The UBC Climate Change Research Symposium will bring together, virtually, climate researchers from multiple faculties on our Vancouver and Okanagan campuses. While UBC is a recognized leader in climate change research, there is limited connectivity between the clusters of relevant research activity across the many faculties on our campuses. This symposium, featuring panel discussions and […]
The Centre for Student Involvement & Careers presents: But Where Are You Really From? Navigating Your Racial Identity Throughout Your Career Journey This event will provide a spotlight for panelists to share the tools they have used to leverage their lived experiences and discuss strategies for building one’s network in order to gain access to […]
The BMEUSA presents: Sustainability in Biomedical Engineering Engineers hold a lot of responsibility to ensure that innovations and crations not only improve the world, but that they also cause no harm to the environment, economy, and society. Sustainability isn’t often mentioned next to engineering; however, with the ongoing global climate crisis, it’s more important than […]
This workshop has been designed for instructors who are interested in joining conversations about anti-racism and looking for an entry point to their learning journey. This session introduces fundamental concepts such as power, privilege, and positionally, which are essential for understanding racism or developing anti-racist teaching practices. The goal of this session is that participants […]
The UBC School of Nursing presents: Transforming the rhetoric, racism and realities for Indigenous peoples: Disrupting nurses’ thinking and practice KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Professor Denise Wilson (Ngāti Tahinga, Tainui) The impacts of colonisation on Indigenous peoples globally have left a wake of historical and intergenerational trauma, ongoing cultural disconnection, and displacement in society. The ongoing effects […]
The UBC Faculty of Education presents: Dean’s Distinguished Lecture: Reconciling History Overview Colonialism entrenched inequality as a lived reality for many Indigenous peoples around the world. This presentation talks about what colonialism is, how it birthed multi-generational inequality and what can be done, including academically, to achieve justice in change resistant environments. The Faculty […]
The FoM’s Office of Respectful Environments, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (REDI) presents: Sorry, Not Sorry: The Importance of Showing Up in an Era of Truth and Reconciliation Join the Faculty of Medicine’s Office of REDI for the inaugural session of the Indigenous Initiatives Speakers Series. This virtual event will bring together Kukpi7 – Chief […]
This session’s topic: Indigenization, Decolonization, and Reconciliation within STEM at UBC This session is part of the UBC Equity & Inclusion Office’s Equity and inclusion in action: STEM series. Are you faculty, staff, a post-doc scholar or a graduate student leading or supporting an Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) initiative in Science, Technology, Engineering and […]
14 Not Forgotten Where: Engineering Student Centre Content warning: mentions of violence. You are invited to attend the 14 Not Forgotten, a memorial to recognize The National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women that is commemorated in Canada each December 6, the anniversary of the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre where 14 women […]