic communit y of her birth and is seeking other forms of community\; and Rafi\, whose a bilities are beyond the restrictions and standards of any existing human so ciety\, and who is perceived as a hero or a threat as a result.
This talk is part of UBC Social Justice Institute's Noted Scholars Spe akers which brings together our faculty\, students\, and community members into a generative space for exchange and discussion with the work of noted scholars and artists. This year's Series will explore and question the ways that entire populations can fall within hierarchies of both physical and c ognitive ability\; the ways that negative feelings about our bodies can bot h foreclose and open new avenues of thought\; and the ways that crip method s can help consider the parallels and intersections of studies in settler c olonialism\, racial capitalism\, empire\, queer theory\, refugee narratives \, and permanent war.
Barbadian novelist Dr Karen Lord is the author of < em>Redemption in Indigo\, which won the 2008 Frank Collymore Literary Award\, the 2010 Carl Brandon Parallax Award\, the 2011 William L. Crawford Award\, the 2011 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature and the 201 2 Kitschies Golden Tentacle (Best Debut). Her other works include the scien ce fiction novels The Best of All Possible Worlds and The Galaxy Game\, and the crime-fantasy novel Unraveling. Sh e edited the anthology New Worlds\, Old Ways: Speculative Tales fr om the Caribbean. Her latest book\, The Blue\, Beautiful World\, w ill be published in August 2023.
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The Social Just
ice Institute Presents:
“WHAT'S GOING O N IN HAITI & WHY DOES IT MATTER?”
WHEN & WHERE
October 19th\, 3-5 PM PST
In-person
< strong>Virtual
All events ar e free and open to the public.
UBC M iddle East Studies invites you to attend
"A Conversation on Sextarianism"
with Professor Maya Mikdashi (Rutgers)\, and featuring Professors Jasbir Puar (GRSJ)\, Hicham Safieddine (History)\, and Elif Sari (Anthropology)
The e vent will take place on Tuesday\, October 31st\, from 2-4pm\, at the Asian Centre Auditorium (1871 West Mall\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6T 1 Z2).
Please RSVP here if you would like to attend: http s://mes.arts.ubc.ca/ubc-mes-mikdashi-lecture/
Dr. Mikdashi is an Associate Professor of Women's\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies and a Lecturer in the Program for Middle East Studies at Rutgers University. Her book\, Sextarianism: Sovereignty\, Secularism\, and the State in Lebanon\, is out now with Stanford University Press (https://www.sup.org/bo oks/title/?id=25665).
We thank the U BC Anthropology Department\, UBC Asian Studies\, UBC Social Justice Institu te\, and UBC Department of History for their kind support of this event.
WH
EN & WHERE
October 31\, 2-4pm
Asian Centre Auditorium (1871 West Mall)
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WHEN & WHERE
Wednesday November 1st\, 12-1pm
Buchanan Tower 225 /
Zoom
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ABSTRACT
This talk opens up a conversation about histories of j oy\, performance\, and race. Joy has often been imposed upon the racialized body in performance\, serving as a mode of consolidating violence and excl usion. And yet joyful performances have also been vital for the survival of oppressed people\, opening towards other possibilities and futures. We wil l explore this tension in case studies of performances through photographs of a 1977 public protest against the Ku Klux Klan in Mobile\, Alabama and o ral histories by Asian diasporic and Latinx entertainers on postwar exotici sm in American nightlife. How have joyful performances been underpinned by pain\, suffering\, and struggle? How do we walk a thin line between underst anding joy as oppression and joy as defiance? What happens when we as schol ars are touched by joy in our historical inquiry?
ABOUT Dr. Isabel Machado
Dr. Isabel Machado is a Lecturer at the Institute for Gender
\, Race\, Sexuality and Social Justice (GRSJ). A cultural historian whose w
ork often crosses national and disciplinary boundaries\, she specializes in
the fields of Gender and Sexuality Studies and Festive Studies. Her first
book\, Carnival in Alabama: Marked Bodies and Invented Traditions in Mo
bile (University Press of Mississippi\, 2023)\, uses Mardi Gras as a v
ehicle to understand social and cultural changes in Mobile\, Alabama (USA)
in the second half of the 20th century. By exposing the systems of oppressi
on reflected in and reinforced by the celebration\, while also acknowledgin
g the festivity’s potential in reaffirming resistance and joy for historica
lly marginalized groups of people\, it dialogues with scholarship that focu
ses on joyful defiance\, or Critical Joy Studies.
For the ongoing ora l history project\, “Queens of the South(s)”\, she is interviewing performe rs who defy gender normativity in different parts of the globe while suppor ting efforts to create accessible queer community archives in collaboration with local artists\, activists\, and archivists.
Her work has been p ublished in Study the South\, Oral History\, O Olho da História\, and Journal of Festive Studies (where she currently serves as co-e ditor-in-chief). She is also a host for the New Books in Gender Studies pod cast.
ABOUT Dr. Rosa nne Sia
Dr. Rosanne Sia works across Cold War cultural history\, performance studies\, critica l race studies\, and queer studies. Her book manuscript\, Mujer Peregrin a: Performing Racial Fantasies in the early Cold War\, focuses on women of Asian and Latinx descent who danced and sang on nightclub circuits in t he early Cold War. Drawing on forty-five oral histories\, she argues that p erformers crossed boundaries of genre\, nation\, language\, race\, and sexu ality that exceeded Cold War narratives of racial integration. Community en gaged scholarship through oral history methodology and practice is at the h eart of her research projects.
Accessibility
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by Dr. Kharnita Mohamed
WHEN & WHERE
November 22nd\,
12-1pm
Buchanan Tower 225 / Zoom
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Please wear a mask if you are attend ing this event in-person. A sandwich lunch will be served at 1pm.
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Inequality is materialised as death-disability-de bility. For example\, the ‘female fear factory’ (Gqola\, 2021) secures gend ered and queer debilitation through the use of and threat of death\, and pr ocesses of disablement which facilitates heteropatriarchal dominance. Racis t capitalist dominance is also secured through normalised attritional warfa re that entails the wearing down of populations through death-disability-de bility. Structural violence\, that is\, attritional warfare is sedimented b y spectacular events of violence to ensure governable and docile population s. How we speak and write about settler colonial violence often evades the automation of warfare\, dematerialises its deployment and consequences and\ , in some ways\, allows the effects of violence to evaporate. In this talk\ , I will discuss the value of using death-disability-debility as a conceptu al apparatus\, that does not only count death and injury but uses the three modalities together as an analytic of injustice to offer a means to explor e settler colonialism as attritional warfare.
Kharnita Moha med lectures in Anthropology at the University of Cape Town (UCT). Her rese arch is focused on epistemology\, death\, debility\, disability\, race and gender towards developing conceptual tools for thinking about death\, disab ility and debility in and for the Global South. She has received the UCT Hu manities Faculty’s Dean’s Teaching Award and her debut novel\, Called to So ng received the 2020 UCT Meritorious Book Award\, and was shortlisted for t he National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences Fiction Award. She has co-edited the forthcoming edited volume\, Pluriversal Conversation s on Transnational Feminisms and a Special Issue on Gender and Disability ( Agenda).
Please include any additional acces s requests or questions in the RSVP form above or reply to your confirmatio n email.
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Major\, minor\, curious
?⚡️ We’re here to help.
Join us on November 22nd for our Annual Major
Minor Event! Learn from GRSJ grad students and alumni about the unique acad
emic/career opportunities available to social justice undergrads.
We w
ill have:
🎤 Panel discussion
⭐️ Speed dating
🧁 Snacks and dr
inks
✨ GRSJ professors available to talk to
Details:
⚡️ When
: Tues. Nov. 22 at 6:30-9 PM
⚡️ Where: Irving K. Barber\, Pêna Room (l
evel 3)
RSVP link (can also be found at our instagram profile bio):
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Join us for the first Noted Scholar Lecture of 2024.
Speaker:
Dr. Christopher B. Patterson in conversatio
n with Dr. Mila Zuo
Wednesday\, January 17\, 2024
12:00-1:30 PM Pacific Time
Dr. Christopher B. Patterson will discuss his newly relea sed prose-poetry book\, Nimrods\, in a conversation with Dr. Mila Zuo about poetry\, pictures\, and parents. Nimrods shamelessly mix es autotheory\, queer punk poetry\, musical ekphrasis\, haibun\, academic ( mis)quotations\, and bad dad jokes to present a bold new take on the autobi ography: the fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir.
Her book Vulgar Beauty: Acting Chinese in the Global
Sensorium (Duke University Press\, 2022) focuses on the affective
racialization of Chinese women film stars\, demonstrating the ways which vu
lgar\, flavourful beauty disrupts Western and colonial notions of beauty. A
ccompanying research can be found in W
omen & Performance: a journal of feminist theory\, Celebrity Studies Journa
l\, Journal of Chinese Cinemas\, Feminist Media Histories journal\,
and in various anthologies on contemporary c
inema and media studies. In addition to her scholarly work\, Zuo writes\, d
irects\, and produces narrative films\, visual essays\, documentaries\, and
music videos. Her short films have screened in international film festival
s and universities\, including Carnal Orient
(2016)
which premiered at Slamdance Film Festival\, and her short narrative film
Kin (2021)\, which was the recipient of the 2019 Oregon Media Arts Fellowsh
ip\, and screened at HollyShorts Film Festival. She is currently working on
her third film\, Mongoloids\,
a hybrid docu-fiction project about the Chin
ese Cultural Revolution and its impacts across generations. This research c
reation work is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Co
uncil’s Insight Development Grant.
Co-presented with the Public Humanities H
ub\, UBC. Irus Braverman
will join us to discuss her latest book\, Irus Braverman is professor of law\, adjunct pro
fessor of geography\, and research professor of environment and sustainabil
ity at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her books include Z
ooland: The Institution of Captivity (2012)\, Coral Whisperers: Sc
ientists on the Brink (2018) and Settling Nature: The Conservation
Regime in Palestine-Israel (2023). Event Cosponsored by:
Ecologies of Social Difference Network Institute for Resources\, Envi
ronment and Sustainability Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality an
d Social Justice. The Institute
for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality\, and Social Justice Noted Scholars Series p
resents WHEN & WHERE Please RSVP below in a
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CT Join Dr. A.J. Lowik (GRSJ Alum) in conversation wi
th Allison Campbell (GRSJ PhD Candidate) as they discuss Dr. Lowik's new bo
ok\, "Trans People and the Choreography of Reproductive Healthcare: Dancing
Outside the Lines." Based on their PhD dissertation research\, this talk w
ill explore how reproductive healthcare is choreographically delivered in w
ays that presume that the person accessing it will be cisgender. As a resul
t\, trans people are altogether erased\, systematically unanticipated\, ins
ufficiently accommodated and understood only in relation to hegemonic regul
atory frameworks. Drawing on qualitative interviews and participatory photo
graphy with fourteen trans people from British Columbia\, Dr. Lowik's work
uses dance as a metaphor to expose facets of the restrictive choreography o
f reproductive healthcare\, and to document the improvisational tactics use
d by trans people in pursuit of care that is competent\, safe\, and affirmi
ng. Today's event will include a book reading\, moderated discussion and ti
me for audience questions. ABOUT Dr. A.J. Lowik They also lead the C
GSHE Gender & Sex in Methods and Measurement Research Equity Toolkit
\, creating tools for researchers who are interested in the precise\, accur
ate\, and inclusive mobilization of gender and sex concepts in health resea
rch. ABOUT Allison Campbell<
/strong> Combining her two profes
sional and political interests\, Allison’s doctoral research focuses on per
inatal health and reproductive justice in (and in relation to) prisons in C
anada. She is a grateful participant in the UBC Public Scholars’ Initiative
(2023/24)\, and recipient of a SSHRC CGS-D award (2023). 
Kawika Guillermo is an award-winning author and third generation
Filipinx American whose family is primarily from
Hawai’i and Texas. He has lived in Portland\, Las Vegas\, Seattle\, Gimhae South Korea\, Nanjing Chin
a\, Hong Kong\, and Vancouver Canada. His debut novel\, <
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won the 2020 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award for Creative
Prose\, and was adapted into a free-to-play video game\, 
Dr.
Mila Zuo is an associate professor in the Department of Theatre an
d Film at UBC\, as well as the Graduate Advisor for the Cinema & Media Stud
ies graduate programs. Her research areas include transnational Asian cinem
as\; film-philosophy\; abject and enchanted epistemologies\; star studies\;
digital and new media\; and critical theories of gender\, sexuality\, and
race and ethnicity. 
Trans People and the Choreography of Reproductive Healthcare
Dr. A.
