Social Justice @UBC Lecture/Lunch Wednesday Oct. 9, 12-1pm Jack Bell Building, 2080 West Mall, Room 028 Directions to Office 038, Jack Bell Building: http://bit.ly/R5WyjE Lunch Provided on RSVP wynn.archibald@ubc.ca Dr. Dory Nason, Assistant Professor, Department of English & First Nations Studies Program, UBC Dr. Dory Nason (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley) is Anishinaabe and an enrolled member of the Leech Lake Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. She currently holds a joint appointment with the First Nations Studies Program and the Department of English at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. At UBC, Dr. Nason teaches Indigenous Literature and Criticism; Indigenous Theory and Research Methods; and Indigenous Feminisms. Dr. Nason recently received the 2013 UBC Killam Teaching Prize for recognition of excellence in teaching. She is currently at work on her book manuscript, Red Feminist Criticism: Indigenous Women, Activism and Cultural Production Not Your Pocahontas: Activism, Indigenous Women and Violence in Tailfeathers: A Red Girl's Reasoning and Bloodland In this paper, I discuss two recent short films, Bloodland and A Red Girl's Reasoning, by Vancouver-based Blood/ S=E1mi filmmaker Elle-M=E1ij=E1 Tailfeathers. Tailfeathers, a self-identified Indigenous feminist, creates films that address violence against Indigenous women in relation to ongoing forms of settler colonialism. Her choice of experimental and genre filmmaking thwart conventional expectations of Indigenous women in film, and raise interesting questions about activism through independent filmmaking outside of documentary.
Month: September 2013
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Oct 9 OGPR WELCOME BACK OPEN HOUSE!
Dear Graduate Students,
Welcome back to UBC and the Faculty of Education! We would like to celebrate your return to the Faculty and also welcome new graduate students to the Office of Graduate Programs and Research (OGPR).
Please drop by and see us at our WELCOME BACK OPEN HOUSE!
Date: October 9th
Time: 2:00-4:00pm
Location: Room 309, Scarfe Bldg.
This event is open to all graduate students in the Faculty of Education . We look forward to seeing you.
Cheers,
OGPR Team
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ONLINE AUTISM COURSE AVAILABLE STARTING IN JANUARY 2014!
UBCs Dept. of Educational and Counselling Psychology and Special Education and Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration in Autism (CIRCA) are pleased to offer EPSE 449: Educating Students with Autism ONLINE for the first time in the January-April 2014 semester.
The Office of the Provost and Vice-President Academic invites proposals for funding from the Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF) for the year 2014-15. Please find attached a memo from Dr. Anna Kindler, Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President Academic. Please ensure that this information is made available to all faculty and students in your unit.
The deadline for units to submit applications to the Office of the Provost and VP Academic is Wednesday, November 21, 2013 at 4:30pm. Application forms can be downloaded from the TLEF website at http://tlef.ubc.ca/.
Applicants are asked to carefully review the TLEF Criteria (http://tlef.ubc.ca/tlef-criteria/) and the Application Procedures (http://tlef.ubc.ca/application-process/) as there have been some important changes added for this year.
A workshop for Standard TLEF funding applicants will be held on Monday, October 7th, 12:00-2:00p.m., in Room 2.22 (CTLT) of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Applicants should click here to register. There is also assistance for Flexible-Learning TLEF funding applicants as noted in Dr. Kindler’s memo.
Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Selina Fast at selina.fast@ubc.ca.
It’s a well known fact that the average grad student manages to de-forest a small country, not to mention lose litres of blood due to paper cuts, from the paper they generate during the grad school process. It is possible to manage much of it with technology; different software and apps can help streamline the process of collecting, sorting, and reading literature, and make writing a less stressful process. This workshop is a chance to share tips and tricks, learn about some of these tools, and test out some of the ways you can tame your literature pile into a more manageable beast.
To celebrate National Dyslexia Awareness month,
Pacific Educational Press is very pleased to invite you to the book launch of:
Understanding Dyslexia and Other Learning Disabilities
by Dr. Linda Siegel
When: September 26, 2013 from 2:30 pm–4:30 pm
Where: Room 2414, 2125 Main Mall, UBC (Neville Scarfe Building, Faculty and Student Lounge)
Refreshments will be served.
