How do we create a space in activism (social media and otherwise) that emphasizes learning and growth? Many of us are aware of incidents of people being ‘canceled’ in social or professional circles – whether it be online, on social media, or in person– but what is “cancel culture?” Is it actually promoting change? How […]
ORICE will host the 2022 Symposium on Global Community Engagement on Thursday, March 10th, 2022. The theme of the symposium for this year is “Contested Spaces, Contested Impact”, and we invite students at all academic levels to present on their community engaged scholarship. The deadline for concurrent session presentations, workshops, dialogues etc. is Sunday Feb 6th and 11:59pm PST.
The UBC Human Rights Collective (HRC) is hosting an in-person screening of the critically acclaimed film Courage (2021) as an expression of solidarity with wrongfully imprisoned Belarusian students. Join us on June 29th for the film screening and a panel discussion afterwards.
Date: September 27, 2022 from 12:00-1:00pm Location: Buchanan B318 (UBC Wayfinding) This event is open to all students, staff, faculty, community members and other Gender+ allies. Research that undertakes gender and sex analysis can be powerful for understanding the lived, material realities of gender and sexual difference. Feminist and gender studies have pushed academic research […]
Examine what you know about human rights representation in media by joining Alessandra Santos and William Brown on 28 October 2022 at the Place of Many Trees, UBC Vancouver!
Date: Tuesday November 22, 2022 Time: 12:00-1:00pm PST Format: Zoom meeting About the Event Using a gender+ lens can help deepen our research findings by considering how gender and sex can produce differential experiences and are shaped by broader structures of power. Having an interest in intersectional modes of analysis, however, is often much simpler […]
Join Nastya Mozolevych to discuss integrating trauma-informed community care practices!
This session will focus on the relationship between human rights and the environment with prominent speaker Dr. David Boyd