GPP 591C Lind Initiative Seminar: Thinking While Black

UBC students are invited to apply to the 3-credit Lind Initiative Seminar on the topic of the 2020 Phil Lind Initiative series, Thinking While Black, taking place in Term 2 at UBC Vancouver.

 

WHAT: A 3 credit course

WHEN: Tuesdays, 3:00 – 5:00 PM, Winter Term 2, January – April, 2020
Please note: One class is scheduled from 3:00 – 5:00 PM on Wednesday, January 15, 2020.

WHERE: Liu Institute for Global Issues – Boardroom

WHO CAN APPLY: This is a competitive entry graduate course for UBC students from any faculty. Graduate students and fourth-year undergraduates are encouraged to apply.

DEADLINE: Applications close November 30, 2019 (11:45 PM).

APPLY HERE

Led by Dr. Phanuel Antwi, Assistant Professor, UBC Department of English Language and Literatures, this seminar series will explore the theme, Thinking While Black, with visits from some of the world’s leading intellectuals on the topic including Claudia Rankine, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Roxane Gay, Ibram X. Kendi, and Jesmyn Ward.

By fundamentally shaping American iconographies, language, media, and cultural productions, blackness, as a form and concept, has given American culture its identity. This series asks how Blackness manifests in often unconnected guises that can be tracked through the event of racial violence, and what can be done about it. In framing Blackness as both a culture and a critical mode of thinking, one that offers possibilities for all of us to rethinking the self, this series will meditate on the structures of race in North America, and will spotlight the seemingly disconnected forms of racial violence that hide in plain sight: the murders of innocent black men by state police and private citizens acting as militia; the disproportional rates of incarceration that Michelle Alexander has named “The New Jim Crow;” the disproportional rates of sexual assault on black women that manifested in the #MeToo movement (started by Tarana Burke); the disproportional rates of discrimination and violence experienced by black queers and trans people within the queer community; the high rates of addiction, HIV, and diabetes in Black communities; the violence of American militarism through drone warfare and weapons sales across the globe. How, despite shifts in rhetoric and political policy, have so many forms of racial violence persisted? How, we ask, can we rethink ourselves by understanding our relations to blackness?

Please find the 2020 Phil Lind Initiative series details here.

 

Lindsay Marsh
Manager, Communications and Program Development
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory
303 – 6476 NW Marine Drive | Vancouver B.C. | V6T 1Z2 Canada
Phone 604 822 1672
lindsay.marsh@ubc.ca
@ubcSPPGA | @ubcMPPGA
sppga.ubc.ca 

On behalf of series organizer Alison Wylie, I write to invite you to join us at two public seminars taking place later this month.

Poster – GC-IS – November seminars

“Working Together to Enhance Ecosystem Sustainability: A Syilx / Settler Science Collaboration”

Jeannette Armstrong Associate professor in Indigenous studies and Canada Research Chair in Okanagan Indigenous Knowledge and Philosophy, UBC, Okanagan Campus, Kelowna, BC, and Lael Parrott, Professor in Sustainability and Director of the Okanagan Institute for Biodiversity, Resilience, and Ecosystem Services, UBC, Okanagan Campus, Kelowna, BC

20 November 2019, 5:00-6:30 pm 

Green College Coach House

Abstract: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report, the U.N. Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and renewed pressures on nation-to-nation treaties (e.g. the Columbia River Treaty) have created new opportunities to transform Indigenous-Settler relationships across Canada. UBC Okanagan is demonstrably committed to these goals. UBC has a memorandum of understanding with the Okanagan Nation Alliance and a memorandum of agreement with the En’owkin Centre, both supporting the co-production of ecological knowledge through a respectful partnership between Syilx knowledge holders and western scientists. Still, the pathway towards reconciliation continues; co-production of knowledge is an ongoing process.  Drs. Armstrong and Parrott will discuss their shared experiences in leading the development of a collaborative Silyx/UBC research cluster in ecosystem sustainability and resilience. The research cluster is focused on key ecological concerns of Silyx communities, generating evidence, developing capacity to work as partners, and fostering innovative pedagogical initiatives (especially those engaging Syilx youth). Projects within the cluster seek to bridge academic and Indigenous worldviews to co-develop an enhanced understanding of socio-ecological interactions in Okanagan traditional territory. Through this work, a process of collaboration is emerging that may serve as an innovative, international model of respectful research-based collaboration between Indigenous and academic communities.

 

“Listening to Object Witnesses: Decolonizing Research in Museum Collections”

Margaret Bruchac Associate Professor of Anthropology, Coordinator of the Native American & Indigenous Studies Initiative, University of Pennsylvania

27 November 2019, 5:00-6:30 pm

Green College Coach House

Abstract: How do Indigenous objects in museum collections speak to those who collect, curate, observe, and claim them? Material traces and techniques obviously reflect particular ecosystems and eras, but do these objects also retain memories of their component parts, of the artisans who created them, and of the intentions spoken into them? Can certain objects communicate across cultural and temporal boundaries, or between human and other-than-human beings? In this talk, Dr. Margaret Bruchac discusses strategies for recovering object histories through both material analyses and critical reassessments of imposed categories (e.g., art, artifact, trade good) that have distanced objects from their origins and isolated them from others like themselves. Case histories will feature new research into iconic creations – such as a 17th century wooden war club embedded with brass and wampum, and a shell bead wampum belt with a single glass bead – that function as “object witnesses” to entangled colonial settler/Indigenous encounters. Through her practice of “reverse ethnography,” Bruchac will also reveal how, in many cases, “unknown” histories can be recovered by tracking the desires and actions of non-Indigenous curators and collectors who transported these objects and stories to physically and conceptually distant locales.

