Month: September 2013

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Graduate Program Opportunities

Registration Now Open for the Instructional Skills Workshop October 29, 31, November 2‏

Registration is open for the Instructional Skills Workshop October 29, 31, November 2, 2013.  Please note that participants must be able to attend the entire 24 hour workshop.

The Instructional Skills Workshop is an internationally recognized program and students receive transcript notation for their participation.  It is a 3-day intensive workshop that develops participant’s teaching skills and confidence.  It is appropriate for first time teachers or those with years of experience.  Join the thousands of students who have taken this workshop.

This workshop is always in high demand. To register for the October 29, 31, November 2 ISW, please go to:

http://events.ctlt.ubc.ca/events/view/2937

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Speakers

October 2 – Dr. Pat Tarr, Public Lecture

If the Environment is the "Third Teacher", What is it Teaching Us?
Dr. Pat Tarr, University of Calgary

October 2nd, 2013, 3:00 - 4:00pm
Scarfe 209

One of the key principles of the Reggio philosophy is the creation of an intentional, richly prepared environment that serves as 
the "third" teacher for the children.  This seminar will take participants on a journey through early childhood classrooms 
beginning with the 1970s and how they reflected the values and beliefs held about children and teaching as a provocation for 
seminar participants to examine their own early childhood settings.

Dr. Pat Tarr, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Calgary. Her research interests currently 
focuses on classroom environments, pedagogical documentation in Canadian settings, and ethical issues in in documentation.  This 
presentation is based on her book chapter in Thinking Critically About Environments for Young Children: Bridging Theory and 
Practice edited by Lisa Kuh and Melissa Rivard, published by Teachers College Press due out in late spring 2014.
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Service Opportunities

**CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS**

The Department of Physical Therapy at UBC is in need of patient model volunteers for an upcoming practical exam:

Wednesday, October 16, 2013 from approximately 11:00am to 6:00pm.

This is a great way to find out more about physiotherapy!  Snacks and refreshments will be provided on the day, and volunteers will also receive a Chapters gift card as a small token of our appreciation.

Please review the attached volunteer requirements and contact me by reply email at cailen.ogley@ubc.ca by no later than October 6, 2013 if you are interested in this opportunity.

Please include:

·                     Confirmation that you are available from 11:00am to 6:00pm on Wednesday, October 16, 2013.

·                     Any physical limitations you may have (i.e. back/knee problems)

***NOTE: Please carefully consider your availability on this date before responding***

Further details will be provided to those interested.  If you know of anyone else (in any faculty) who would be willing to participate, please pass this message along to them.

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Journals

Graduate Students and the New Academic Labor Market: Workplace New Special Issue Launched‏

Graduate Students,

The Institute for Critical Education Studies (ICES) is extremely pleased to announce the launch of Workplace Issue #22, “The New Academic Labor Market and Graduate Students” (Guest Editors Bradley J. Porfilio, Julie A. Gorlewski & Shelley Pineo-Jensen). http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/workplace/issue/view/182463

Articles:

  • The New Academic Labor Market and Graduate Students: Introduction to the Special Issue (Brad Porfilio, Julie Gorlewski, Shelley Pineo-Jensen)
  • Dismissing Academic Surplus: How Discursive Support for the Neoliberal Self Silences New Faculty (Julie Gorlewski)
  • Academia and the American Worker: Right to Work in an Era of Disaster Capitalism? (Paul Thomas)
  • Survival Guide Advice and the Spirit of Academic Entrepreneurship: Why Graduate Students Will Never Just Take Your Word for It (Paul Cook)
  • Standing Against Future Contingency: Activist Mentoring in Composition Studies (Casie Fedukovich)
  • From the New Deal to the Raw Deal: 21st Century Poetics and Academic Labor (Virginia Konchan)
  • How to Survive a Graduate Career (Roger Whitson)
  • In Every Way I’m Hustlin’: The Post-Graduate School Intersectional Experiences of Activist-Oriented Adjunct and Independent Scholars (Naomi Reed, Amy Brown)
  • Ivory Tower Graduates in the Red: The Role of Debt in Higher Education (Nicholas Hartlep, Lucille T. Eckrich)
  • Lines of Flight: the New Ph.D. as Migrant (Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim)

The scope and depth of scholarship within this Special Issue has direct and immediate relevance for graduate students and new and senior scholars alike. We encourage you to review the Table of Contents and articles of interest.