J. Lowik
in conversation with
Allison Campbell
Wednesday\, January 24\, 12:30-1:30pm
Buchanan
Tower 225 / Zoom
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ents 1:45PM - 2:45PM " text="After their Noted Scholar Series talk\, A.J. L
owik will host a one hour session about book publishing. This informal chat
and discussion will consider the processes\, timelines\, and writing pract
ices for publishing scholarly works in books\, from chapters in edited coll
ections\, to editing a collection yourself\, to turning your dissertation i
nto a book. All GRSJ graduate students are welcome to attend."]
Dr. A.J. Lowik is a postdoctoral research fellow
at the Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity\, part of UBC's Faculty
of Medicine\, having completed their PhD with the GRSJ in 2022. Their work
is primarily focused on trans people's health and experiences accessing hea
lthcare\, including reproductive and sexual health and they have written ex
tensively on the topics of menstruation\, abortion\, perinatal care and fer
tility. Dr. Lowik is the Vice-President of the Abortion Rights Coalition of
Canada\, a member of the BC Period Poverty Task Force\, and the BC Law Ins
titute's Parentage Law Reform Project Committee.
Alli
son is a PhD student in the Social Justice Institute. She is also a Registe
red Midwife and an Associate Professor of Teaching in the Midwifery Program at UBC\, where she teaches\, develops curricu
lum\, and supports the learning of aspiring midwives through a social justi
ce\, anti-colonial and anti-capitalist lens.
Please include any additional access requests or questions in the RSVP form above.
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In The Long Emancipation\, Dr. Rinaldo Walcott posits that Black people g lobally live in the time of emancipation and that emancipation is definitel y not freedom. This talk tackles the question\, ‘What is (Black) freedom?’.
In dialogue with Dr. Peter James H udson\, Dr. Walcott will survey a range of recent events to begin to make s ense of Black non-freedom\, including present initiatives in Canadian posts econdary settings\, such as programs designed to increase numbers of Black faculty.
Dr. Rinaldo Walcott is Professor and Carl V. Granger Chair in Africana and American Studies \, University at Buffalo. He is a writer and critic. His research is in the area of Black Diaspora Cultural Studies\, gender and sexuality with interests in nations\, nationalisms\, multiculturalism\, policy and educat ion broadly defined. As an interdisciplinary Black Studies scholar\, Dr. Wa lcott has published in a wide range of venues on everything from literature to film\, to theatre to music to policy. His articles have appeared in sch olarly journals and books\, as well as popular venues like newspapers and m agazines and media online sources. He often comments on black cultural life for radio and TV.
Dr. Walcott has edited or co-edited multiple works including Rude: Contemporary Black Canadian Cultural Criticism (Ins omniac\, 2000). Dr. Walcott is the author of Black Like Who: Writing Bla ck Canada (Insomniac Press\, 1997 with a second revised edition in 2003 ). He is also the author of Queer Returns: Essays on Multiculturalism\, Diaspora and Black Studies (Insomniac Press\, 2016) and co-author of Black Life: Post-BLM and the Struggle for Freedom (Arbeiter Ring\, 201 9). In 2021\, Dr. Walcott published The Long Emancipation: Moving Toward s Freedom (Duke University Press) and On Property: Policing\, Prison s\, and the Call for Abolition (Biblioasis) which was nominated for the Heritage Toronto Book Award\, longlisted for the Toronto Book Awards\, a < i>Globe and Mail Book of the Year\, and listed in CBC Books Best Canadi an Nonfiction of 2021.
Dr. Peter James Hudson is Associate Professor\, Department of Geography\, UBC. Deploying the methodologies and lite ratures of Black Studies\, political economy\, and history\, his research e xamines the long histories of Black dispossession under capitalism\, and of Black resistance to capitalist dispossession.
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This talk will meditate on the relationshi p between narrative and religious law\, exploring how the stories we hear a nd tell shape our understanding of what is good and right\, and what law is and should be. Specifically\, this talk will focus on questions of ritual purity\, examining how ideas about women’s ritual purity are related to the ir ritual authority.
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by
The Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality\, and Social Justice\,
and Ecologies of Social Difference Social Justice\, UBC. Part of the GRSJ N
oted Scholars Speaker Series.
WHEN & WHEREWednesday\, February 14\, 12:00-1:00pm
Z
oom
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ABSTRACT
J
oin Dr. Sunaura Taylor for a reading and discussion of her upcoming book
About the book: Deep below the ground in Tucson\, Arizona\, lies an aquifer forever altered by the detrit us of a postwar Superfund site. Disabled Ecologies tells the story of this contamination and its ripple effects through the largely Mexican American c ommunity living above. Drawing on her own complex relationship to this long -ago injured landscape\, Sunaura Taylor takes us with her to follow the sit e's disabled ecology—the networks of disability\, both human and wild\, tha t are created when ecosystems are corrupted and profoundly altered.< /p>
What Taylor finds is a story of enta nglements that reach far beyond the Sonoran Desert. These stories tell of d ebilitating and sometimes life-ending injuries\, but they also map out alte rnative modes of connection\, solidarity\, and resistance—an environmentali sm of the injured. An original and deeply personal reflection on what disab ility means in an era of increasing multispecies disablement\, Disabled Eco logies is a powerful call to reflect on the kinds of care\, treatment\, and assistance this age of disability requires.
ABOUT Dr. Sunaura Taylor
Sunaura
Taylor is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Society and Environmen
t\, Berkeley. Taylor is a scholar and artist who works at the intersection
of disability studies\, environmental humanities\, animal studies\, environ
mental justice\, feminist science studies\, and art practice. Her research
situates disability and ableism as central forces shaping human relationshi
ps to the more-than-human world. Concerned with relationships between alter
ed bodily capacity\, vulnerability\, and systems of exploitation across spe
cies and ecological boundaries\, her works crosses a range of disciplines\
, mediums\, and audiences.
Ta ylor is author of Beasts of Burd en: Animal and Disability Liberation (The New Press\, 2017)\, which received the 2018 American Book Award. Along with academic journals\, Taylor has written for a range of popular m edia outlets. Her artworks have been exhibited at venues such as the CUE Ar t Foundation and the Smithsonian Institution and is part of the Berkeley Ar t Museum collection. Among other awards\, she has received a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant\, two Wynn Newhouse Awards\, and an Animals and Cultur e Grant.
This event is Co-presented by: Ecologies of Social Differenc e (ESD) Social Justice\, UBC
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WHEN & WHERE
Wednesday\, Feb 28\, 12:00-1:00pm
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This event wi ll be recorded but will not be livestreamed. Please RSVP below in advance
A sandwich lunch will be served at 1:00pm .
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ABSTRACT
In this talk\, I will briefly outline the interventions of my fi rst book Crip Colony (Duke 2023) which attempts to give an acco unt of the confluence of mestizo politics in the Philippines and how the di scourse of mestizaje offers a framework to understand the colonial afterliv es of disablement. In doing so\, the book contributes to a burgeoning field of Asian diasporic crip critique which confronts the intersections of migr ation\, colonialism\, and the strategic in/capacitation of Asian-descended subjects often residing in the major settler colonies of the world. The tal k will then transition to thinking about the theoretical and historiographi c contributions of ethnic studies in problematizing the in/capacitations an d disablements central to the project of colonial racial capitalism. I will do so through the case study of racial misrecognition\, which I explore in my forthcoming book Dos X: Disa bility and Racial Dysphoria in Latinx and Filipinx American Cultures (Texas UP).
ABOUT Dr. Sony Coráñez Bolton
Sony Coráñez Bolton is ass
ociate professor of English & Spanish and chair of Latinx and Latin America
n Studies at Amherst College. He is the author of Crip Colony: Mestizaje\, US Imperialism\, and the Queer P
olitics of Disability in the Philippines (Duke 2023). It demonstrates the ways that colonialism and disabi
lity are part of a unified ideological structure in Philippine mestizo poli
tics. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Critical Ethnic Studies\, Journal of Asian American Studie
s\, Periphêrica\, a
nd Verge: Studies in Global Asia
s.
He is currently finishing a second book project ent itled Dos X (the University of Texas Press) which concerns the intersections of Latinx and Filipinx culture\, disability\, history\, and p olitics. It argues that racial misrecognition is an epistemology unto itsel f that helps to diagnose the ableist dimensions of racial capitalism.
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WHEN & WHERE
Wednesday\, March 13\, 12:30-1:30pm
Buchanan Tower 225 / Zoom
Please RSVP below in advance
A san dwich lunch will be served at 1:30pm.
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ABSTRACT
Leveling a strong crit ique of the category of disability and liberal disability politics\, J. Log an Smilges’s Crip Negativity asks and imagines what horizons might exist for the liberation of those oppressed by ableism—beyond access and i nclusion. Inspired by models of negativity in queer studies\, Black studies \, and crip theory\, the book proposes that bad crip feelings might help al l of us to care gently for one another\, even as we demand more from the wo rld than we currently believe to be possible. In this talk\, Smilges reflec ts on the reception of Crip Negativity over the past year\, medita ting on what people’s felt responses to it might tell us about disability s tudies’s affective attachments and political commitments.
ABO UT Dr. Logan Smilges
Bio
Led by commitments to transfeminism and disabil ity justice\, J. Logan Smilges writes and teaches at the nexus of queer/tra ns disability studies\, the history of medicine\, and rhetorical studies. T heir first book\, Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence (Univ ersity of Minnesota Press\, 2022)\, attends to the interanimating absences of disability and silence from the field of queer studies. It theorizes the resistance efforts of minoritarian queer subjects who draw on silence to b uild community\, navigate hostile environments\, and resistant institutiona l and state-sponsored violence. Their second book\, Crip Negativity (Univer sity of Minnesota Press\, 2023)\, levels a critique of the category of disa bility and liberal disability politics\, asking what horizons might exist f or the liberation of disabled people beyond access and inclusion. Currently \, they are working on a third book-length project that maps a cultural and rhetorical history of mental disability and transgender as contingent medi cal and social categories in the United States.
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LOCATION:The Cultch\, York Theatre GEO:49.278629;-123.070623 URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.showpass.com/untouchable/#new_tab ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://grsj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2024/03/Stand-Up-Show-Poster-8.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20240310T2022Z-1710102148.5087-EO-28384-40@10.19.146.15 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260516T032912Z CREATED:20240306T182859Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240404T164449Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240315T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240315T150000 SUMMARY: Film Screening: Untouchable – Laughing Out Caste X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: URL;VALUE=URI:https://cisar.iar.ubc.ca/events/event/untouchable/#new_tab ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://grsj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2024/03/Documentary-Screening-Poster.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20240309T0004Z-1709942681.8506-EO-28395-40@10.19.146.2 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260516T032912Z CREATED:20240307T234217Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240404T164435Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240318 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240323 SUMMARY: Mimi Khúc Mini Residency @ UBC: Unwellness and Care in the Univers ity DESCRIPTION: Dr. Mimi Khúc is a leading disability studies scholar whose wo rk is situated at the intersection of care work\, art practice\, and commun ity making. She will spend a week in residency at UBC holding workshops for students\, staff\, faculty\, and community members intentionally devised t o help us think through our relationship to one another\, the […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: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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x300.png" alt="" width="300" height="300" />How to Survive Grad School with
your Soul (Mostly) Intact
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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Wednesday\, March 27\, 12:00-1:00pm
Buchanan Tower 225 / Zoom
Please RSVP below in advance
A sandwich lunch will be served at 1:00pm.
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ABSTRACT
In her multi-award winning book\, Refugee Lifeworlds: The Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia\, Y-Dang Troeung traced a crip-Cambodian refugee archive to reveal how r efugee narratives were “saturated by tropes of pain\, suffering\, loss\, il lness\, speechlessness\, silence\, muteness\, deafness\, blindness\, prosth esis\, and many other modalities of impairment.” In her posthumously publis hed family memoir\, Landbridge [life in fragments]\, Troeung retur ned to the crossings of debility and refugee personhood through her own fam ily history\, telling stories about her parents and two brothers who lived through the Cambodian genocide\, about her own childhood in refugee camps a nd rural Ontario\, and eventually about her young son’s illness and her own diagnosis with a terminal disease. In these and many other works\, Troeung explored Cambodian refugee narratives of aphasia\, madness\, silencing\, s ickness\, forgetting\, and asylum\, to reveal how war\, genocide\, and bomb ing continue to result in forms of death and debilitation that remain illeg ible to contemporary discourses of disability\, accommodation\, and “care.”
This roundtable will explore the significant yet understated impact of Y-Dang Troeung’s work within crip theory and critical disability studies \, and will feature scholars whom she deeply admired. How does Troeung allo w us to re-read narratives of refugee trauma\, gratitude\, and success\, wi thin a crip theoretical lens? How do her expressions of refugee knowledge g rasp ways of living within death and debilitation\, and offer new ways of k nowing\, being\, and surviving in a system of genocidal violence and its af terlife?
