The Office of Regional and International Community Enga gement (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 ac ademic levels to present on their community engaged scholarship. A broad i nterpretation of the theme is welcomed\, but in selecting it we have consid ered some of the many questions that arise in community-university collabor ations including physical and psychological questions of belonging\, safety and power. We have considered conflicting and differently understood stan dpoints\, 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 look forward to engaging in dialogue and learning together about thes e and many other questions throughout the symposium.
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic\, this symposium wi ll be primarily virtual on Zoom. All sessio ns will be offered online and there will be one in-person session to watch the keynote and debrief with fellow colleagues.
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Join Dr. Costanza-Chock in a dis cussion about design justice principles and how these principles can transf orm community-engaged scholarship.
Note: For those who would like to watch the keynote with other UBC community members and debrief over a light meal\, we will be hosting a watch party and debrief session in the Place o f Many Trees in the Liu Institute on campus. Individuals can select this op tion on the registration form.
Sasha Costanza-Chock (they/she/elle/ella) is a researcher and design er who works to support community-led processes that build shared power\, d ismantle the matrix of domination\, and advance ecological survival. They a re a nonbinary trans* femme. Sasha is known for their work on networked soc ial movements\, transformative media organizing\, and design justice. Sasha is the Director of Research & Design at the Algorithmic Justice League (ajlunited.org)\, a Facu lty Associate with the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harva rd University\, and a member of the Steering Committee of the Design Justic e Network (design justice.org). They are the author of two books and numerous journal art icles\, book chapters\, and other research publications. Sasha’s latest boo k\, Design Justice: Community-Led Practic es to Build the Worlds We Need\, was published by the MIT Press in 2020.
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ccordion title="1a. Exploring Community-Based Research and Data Justice (An
neke Dresselhuis\, Balie Tomar\, Kristin Kilgallen\, Sophie Sargent\, Victo
ria Barclay and Solal Quere)"]
Exploring Community-Based Resea
rch and Data Justice. An introduction to a new resource guide produced by t
he UBC Gender + in Research Collective.
Session 1a: 3:30-
4:30pm (Zoom)
Presented by Anneke Dresselhuis\, Balie Tomar\, Kristin
Kilgallen\, Sophie Sargent\, Victoria Barclay and Solal Quere
Th e UBC ORICE Gender+ Data Justice Guide project originated in May 2020 with the numerous calls for the collection of disaggregated data along multiple axes of identity\, many of which were amplified by the ongoing COVID-19 pan demic. Five cohorts of student researchers have produced a guide on how dat a justice principles can be centered during community-based research projec ts\, through a series of reflexive questions. During this interactive works hop\, participants will engage in exercises designed to inspire critical qu estions about data justice thinking. Such questions will consider how resea rch workflows can better tune into the frequency of historically marginaliz ed narratives that are systemically excluded for more just processes and ou tcomes.[/accordion][/accordions]
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false][accordion title="1b. Engage Community to Envision Community: Co-Crea
ting a Food Hub on Campus (UBC Wellbeing)"] Engage Community to Env
ision Community: Co-Creating a Food Hub on Campus
Session
1b: 3:30-4:30pm (Zoom)
Presented by: Min Kim\, Amy Dong\, Ra
veena Gowda\, Shadow Feng (UBC Wellbeing)
The UBC Community Food Hub Project is a research study supported by the Campus as a Living Lab In itiative and UBC Wellbeing. Since April 2021\, a team of Student Community Developers at the Vancouver campus has been spearheading community engageme nt based in Community-Based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR) methodolo gy to co-create a community food hub that facilitates dignified access to h ealthy food\, social connection\, and holistic wellbeing. Through an iterat ive phased approach\, the research team is engaging key campus food securit y stakeholders and community members whose contributions are directly infor ming the design\, operations\, indicator framework\, and governance of the physical food hub. During our session\, we will be navigating prominent que stions and challenges that relate to the contested impact of community enga ged research\, especially with disproportionately impacted communities\, in campus-based food security. [/accordion][/accordions]
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Mapping of Uncharted COVID-19 Evictions - Are
Women Disproportionately Affected by Job Loss?