 

Everyone is welcome!

Those attending the seminar are warmly invited to join the speakers and organizers at Green College for dinner following the talk. For information on making dinner reservations, see www.greencollege.ubc.ca/how-attend-dinner

Series details and updates available on the Indigenous/Science website, through the Green College lecture calendar, and the Green College Facebook and Twitter accounts.

Please circulate widely.

Very best,

Eric

Eric Simons

UBC Anthropology

 

Registration is now open for:

Dealing with Criticism: Giving and Receiving Feedback | Tues. Nov. 26 | 1:00 – 4:00 pm | Register here

There are still seats remaining for:

Managing Difficult Conversations | Wed. Nov. 13 | 9:00 am – 4:30 pm | Register here

Leveraging your Strengths to Strategize for Success* | Thurs. Nov. 14 | In-Person 10:00 am  – 12:00 pm Register here | Webinar 1:00 – 2:30 pm Register here, *includes a free code to complete your online Strengths Assessment

Designing to Succeed in Graduate School and Beyond: Do you have a strategy to complete your program? Do you know your intended career path? In this interactive session participants will work on their strategies for succeeding in grad school and beyond. | Thurs. Nov. 21 | In-Person 9:30 am – 12:00 pm Register here | Webinar 1:30 – 3:00 pm Register here

Check out community.grad.ubc.ca for these, and other, opportunities: 

Wellness

Student Success with Money | Nov. 14, 12:30 – 2:00 pm

After Hours – Socialize, laugh, take care of your mental health | Nov. 13, 5:00  – 7:00 pm

Imposter Phenomenon Grad Student Support Group |Nov. 28, Registration closes Nov. 19

 

Community and Network Building

How should Canada navigate the increasingly complex Canada-US-China relationship? – Canada-China Relations Forum | Nov. 18, 12:00  – 3:00 pm

FIREtalks – Drinking Water | Nov. 27, 4:00 – 6:00 pm

SSHRC Storytellers Challenge is now open

 

Career Exploration

Post-Graduation Careers Panel | Nov. 13, 2:30  – 4:00 pm

Employer on Campus: Canadian Security Intelligence Service  | Nov. 20, 6:00  – 7:30 pm

 

Academic Support and Success

How to Manage Stress, Rejections, & the Haters in your Midst (WEBINAR) | Nov. 14, 11:00 – 12:30

Thesis Formatting: Tips, tricks and resources | Nov. 19, 2:00  – 4:00 pm

Choosing the Right Citation Management Tool for your Research | Nov. 21, 12:00  – 2:00 pm

Literature Reviews: “Searching and Keeping Track” | Nov. 22, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

 

Writing and Communication

Science Slam | Nov 29^th | Apply to present by Nov 15^th

 

International Students

Immigration Pathways with IRCC and BC PNP (via Webinar) | Nov 15, 4:00 – 6:00 pm

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you,
Jacqui.

Jacqui Brinkman, MSc
Director, Graduate Student Professional Development
Office of the Dean | Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueum Traditional Territory
170 – 6371 Crescent Road | Vancouver BC | V6T 1Z2 Canada
Phone 604 827 4578 | Fax 604 822 5802
jacqui.brinkman@ubc.ca | @ubcgradschool
https://www.grad.ubc.ca/

Title: Healthy Diets and Sustainable Food Systems

Date: Monday, November 18, 2019

Time: 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.

Schedule: Keynote address followed by panel discussion; Panelists include Mahsa Jessri, Assistant Professor in LFS and Rachel Murphy, Assistant Professor in SPPH

Location: School of Population and Public Health, Room B151

Speaker: Hasan Hutchinson is the former Director General for the Office of Nutrition Policy and Promotion at Health Canada and the lead on the most recent Canada’s Food Guide.  Combining sustainability with healthy eating, the Canada’s Food Guide aligns with the recent EAT-Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, Health guidelines and advocates for a planetary health diet.

Event and Registration Page: https://www.spph.ubc.ca/spph-voices-in-health/

Event is free but registration is required!

Karen Lee
Director of Marketing and Communications
Faculty of Land and Food Systems
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory
H.R. MacMillan, Room 235, 2357 Main Mall | Vancouver BC | V6T 1Z4 Canada
Phone 604 827 5297 | Cell 604 312 6343
karen.lee98@ubc.ca | @ubcLFS
www.landfood.ubc.ca

Special webcast “Diet and Health Across the Lifespan” by Dr. Walter Willett

When:  Friday, November 15

Time:  10:15-11:30 PST

Where:  Webcast at UBC in LSC 1002

You are invited to attend a screening of a keynote address that Dr. Walter Willett will be delivering to the Food as Medicine conference being held in Toronto. His keynote will be followed by Q&A, and presentation of the Rundle-Lister Lectureship award to him.

Dr. Walter Willett is Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts and is among the top three most cited persons in all areas of science. He served as Chair of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health for 25 years. Dr. Willett has focused much of his work over the last 35 years on the development of methods to study the effects of diet on the occurrence of major diseases. Dr. Willett has published over 1,800 articles, primarily on lifestyle risk factors for heart disease and cancer, and most recently has led the ‘Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT-Lancet Commission on health diets from sustainable food systems’ report.  He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the recipient of many national and international awards for his research.

 

No need to register! Please come see this important lecture, and bring your colleagues and friends.

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