ABOUT THE PAN EL
Dr. Jasbir Puar (GRSJ)
Jasbir K. Puar is the author of the award-winning books The Right to Maim: Debility\, Capacity\, Disabilit y (2017)\, which has been translated into Spanish and Portuguese\, and Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007)\, av ailable in French and Spanish\, re-issued as an expanded version for its 10 th anniversary (2017)\, and forthcoming in Greek and Portuguese. Her articl es have been published in journals such as Social Text and Sou th Atlantic Quarterly\, mainstream venues such as Al-Jazeera and The Guardian\, and translated into more than 15 languages.
Puar is also co-author of exhibitions for the Sharjah Architecture Trien nial (2019) and the Sharjah Art Biennial (2023). She is the recipient of th e 2019 Kessler Award from the Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies (CLAGS) at CUNY\, which recognizes lifetime achievement in and impact on queer resear ch and organizing.
Dr. Michelle Stack (Educational Studies & Academic Director\, Learning E
xchange)
Michelle Stack\, Ph.D.\, is the Academic Director of the Learning Exchange for the Universit y of British Columbia and an associate professor in the Department of Educa tional Studies. Her central research interest concerns how people\, knowled ge and institutions are categorized and the influence of these categorizati ons on our ability to grapple with inequity\, particularly ableism and raci sm. Her current work focuses on cooperative colleges and universities as an alternative to the higher education as a consumer good.
Dr. Anamaria Richards on (Community-based Pediatrician\, Medicine)
Dr. Anamaria Richard son is a community-based pediatrician who has been welcomed by the autism c ommunity — she specialize in severe autism\, especially those with intellec tual impairment and self injury. Previously\, she worked in complex care an d in biochemical diseases — this has resulted in her interest in medical co mplexity as well. Her background includes being a teacher\, so she understa nds the challenges experienced by kids navigating both systems — health and education. Recently she has also become a qualified specialist to do autis m assessments. Her current interests and research is around advancing healt h outcomes and advocating for increased collaboration to support families a nd kids with severe autism. Finally\, she also works within many Indigenous communities — both rural and urban — and is currently working on a project to create an Indigenous focused healthy living web based portal.
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Dr. Isabel M
achado is presenting a talk entitled “Queens and Kings of the South(s): Joy
as Defiance”as part of the 9th Annual Contract Faculty Colloquium on Frida
y\, May 3. Dr. Machado's talk is scheduled for 1:25pm.
The Contract Faculty Colloquium brings together Contract Faculty from a cross campuses to showcase and share their intellectual work with other col leagues. This year’s 9th Annual Colloquium will examine va rious pedagogical processes and share pedagogical strategies throughout the day-long event at the UBC Vancouver campus\, which will be presented in hy brid form so as to include as many colleagues from both campuses as possibl e.
Here is a link to the Colloquium Agenda with brief bios of the speakers.
This event is co-sponsored by the UBC Faculty Association an d CTLT and organized jointly by the UBCFA Contract Faculty Committee and CT LT staff. We will be serving coffee and a light lunch for those who attend in person\, so please let us know when you register if you plan to stay for lunch.
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Festival Highlig hts:
Attendance by donation. Please RSVP if you plan to attend as there is limi ted space.
With the theme of the ultimate and w ell-loved Filipino layered rice cake\, Sapin-Sapin\, the festival explores the diverse and colourful Filipinx culture\, merging interdisciplinary form s of art and traditions\, and dissect the layers of what it means to be Fil ipinx.
Join us as we gather on Saturday\, August 24\, 2024 from 10 AM to 5 PM at West Mall Annex 110\, UBC for the Community Workshops\, and on Saturday\, August 31\, 2024 from 7 PM to 9 PM at Dorothy Somerset Studio\, UBC for the Showcase and Culmination night of the festival. See you there!< /p>
Organized by NPC3 (National Pilipino Canadian Cultural Centre)
Co-sponsored by: GRSJ\, the Public Humanities Hub and the Department of Theatre and Film at UBC.
WHEN & WHERE
Tuesday\
, September 17\, 1:00pm-3:00pm
Buchanan Tower 323
Please RSVP below in advance.
Light re
freshments will be provided
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Can an anti-caste movement politics found trans/queer histories ? Using the framework of caste abolition and queer/trans legal struggles in South Asia\, our workshop will offer some potential pathways for radical t rans/queer/caste futurities.
Two (rather ambitious!) questions will a nimate our gathering:
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To be upper caste/to be a victim by A. Kang
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Anjali Arondekar is Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundat
ion Presidential Professor of Feminist Studies. She was the founding Direct
or\, Center for South Asian Studies\, University of California\, Santa Cruz
\, 2020-24. Her research engages the comparative poetics and politics of se
xuality\, caste\, and historiography\, with a focus on Indian Ocean Studies
and South Asia. She is the author of For the Record: On Sexuality and
the Colonial Archive in India (Duke University Press\, 2009\, Orient B
lackswan\, India\, 2010)\, winner of the Alan Bray Memorial Book Award for
best book in lesbian\, gay\, or queer studies in literature and cultural st
udies\, Modern Language Association (MLA)\, 2010. She is co-editor (with Ge
eta Patel) of “Area Impossible: The Geopolitics of Queer Studies\,” GLQ
: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (2016)\, and (with Sherene Seik
aly) of “Pandemic Histories\,” History of the Present (2022). Her
second book\, Abundance: Sexuality’s History (Duke University Pres
s\, 2023\, Orient Blackswan\, 2023)\, grows out of her interest in the arch
ival figurations of sexuality\, caste and historiography in British and Por
tuguese colonial India.
Arondekar is currently working on a third pro ject\, tentatively entitled\, Oceanic Sex: Archives of Caste and Indent ure\, that couples the archival forms of indenture with the oceanic vo yages of caste and sexuality.
This event is presented by the Qu eer and Trans Anti-Fascisms Research Cluster\, funded by the Public Humanit ies Hub.
Co-sponsors: Department of Asian Studies\, Centre for Migration Studies\, Centre for Climate Justice\, Department of G eography\, Department of English Language & Literatures\, and the Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality & Social Justice.
CATEGORIES:Featured Homepage,featured-news-event URL;VALUE=URI:https://grsj.arts.ubc.ca/events/event/anjali-arondekar-worksh op-educate-agitate-organize-trans-queer-caste/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://grsj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2024/08/Sept-17-Arondekar-workshop-Web.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251008T2231Z-1759962682.8111-EO-29220-40@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260516T032912Z CREATED:20240822T181659Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240826T183113Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240918T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240918T150000 SUMMARY: Archives of Dissent: Sexuality\, Caste\, History with Anjali Arond ekar DESCRIPTION: The Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality & Social Justice 2 024/25 Noted Scholars Series presents This Noted Scholars event is part of the GRSJ Welcome Back Gathering 12pm – 12:30pm: Welcome Back 12:30pm – 2:00 pm: Noted Scholars Talk 2:00pm – 3:00pm: Light Refreshments\, Entertainment & Socializing Co-sponsors: Asian Studies\, Centre for Migration Studies\, Centre for Climate […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality & Social Justice 2024/25 Noted Scholars Seri es presents
This Noted Scholars event is part of the
Co-sponsors: Asian Studies\, Centre for Migration Studies\, Centre for Climate Justice\, Geography\, English Language & Literatures\, and the UBC Public Humanities Hub.
WHEN & WHERE
Wednesday\, September 18\, 12:00-3:00pm
C
ecil Green Park House\, UBC / Zoom Webinar
Please RSVP below in advance
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ABSTRACT
Suturing histories of caste and sexuality to histories of dissent in South Asia\, this talk rearranges the grammar of our ethical engagements with the past and present. At stake here are the historical vernaculars -t he data- that found the evidentiary regimes of rights and representation fo r subaltern subjects. On offer here are figurations of andolan/protest \, meditations that move between the heady inspirations of dissent and the stultifying violence of state practices. Andolan is after all a movement in Hindustani music\, an alankar (combination/ornament ation of notes) that oscillates between one fixed note and its counterpart\ , touching\, suffusing\, all that lies in between. Let us imagine such an h istorical andolan together.
ABOUT
Anjali Arondekar is Peggy and Jack Bask in Foundation Presidential Professor of Feminist Studies. She was the found ing Director\, Center for South Asian Studies\, University of California\, Santa Cruz\, 2020-24. Her research engages the comparative poetics and poli tics of sexuality\, caste\, and historiography\, with a focus on Indian Oce an Studies and South Asia. She is the author of For the Record: On Sexu ality and the Colonial Archive in India (Duke University Press\, 2009\ , Orient Blackswan\, India\, 2010)\, winner of the Alan Bray Memorial Book Award for best book in lesbian\, gay\, or queer studies in literature and c ultural studies\, Modern Language Association (MLA)\, 2010. She is co-edito r (with Geeta Patel) of “Area Impossible: The Geopolitics of Queer Studies\ ,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (2016)\, and (with Sh erene Seikaly) of “Pandemic Histories\,” History of the Present (2 022). Her second book\, Abundance: Sexuality’s History (Duke Unive rsity Press\, 2023\, Orient Blackswan\, 2023)\, grows out of her interest i n the archival figurations of sexuality\, caste and historiography in Briti sh and Portuguese colonial India.
Arondekar is currently working on a third project\, tentatively entitled\, Oceanic Sex: Archives of Caste and Indenture\, that couples the archival forms of indenture with the oceanic voyages of caste and sexuality.
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The Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality\, and Social Justice Noted Scholars Series p resents
Wednesday\, October 9th\, 12:00-1:00pm
Buchanan Tower 225/Zoom
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A light lunch will be served at 1:00pm.
ABSTRACT
In this lecture Adel Iskander argues that in our contemporary momen t\, it is no longer possible to undertake critical theoretical research tha t claims to situate itself at the intersections of emancipatory causes with out engaging comprehensively with the perennial paradox of Palestinian suff ering. Whether it's climate justice\, disarmament\, anti-racism\, decoloniz ation\, 2SLGBTQI+ rights\, healthcare inequality\, food insecurity\, econom ic scarcity\, displacement\, or any of the myriad conditions currently affl icting communities worldwide\, not centering Israel's ceaseless genocide\, occupation\, apartheid\, erasure\, and silencing of Palestinians undermines the credibility of the work being undertaken.
ABOUT Dr. Adel Iskander
Adel Iskandar is an Associate Professor of Global Communication and
the Director of the Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies (CCMS) at Simon
Fraser University in Vancouver/Burnaby\, Canada. The author\, co-author\, a
nd editor of several works including Egypt In Flux: Essays on an Unfinished
Revolution (AUCP/OUP)\; Al-Jazeera: The Story of the Network that is Rattl
ing Governments and Redefining Modern Journalism (Basic Books)\; Edward Sai
d: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation (University of California Pr
ess)\; Mediating the Arab Uprisings (Tadween Publishing)\; and Media Evolut
ion on the Eve of the Arab Spring (Palgrave Macmillan). Iskandar's work dea
ls with media\, identity and politics and he has lectured extensively on th
ese topics at universities in over 25 countries. Iskandar's engaged partici
patory research includes supporting knowledge production through scholarly
digital publishing such as co-editing the popular online publication Jadali
yya and producing academic podcasts such as Status الوضع. His community res
earch agenda involves showcasing grassroots participatory creative producti
on by communities in the Middle East to confront intolerance\, documenting
the Syrian newcomer experience in British Columbia's Lower Mainland\, and s
upporting local MENA/SWANA artists through curated performances and exhibit
ions. Prior to his arrival at SFU\, Iskandar taught at the Center for Conte
mporary Arab Studies (CCAS) and the Communication\, Culture\, and Technolog
y (CCT) Program at Georgetown University as well as the Radio-Television an
d Film (RTF) Department at the University of Texas-Austin. Iskandar is the
recipient of numerous awards including the SFU Teaching Excellence Award (2
020)\, and the Faculty of Communication\, Arts and Technology (FCAT)'s Rese
arch Mentorship Award (2018)\, and the Equity\, Diversity\, and Inclusion A
ward (2021). He is currently serving as the Chair of Graduate Studies in th
e School of Communication and is undertaking two forthcoming publications—o
ne on the political role of memes and digital satire and the other about co
ntemporary forms of imperial transculturalism.
The Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality\, and Social Justice Noted Scholars Series p resents
WHEN & WHERE
Wednesday\,
October 30th\, 12:00-1:00pm
Buchanan Tower 225 (in-pe
rson only)
Please RSVP in advance
A light lunch will be served at 12:00pm.
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This talk is kindly co-sponsored by The Department of Art History \, Visual Art & Theory
ABSTRACT
In this talk Salar Mameni considers the ent angled notions of debt\, solidarity\, and exchange within contemporary glob al solidarity movements and in relation to Islamic thought. Tracing the not ion of solidarity to its economic and transactional history within Roman la w\, Mameni considers the ethics of solidarity in relation to sanctions\, bo ycotts\, and other forms of civil contracts and civil disobedience. This ta lk pays particular attention to the unassimilable dimension of faith\, reli gion\, and spiritual practice in enacting resistance by examining how debt and exchange circulate within Islamic thought.