Our blogs and links to our Facebook timelines and Twitter stream can be found at https://blogs.ubc.ca/workplace/ and https://blogs.ubc.ca/ices/

Thank you for your ongoing support of Workplace,

Stephen Petrina & E. Wayne Ross, co-Editors

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Funding and Awards

Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Scholarship‏

The EDCP Deadline for this competition is October 11, 2013, NOON.

Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Scholarship

$40,000 stipend plus $20,000 travel allowance

EDCP Deadline October 11, 2013 at NOON

Up to 15 Trudeau Scholarships are awarded each year to support doctoral students pursuing research in one or more of the four themes: human rights and social justice, responsible citizenship, Canada and the world, and humans and their natural environment. Trudeau Scholars are highly gifted individuals who are actively engaged in their fields and expected to become leading national and international figures.

Eligibility

  • Candidates must be applying into the first year of a PhD at UBC, or be registered in the first or second year of a PhD at UBC.
  • Although priority will be accorded to Canadian citizens and landed immigrants, up to one fourth of the total number of Trudeau Scholars may be international students (preference will be given to international students from the developing world ).

For application and nomination procedures, please see the Graduate Awards website: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/trudeau-foundation-doctoral-scholarship

The contact at the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for this competition is Allan Lee (allanlee@mail.ubc.ca)

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Conferences

World Congress Against Sex Exploitation (WCSEHTFL) 2013

From: Ms. Ciara Knight

E-mail: CiaraKnight@iname.com

It is a great pleasure to invite you to the World Congress against Sex Exploitation, Human Trafficking and forced labor (WCSEHTFL) 2013. The theme of this conference is: New Dimensions of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) and Combating Human and Sex Trafficking Worldwide. This topic not only invites us to reflect upon the basic and classical criminological ideas from a contemporary perspective, but also proposes to discuss their current transformation, modification, and new developments.

The World Congress against Sex Exploitation, Human Trafficking and forced labor is scheduled to take place from 6th to 11th November in New York and from 18th to 23nd November 2013 in Dakar Senegal. The congress is hosted by the Campaign against Sex Trafficking and sponsored by other benevolent donors worldwide

Objectives of the Congress against Sex Exploitation, Human Trafficking and forced labor objectives are:

1. To Increase awareness about the many types and ramifications of Human Trafficking

2. To serve as a resource to the public and advocates by providing valuable information about other initiatives working to address human Trafficking sex trafficking

3. To provide rehabilitation services to current and potential victims.

4. To encourage policy at local and national levels that will contribute to reducing human trafficking and abuse.

5. To provide insight in the activities in the field of science and policy interface;

6. To build a platform of knowledge at an international level;

For more information contact the conference organizing committee via e-mail: wcsehtfl-sec-off@collector.org
Sincerely,

Ms .Ciara Knight E-mail: CiaraKnight@iname.com

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Graduate Program Opportunities

GPS workshops: Stress to Strengths and Intro to Project Mgmt‏

Registration is now open for next week’s workshops:

From Stress to Strengths! Living a More Congruent Life (offered with the UBC Life & Career Centre)

Thursday, October 3rd, 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM, Graduate Student Centre

For a  complete session description, please visit: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/10701-gpslcc-workshop-stress-strengths-living-more-congruent-life

To register, please visit: http://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2b3f

 

Introduction to Project Mgmt (offered with the Mitacs Step program)

Thursday, October 3rd, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM, Graduate Student Centre

For a complete session description, please visit https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/9907-gpsmitacs-introduction-project-management

Registration is available at: http://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2b5e

 

For upcoming GPS workshops and further information on our program check out https://www.grad.ubc.ca/gps .

A calendar of upcoming graduate student workshops offered by CSI&C, the library and CTLT may be found at https://www.grad.ubc.ca/current-students/gps-graduate-pathways-success/ubc-graduate-student-events .

 

Notes:

The Mitacs Step program is offering the following workshops at UBC Robson square.  Registration is open to graduate students and post-doctoral fellows from all BC post-secondary institutions and will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.

