Hi everyone,

The next IRES Seminar is in the Beaty Museum Allan Yap Theatre:

October 19, 2023: IRES Faculty Seminar with Tabitha Robin

Food as healer, food as helper: Towards Cree food sovereignties

Time: 12:30pm to 1:20pm

Location: Beaty Museum Allan Yap Theatre (Basement, 2212 Main Mall) Please check in at the Admissions Desk first before going to the Theatre.

No food or drinks allowed in the Theatre.

Click here to register for Zoom link. Zoom will be terminated if we encounter tech problems 5 to 10 mins into the seminar.

Talk summary:

Historically and contemporarily, colonial policies and prejudices have deeply affected Indigenous food systems and thus Indigenous bodies. For Cree peoples in Manitoba, these policies include the criminalization of practicing traditional medicines, residential schools and land dispossession in the name of development. However, despite the challenges and interruptions to food and cultural systems, Cree Elders understand food to be sacred, and moreover, a healer. This qualitative study, grounded in Indigenous research methodologies, sought to investigate the role of food in Cree culture, through understanding how Elders incorporate food into their helping and healing practices. Using metaphor to make meaning of the Elder stories, this research articulates the role of food in Cree culture: through feeding oneself, one’s ancestors, and one’s community. The Elders revealed the rich depth of Cree food knowledges that underlie Cree culture, from star stories, language, and grieving ceremonies to knowledge of plant and food medicines. This presentation is an exploration of Cree guidance for revitalizing and rebuilding Cree food systems as part of a larger Indigenous food sovereignty framework. 

 

Dr. Tabitha Robin, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Land and Food Systems

Bio:

Tabitha Robin is a mixed ancestry Metis and Cree researcher, educator, and writer. She is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems at the University of British Columbia. She spends much of her time learning about traditional Cree food practices. 

 

See you next Thursday in the Beaty Museum Allan Yap Theatre!

 

 

 

Please note, October 20, 2023 is the deadline for the following important eligibility components for November graduation:

• Graduation application
• Thesis/dissertation approval in cIRCle by 4pm
• Program completion

 

All the best as you and your students work to meet November graduation deadlines.

Kelli 

Kelli Kiyomi Kadokawa (She, Her, Hers)
Graduate Program Support Manager
Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies | Office of the Dean
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus
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Dear program administrators,

The following messaging may be of interest to you and your networks.

Please consider applying for and sharing with your networks the following funding opportunity.

 

StEAR Enhancement Fund:

UBC has now launched a new fund to help support its ongoing commitment to advancing equity and anti-racism across the university. The Strategic Equity and Anti-Racism Enhancement (StEAR) Fund is open to all students, faculty and staff. A total of $300,000 is available this year to support campus community-led projects. Applicants may submit a proposal for funds between $500 to $10,000 per project. Projects must align with one or more of the three thematic streams: Racism/racial equity, ableism/disability equity and sexism, heterosexism, homophobia, transphobia/sexual & gender equity. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, every six to eight weeks. Those who require their project funding by a specific date are encouraged to look to the website for further information on the rolling deadlines. Applications can still be submitted on an ongoing basis following these dates. Learn more about the StEAR Enhancement Fund here.

 

The following communications toolkit is available for your usage: StEAR Fund – Communication Toolkit

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Dear ORICE community,

We wanted to invite you to Action Amplified: The ORICE Annual Symposium on Global Community Engagement. The symposium will take place next Thursday, October 19th, 2023 from 5:00-9:30 pm. See below for more detail, we hope to see you there!

 

Action Amplified: ORICE Annual Symposium on Global Community Engagement

Thursday, October 19th, 2023 | 5:00-9:30pm PDT

Liu Institute for Global Issues

Join us for the ORICE Annual Symposium! This year’s theme, “Action Amplified,” aims to critically explore questions related to social, ecological, and economic challenges on local and global scales.

 

The symposium will feature a keynote talk from Ash Peplow Ball on “How to Build a Movement”, and concurrent sessions featuring presentations from UBC students who participated in immersive community-based placements over the summer in East Africa.They will share their learnings, challenges, and reflections from their experiences with community-based research and learning programs.

Registration is free and light refreshments will be served! More information about the event can be found on ORICE’s website, as well as our social media pages. If you have questions, please contact ubc.orice@ubc.ca.

REGISTER HERE

 

Keynote – “How to Build a Movement” with Ash Peplow Ball

Ash Peplow Ball (Executive Director of Women Transforming Cities) will speak to “How to Build a Movement” and will touch on the central themes of climate action, democratic participation, and movement building rooted in decolonization.

A lot of the challenges we are collectively experiencing today can feel overwhelming, and opportunities to create change can be hard to find. Through the story of a 200-year-old tree, Ash will highlight how to identify your strengths as a changemaker, cultivate active hope, and get involved in the everyday movement building that just might be happening on your own street!

Featured Concurrent Session

The Gender+ Paradigm: Implications for Research and Everyday Life

How do our identities shape our experiences? Do the intersections of our identities affect how research is conducted? If so, how? Why does this matter to our everyday lives?

Housed under UBC ORICE, the Gender+ in Research Collective works to build a community for rich dialogue in which gender and other identity intersections, including race, class, sexuality and ability, are considered when conducting community-engaged research. Join us for this discussion session about the Gender+ in Research Collective as we speak to what gender+, intersectionality, and positionality mean and their importance to research and everyday life!

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