ABOUT Dr. Sala r Mameni
Salar M
ameni is Assistant Professor of Comparative Ethnic studies at the Universit
y of California\, Berkeley and the author of Terracene: A Crude Aesthet
ics (Duke University Press\, 2023). He is an art historian specializin
g in contemporary transnational art and visual culture in the Arab/Muslim w
orld with an interdisciplinary research on racial discourse\, transnational
gender politics\, militarism\, oil cultures and extractive economies in We
st Asia.
He has published in Catalyst\, Qui Parl e\, Ramus\, Resilience\, Signs\, Women & Performance\, Al-Raida Journal\, Fuse Magazine\, < em>Fillip Review and Canadian Art Journal\, and has written f or exhibition catalogues in Dubai\, Sharjah and Istanbul.
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WHEN &
WHERE
Thursday\, October 31\, 12:00-2:00pm
Norman Bouchard Memorial Theatre\, 6138 Student Union Boulevard\, UBC-
V (in-person only)
Please RSVP below in advance
A light lunch will be served.
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This talk is hosted by the Queer & Trans Antifacisms Research Cluster\, funded by the UBC Public Humanities Hub. Co-spon sored by GRSJ\, Middle East Studies\, Anthropology\, and the UBC Film Socie ty.
Please join us fo r a workshop on transfeminist solidarity and worldmaking\, featuring the sc reening and discussion of “The Neighbour\,” a transfeminist short film dire cted by Cedoy and produced by Lalu (esra) Ozban\, and the seminar discussio n of Asli Zengin’s Violent Intim acies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World exploring the trans everyday where violence and intimacy are co-constitutive.
ABOUT the Film
“The Neighb
our” is a transfeminist short film directed by Cedoy and produced by Lalu (
esra) Ozban. The film follows Bulut\, a trans man\, who moves to a new flat
in Istanbul tackling with the housing struggles faced by trans communities
.
ABOUT the Book
In Violent Intimacies\, Aslı Zengin shows how everyday trans lives in Turkey provide an i
nsightful site for developing new perspectives on statecraft\, securitizati
on and surveillance\, family and kin-making\, urban geography\, and politic
al life. Zengin offers the concept of violent intimacies to theorize this e
ntangled world of the trans everyday where violence and intimacy are co-con
stitutive. Violent intimacies emerge from trans people’s everyday interacti
ons with the police\, religious and medical institutions\, street life\, fa
mily and kinship\, and trans femicides and funerals. The dynamic of violent
intimacies prompts the world-making struggles of trans people in a Middle
Eastern context.
Lalu Ozban Bio:
Lalu (E
sra) Ozban (they/them/theirs) creates\, curates\, exhibits and archives sti
ll/moving images. They are currently a Ph.D. candidate in Film and Digital
Media at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Lalu’s artistic\, curat
ional\, and scholarly work focuses on trans\, queer\, and feminist theories
\, histories\, pedagogies\, and praxis. They have curated for Pembe Hayat K
uirFest\, bi’bak Berlin\, Aphrodite Festival Athens\, Cambridge University\
, and AWID Feminist Forum\, among others. Born and raised in Ankara\, Turke
y\, Lalu holds a BA in Economics from Bogazici University and an MA in Film
and Screen Studies from Goldsmiths College\, University of London.<
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Asli Zengin Bio:
Aslı Ze
ngin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s\, Gender and Se
xuality Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Before joining Rutgers
\, she held postdoctoral positions at Brown\, Harvard\, and Brandeis Univer
sities. Her first book\,
Intimacy of Power: Women Prostitutes\, Sex
Work and Violence in İstanbul (Iktidarin Mahremiyeti: Istanbul’da Hayat Ka
dinlari\, Seks Isciligi ve Siddet)\, was published in Turkish. Her new book\, Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an
Urban World is recently publish
ed by Duke University Press. Her research lies at the intersection of ethno
graphy of sex/gender non-conforming lives and deaths\; medico-legal regimes
of sex\, gender and sexuality\; critical studies of violence and sovereign
ty\; politics of mourning and grief\; as well as transnational feminist and
LGBTQ movements in the Middle East with a special focus on Turkey.
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The Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality\, and Social Justice Noted Scholars Series ( in collaboration with The Centre for Asian Canadian Research and Engagement 's "Browning Asian Canada" series) present
WHEN & WHERE
Wednesday\, Nov
20th\, 12:00-1:00pm
Buchanan Tower 225
Please RSVP below in advance
A light l unch will be served at 1:00pm.
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ABSTRACT
This presentation tells the story of the “Kuwentong Pama mahay” (KP) project\, a community engaged oral history research collaborati on with Heritage Vancouver Society and Sliced Mango Collective\, an arts an d advocacy organization for and by Filipinx Canadian youth in Vancouver. Ce ntering ‘kuwento’ (story) as method and the project of research for\, by an d with Filipinx Canadian communities\, KP seeks to produce an archive of or al histories of Filipinx Canadian narrative of home and practices of placem aking in Greater Vancouver. Placing KP within a history of community knowle dge production by Filipinx Canadian scholars\, artists and organizers\, thi s paper also argues for an appreciation of migrant community organizing as political analysis and anti-racist praxis from below.
ABOUT D r. JP Catungal
Dr. John Paul (JP) Catungal (he/him) is Assistant Professor in the Inst
itute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality and Social Justice\, and Co-Director of
the Centre for Asian Canadian Research and Engagement at UBC. As a queer\,
first generation\, Filipinx Canadian scholar\, he currently works in partn
ership with local Filipinx\, Asian Canadian and queer of colour organizatio
ns to explore the value of community engaged and arts-based research approa
ches for uplifting historically marginalized communities' knowledges\, crea
tivity and histories.
His past work on queer and diasporic Filipinx p olitics in Canada has appeared in his co-edited volumes for the journals AC ME\, TOPIA and Alon. His volume Filipinos in Canada: Disturbing Invisibilit y was published by the University of Toronto in 2012.
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GRSJ Assistant Professor Dr. Roseanna Sia will present as part of the Museum of Anthropology's Visual + Material Cult ure Research Seminar on Thursday\, Nov. 21.
How have migrant girls used sound to transform th e everyday spaces they inhabit? This talk considers how migrant girls have materialized sonic imaginaries in their daily environments\, altering the s ocial relations that sought to constrain them. Drawing on oral histories\, it explores the rich contributions of Mexican American girls to the sonic c ultures of the Texas-Mexico borderlands in the 1930s to 1960s. Mexican Amer ican girls developed creative ways to bring song into their daily environme nts. They repurposed spaces ranging from the domestic home\, the street\, t he bus station\, the pecan sheller workroom\, and the church for the joy an d pleasure of song. By developing a sonic borderlands imaginary through gen res as varied as flamenco\, bolero\, and tango\, they asserted their presen ce as Mexican American girls in the Texas-Mexico borderlands. They powerful ly remade the spaces they navigated in their daily lives\, opening up new p ossibilities for self-making and community formation.
This interdisciplinary sem inar series is for anyone with interests in visual and material culture acr oss different departments at UBC and beyond. The seminar provides an opport unity to share research and exchange ideas\, usually followed by conversati ons over a drink at Koerner’s Pub. Open to students\, staff\, faculty and c ommunity members in and around UBC.
When: November 21\, 4 – 5 pm
Conveners: Dr. Fuyubi Nakamura\, MOA Curator\, Asia and UBC Asian St udies\, Dr. Nuno Porto\, MOA Curator\, Africa + South America and UBC Art H istory\, Visual Art & Theory and Dr. Yasmin Amaratunga\, Curator of Collect ions\, UBC Art History\, Visual Art & Theory.
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Dat e: Tuesday\, January 14
Time: 12:30pm - 2:00pm. Snac ks served at 12:15pm
Location: Room 229 Geography Bu ilding\, 1984 West Mall.
Cospons ored by GRSJ and SCARP
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SUMMARY: Academic Freedom\, Sex\, and the Politics of Hate with Dr. Rana M.
Jaleel
DESCRIPTION: This talk explores the sexual and racial politics that spur in
stitutional recognition of “hate” on our campuses and considers that recogn
ition’s effects on academic freedom and the notion of shared governance. Co
-hosted by GRSJ and English Language & Literatures.
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SUMMARY: Fostering Inclusive Communities in the Classroom through Project-d
riven Courses
DESCRIPTION: Fostering Inclusive Communities in the Classroom through Proje
ct-Driven Courses February 5\, 2025 @ 1pm EST (10am PST) In this online lec
ture (part of OCAD’s Beyond Bias Lecture Series) Isabel Machado will discus
s the challenges and positive results of building inclusive classroom commu
nities through public-facing collaborative projects by applying her researc
h methodology to her course design. […]
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Fostering Inclusive Communities in the Classroom through Project-Driven Courses
Februa ry 5\, 2025 @ 1pm EST (10am PST)
In this online lecture (par t of OCAD's Beyond Bias Lecture Series) Isabel Machado will discuss the cha llenges and positive results of building inclusive classroom communities th rough public-facing collaborative projects by applying her research methodo logy to her course design. “Co-documenting” is the process of establishing partnerships and collaborations so that the research is relevant and access ible to the people involved. It is also an attempt to dismantle epistemic h ierarchies and the separation between research and academic “communities.” An important element of this process is thinking about how different people can produce and share knowledges together\, even when they come from diver se backgrounds and are dealing with delicate subjects. Building a project t ogether fosters collaboration and helps the students realize that everyone can make valuable contributions to our learning community(ies) while making theory more tangible\, translatable\, and shareable. Yet\, this is not alw ays a smooth experience as it also involves finding together ways to deal w ith fears and discomfort.
Beyond Bias Lecture Series Hosted by the Ontario College of Art an d Design (OCAD)
This series invites participants to reflect on their own cultural assumptions and gain tools to engage with internation al colleagues and students in a meaningful\, ethical\, and thoughtful way. By challenging misconceptions and fostering mutual understanding\, we aim t o create collaborations that are both globally relevant and locally respons ive.
Join us in this inspiring series that aims to not only expand cr eative boundaries but also nurture a culture of inclusivity and justice in global academic and creative research. To join these upcoming lectures\, si gn up through online form < strong>HERE.
CATEGORIES:Featured Homepage URL;VALUE=URI:https://grsj.arts.ubc.ca/events/event/fostering-inclusive-com munities-in-the-classroom-through-project-driven-courses/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://grsj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2025/01/Picture3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250208T0529Z-1738992589.393-EO-29552-40@10.19.146.23 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260516T032912Z CREATED:20250204T002953Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250204T002953Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250205T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250205T170000 SUMMARY: 2025 Mclean Family Lectures – Climate Change and Canadian Federali sm: Can’t We All Just Get Along? DESCRIPTION: 2025 Mclean Family Lectures – Climate Change and Canadian Fede ralism: Can’t We All Just Get Along? This lecture will consider the roots o f federal-provincial conflict and the implications for Canadian unity and c limate action. Hosted by Canadian Studies. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Featured Homepage URL;VALUE=URI:https://canadianstudies.ubc.ca/2025-mclean-lectures-climate-c hange-and-canadian-federalism/#new_tab ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://grsj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2025/02/ClimateChangeandCdnFederalism.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250208T0529Z-1738992589.3978-EO-29538-40@10.19.146.23 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260516T032912Z CREATED:20250129T224605Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250218T232023Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250302T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250302T173000 SUMMARY: Lessons in Drag: A Lecture-Performance by LaWhore Vagistan DESCRIPTION: This event is presented by GRSJ\, UBC ACRE\, SFU School for th e Contemporary Arts\, UBC Public Humanities Hub\, Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies\, Theatre and Film and the Faculty of Education. Space is limited so make sure to register to reserve a seat! X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Featured Homepage LOCATION:Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre GEO:49.282403;-123.108551 URL;VALUE=URI:https://acam.arts.ubc.ca/events/event/lessons-in-drag-a-lectu re-performance-by-lawhore-vagistan/#new_tab ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://grsj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2021/09/BrandeisShow_334.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250220T0829Z-1740040141.2572-EO-29602-40@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260516T032912Z CREATED:20250219T203046Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250219T203046Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250305T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250305T180000 SUMMARY: The world is in crisis: what role should our universities be playi ng? DESCRIPTION: Join GRSJ Faculty Associate Dr. Michelle Stack (Education) and GRSJ Professor Emerita Dr. Annette Henry and for a live recording of the p odcast Don’t Call Me Resilient\, presented by The Conversation Canada. At a time when critical conversations in higher education are under attack arou nd the world\, can Canadian universities be a force for good? […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Join GRSJ Faculty Associate Dr. Michelle Stack (Education) and GRSJ Professor Emerita Dr. Annette Henry and for a live recording of t he podcast Don't Call Me Resilient\, presente d by The Conversation Canada.
