Wednesday January 29, 2014, 12-1pm Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (www.grsj.arts.ubc.ca) Jack Bell Building, 2080 West Mall, Room 028, UBC Directions to Office 038, Jack Bell Building: http://bit.ly/R5WyjE Lunch Provided on RSVP (wynn.archibald@ubc.ca) Dr. Joy Johnson Professor, School of Nursing, UBC and Director, CIHR Institute of Gender and Health Integrating Gender Considerations […]

Wednesday January 22 1-2pm LIU Institute, Multipurpose Room 6476 North West Marine Drive Dr. Alison Alkon, Assistant Professor and Chair of Sociology, University of the Pacific Black, White and Green: Food Justice, Farmers Markets and the Green Economy This talk will begin by describing the emergent concept of food justice, which is found at the […]

The Library and Research Commons Graduate Student Workshops series has many upcoming workshops on How to Complete your Ethics Application in RISE, Thesis Formatting, SPSS Data Mgmt, Citation Mgmt and more.  See the upcoming sessions here http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/series/7 . There is still space available for this week’s: Friday, January 24, 9:00 – 10:30 AM Intro to […]

The symposium is a wonderful opportunity to present our research ideas to a supportive and community-oriented audience, where we can give and receive constructive feedback, engage in mentorship, and network amongst other emerging scholars.  Please consider submitting your abstract – the deadline has been extended to February 7th, 2014. Submissions are currently being accepted at: […]

I am pleased to announce an upcoming research symposium at SFU, which may be of interest to you and to members of your university community, titled: Cyberbullying at Canadian Universities Awareness around the issue of cyberbullying has grown in the last year, as has research on this problem affecting universities as well as other workplaces […]

MentorLink’s Free Movie Night “Beyond our Difference” which will include food is fast approaching! It will be held on Tuesday Jan.28 from 6-8:30pm (food starts at 5:15pm) at the Global Lounge (Deadline to register is Jan.26). More information about MentorLink’s movie night, student discussion on conflict & reconciliation, and panel night with a former Supreme […]

Registration is open for the Instructional Skills Workshop February 28, March 1, 2, 2014.  Please note that participants must be able to attend the entire 24 hour workshop.  Please find attached the new policy for registration in the ISW. The Instructional Skills Workshop is an internationally recognized program and students receive transcript notation for their participation.  It is a […]

Dear Graduate Students, I would like to invite you to participate in the upcoming FIREtalk: Creativity and Innovation to be held on Wednesday January 29th 4-6 pm. Submit your proposal for a 5 minute presentation by January 15th. http://bit.ly/CreateandInnovate Where do creative and novel ideas come from? Can tools or techniques stimulate creativity and innovation? […]

A Dialogue with Jan Hare, Professor in Indigenous Education for Teacher Education Tuesday, February 4, 2014 4:30 – 6:30 pm First Nations House of Learning (Sty-Wet-Tan Hall) 1985 West Mall RSVP http://tinyurl.com/Jhare-Feb4 The Faculty of Education and Dr. Jan Hare invite members of the community to a dialogue about the vision and plans for the Professorship […]

For those who were unable to attend Peter Grimmett’s talk on Dec 13th and would like to view the recording, please go to http://m2.edcp.educ.ubc.ca/seminars/seminars2013/4-grimmett.mp4. Please note that a lot of our seminars were taped and the video links can be found on our website at http://edcp.educ.ubc.ca/community/seminars/.  This page lists EDCP seminars (with posters and video […]

Social Justice @UBC Noted Scholars Lecture Series, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice www.grsj.arts.ubc.ca Directions to Office 038, Jack Bell Building: http://bit.ly/R5WyjE NB: Lunch will be provided at no cost for those who RSVP: wynn.archibald@ubc.ca  Wednesday January 22, 12-1pm Black, White and Green: Food Justice, Farmers Markets and the Green Economy  Dr. Alison Alkon Assistant Professor […]

Please join the SFU Department of History on January 23rd for the fourth installment of our public lecture series, Heroes & Villains: Rethinking Good and Evil in History. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Reflections on the Renaissance Papacy A public lecture presented by Dr. Emily O’Brien January 23, 2014 | 5:30 PM Fletcher […]

In this new series, graduate students are invited to converse around a curated selection of documentary films. The first meeting will be Wednesday January 15 at 4:30pm in the Den (Scarfe 6A). Join fellow grad students for a new monthly short documentary film and discussion series. This month’s films are American Juggalo and That B.E.A.T. […]

The Autism and Developmental Disorders Lab at SFU, together with the Laurel Foundation, is co-hosting 3 community events entitled, “ASD & Family Quality of Life Discussion Series.” The 3 themes will be: Families and School, Families and Transitions, and Families and Mental Health. The aim of these events is to facilitate discussion among a range […]

We hope that you all had some time to rest over the holidays. We will continue this term with our seminar series every Thursday in Macmillan 154 from 2:00-3:00pm. We hope to see more and more of you. Feel free to forward any of these announcements to people you may think would be interested. For […]