This invitation is directed to all faculty and staff, teachers, parents, helping professionals, and students. You are welcome to invite friends to this event.
This is no ordinary event! You will surely be inspired and we hope that this event will deepen your appreciation for this cause.
“Linda Siegel’s richly informative and highly readable book shows that untreated learning disabilities lie behind anti-social behaviour, teenage ‘acting out,’ and widescale social problems. Yet many are remarkably successful despite learning disabilities. This book demonstrates both sides, pointing to practical, inexpensive measures. Educators and policy-makers everywhere should take heed. It is a ‘must-read.'”
—W. Wesley Pue, Professor of Law, University of British Columbia
RSVP: Kaye Banez at kaye.banez@ubc.ca or 604-822-9499.
Reminder to send your Welcome Back Barbecue RSVP to kalie.fong@ubc.ca by Friday October 7th, 2013!
Also, please let her know if you are vegetarian.
This is a great opportunity to meet the EDCP faculty and your fellow students.
Coffee’ll Fix It! Socials
In addition to providing a much needed tea and coffee break, the Coffee’ll Fix It! social will run every Thursday afternoon from 3pm and include activities such as information sessions, guest speakers, forums, speed dating, and games days.
This week’s topic:
Meet the GSS President and Vice-President Services
Do you have questions about what the Graduate Student Society (GSS) has to offer graduate students? Would you like to become involved? Are you interested in some of our upcoming events including the Halloween Party, Spanish or Zumba classes, or perhaps you would like to find out how to became the representative for your department?
GSS President, Christopher Roach and Vice-President Services, Yuanyuan Liu will be available to answer any questions you may have, or just to say hello!
Please join us:
Thursday, from 3 pm
Seedlings Café, GSS Penthouse
Thea Koerner House 6371 Crescent Road
For enquiries, please contact aa@gss.ubc.ca
This is a notice to confirm that the materials for the Master’s CGS competitions (SSHRC, NSERC and CIHR) are online and ready for students to begin their applications.
Both the application portal and Master’s CGS Canadian Common CV are accessible from the CGS Harmonization page on NSERC’s website: http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etudiants/PG-CS/CGSM-BESCM_eng.asp
As part of Celebrate Learning Week and Year of Teacher Education Join us for Celebrate Science 2013 Making Science Fun! at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum. October 26, 2013 9:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m. For teachers, librarians, writers, parents and teens. Come hear Dr. Andrew Trites, UBC scientist who was part of the team that brought the blue whale skeleton to the Beaty. Special tribute to Gordon Gore founder of the Big Little Science Centre in Kamloops. Also learn from science writers for kids and teens as they talk about their books--featuring Shar Levine, Leslie Johnstone, Carol McDougall, E. Paul Zehr, and Claire Eamer to mention a few. Free admission and tour of the Beaty Biodiversity Museum! Register: Go to CelebrateScience.eventbrite.com
Sleep2Treat Networking <http://www.childrenssleepnetwork.org/WP/next-steps/sleep2treat-workshop/sleep2treat-registration-form/> VENUE: UBC Robson Square Theatre Friday, September 27 | 6 - 10 pm Consequence of Sleep Problems in Children with Neurodevelopmental Conditions: How to Improve Clinical Outcomes Saturday, September 28 | 8:30 am - 12:15 pm How to Screen for Chronic Sleep Problems? How to Structure the Public Discussion
"Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC) in the Preschool Classroom: Infusing Core Language Intervention" presented by Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration in Autism (CIRCA) Presenter: Carole Zangari, Ph.D., CCC-SLP Professor and Director of the Tyler Institute, Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida Thursday October 17, 2013 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Neville Scarfe Building 2125 Main Mall Room 308A http://tinyurl.com/MaptoScarfe RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/CIRCA-CZangari Description: Speech-language pathologists and educators supporting preschoolers with autism and other developmental disabilities often need to infuse AAC interventions into classroom activities and routines. In many therapeutic settings, however, there is not a systematic process for teaching core vocabulary. This presentation describes a curricular approach in which core language is taught using early literacy activities, such as shared reading and writing lessons, typical classroom routines, and play/learning activities. Contact: pat.mirenda@ubc.ca or joanne.oconnor@ubc.ca