This year’s conference theme, “Place and Power,” highlights two concepts that are inextricably interconnected in British Columbia. Specifically, the theme was inspired by a new BA requirement in the Faculty of Arts at UBC (Vancouver), which engages BA students with the history and present of xʷməθkʷəyəm People, with settler colonialism in BC, and with the systems of power, inequality, community, and diversity that make this place.
Presenters were encouraged to interpret the theme in any manner that deepens collective understanding of this place, and particularly invited approaches that speak to pressing issues of our time, from the rights of Indigenous Peoples to climate justice and beyond.
The conference runs from Friday May 2 to Sunday May 4. Below is some more information about GRSJ community members presenting this year.
Friday, May 2, 3:15pm
Session: Teaching and Learning Asian Canadian Studies in British Columbia
GRSJ Faculty Alifa Bandali and GRSJ Grad Student, Allen Baylosis (PhD).
Saturday, May 3, 10:30am
Session: Sights and Sounds of Empire
GRSJ Faculty Rosanne Sia: Noise and Empire at the Bamfield Cable Station
Saturday, May 3, 1:45pm
Session: Research, Engagement, and Knowledge Mobilization – New Methods and Problems for our Times
GRSJ Faculty Associate Michelle Stack and Katherine Cheng: Who Decides What is Accessible: Power and Community Engagement in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
Saturday, May 3, 3:30pm
Session: Power of, Within, and Against Educational Institutions
GRSJ Faculty, JP Catungal: Ate/Kuya: Queer(ing) Kinship and Filipinx Canadian Educational Organizing in Vancouver, Canada
Sunday May 4, 1:30pm
Session: Energy, Mining, Infrastructure, and Capitalism on Indigenous Lands and Waters
GRSJ Faculty Associate, Jessica Dempsey: Does regulation delay mines? A timeline and economic benefit audit of British Columbia mines
Sunday, May 4, 3:15PM
Session: Spaces, Social Capital, Culture and Community Building: The Case of Filipinos in British Columbia
Chaired by GRSJ Director, Nora Angeles
For more information about the conference, please visit their website.