At a time when critical conversations i n higher education are under attack around the world\, can Canadian univers ities be a force for good?
About Don't Call Me Resiliant:
Host Vinita Srivastava dives into con versations with experts and real people to make sense of the news from an a nti-racist perspective.
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The Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality\, and Social Justice Noted Scholars Series ( co-sponsored by Transformative Memory International Network (TMIN)) present s:
WHEN & WHERE
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ednesday\, March 12th\, 12:00-1:00pm
Buchanan Tower 3
23
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A light lunch will be served at 12:00pm.
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< strong>ABSTRACT
Reflecting on 2024 as the year of fir es and floods for the Sherpas in Khumbu\, northeastern Nepal\, this talk ex plores a plurality of epistemological approaches that enable the people to live with climate change. The everyday act of living appears here as a desi red present on the cusp of a dystopian future. Through this talk\, the spea ker invites the audience to meditate on what it means to be living t oday. What kinds of relational technologies – application of relationships for practical purposes – will be activated to live in this moment?
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ABOUT Dr. Sherpa
Pasang Yangjee Sherpa is a Sharwa from Pharak\, northeastern Nepal (popu larly known as the Mount Everest region). She is an Assistant Professor of Lifeways in Indigenous Asia at the University of British Columbia. Her curr ent research employs community-based methodologies to explore collective su rvival on a warming planet\, grounded in her long-term ethnographic study o f Sherpa communities at home and amongst the diaspora.
CATEGORIES:Featured Homepage URL;VALUE=URI:https://grsj.arts.ubc.ca/events/event/mediation-on-living-fir es-and-floods-with-dr-pasang-sherpa/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://grsj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2024/10/Pasang_Sherpa_UBC.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250310T0927Z-1741598848.689-EO-29608-40@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260516T032912Z CREATED:20250220T192825Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250220T195321Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250313T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250313T190000 SUMMARY: John P. Bell Global Indigenous Rights Lecture presents Dr. Dolly K ikon X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Featured Homepage LOCATION:First Nations Longhouse GEO:49.265530;-123.257401 URL;VALUE=URI:https://climatejustice.ubc.ca/events/event/john-p-bell-global -indigenous-rights-lecture-presents-dr-dolly-kikon/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://grsj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2025/02/John-P.-Bell-Global-Indigenous-Rights-Lecture.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250314T0424Z-1741926292.7342-EO-29668-40@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260516T032912Z CREATED:20250313T231134Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250327T230046Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250314 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250405 SUMMARY: The Beauty in BIPOC: A Pop-Up Photography Exhibit DESCRIPTION: The Beauty in BIPOC is a pop-up photography exhibition showcas ing the artistic work of -- and thoughtful perspectives from -- a variety o f women of colour at UBC. Join us during office hours on the 10th Floor of Buchanan Tower between March 14 and April 4. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:GRSJ is proud to present a special pop-up photography exhibition sh owcasing the artistic work and thoughtful perspectives from a variety of wo men of colour at UBC.
The exhibit is part of a larger Instagram proje ct by GRSJ undergraduate student\, Sarina Virani. The Instagram account @thebeautyinbipoc fe atures the work of UBC undergraduate students\, Guntas Kaur and Jaida Sanad a\, as well as UBC alumnus Tamara Chang.
We hope the exhibition will prompt reflection and spark dialogue on the prevalence of Eurocentric beaut y standards in the media and everyday life.
The Beauty in BIPOC is av
ailable to view at the Institute (Floor 10 of Buchanan Tower) from March 14
to March 28 April 4 (during regular office hours).
About: Sarina Virani is a fourth-year undergraduate s tudent pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Gender\, Race\, Sexuality\, and Socia l Justice. She founded @thebeautyinbipoc as a passion project that aligns w ith her observations of and interests in the representation of women of col our in popular media.
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WHEN & WHERE
Tuesday\, March 18\, 12:00-2:00pm
Dodson Room (Room 302)\, Irving K Barber Learning Centre/vi
a Zoom
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Presented by The Institute for Gender\, Rac e\, Sexuality\, and Social Justice Noted Scholars Series\, Center for Cinem a Studies\, Department of Theatre and Film\, and the Popular Media for Soci al Change Research Cluster
Today more than ever\, we need the power to build new worlds. Video
games are exceptional tools for worldbuilding because every video game itse
lf is a world. Yet\, in video games and other media forms\, worldbuilding i
s still commonly understood as an expression of storytelling. A queer readi
ng of video games shows us that worldbuilding means something much deeper a
nd more radical than narrative elements that sit on the surface of the worl
d. In video games\, worlds are built on the foundation of interaction desig
n\, software simulations\, graphical dimensions\, and other elements often
overlooked as too technical to hold cultural meaning. By analyzing these el
ements of game development as acts of worldbuilding\, we can reimagine worl
dbuilding itself: as a process of challenging firmly held beliefs about the
fundamental structures\, conventions\, and irreducible truths that give sh
ape to the world around us. Video games also powerfully model the concept o
f queer worldbuilding--a practice of building worlds that destabilizes the
fundamental logics of our universe and builds new worlds founded on alterna
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ABOUT Dr. Bo Ruberg
Bo Ruberg\, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies and an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Info rmatics at the University of California\, Irvine\, as well as the co-editor -in-chief of the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. Their research explores gender and sexuality in digital media with a focus on LGBTQ topic s in video games. They are the author of four books: Video Games Have Al ways Been Queer (NYU Press\, 2019)\, The Queer Games Avant-Garde: Ho w LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games (Duke Uni versity Press\, 2020)\, Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual T echnologies (MIT Press\, 2022)\, and How to Queer the World: Radical Worldbuilding through Video Games (NYU Press\, 2025). They have also c o-edited two volumes\, Queer Game Studies (University of Minnesota P ress\, 2017) and Real Life in Real Time: Live Streaming Culture (MIT Press\, 2023). In 2021\, they received the Stonewall Book Award for Non-Fi ction from the American Library Association. In 2022\, they received the An ne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award from the Society of Cinema and Me dia Studies. They are also the recipient of a 2023-2025 Dangers & Opportuni ties grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
CATEGORIES:Featured Homepage LOCATION:Dodson Room (302) GEO:49.267619;-123.252761 URL;VALUE=URI:https://grsj.arts.ubc.ca/events/event/how-to-queer-the-world- bo-ruberg/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://grsj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2025/02/Bo-Ruberg-web.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251008T2231Z-1759962682.8274-EO-29610-40@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260516T032912Z CREATED:20250220T211849Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250220T214309Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250326T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250326T130000 SUMMARY: Letter to the Intended: Witness\, Writing\, and the Writer with Ju liane Okot Bitek DESCRIPTION: The Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality\, and Social Justi ce Noted Scholars Series (co-sponsored by Transformative Memory Internation al Network (TMIN) presents: Letter to the Intended: Witness\, Writing\, a nd the Writer Dr. Juliane Okot Bitek WHEN & WHERE Wednesday\, March 26\, 12:00-1:00pm Buchanan Tower\, Room 323 Please RSVP below in advance A light lunch will […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality\, and Social Justice Noted Scholars Series ( co-sponsored by Transformative Memory International Network (TMIN) presents :
WHEN & WHERE
Wednesday\, March 26\, 12:00-1:00pm
Bu
chanan Tower\, Room 323
Please RSVP belo w in advance
A light lunch will be serve d at 12:00pm.
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ABSTRACT
“The Rooster Woman”\, the title of a section of stories from We\, the Kindling is about Susannah Arac\, a woman who makes several return jou rneys—to a home\, to her homeland\, to her name\, and to herself. In thinki ng about turns and returns\, in fiction\, in history\, in our own lives and how that informs my work as writer and witness. I’m also thinking with Pal estinian novelist Isabella Hammad who writes about the moment of cognition\ , both narratively\, but also literally\, and how that relates to the human and to narrative. When do we know\, what is the moment of knowledge that o rients us to where we are\, where we’re turned\, who we are\, and where we’ re going? What is the work and responsibility of witness when our humanity is at stake\, or limited?
ABOUT Dr. Juliane Okot Bitek
Juliane Okot Bitek’s recent boo k of poetry\, A is for Acholi\, was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memoria l Award and won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Her previous collection\, 100 Days\, reflected on the meaning of memory two decades after the Rwanda genocide. It was nominated for the BC Book Prize\, the Pat Lowther Memoria l Award\, and the Canadian Authors Award for Poetry\, and won the Glenna Lu schei Prize for African Poetry. Her most recent book of poetry\, Song and D read is published by Talonbooks. Juliane is currently an assistant professo r in Black Studies\, joint -appointed in English and Gender Studies at Quee n's University in Kingston\, Ontario.
We\, the Kindling\, her first n ovel\, is being published in several countries and languages.
CATEGORIES:Featured Homepage URL;VALUE=URI:https://grsj.arts.ubc.ca/events/event/letter-to-the-intended- juliane-okot-bitek/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://grsj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2025/02/Bitek-scaled.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250302T0818Z-1740903539.0324-EO-29649-40@10.19.146.21 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260516T032912Z CREATED:20250227T175310Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250305T195830Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250326T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250326T190000 SUMMARY: Book Launch: “We\, the Kindling” by Otoniya J. Okot Bitek DESCRIPTION: The Transformative Memory International Network is hosting a p ublic book launch for author and poet and Noted Scholar guest speaker Otoni ya J. Okot Bitek. Otoniya’s book launch is on the same day as her Noted Sch olars lecture at 12pm on March 26. (Please RSVP separately). This book laun ch features Otoniya J. Okot Bitek in conversation […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
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e Transformative Memory International Network is hosting a public book laun
ch for author and poet and Noted Scholar guest speaker Otoniya J. Okot Bite
k.
Otoniya's book launch is on the same day as her No ted Scholars lecture at 12pm on March 26. (Please RSVP separately).
This book launch features Otoniya J. Okot Bitek in conv ersation with Daniel Heath Justice (UBC) and Sophi e McCall (SFU)\, along with an excerpt reading from the novel.
Join us for an unforgettable evening celebrating the launch of We\, the Kindling\, the stunning debut novel from acclaimed author and poet Otoniya J. Okot Bitek.
We\, the Kindling will be available for purchase during the event.
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Transformative Memory International Network op
ens intellectual\, affective and creative spaces to interrogate the ways me
mory: activates alternative ways of seeing\, listening and being in the wor
ld\; serves to persevere\, regather and refashion ways of being together in
the precariousness of ongoing violence\; emerges in sentient beings\, land
scapes\, bodies\, and objects\; and\, anticipates a different kind of futur
e\, and so exceeds the political\, social and legal institutions that maint
ain relations of power\, dispossession and oppression.
April 2 | 12-4pm | BUTO 225
GRSJ's annual Graduate Research Colloquium offers a casu al\, caring and dialogical space for graduate students to present and share their work--at any stage of development--and receive feedback from other s tudents and faculty members.
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Allen Baylosis: Delicate Dancing: Performing Pace\, Race\, Debilit y and Queer Brown Assemblage in Co.ERASGA Dance’s Sculptural Choreography P iece “Accumulation” (2023)
Allison Campbell: Parenti ng Behind Bars: maternal-child relationships in BC's correctional facilitie s designated for women
Christina Lennox: Reflecting on Beadworking as an Indigenous Research Method
Wajiha Mehdi: Carceral Citizenship and Muslim Displacement
Marjor ie Rugunda: Colonial Legacies in International Schools: Investigat ing Race\, Labor\, and Inequality in Ugandan International Schools
Erin Salh: Cinematic Influence: The Signficance of TikTok in
Indian Cinema and South Asian Women’s Diasporic Identity
man mit singh: Against the Coloniality of Self-Determ ination: The (Im)Possibilities of Khalsa Raaj in a World of Nation-States
Cora Thomas: Spirits on the Land: Tw o Spirit and Indigiqueer Identities\, Our Stories\, and Our Pathways throug h the Land
Heng Wang: Trans Orienta lism and the Postcolonial Archive
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The Research Colloquium is organized this yea r in collaboration with the GSA.
CATEGORIES:Featured Homepage LOCATION:BUTO 225 GEO:49.260872;-123.113952 URL;VALUE=URI:https://grsj.arts.ubc.ca/events/event/2025-graduate-research- colloquium/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://grsj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2025/03/2025-graduate-colloquium.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250327T1031Z-1743071463.3574-EO-29681-40@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260516T032912Z CREATED:20250326T182305Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250326T183315Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250407T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250407T133000 SUMMARY: Dragging the University DESCRIPTION: Ever wanted to go to a queer party at 12pm on a Monday? Now’s your chance! Join the students of CSIS 500 as we dream and scheme our way t o queer worldmaking here in the belly of the institutional beast. Our exper iment is to create a space to experience what a queer and trans of […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Ever wanted to go to a queer party at 12pm on a Monday? Now’s your chance!
