Here you can find information about our monthly caucuses, including the topics, stimulus texts (with links), and discussion questions that we prepare ahead of each meeting.
What happens during the Antiracist Caucuses meetings?
The topic of the upcoming meeting and a couple of stimulus texts are circulated within the department a couple of weeks before the meeting. In the beginning of the meeting, the topic is introduced by the facilitating faculty member. We then divide ourselves into the caucuses – an IBPOC (Indigenous, Black, and people of color) caucus and a White caucus – and discuss the topic and texts for about 40 minutes. An assisting graduate student takes notes of the discussion in each caucus. Afterwards, the assisting graduate students summarize the discussions for both caucuses and the whole group engages in a short discussion.
April 2025: How might artful resistance offer pathways to antiracist healing and education?
February 2025: Encountering and addressing raciolinguistic ideologies in digital spaces and tools
January 2025: Antiracism in research
November 2024: Misidentification of racialized people in White spaces
October 2024: BC’s Action Plan and Teacher Guidelines on Antiracism
May 2024: Antiracist Peer-reviewing
April 2024: The burden of talking about Indigeneity, race and racism
March 2024: Sleep and social (in)justice
January 2024: Representation, stereotypes, and (anti)racism in TV and movies
November 2023: Decolonization and antiracism
October 2o23: Emotional Labour
April 2023: Antiracist education for international/study-abroad undergraduate students
March 2023: Dealing with racism denial
January 2023: Racism in and through Artificial Intelligence and other digital tools
November 2022: Exploring UBC’s Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence Task Force (ARIE-TF) Report
October 2022: Systemic racism as seen in sport
May 2022: Reflection and future ideas
April 2022: Antiracist allyship/solidarity
January 2022: (Faculty wide) Overcoming racism in teacher education
November 2021: How do we approach difficult moments involving racism in the classroom?
October 2021: What is excellence in service?
May 2021: Creating a self-reflection tool for developing syllabi and planning instruction
April 2021: How do we implement our new “About Us” statement?
March 2021: What is excellence in teaching?
February 2021: What is scholarly excellence?
November 2020: Description of LLED in our job ads
October 2020: EDI, antiracism, decolonization, and diversity statements for faculty hiring
April 2020: Coronavirus racism
January 2020: Do our practices reflect our commitment to social justice (as stated on our website)?