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.
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!
Your gift will contribute to fund the ORICE Experiential Education Accessibility Award to support student participation in our programs:
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