Join the students of CSIS 500 as we dream and scheme our way to queer worldmaking here in the belly of the inst itutional beast. Our experiment is to create a space to experience what a q ueer and trans of color-centered university might look and feel like. Come as your most authentic self or most inauthentically creative persona\, and be ready to participate in some riveting activities as we repurpose spaces of learning for our own ends.
As queer theorist José Esteban Muñoz fa mously says\, “We must [glamorously] dream and enact new and better pleasur es\, other ways of being in the world\, and ultimately new worlds.”
T ogether\, we explore what these may look like in the university. We will ha ve drag performances\, crafting supplies\, dance music\, and social activit ies such as speed friending and open mics. Allies welcome!
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CATEGORIES:Featured Homepage LOCATION:BUTO 1099 GEO:49.260872;-123.113952 URL;VALUE=URI:https://grsj.arts.ubc.ca/events/event/dragging-the-university / ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://grsj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2025/03/Dragging-the-University.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250418T1435Z-1744986948.0431-EO-29674-40@10.19.146.22 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260516T032912Z CREATED:20250320T163804Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250320T164442Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250418T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250418T213000 SUMMARY: The Long Arc of Fascism: An Action Oriented Teach-In DESCRIPTION: Multiple events - space is limited. Join Sherene Seikaly in co nversation with Naomi Klein & Adel Iskandar for the opening keynote of The Long Arc of Fascism Teach-In on Friday\, then on Saturday the Teach-In abou t How We Got Here – and How We Get Out from colonial genocides to climate a partheid\, time for action & understanding is now. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Featured Homepage,featured-news-event LOCATION:312 Main Street GEO:49.260872;-123.113952 URL;VALUE=URI:https://climatejustice.ubc.ca/events/event/the-long-arc-of-fa scism-an-action-oriented-teach-in/#new_tab ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://grsj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2025/03/The-Long-Arc-of-Fascism-event-graphic-16-x-9.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250329T0919Z-1743239964.9864-EO-29721-40@10.19.146.21 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260516T032912Z CREATED:20250327T162517Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250327T162517Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250426T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250426T170000 SUMMARY: Tagalog Language & Heritage Community Showcase DESCRIPTION: This community showcase of singing\, dancing and more is organ ized by the students of the National Pilipino Canadian Cultural Centre’s ( NPC3) inaugural Tagalog Language & Heritage course. The course and showcase are supported by GRSJ through a UBC Community Engagement Grant. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
This community showcase of singing\, danci ng and more is organized by the students of the National Pilipino Canadian Cultural Centre's (NPC3) inaugural Tagalog Language & Heritage course. The course and showcase are supported by GRSJ through a UBC Community Engageme nt Grant.
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LOCATION:411 Seniors Centre GEO:49.253617;-123.089772 URL;VALUE=URI:https://grsj.arts.ubc.ca/events/event/tagalog-language-herita ge-community-showcase/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250310T0927Z-1741598848.7044-EO-29654-40@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260516T032912Z CREATED:20250303T191216Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250303T191216Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250502T074500 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250504T164500 SUMMARY: Place and Power: BC Studies Conference 2025 DESCRIPTION: In order to attend the conference\, everyone (presenters\, cha irs\, and people who are not on the program but would like to attend) must register in advance. Please register at your earliest convenience. Space fo r delegates who are not on the program is limited. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: URL;VALUE=URI:https://blogs.ubc.ca/bcsconference2025/registration/#new_tab ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://grsj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2025/03/Interconnected-by-Diamond-Point.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250417T1732Z-1744911158.0715-EO-29774-40@10.19.146.22 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260516T032912Z CREATED:20250416T175912Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250416T183951Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250504T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250504T203000 SUMMARY: Book reading and workshop with Minelle Mahtani & Jessica Deitcher DESCRIPTION: Join GRSJ’s Minelle Mahtani and local author Jessica Deitcher on May 4 for a workshop about journaling and memoir writing. They will also read from their new books. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Join GRSJ's Minelle Mahtani and local auth or Jessica Deitcher on May 4 for a workshop about journaling and memoir wri ting. They will also read from their new books.
Join us on Red Dress Day (May 5th) for the opening of “Dancing With Our A ncestors: Weaving Connections Between Communities”\, a collective exhibit that features artists across the globe with lived experiences of di sappeared people and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women\, Girls\, and Tw o Spirit people (MMIWG2S+).
In this multi- site exhibit\, the T ransformative Memory International Network and Butterflies in Spir it stitch different\, yet parallel experiences of denunciation \, resistance\, togetherness\, searching for loved ones\, and seeking the t ruth. To reflect upon the aftermath of settler colonialism and prolonged vi olence\, while also illuminating the diverse ways artists and communities c an weave spaces to dialogue\, contest\, and reimagine memory/futurities as a way of collective action.
Dancing with o ur Ancestors: Weaving Connections Between Communities is a transnational co mmitment to knit together and recognize the poetics of everyday memories of human beings\, who otherwise would be forgotten by dominant history. The p ieces that comprise this exhibit are expressions of the numerous resourcefu l\, embodied\, and intimate ways in which memory\, as a creative force\, is articulated by people worldwide who have experienced systemic violence.
The exhibition will feature pieces from Ugan da\, Mexico\, Northern Ireland\, Indonesia\, Colombia\, and Canada. The exh ibit also includes three window installations by local artists at Decolonia l Clothing (Chinatown)\, Union Cooperative Initiative (Chinatown)\, and the windows at UBC Robson Square.
Dat
es: May 5th\, 2025 - May 19\, 2025
Location: UBC Robs
on Square (800 Robson St.) - Sun Room
4:00pm: Doors Open
5:30pm: Performance from
Butterflies in Spirit
6:30pm: Panel discussion
This event takes place on the unceded a nd ancestral territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Firs t Nations.
Alit Ambara (Indonesia)
Adriana Contrer
as (Turtle Island & Colombia)
Butterflies in Spirit (Turtle Island -
Canada)
Conflict Textiles: Irene MacWilliam (Northern Ireland)
Er
ika Diettes (Colombia)
Guayacan’s Crafts Group (Bojayá - Colombia)
Luz H. Almendra Aranda & Violeta K. Rozental Almendra (Misak - Colombia)<
br />Morgan Asoyuf (Ts’msyen Eagle Clan from Ksyeen River\, BC - Canada)Movement of Victims of State Crimes - MOVICE (Colombia)
Peter Mori
n (Tahtlan Nation - Canada)
The Families of the Missing (Gulu - Uganda
)
The Women’s Advocacy Network - WAN (Gulu - Uganda)
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CATEGORIES:Featured Homepage LOCATION:UBC Robson Square GEO:49.282429;-123.121177 URL;VALUE=URI:https://grsj.arts.ubc.ca/events/event/opening-night-dancing-w ith-our-ancestors-weaving-connections-between-communities/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://grsj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2025/04/Dancing-with-our-Ancestors.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250508T0249Z-1746672542.9131-EO-29798-40@10.19.146.23 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260516T032912Z CREATED:20250507T163729Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250507T163729Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250513T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250513T143000 SUMMARY: Advancing Asian Canadian Research\, Teaching and Public Engagement in These Challenging Times DESCRIPTION: For Our Communities\, By Our Communities: Advancing Asian Cana dian Research\, Teaching and Public Engagement in these Challenging Times I n this free\, public event\, hosted by Royal Roads University\, GRSJ’s Dr. JP Catungal will draw from his interdisciplinary Asian Canadian research\, teaching and public engagement practice to articulate the value of critical scholarship “for our communities\, […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:For Our Communities\, By Our Commu nities: Advancing Asian Canadian Research\, Teaching and Public Engagement in these Challenging Times
In this free\, public event\, hos ted by Royal Roads University\, GRSJ's Dr. JP Catungal will draw from his i nterdisciplinary Asian Canadian research\, teaching and public engagement p ractice to articulate the value of critical scholarship "for our communitie s\, by our communities". Such engaged scholarly practices\, in direct partn ership with equity-deserving communities\, has much to contribute to how we understand the public role of the university today\, including what our re sponsibilities are as institutional actors and how we might forge more ethi cal and meaningful relationships with broader publics.
Tuesda y\, May 13 @ 1:30 PM via Zoom
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A temporary thesis exhibit in the Irving K . Barber Learning Centre (University of British Columbia) with the Chung | Lind Gallery in May-July 2025. Telling stories of my transpacific Indigenou s-Asian life.
“Coming Home centres around reclamation–what it means to reclaim one’s personal and family history\, community treasures an d belongings\, and right to truth-telling. In this exhibit\, I share photog raphs and treasures within my and my family’s possession to tell my stories : of my mother who was Stl’atl’imx of the Líl’wat\, my father who was Visay an of the Philippines\, my husband whose roots were of the Mowachaht and Mu chalaht\, and my journey of presenting these histories as a means of guidin g the futures of my grandchildren and later generations.” - Margaretta Jame s
Digital Ex hibition Coming in Summer 2025
The Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality\, and Social Justice Noted Scholars Series ( co-sponsored by Queer and Trans Anti-Fascisms research cluster) presents:
WHEN & WHERE
Wednesday September 10th
12-1pm
Buchanan Tower\, Room 323
Please RSVP below in advance
A light lunch will be served at 1:00pm
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ABOUT Dr. Lar a Sheehi
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Lara Sheehi is a clinical psychologist and a Research Fellow at the Univ ersity of South Africa's Institute for Social and Health Sciences. Lara’s s cholarly work is committed to decolonial and feminist methodologies and is especially interested in psychoanalysis\, the psychic refusals central to l iberation and life-making struggles in the Global South\, the psychic dimen sions of resistance and revolution\, and critical Zionist studies. She is c o-author with Stephen Sheehi of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (Routledge\, 2022) which won the Middle East Monit or's 2022 Palestine Book Award for Best Academic Book. Lara is the Presiden t of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (APA\, Di vision 39) and co-editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality. Lara is a memb er of the founding collective for the Institute for the Critical Study of Z ionism. She is currently working on a new book\, From the Clinic to the Str eet: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures (Pluto Press\, 2026).
ABOUT Dr. Jasbir Puar
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Jasbir Puar is Distinguished Faculty of Arts P rofessor at GRSJ and the author of The Right to Maim: Debility\, Capacity\, Disability (2017)\, and Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Ti mes (2007\, 2017).
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‘Please join us\, the faculty\, students\, staff\, associat es and friends of the Institute of Gender\, Race\, Sexuality and Social Jus tice for the 2025 Welcome Back Social Event.’
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WHEN & WHERE
Wednesday September 17th\,
3-5pm
Marine Drive Ballroom\,
2 205 Lower Mall\, Vancouver\, B.C V6T 1Z4
Please RSVP below in advance
Lunch and refreshments provi ded by sage
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The Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality\, and Social Justice Noted Scholars Series ( co-sponsored by The Queer and Trans Anti-Fascism research cluster) presents :
WHEN & WHERE
Wednesday September 24th
12-1pm
Buchanan Tower\, Room 323
P lease RSVP below in advance
A light lunc h will be served at 1:00pm
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ABOUT Dr. Jennifer Doyle
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Dr. Jennifer Doyle[/caption]
Jennifer Doyle is a Professor of English and Cooperating Faculty in Art at UC Rivers ide. She is the author of Shadow of My Shadow (2024)\, Campus Sex/Campus Se curity (2015)\, Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art (2013)\, and Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire (2006). With Jeanne Vaccaro\, she co-curated a large group exhibition\, Scientia Sexual is\, and co-edited its accompanying catalogue. She is President of the Asso ciation for the Study of the Arts of the Present and is deeply involved wit h the interdisciplinary arts space Human Resources Los Angeles.
ABSTRACT
A reflection on the state of women’s sports\, as a category and a practice. T his talk revolves around the harassment and exclusion of the great South Af rican runner Caster Semenya from her events and opens out to reckon with th e rapid development of women’s sports as it coincides with the consolidatio n of fascism and a broad assault on trans life.