Session 1c
: 3:30-4:30pm (Zoom)
Presented by Cheryl-Lee Madden
Researc h shows that women are disproportionately affected by COVID-19 job loss. CO VID-19 focused our attention on front-line essential service retail workers \, mainly women. They now experience dilemmas over belonging\, safety\, and power. Women could respond by expressing\, as feminist Leslie Kern suggest s\, their “embodied experiences of city life\, refusing to be taken for gra nted.” The emerging COVID-19 pandemic impacts are likely to have gendered c onsequences that have a relationship with Kain’s Spatial Mismatch hypothesi s. Spatial mismatch could explain women’s labour market recovery within Van couver’s transnational influence and indigenous diaspora. These components affect spatiality and polarization of wealth concentration. [/accordion][/a ccordions]
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Working wi
th the Power and Positionality Wheel for Food Justice & Systems Change
Session 2a: 6:45-7:45pm (Zoom)
Presented by: Mikaela Hud
son\, Joanne MacKinnon (Little Mountain Neighbourhood House)
This interactive workshop invites participants to reflect on their own p ower and privilege using the Power & Positionality Wheel\, a tool for unpac king our complex identities as learners\, scholars\, and activists. It uses stories from food justice work during the COVID-19 pandemic to illustrate how the Power & Positionality Wheel can center conversations about identity and equity in community partnerships\, highlighting the potential for surp rising and transformative results. The presenter draws on her own experienc es as an academic-activist in the Building Collective Food Security Resilie nce Project to support participants to complete their own Power & Positiona lity Wheels in real time\, inviting them to explore the revelatory and some times uncomfortable spaces that this tool for self-reflexivity generates. [ /accordion][/accordions]
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ccordion title=" 2b. It's Not Gender as Usual: Guiding Questions for Transf
ormative Intersectional Gender (Claire Okatch\, Hannah Facknitz\, Elaina Ng
uyen)"] It’s Not Gender as Usual: Guiding Questions for Transformat
ive Intersectional Gender+ Research
Session 2b: 6:45-7:4
5pm (Zoom)
Presented by: Claire Okatch\, Hannah Facknitz\, El
aina Nguyen
What does it take to conduct gender+ research that i s thoughtful and has meaningful impact within the contested space of the ac ademy? Is such work even possible? Our project\, the ‘It’s Not Gender As Us ual’ guide is a resource made for academics curious about thinking through the complexities and contradictions that accompany undertaking gender+ rese arch within the hierarchical and neoliberal space of the academy. Structure d as a question guide\, we offer prompts and considerations that acknowledg e the imperfect nature of undertaking research that attempts to challenge p ower structures. We welcome all of those interested in gender+ questions—wh ether experienced or new to the topic—to join us in conversation as we intr oduce and explore some topics within the guide. [/accordion][/accordions]
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Youth Climate Ambassadors Project
Ses
sion 2c: 6:45-7:45pm (Zoom)
Presented by: Anna Brookes\, Esme
Decker (UBC Climate Hub)
Current climate narratives often focus on the apocalyptic\, hopeless aspects of the climate crisis which can be p aralyzing\, demoralizing\, and overall ineffective for mobilizing students to act. The Youth Climate Ambassadors Project offers an alternative perspec tive that highlights how the climate movement can be filled with hope\, com munity\, and purpose. This presentation will move through a storytelling fr amework that has proven to sway political decisions on climate policy\, esp ecially when utilized by youth. The project aims to create a space for yout h to discuss personal experiences and emotional/wellbeing implications of c limate change\, to share feelings or worries about the future\, and to buil d confidence in public speaking and personal storytelling skills and taking up space in the narrative. The project also aims to provide inspiring and motivating examples of youth climate ambassadors through peer-to-peer facil itation from UBC students and videos of local activists\, in order to show that youth voices are powerful and able to make change. [/accordion][/accordions]
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e=true active=false][accordion title="2d. Compassion over comprehension. Ex
amining and challenging the implications of the gender binary and the colon
ial us vs them mindset (Nastya Mozolevych & Jay Quong)"]
Compassion over comprehension. Examining and chall
enging the implications of the gender binary and the colonial us vs them mi
ndset
Session 2d: 6:45-7:45pm (Zoom)
P
resented by: Nastya Mozolevych and Jay Quong
This community disc ussion will center around the importance of having compassion over comprehe nsion in order to challenge the colonial “us vs. them” mindset. We will piv ot off the Man Enough podcast episode: The Urgent Need for Compassion featu ring ALOK (they/them)\, a non-binary scholar\, performer\, artist\, and pub lic speaker. ALOK discusses the violence of the colonial gender binary and invites listeners to step into our power as well as the power of interdepen dence. We will intersperse clips from the podcast and then pose open-ended questions that will engage the audience in discussion about ALOK’s remarks and their impact on us. [/accordion][/acco rdions]
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Post-keynote discussion and networking
Session 2e: 6:45-7:45pm\, Location: the Place of Many Trees
\, Liu Institute.
Hosted by SPPGA REDI Collective Members
Join members from the School of Public Polic
y and Global Affairs REDI collective\, as they host a follow-up discussion and debrief
on the topics raised during the keynote address with Sasha Constanza-Chock
. Participants are invited to consider how principles of design justice an
d data justice are related to our own studies\, research and future aspirat
ions. This is an IN-PERSON session only that will be held in the Place of
Many Trees in the Liu Institute and will include some informal opportunitie
s to meet new colleagues from across campus. Light snacks will be provided
. This session is open to UBC students\, staff and faculty only and attend
ees must be pre-registered (select the option in the registration form). [/accordion][/accordions]