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 in Health Research: Shaping Science for a Healthier World Failure to consider sex and gender in research can be harmful and costly. Yet, many scientists persist in the belief that either these differences do not matter, or that they can be controlled through experimental or statistical procedures. At the CIHR Institute of Gender and Health we are working toward changing the way science is conducted by influencing the structures, processes and outcomes of research. In this talk I discuss achievements, barriers, and future challenges in achieving this agenda. With an extensive background researching the role that gender plays in medical treatment, Dr. Joy Johnson is considered one of Canada's leading scholars in the field of health behaviour. She's won several awards, including a Killam research prize from UBC, which recognizes outstanding and scholarly contributions of international significance. Dr. Johnson is the Scientific Director at the CIHR Institute of Gender and Health, co-founder of the Women's Health Research Network, and a professor at UBC.
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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 nexus of inequalities and food and agricultural systems. It will lay out some of the guiding questions and theoretical antecedents that have helped to define the field. Next, Alkon will offer an example from her own ethnographic work in the San Francisco Bay Area. There, Alkon compared predominantly black and white farmers markets to better understand the ways that race and class shape the visions and goals that communities assign to sustainable agriculture. From this research she argues that both communities sought to create more just and sustainable food systems, and that efforts to do so were simultaneously inventive and limited by each market's social location. However, she also describes how economic inequalities pervade both farmers markets in ways that cannot be resolved without broader structural changes. Alkon will draw from this knowledge to comment on the field of food justice research, and to highlight potential directions for new work. Dr. Alison Alkon is Assistant Professor and Chair, Sociology at the University of the Pacific where she teaches and does research on food, the environment and inequalities of race, class and gender. Alkon's books include Black, White and Green: Race, Farmers Markets and the Green Economy and Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class and Sustainability (co-edited with Julian Agyeman). These works have helped to establish the growing field of Food Justice Studies which explores how inequalities affect food and agricultural systems and how communities and policy makers are responding to these inequalities. Co-sponsored by the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice and the Ecologies of Social Difference: Social Justice @UBC research network
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 Interacting with the Media:
To register, please visit: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2f10
Registration is now open for:
Professional and Business Effectiveness
Tuesday, January 28, 9:00am to 12:30pm
For a complete session description, visit: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/10759-gps-event-professional-business-effectiveness
To register, please visit: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2fa3
Time Management
Wednesday, January 29, 10:00am – 12:00pm
For a complete session description, please visit: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/10963-gps-workshop-time-management
To register, please visit: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2fa4
Doctoral Exam Preparation and Submitting your Thesis (Webinar):
Wednesday, January 29, 1:30pm – 4:00pm
For a complete session description, please visit: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/11017-doctoral-exam-preparation-submitting-your-thesis-webinar
To register, please visit: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2fa6
Doctoral Exam Preparation and Submitting your Thesis (In person session):
Thursday, January 30, 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM: Doctoral Exams and 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM Thesis
For a complete session description, please visit: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/11011-doctoral-exam-preparation-submitting-your-thesis
To register, please visit: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2fc8
Copyright for your Thesis: how to use images and other material
Thursday, January 30, 1:00pm – 3:00pm
For a complete session description, please visit: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/11013-gpslibrary-workshop-copyright-your-thesis-how-use-images-other-material
To register, please visit: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2fac
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: http://gradsage.com/igss-submission-form/. Also, please consider sending an email to grad.sage@ubc.ca to volunteer with either the planning committee or on the day of the event.
Best,
IGSS 2014 Planning Committee
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 and educational institutions. This one-day event will:
· Bring together policy, practice, and scholarly research in order to enhance awareness and understanding of cyberbullying among various stakeholder groups;
· Develop on-going dialogue around research, applications, and policy responses to cyberbullying in Canadian universities;
· Provide an opportunity to forge strategic partnerships within our university as well as with other universities interested in creating on-going research and working groups.
This is a free, invitation-only event sponsored by four SFU groups:
· Vice-President, Academic
· Safety & Risk Services
· Faculty of Education
· Centre for Education, Law & Society
The event will take place on Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 at the Wosk Centre for Dialogue in Vancouver, BC. We hope you can save this date to your calendar to join us for this exciting event.