CATEGORIES:Featured Homepage URL;VALUE=URI:https://grsj.arts.ubc.ca/events/event/escape-velocity-notes-o n-womens-sports-with-jennifer-doyle/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://grsj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2025/09/Headshot-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251217T0034Z-1765931675.2231-EO-30244-40@10.19.146.21 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260516T032912Z CREATED:20251001T202830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251001T204707Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251014T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251014T210000 SUMMARY: “Occupying Selves” or “How to be an Indian via Unciteable Pain” X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Featured Homepage,featured-news-event URL;VALUE=URI:https://publichumanities.ubc.ca/events/event/occupying-selves -or-how-to-be-an-indian-via-unciteable-pain/#new_tab ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://grsj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2025/10/GRSJ_audrasimpson_20251001_feature.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250925T0411Z-1758773514.431-EO-30128-40@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260516T032912Z CREATED:20250924T161206Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251010T183229Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251015T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251015T130000 SUMMARY: What does feminist solidarity look like in a time of genocide agai nst Palestinians\, with Dr. Sherene H. Razack DESCRIPTION: The Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality\, and Social Justi ce Noted Scholars Series (the event is supported by the Canada Research Cha irs Program) presents: “What Does Feminist Solidarity Look Like In A Time of Genocide Against Palestinians” Dr. Sherene Razack WHEN & WHERE Wedne sday October 15th\, 12-1pm Buchanan Tower\, Room 323 Please RSVP below […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality\, and Social Justice Noted Scholars Series ( the event is supported by the Canada Research Chairs Program) presents:
WHEN & WHERE
Wedn esday October 15th\,
12
-1pm
Buchanan Tower\, Room 323
Please RSVP below in advance
A ligh t lunch will be served at 1:00pm
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ABOUT Dr . Sherene H. Razack
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Sherene H. Razack is a Distinguished Professor and the Penny Kanner End owed Chair in Gender Studies. She is an interdisciplinary critical race and feminist scholar whose work engages several fields including Sociology\, L egal Studies\, Gender Studies\, Ethnic Studies\, American Studies and Polit ical Science. With a central focus on racial violence\, she explores how im perialism\, colonialism\, capitalism and patriarchy interlock to produce an d sustain a racially structured world where racialized populations are mark ed as disposable and subjected to an unrelenting violence. Her books and pu blications examine settler colonialism\, colonialism\, neo-colonialism and global white supremacy with a particular focus on the gendered effects of a nti-Indigenous\, anti-Black\, anti-Asian and anti-Muslim racism as they ope rate in law. Her most recent books are: Nothing Has to Make Sense: Upholdin g White Supremacy Through Anti-Muslim Racism (2022) and Dying from Improvem ent: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody (2015).
ABSTRACT
Do es your feminism include Israel? In the ongoing genocide against Palestinia ns in Gaza\, this is the question that feminists in the West who express so lidarity with Palestinians have been asked\, and explicitly singled out for censure by states\, universities and media for our condemnation of the gen ocide that is ongoing in Gaza. The targeting of feminist groups for censure and specifically for an alleged failure to care about Israeli women who ma y have been sexually violated on October 7\, 2024\, rests on several assump tions\, chief among them the proposition that the sexual violation of Israe li women counts more than any violence done to Palestinians. More concernin g\, the assumption that Hamas committed mass rapes on October 7\, a situati on about which it is impossible to even ask questions without incurring cen sure\, is meant to render the genocidal violence in Gaza legitimate and acc eptable. In stark contrast the targeted killing of women and children in Ga za and the rape and torture of Palestinian prisoners\, have not been framed as a feminist issue in the West and the counter question ‘does your femini sm include Palestine?’ is seldom posed except by those who condemn the geno cide and express solidarity with Palestinians. How might we understand what feminist solidarity looks like in this time of genocide?
CATEGORIES:Featured Homepage,featured-news-event URL;VALUE=URI:https://grsj.arts.ubc.ca/events/event/what-does-feminist-soli darity-look-like-in-a-time-of-genocide-against-palestinians-with-dr-sherene -h-razack/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://grsj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2025/09/Sherene-Razack-Headshot-e1758667021271_feature.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251217T0034Z-1765931675.2309-EO-30306-40@10.19.146.21 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260516T032912Z CREATED:20251010T164321Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251010T164346Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251024T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251024T210000 SUMMARY: The Day Iceland Stood Still (2024): A screening and discussion on the 50th anniversary of the Icelandic women’s strike X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: URL;VALUE=URI:https://pop-culture.arts.ubc.ca/events/event/the-day-iceland- stood-still/#new_tab ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://grsj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2025/10/The-Day-Iceland-Stood-Still.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250930T0216Z-1759198579.156-EO-30129-40@10.19.146.22 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260516T032912Z CREATED:20250929T203154Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251106T192214Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251119T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251119T130000 SUMMARY: Queering Families: Reproductive Justice in Precarious Times with T amara Lea Spira DESCRIPTION: The Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality\, and Social Justi ce Noted Scholars Series (co-sponsored by Queer and Trans Anti-Fascisms Res earch Cluster) presents: Queering Families: Reproductive Justice in Preca rious Times Dr. Tamara Lea Spira (GRSJ Visiting Faculty) WHEN & WHERE Wed nesday November 19th\, 12-1pm Buchanan Tower\, Room 323 Please RSVP below in advance A light […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality\, and Social Justice Noted Scholars Series ( co-sponsored by Queer and Trans Anti-Fascisms Research Cluster) presents:
WHEN & WHERE
We dnesday November 19th\,
Buchanan Tower\, Room 323
Please RSVP below in advance
A light lunch will be served at 1:00pm
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About Dr. Tamara Lea Spira
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Dr. Tamara Lea Spira[/caption]
Tamara Lea Spira (she/her) is an interdisciplinary feminist and queer theorist whose work lies at the intersections of critical race\, feminist\, and transnational American Stu dies. Dr. Spira is currently a Professor of Queer Studies and American Stud ies in the Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies at Western Washin gton University. Spira obtained her PhD in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies Departments at the University of California\, Santa Cruz and was also University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow. She recently served as a “Beyond Health” Fellow at UC Davis’s Feminist Resea rch Institute.
Professor Spira is the author of Queering Families: Reproduct ive Justice in Precarious Times (University of California Press\, 2025) and Movements of Feeling: Feminist Radical Imaginations in Neolib eral Times (University of Washington Press\, under contract). Her writ ings have been widely published in peer-reviewed journals and anthologies\, including Boundary2\, Feminist Formations\, Radical History Review\, Feminist Studies\, Feminist Theory\ , Identities\, Signs\, and Abolition Feminisms a nd popular venues such as Nursing Clio\, The Feminist Wire\, and < em>LGBTQ Nation. Her new book project\, Life Before Conception: Ga mete Personhood in Times of Ecocide\, examines the backwards creep of white legal personhood that accompanies the intensified forms of premature death that greet the majority of the world’s children—and the planet itself —in a battle over futures. Dr. Spira is also at work on a collection of pro se and poetry called Into the Interregnum: Two Deathbeds and the Tendin g of Fires.
Dr. Spira’s academic work is informed by her longsta nding praxis within anti-imperialist\, anti-racist\, and transnational femi nist and queer movements in the Americas. From 2013-2014\, she served as a Research Scholar at the Beatrice Bain Research Center at UC Berkeley\, wher e she coordinated the collective project\, “Archiving 1960s and 1970s Third World and Anti-Colonial Feminist and Queer Transnational Solidarities." In addition to working as a grassroots organizer\, she has co-founded several parent advocacy org anizations and worked with a range of NGOs and movement organizations\, inc luding the United Nations\, the Astraea Lesbian Fund for Justice\, Justice Now\, Critical Resistance\, the UC Berkeley Labor Center\, and Jewish Voice for Peace where she is a member of the Academic Advisory Council.
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The Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality\, and Social Justice Noted Scholars Series ( co-sponsored by Cr itical Play Initiative) presents:
WHEN & WHERE
Wedn esday November 26th\,
12-1pm
Buchanan Tower\, Room 32 3
Please RSVP below in advance
A light lunch will be served at 1:00pm
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ABOUT Dr. Amanda Philips
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Amanda Phillips (they/he/she) is an Associate P rofessor at Georgetown University. They are the author of Gamer Trouble : Feminist Confrontations in Digital Culture and co-editor of the NYU Press Queer/Trans/Digital/Diaspora book series. Amanda writes about sex\, d eath\, identity\, and politics in video games.
ABSTRACT
This talk explores the so -called "pornography of death" in video games. Once infamously called "murd er simulators" by anti-obscenity activist Jack Thompson\, the simulation an d animation technologies of video games are indeed often used to depict ela borate\, explicit\, and exploitative fantasies about dying and killing. Fro m exploding heads and blood fountains to flailing bodies and x-ray vision\, the mechanics of death in video games are polymorphously perverse\, and un derstanding the ways that digital technologies stimulate our curiosity of h ow bodies respond to violence or how individuals behave under threat is cru cial in this moment of genocide\, rising fascism\, racial injustice\, and t rans- and queerphobia.
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UBC Pop Cult
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WHEN & WHERE
Wednesday January 28\, 2026
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Please RSVP below in advance
A light lunch will be served at 1:00pm
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Abstract:
Settler colonial studies and Indigeno us studies are often assumed to be the same intellectual project. In In digenomicon\, Jodi A. Byrd examines the differences between the two fi elds by bringing video game studies and Indigenous studies into conversatio n with Black studies\, queer studies\, and Indigenous feminist critique. By rd theorizes “the image of the law of the Indigenous” as structuring dispos session in games including Assassin’s Creed\, Animal Crossing< /em>\, BioShock Infinite\, and Demon Souls. They demonstr ate how games and play might reveal histories of slavery\, genocide\, and t heft of Indigenous lands even as their structures obscure Indigenous spatia l and embodied practices that prioritize relationships with land\, water\, plants\, and spirits. With ground and relationality defined as key concepts \, Byrd centers Indigenous visions of dystopias to reveal how game spaces e ncode settler structures of governance even as the design of games might ye t provide vital modes of resistance to Indigenous erasure.
About Dr. Jodi A. Byrd
Jodi A. Byrd is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and professor of Race\ , Diaspora\, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. Their first book The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism (University of Minnesota Press\, 2011) won the 2013 Best First Book of the Year award from the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association\, and the 2012 Word craft Circle Award for Academic Work of the Year. Byrd co-edited the collec tion Colonial Racial Capitalism with Susan Koshy\, Lisa Marie Cacho\, and B rian Jefferson published by Duke in 2022 and also co-edits the Northwestern University Press’ Critical Insurgencies series with Michelle Wright. Their book\, Indigenomicon: American Indians\, Video Games\, and the Structures of Dispossession is forthcoming from Duke in early November. Prior to joini ng the University of Chicago\, they were a professor in Literatures in Engl ish at Cornell University. They also helped build the American Indian Studi es at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2006–2015\, and s erved as Acting Director of AIS during the 2013–2014 academic year. They ha ve held an appointment in Indigenous Politics at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa and they received their PhD in English from the University of Iowa in 2002.
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Wednes day February 04\, 2026
12-1pm
Buchanan Tower\, Room 3 23
Please RSVP below in advance
A light lunch will be served at 1:00pm
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This critical-creative (auto)ethnography reflects on my experience crossing the border between France and Spain\, thro ugh the Pyrenees mountain\, a treacherous migration route that philosopher Walter Benjamin—and countless other refugees—undertook in the 1940s as they fled Nazi persecution. I think through what it means to retrace ano ther’s path\, and connect this border crossing with my own position as a re fugee of the Vietnam War and a scholar of critical refugee studies. I move from considering the exigency of Benjamin’s writing for contemporary refuge e studies to a reading of my beloved late-friend Y-Dang Troeung’s memoir Landbridge to a meditation of knowledge and embodiment. In doing so\, I illuminate the circuitous and complicated nature of refugee migration—tha t “refuge” or “(re)settlement” also requires an ongoing process of return t o the past\, to history\, to the stories of oneself and of others.
About Dr. Vinh Nguyen
Vinh Nguyen is a writer and e ducator. He is the author of the speculative memoir The Migrant Rain Fa lls in Reverse\, a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction\, the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Nonfiction Prize\, and th e Toronto Book Award. His academic monograph Lived Refuge: Gratitude\, Resentment\, Resilience won Outstanding Achievement in Literary Studie s from the Association for Asian American Studies and the American Studies Association’s Shelly Fisher Fishkin Prize for International Scholarship in Transnational American Studies. He is working on a novel.
