2022 Symposium on Global Community Engagement: Call for Proposals

The Office of Regional and International Community Engagement (ORICE) is hosting a symposium on global community engagement this year with a focus on the theme: Contested Spaces, Contested Impact on March 10th. We are now accepting applications for concurrent session presentations, workshops, dialogues etc. that engage with the theme of this ORICE symposium: Contested Spaces, Contested Impact. A broad interpretation of the theme is welcomed, but in selecting it we have considered some of the many questions that arise in community-university collaborations including physical and psychological questions of belonging, safety and power. We have considered conflicting and differently understood standpoints, expectations, motivations and purposes of engagement and in turn consider how the question of meaningful impact is also contested. Impact for who? By who? In what ways?

We invite UBC students at all academic levels to present on their community engaged scholarship and encourage the inclusion of community partners and faculty partners to co-present when applicable. While any type of presentation is welcome, we encourage applicants to expand on what one might consider to be a symposium presentation—feel free to bring in storytelling, creativity and anything else that might feel authentic to your work! The deadline to submit your completed application is February 18th, 2022 at 11:59 PM PST.

 

Stay tuned for the symposium general registration which opens on the morning of February 28th, 2022.

 

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