LFS Anti-Asian Racism Dialogue on Monday, March 29

LFS graduate students are welcome to join us on Monday, March 29 (4:00pm-5:00pm) for a dialogue about Anti-Asian racism, with presentations from Dr. Henry Yu and Colin Dring.

Instances of Anti-Asian racism have increased in Metro Vancouver over the past 12 months. Recent acts of violence in the U.S., racist labels used by politicians to describe the coronavirus, and events on the UBC Vancouver campus that invoke terms such as “Yellow Privilege” and “Model Minority” indicate that we have a need to collectively discuss the discrimination, prejudice, and oppression experienced by individuals of Asian heritage in our community. This event is hosted by the LFS EDI working group.

Anti-Asian Racism Dialogue
Date: Monday, March 29, 2021
Time: 4:00-5:00 p.m. PDT
Registration: Click here to register
Questions: email will.valley@ubc.ca or karen.lee98@ubc.ca

Dr Henry Yu is an Associate Professor in UBC’s Faculty of Arts. Dr. Yu teaches in the History Department and the Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies program at UBC, and is the Principal at UBC’s St. John’s College. He is the Director of the UBC Initiative for Student Teaching and Research in Chinese Canadian Studies (INSTRCC) and Board Member of the Chinese Canadian Historical Society of British Columbia (CCHSBC). His research and teaching centres the true histories of Asian migrants and acknowledge the harsh politics of white supremacy and discrimination they were faced with when moving to Vancouver, British Columbia, or Canada.

Colin Dring is a PhD candidate in the Integrated Studies in Land and Food Systems program in UBC’s Faculty of Land and Food Systems. He studies how colonial governments, in the unceded, ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) nations, attempt to shape agricultural futures in contexts of difference, complexity, and unpredictability. He is interested in the role that state planning plays in achieving justice in the food system. Concurrently, he is conducting scholarship and educational development on food justice pedagogies with three undergraduate students at UBC as part of a Teaching Learning Enhancement Fund project. This work inspires Colin’s studies and actions oriented towards an application of decolonizing, anti-racist, anti-patriarchal, anti-heteronormative framings to advance sustainable and equitable food systems and greater civic engagement through food and agricultural planning.

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Karen Lee  (She, Her, Hers)
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