CATEGORIES:Featured Homepage URL;VALUE=URI:https://grsj.arts.ubc.ca/events/event/old-benjamin-the-refuge e-with-vinh-nguyen/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://grsj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2025/12/Nguyen-Denim-Headshot-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260305T1113Z-1772709182.4727-EO-30694-40@10.19.146.22 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260516T032912Z CREATED:20260218T192709Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260218T192709Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260218T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260218T123000 SUMMARY: Playing with Creative Method: Video Games in Intersectional Resear ch DESCRIPTION: This 1.5-hour workshop by the Gender+ in Research Collective i ntroduces video games as a creative research method\, showcasing how non-tr aditional methodologies can broaden the horizons of your research questions . X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:featured-news-event URL;VALUE=URI:https://genderplusresearchcollective.arts.ubc.ca/playing-with -creative-method-video-games-in-intersectional-research/#new_tab END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260120T0647Z-1768891678.766-EO-30588-40@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260516T032912Z CREATED:20260119T181715Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260206T183752Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260203T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260203T130000 RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=TU;UNTIL=20260224T200000Z EXDATE;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260217T120000 SUMMARY: Black History and the History of Black Studies Speaker Series DESCRIPTION: Join us Tuesdays in February for public lectures on Black Hist ory and the History of Black Studies\, presented by GRSJ and the UBC Black Caucus. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality\, and Soc
ial Justice and the UBC Black Caucus invite you to a speaker series on
Public Events | Tuesdays in February\, 12–1 PM | x
ʷθəθiqətəm (Place of Many Trees)\, Liu Institute for Global Issues
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The Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality\, and Social Justice Noted Scholars Series p resents:
WHEN & WHERE
Wednesday February 25\, 2026
12-1pm
Bu chanan Tower\, Room 323
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A light lunch will be serve d at 1:00pm
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How do es one write about histories of colonialism and violence that feel all-too present and overbearing? How does one conduct research in colonial archives that only renders themselves and their families among the colonized\, unci vilized\, inhuman\, other\, or as lost and unrecoverable histories?
I n this talk\, UBC scholars Dr. Christine Kim (English Languages and Literat ures) and Dr. Renisa Mawani (Sociology) will discuss how these questions em erge in their own work in colonial archives\, popular culture\, family biog raphies\, and literature. Examining figures of the North Korean “minor inhu man\,” the Muslim woman\, and colonial dispossession\, Kim and Mawani will consider the challenges of working within discourses of human rights and em ergency\, proposing alternative methods for historical research that are at tentive to our persistently colonial present.
About Dr. Chris tine Kim
Christine Kim is a professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures and an ACAM faculty aff iliate. She was the editor-in-chief of the journal Canadian Literature (202 0-25). Before joining UBC in 2020\, she was Associate Professor at Simon Fr aser University where she was a founding co-director of SFU’s Institute of Transpacific Cultural Research. Her research and teaching interests lie in Asian diaspora\, the Cold War\, imperialism\, and race.
She is the author of Brutal Fantasies: Imagining North Kor ea in the Long Cold War (Duke UP\, 20 25)\, The Minor Intimacies of Race (University of Illinois Press\, 2016) an d co-editor of Cultural Grammars of Na tion\, Diaspora and Indigeneity (Wilf rid Laurier UP\, 2012). Christine is working on a new project that examines literary and filmic representations of Korean diasporas and migrations wit hin illiberal spheres.
About Dr. Renisa Mawani
Renisa Mawani is Canada Research Chair in Colonial Legal Histories and Professor of Sociolog y at UBC. From 2022-2025 she was a Global Professorial Fellow at the School of Law\, Queen Mary University of London.
Renisa is the author of Colonial Proximities (University of British Columbia Press\, 2009) and Across Oceans of Law (Duke University Pr ess\, 2018)\, which was a finalist for the U.K. Socio-Legal Studies Associa tion Theory and History Book Prize (2020) and winner of the Association of Asian American Studies Book Prize for Outstanding Contribution to History ( 2020). With Antoinette Burton\, she is co-editor of Animalia: An Anti-Im perial Bestiary for Our Times (Duke University Press\, 2020). With Anto inette Burton and Samantha Frost\, she is co-editor of Biocultural Empir e: New Histories of Imperial Life Worlds (2024) and with Kristie Flanne ry and Mikki Stelder\, she is co-editor of Oceans as Archives (Routl edge\, Ocean and Island Studies Series\, 2025).
Renisa is currently working on a short book\, The Laws of the Sea\, which will be the inaugural volume in a new Cambridge Elements Series titled “Law and Humanities” and a longer monograph\, Enemies of Empire\, which is a sequel to Across Oceans of Law.
CATEGORIES:Featured Homepage URL;VALUE=URI:https://grsj.arts.ubc.ca/events/event/methods-for-tracing-emp ires-a-conversation-on-war-race-and-migration-with-christine-kim-and-renisa -mawani/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://grsj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2026/05/christinerenisa-featured-image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260206T2221Z-1770416514.6479-EO-30575-40@10.19.146.22 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260516T032912Z CREATED:20260204T204921Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260206T182910Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260304T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260304T130000 SUMMARY: Inadaptable (Non)Citizens\, Racialized Capital and Lessons from Po stsocialist Neoliberalisation with Kateřina Kolářová DESCRIPTION: The Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality\, and Social Justi ce Noted Scholars Series (co-sponsored by the Department of Central\, Easte rn\, and Northern European Studies\, the Queer and Trans Anti-Fascisms Rese arch Cluster & the Department of English Language and Literatures) presents : Inadaptable (Non)Citizens\, Racialized Capital and Lessons from Postsocia list Neoliberalisation Kateřina Kolářová WHEN & WHERE Wednesday […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality\, and Social Justice Noted Scholars Series ( co-sponsored by the Department of Central\, Eastern\, and Northern European Studies\, the Queer and Trans Anti-Fascisms Research Cluster & the Departm ent of English Language and Litera tures) presents:
WHEN & WHERE
Wednesday March 4\, 2026
12-1pm
Room BuTo 323
Ple ase RSVP below in advance
A light lunch will be served at 1:00pm
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Kateřina Kolářová’s Rehabilitative Postsocialism offers a timely interdisciplinary and intersectional analysis of how disability\, race\, class\, and gender operate as ideological tools within the postsocia list Czech Republic (formerly Czechoslovakia). Kolářová presents postsoc ialism as an analytic that can and should be brought to bear to understand cultural politics\, economic formations\, and state politics through the pr esent day.
Rehabilitative Postsocialism names disability\, s exuality\, and race as central yet invisible to negotiations of the postsoc ialist consensus. Drawing from a rich and varied archive\, Rehabilitati ve Postsocialism maps the formation of new structures of inequalities and social imaginaries of wellness\, merit\, and justice in order to unders tand current articulations of global disenchantment with democracy\, social justice\, and solidarity. The book also makes clear that disability\, race \, and ethnicity continue to circulate in depictions of Eastern Europe as s uspended in a chronic developmental “delay.” Rehabilitative Postsociali sm both situates this positioning within its political and historical formation and offers the analytical tools to challenge its continued deploy ment.
About Kateřina Kolářová
Kateřina Kolářová is an Associate Professor at the Gender Studies Programme\, Faculty of Humanities\, Charles University in Prague. Her new monograph Rehabilitative Postsocialism: Disability\, Sex\, and Race (Michigan University Press\, 2025) presents intersecti onal postsocialism as an analytic that can and should be brought to bear to understand cultural politics\, economic formations\, and state politics th rough the present day.
Her work focuses on intersections of disabilit y\, sexuality and race\, (feminist queer crip) transnationalisms\, and post socialism. Recently\, she has been exploring the bio-social dimensions of metabolism\, relationship between human and non human lives\, ecological di mensions of digestion and how we coexist with microorganisms\, toxic chemic als\, and other "unclean" elements/entities.
Also\, she is currently wrapping up a long-term research project into HIV/AIDS and politics of coll ective immunity/susceptibility to viral threats in Czech Republic. She regu larly collaborates with artists\, galeries and engages in other community-b ased projects.
She is the editor (with Martina Winkler\, Uni Kiel) of Re/imaginations of Disability in State Socialism: Visions\, Promises\, Frustrations (Campus Verlag/Chicago University Press\, 2021) and of < em>Otherness-Disability-Criticism: Social Constructions of Disability and D isability (Postižení-Jinakost-Kritika\, 2012).
CATEGORIES:Featured Homepage URL;VALUE=URI:https://grsj.arts.ubc.ca/events/event/inadaptable-noncitizens -racialized-capital-and-lessons-from-postsocialist-neoliberalisation-with-k aterina-kolarova/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://grsj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2026/01/foto_2023-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260305T1113Z-1772709182.4865-EO-30693-40@10.19.146.22 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260516T032912Z CREATED:20260218T192533Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260218T192745Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260310T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260310T200000 SUMMARY: An Evening with Jordan Abel\, David Chariandy & Stephanie Sinclair DESCRIPTION: Join us for an inclusive and expansive conversation about the past\, present\, and future of Canada’s literary landscape featuring Jordan Abel\, David Chariandy\, and Stephanie Sinclair\, in conversation with Min elle Mahtani. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:featured-news-event URL;VALUE=URI:http://chancentre.com/events/an-evening-with-jordan-abel-davi d-chariandy-stephanie-sinclair/#new_tab END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260226T0708Z-1772089707.1372-EO-30451-40@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260516T032912Z CREATED:20260226T000942Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260311T153356Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260325T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260325T130000 SUMMARY: Timespaces of Stuckness and Countering with Elif Sari and Rana Abu ghannam DESCRIPTION: The Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality\, and Social Justi ce Noted Scholars Series (co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology) p resents: “Timespaces of Stuckness and Countering” Dr. Elif Sari and Dr. R ana Abughannam WHEN & WHERE Wednesday March 25\, 2026 12-1pm Buchanan Towe r\, Room 1099 Please RSVP below in advance A light lunch will be served […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality\, and Social Justice Noted Scholars Series ( co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology) presents:< /p>
WHEN & WHERE
Wednesday March 25\, 2026
12-1pm
Buchanan Tower\, Room 1099
Please RSVP below in advance
A li ght lunch will be served at 1:00pm
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Abstract:
Rana Abughannam (S chool of Architecture and Landscape Architecture) and Elif Sari (Anthropolo gy) will be in conversation about the colonial and carceral frameworks that render people “stuck” in undesired conditions and people’s grassroots appr oaches to “counter” these violent\, confining conditions. Drawing on their respective work on built heritage conservation practices in Palestine and w ith LGBTQ+ refugees in Turkey\, they will examine the spatial\, temporal\, affective\, and economic dimensions of “stuckness” and “countering\,” addre ssing issues of waiting\, immobility\, patience\, slowness\, grounding\, an d resistance.
About Dr. Elif Sari
Elif Sari is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University o f British Columbia. Her scholarship lies at the intersections of sociocultu ral anthropology\; feminist\, gender\, and sexuality studies\; migration st udies\; and Middle East studies. Her research focuses on queer and trans mi gration\, examining Iranian LGBTQ+ refugees’ experiences of waiting and “st uckness” in Turkey and the political economy of queer refugee resettlement in Canada.
About Dr. Rana Abughannam
Rana Abughannam is an Assistant Professor at the School of Arch itecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia. She is a Palestinian architect\, scholar\, and educator with an interest in the politics that govern urbanism and built heritage. Her research focuses on paradigms of counter-colonization exemplified in Indigenous\, bottom-up \, and constant practices of resistance against ongoing colonial projects.< /p>
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The Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality\, and Social Justice Noted Scholars Series p resents:
WHEN & WHERE
Wednesday April 1\, 2026
12-1pm
Buchanan Tower\, Room 1099
Please RSVP below in advance
A light lunch will be served at 1:00pm
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Two and a h
alf years into the accelerated genocide in Gaza\, Israel continues its unbr
idled death campaign to destroy all life forms in the strip with internatio
nal impunity. Palestine has\, yet again\, exposed the hypocrisy at the hear
t of so-called universal human rights and liberal humanism. If Israel’s imp
unity is secured through its status as the constitutive exception of Human
Rights Discourse (Meister 2011) then the Palestinian becomes the constituti
ve outside of the “Human” in Human Rights.
Thinking with Palestinian r
evolutionary thought\, this lecture explores the paradoxes of seeking freed
om through rights and juridical recognition. The talk argues that the every
day labour of life in Palestine gives rise to a praxis of the human—one tha
t gestures towards an impending freedom from within the ruins of empire and
beyond the bounds of human rights. The talk turns to articulations of impe
nding freedom that are not tied to struggle for rights\, but to an exit fro
m the law
About Dr. Layal Ftouni
Layal Ftouni is an Assistant Professor o f Gender Studies and Critical Theory at Utrecht University\, the Netherland s. She is currently working on a book project on the 'reproduction of life '\, both human and environmental\, in conditions of proximity to death and debilitation in the settler colonial context of Palestine. She received the Dutch Research Council VENI grant to support this project. Her publicati ons and areas of research interests are\, broadly construed\, at the inters ection of critical theory\, gender studies\, Palestine studies\, political theory and critiques of the human/ human rights. In addition to her educati onal and research work\, Layal is also a founding member of Dutch Scholars for Palestine\, a network of educational workers across Dutch Universities committed to the Palestinian struggle for liberation and self-determination .
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April 8 | 12-4pm | BUTO 323
GRSJ's annual Graduate Research Colloquium offers a casual\, ca ring and dialogical space for graduate students to present and share their work - at any stage of development - and receive feedback from other studen ts and faculty members.
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The Research Colloquium is organized this year in collaboration with the GSA.
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