We also hope that you can assist us in identifying key stakeholders at your university who would be interested in joining this dialogue. We will reserve a minimum number of seats for your institution and hope you can invite members of your university community to join you in attending this event. We hope to have a balanced representation in the audience of policymakers/administrators, teaching and research personnel, students, and staff. More information about the symposium and registration will soon be available on the website.
Best regards,
Chantal Faucher, PhD
Post-doctoral fellow
Centre for Education, Law and Society
Simon Fraser University
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 Court judge and mediator of 30 years, a conflict transformation scholar/practitioner, and an arbitrator can be found at www.ionapacific.ca/studentleadership<http The documentary discusses the following topics: 1. The Positive Role of Religion 2. Religion Used Negatively 3. Afghanistan 4. Human Rights 5. Non-Violence Movements 6. Israel & Palestine 7. Father Kieran Creagh How to stay up-to-date? Facebook at "MentorLinkatIP" Follow us on Twitter @MentorLinkatIP "Beyond Our Differences" features world leaders from government, academia, religious traditions, and civil rights including Karen Armstrong, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Chief Rabbi David Rosen, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Farida Vahedi (Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is), Ela Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi's granddaughter), the top aid to Martin Luther King Jr., Professor Noam Chomsky, Mohammad Khatami, among many others that explores the positive role of faith in the world today and the fundamental unity of the world's religions. Where do world leaders and the biggest thinkers of our time in politics, religion, culture, arts and science weigh in on these issues? In what context do faith and religion play principal roles in inspiring our collective peoples toward a more peaceful and compassionate humanity? More information about the documentary can be found at http://www.beyondourdifferences.com/about.html Come out for a relaxing evening of watching a documentary and having a short discussion with other students about your thoughts on conflict & reconciliation! E-mail mentorlink@ionapacific.ca or call 604-822-0245 for more information!
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 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 February 28, March 1, 2 ISW, please go to:
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? Are creative processes the same across disciplines? Submit to present and share your approach towards creativity and innovation.
To sign up as a presenter click on the following link:
http://koerner.library.ubc.ca/services/research-commons/fire-talks/proposal-submission-form/
To sign up as an attendee click on the following link:
http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4617/
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us by email at research.commons@ubc.ca
Kelsey Blair
Student Coordinator
Koerner Library Research Commons
kelsey.blair@ubc.ca
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
The Faculty of Education and Dr. Jan Hare invite members of the community to a dialogue about the vision and plans for the Professorship in Indigenous Education for Teacher Education, and the needs of the community. Dr. Hare has been appointed to this new Professorship, a key legacy project arising from the Year of Indigenous Education. The goals of the new Professorship are to:
– enrich teacher education with Indigenous perspectives, histories and pedagogies to help prepare teacher candidates,
– engage in the professional development of practicing teachers and faculty to strengthen Indigenous education identity and approaches in current teaching.
Dr. Jan Hare, Associate Professor in Language and Literacy Education, is an Anishinaabe scholar and educator from the M’Chigeeng First Nation, located on Manitoulin Island in Northern Ontario. Through her teaching and research in BC and across the country, she has sought to transform education in ways that are more inclusive of Indigenous ways of knowing and approaches to learning. Dr. Hare’s program of research extends from early childhood education to higher education and is engaged in several curriculum projects supporting the professional development of in‑service and pre‑service educators.
This includes the development of a new MOOC (massive open online course) titled, “Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education.”
More information: Joanne O’Connor joanne.oconnor@ubc.ca
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EDCP Seminar Videos
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 links) from 2010 onwards.