Presentation Skills I: http://step.mitacs.ca/workshop/2013/10/practice-your-presentation-skills-i-vancouver-october-17-2013

Presentation Skills II: http://step.mitacs.ca/workshop/2013/11/practice-your-presentation-skills-ii-vancouver-november-21-2013

Foundations of Project Management I: http://step.mitacs.ca/workshop/2013/11/foundations-project-management-i-vancouver-november-28-29-2013

Effective Business Etiquette: http://step.mitacs.ca/workshop/2014/01/effective-business-etiquette-vancouver-january-28-2014

Foundations of Project Management II: http://step.mitacs.ca/workshop/2014/02/foundations-project-management-ii-vancouver-february-3-4-2014

The Art, Science, and Practice of Positive Networking: http://step.mitacs.ca/workshop/2014/02/art-science-and-practice-positive-networking-vancouver-february-18-2014

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Employment

TA Position Available: GRSJ 320 Feminist Anti-Racist Pedagogies

Sent on behalf of Dr. Janice Stewart
Chair, Undergraduate Programs and Undergraduate Advisor Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (GRSJ)
 
Please Distribute Widely to Graduate Student lists in your Unit. Thanks.
 
TA position for Term 2, 2013-2014, Wed. 2-3:30pm GRSJ 320 Feminist Anti-Racist Pedagogies (Writing Intensive course)
 
http://www.grsj.arts.ubc.ca/undergraduate/undergraduate-courses/
 
Electronic applications only
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Announcements Speakers

Sept. 23 – Sharon P. Holland, GRSJ Noted Scholars Lecture

Dr. Sharon P. Holland, Sept. 23, 4-5pm, UBC.

This is one of very exciting events that we are co-sponsoring this year. Hope to see many of you there! (tea, coffee and snacks 
available from 3:30pm) Note: We will be starting on time, so that those of us doing a Theory Double-Bill can make it to the Vogue 
Theater for Bruno Latour later that evening
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SOCIAL JUSTICE @ UBC NOTED SCHOLARS LECTURE SERIES 2013-2014 The Intimate Public Sphere: Thinking Through the Skin 
Sept. 23, 4-5pm Liu Institute Multipurpose Room (tea, coffee and snacks available from 3:30pm)
The Erotic Life of Racism

Dr. Sharon P. Holland
Associate Professor,
English and African & African American Studies, Duke University

This talk builds upon The Erotic Life of Racism (Duke University Press, 2012) a project that specifically interrogates the 
relationship among African Americanist, Queer studies and Critical Race theorists. It makes a major contribution to these fields 
by tracing the very thorny question of the place of race at the table of ideas in what has become to be known as queer theory. The 
book is a wholly theoretical project that invests itself in articulating where and when queer theory borrows from critical race 
theory and how this borrowing also intersects with queer theory's roots in feminist studies. What I want to think through in this 
lecture is the how, why and when of the project by speaking specifically to the various theoretical and experiential roads that 
led me to the work.

Dr. Sharon P. Holland is the author of Raising The Dead: Readings Of Death And (Black) Subjectivity (Duke UP, 2000), which won 
the Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association (ASA 2002). She is also co-author of Crossing Waters/
Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country (Duke University Press, 2006) and author of The Erotic Life of Racism 
(Duke University Press, 2012), a theoretical project that explores the intersection of Critical Race, Feminist, and Queer Theory. 
http://theprofessorstable.wordpress.com/

Co-sponsored by Jane Rule Endowment, CSIS, and the Global Queer Research Group, Liu Institute
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Announcements Speakers

Sept 26 – Law & Society lecture

Danny Bakan

 University of British Columbia

 

“Song and Social Justice: Music and Activism”

Thursday, September 26th, 2013

12:30 – 1:30 pm

Forum, Allard Hall, Faculty of Law (1822 East Mall)

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Announcements Department Events

EDCP Welcome Back Barbeque on Thursday, October 17th‏

You are cordially invited to a Welcome Back Barbecue on Thursday, October 17th, 2013 from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.  Venue is the garden at the west entrance of the Scarfe Building.

For catering purposes, please RSVP to Kalie at kalie.fong@ubc.ca  by Friday, October 7th, 2013.

We hope to see you all on October 17th, 2013!

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Graduate Program Opportunities Speakers

Research Commons FIREtalk: Indigenizing the Academy

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission events in Vancouver support reconciliation between Aboriginal people and wider Canadian society. To continue the conversation, Xwi7xwa Library and the Research Commons at Koerner Library invite you to participate in a FIREtalk at the First Nations House of Learning Hall on Oct 23, 4-6 pm. (Note new date)

How can the academy engage Aboriginal and Indigenous knowledge? What are some ways researchers at UBC – Indigenous and non-Indigenous – are using Indigenous methodologies and incorporating Indigenous knowledge?  What challenges arise and how can we address them?

