Overview
Place and Power: BC Studies Conference 2025 features three full days of panels and roundtables spread across eight concurrent sessions! The full conference program is available to registered delegates.
The conference program also includes several special events for registered delegates.
Plenary keynote
5:15-7:00pm, Friday 2 May
Frederic Wood Theatre (6354 Crescent Road; approx. 400 m from Allard Hall)
Comments
Larry Grant, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Elder (Adjunct Professor, UBC; Manager, Musqueam Nation Language Department)
Keynote talk
“‘It’s something we’ve just got to begin to do ourselves’: Beginning the Indigenous Women’s Shelter Movement in Kanata’s West”
Sarah Nickel (Canada Research Chair, Indigenous Politics and Gender; History, Classics, and Religion, University of Alberta)
Evening reception
7:00pm, Friday 2 May
Koerner’s Pub (1758 West Mall; approx. 240 m from Frederic Wood Theatre)
All conference delegates welcome! No fee. Light fare included with conference registration. Cash bar.
Lunchtime plenary
12:15-1:30pm, Saturday 3 May
Frederic Wood Theatre (6354 Crescent Road; approx. 400 m from Allard Hall)
Roundtable: Climate Justice in British Columbia
Rita Wong (Emily Carr University of Art + Design)
Daniel Sims (University of Northern British Columbia)
Mohammed Rafi Arefin (University of British Columbia)
Moderator: Am Johal (Co-Director, SFU Community Engaged Research Initiative)
Evening at the museum
5:30-7:00pm
Museum of Anthropology (6393 NW Marine Dr; approx. 650 m from Allard Hall)
The museum will be open for conference delegates only during this time!
Curator-led tours available from 5:30-6:30pm.
Thank you to the Museum of Anthropology for providing this special opportunity.