Social Justice @UBC Noted Scholars Lecture Series, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice
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 and Chair of Sociology, University of the Pacific
Wednesday January 29, 12-1pm
Integrating Gender Considerations In Health Research: Shaping Science For A Healthier World
Dr. Joy Johnson
Professor, School of Nursing, UBC and Director, CIHR Institute of Gender and Health
Wednesday February 12, 12-1pm
Ethno-Specificity As Critique Of The ‘Sexual Normal’: A Queer-Of-Colour Geography
Dr. JP Catungal
Killam Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice and Department of Geography, UBC
Wednesday February 26, 12-1pm
“We Welcome Applications From Members Of Visible Minority Groups”: Reflections On Race, Gender And Life At Three Universities
Dr. Annette Henry
Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education, Faculty of Education, UBC
Wednesday March 19, 12-1pm
CWILA and the Problem of Counting for Race
Madeleine Thien
Author of Dogs at the Perimeter and Simple Recipes, Simon Fraser University Writer-in-Residence 2013-2014
Dr. Laura Moss
Associate Professor of Canadian Literature, Department of English, UBC and Acting Editor of Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review
Dr. Mary Chapman
Associate Professor of American Literature, Department of English, UBC
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
A public lecture presented by Dr. Emily O’Brien
January 23, 2014 | 5:30 PM
Fletcher Challenge Theatre, Harbour Centre
515 W. Hastings St., Vancouver, BC
In popular culture, the Renaissance papacy (c. 1417-1534) seems an intriguing mixture of highs and lows. On the one hand, it dazzles us with artistic achievements – the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s, to name but two. On the other, it shocks us with personalities infamous enough to thrive on cable television (“The Borgias,” anyone?). While this blend of extremes may draw us to the Renaissance papacy, how much can it actually teach us? A great deal, in fact. This lecture tours the good, the bad and the ugly of this period in papal history and, in so doing, illuminates how this era represented a turning point for the Western Church.
This event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited, and registration is strongly encouraged. Reserve your spot online: http://www.sfu.ca/history/events/papacy.html.
Unable to attend? Check out all of our public lectures on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjovwYJ237SlP75IFJ-yVKQ/videos.
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Jan 15 – Doc & Talk
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. Discussion will focus on the construction of the idea of “subcultures” and also issues surrounding race, class, gender, sexuality representation, and voice. The conversation will be facilitated by Brooke Madden and Sam Stiegler. Grad students who are interested in selecting films (and leading discussions) for future sessions should most certainly attend with their ideas!
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 of stakeholders, including individuals and their families, researchers, and professionals about important Quality of Life issues. These events are FREE and open to the public, so please join us and bring your questions, ideas, and comments to what is sure to be a lively discussion! During the events, we will also be giving families an opportunity to participate in our research. 1. Family and Schools Saturday, January 18, 2014, 1 - 4pm West Mall Complex 2200 Simon Fraser University, Burnaby Spots are limited, so please RSVP at http://autismlab.psyc.sfu.ca/events Panelists: Dr. Grace Iarocci, Associate Professor of Psychology, SFU Emily Gardiner, Doctoral Candidate, Psychology, SFU Dr. Pat Mirenda, Professor of Educational & Counseling Psychology, & Special Ed. And Director, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration in Autism (CIRCA), UBC Amelia Poitras, Learning Support Teacher, Westcot Elementary School Jody Langlois, Assistant Superintendent, School District No. 48 Evangeline Torres, Director, Learning Resource Centre, BC Christian Academy Colleen Fuller, Parent and Counselor Laurel Foundation **Dates and times for the other 2 events are currently being finalized. Please check our website for the most up to date information.
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TerreWEB Seminar this Thursday
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 this week’s TerreWEB seminar we have Novak Rogic, who will be talking about “Resource Management, Content Sharing and Republishing at UBC – Case Studies and Possibilities.” Everyone is welcome!
Abstract:UBC runs MediaWiki and WordPress platforms for personal publishing (over 20,000 users) content management (over 700 websites), content sharing and republishing, ePortfolio and general teaching and learning for over 40,000 students and 10,000 faculty and staff. Novak Rogic will present a few interesting teaching and learning projects and share current developments.
Bio: Novak Rogic is the Web Strategy Manager at the UBC’s Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology. He is responsible for UBC Blogs, Wiki and CMS and leads the web projects that emphasize sharing, producing and collaboration on the Internet.
When: This Thursday, January 9th
Where: Macmillan Building, Room 154
Time: 2:00-3:00pm (3:30 for TerreWEB Scholars)
Live Webinar: If you are unavailable to attend, we will have live webinar which can be accessed live here: Webinar Link – Please log in 5 minutes early and use your name for the “login” field.
Ongoing info about TerreWEB seminars can be found HERE. (Coming soon)
Hope to see you there!
Preston Cumming