Be part of the discussion: submit your proposals for a 5-minute presentation by the 2nd of October, 2013. Find more information at: http://bit.ly/FTpresent

Interested but don’t want to present? Attend as an audience member and join the discussion after the presentations! To attend without presenting, register at: http://bit.ly/23OctFt

FIREtalks: An interdisciplinary forum for graduate students, by graduate students. Find out more at: http://bit.ly/firetalk

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Announcements

EDCP Soup & Bread lunch days

Welcome back to a new academic year!

For the past three years, members of EDCP have made homemade soup and either baked or purchased bread for Thursday shared lunch. This has offered everyone an enjoyable social moment in a busy day, where we pause to eat something delicious and talk with our colleagues. Sharing a meal is a wonderful way to build community — and we all work better after a nutritious lunch.

Those who want to participate, please sign up to contribute soup or bread once in the September-to-April academic year. Ideally, we will have two people each week bringing a pot of soup, and we aim to have at least one vegetarian option. We supply a bread machine and two large crock pots to warm the soup, and try to have everything hot and ready to eat at 12:00 noon.

To sign up for a particular Thursday, contact Saroj Chand <saroj.chand@ubc.ca>.

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Service Opportunities

Grad Student Volunteer Positions on OGPR GCAC and DACR Committees‏

The Office of Graduate Programs and Research (OGPR) currently has two graduate student (either Masters or PhD) volunteer positions on two of its committees as described below:

We are looking for a graduate student volunteer for the Graduate Curriculum Advisory Committee (GCAC).  The GCAC serves as an advisory committee to departments and the Dean on graduate policy within the Faculty and administers all graduate program and curriculum changes within the Faculty.

We are also looking for a graduate student volunteer for the Dean’s Advisory Committee on Research (DACR).  We discuss issues related to research (e.g., representing FOE research to the University community, policies related to research, etc.).

Membership on these committees includes one faculty representative from each Department (EDCP; ECPS; EDST and LLED), the Centre from Cross-Faculty Inquiry (CCFI), and the School of Kinesiology (KIN) as well as two graduate students.  Monthly meetings are chaired by the OGPR Associate Dean, Dr. Beth Haverkamp.  The GCAC meets every fourth Tuesday of the month from 9:30-12:00pm (approximate) in Scarfe 309C.  The meeting schedule for the GCAC is: September 24, October 22, November 26, 2013 there are no scheduled meetings in December, January 28, February 25, March 25, April 22, May 27 and June 24, 2014.  The DACR meets every second Tuesday of the month from 9:30-11:30am in Scarfe 309C.  The meeting schedule for the DACR is: October 8, November 12, December 10, 2013, January 14, February 11, March 11, April 8, May 13 and June 10.  Both committees do not meet during the months of June or July.

Becoming a member of either committee would provide a graduate student with the opportunity to provide a voice for the student perspective on a wide-range of issues and topics relevant to the Faculty of Education as well as the wider University community.  If you would like to volunteer for either of these committees, please send me an email, along with a brief outline of why are interested in the committee and what qualities you would bring to the committee.  Email to: christine.wallsworth@ubc.ca.

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Announcements

Registration Deadlines for September 2013‏

Tuesday, 17 September 2013

Term 1 courses and Distance Education Term A courses:

Last day for change in registration and for withdrawal from most Winter Session Term 1 courses and Distance Education Term A courses without withdrawal standing of W recorded on a student’s academic record.  Student Service Centre remains open for course withdrawals with a W standing.  Refer to the online Course Schedule for specific drop/withdrawal dates.

Last day for changes between credit and audit for most Winter Session Term 1 courses and Distance Education Term A courses. Refer to the online Course Schedule for specific information.

Friday, 20 September 2013

Full-year (Terms 1-2) courses and Distance Education Term B courses:

Last day for change in registration and for withdrawal from most Winter Session full-year (Terms 1-2) courses and Distance Education Term B courses without withdrawal standing of W recorded on a student’s academic record. Student Service Centre remains open for course withdrawals with a W standing. Refer to the online Course Schedule for specific drop/withdrawal dates.

Last day for changes between credit and audit for most Winter Session full-year (Terms 1-2) courses. Refer to the online Course Schedule for specific information.

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