Event Category Archives: Narratives

Re-storying Higher Education: Toward Indigenous Resurgence & Settler Decolonization with Dr. Shauneen Pete

“Re-storying Higher Education: Toward Indigenous Resurgence & Settler Decolonization” with Dr. Shauneen Pete (University of Victoria) Friday, February 4th, 2022 1:00pm- 2:30pm — Pacific Time (PT)  Location: Online via Zoom Free & open to the public. To register, fill out the RSVP form below. This event is co-sponsored by the UBC Centre for Migration Studies […]

Ethnic Identity as a Strategy for Dealing With Uncertainty Darfurian – Sudanese Asylum Seekers in Israel as a Case Study with Dr. Lisa Richlen

“Ethnic Identity as a Strategy for Dealing With Uncertainty Darfurian – Sudanese Asylum Seekers in Israel as a Case Study” with Dr. Lisa Richlen Friday, February 11, 2022 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM — Pacific Time (PT)  Location: Online via Zoom Free & open to the public. To register, fill out the RSVP form below. […]

Public Talk by Colin Browne: “What is Thinkable is Also Possible: Surrealists on the Northwest Coast”

Colin Browne will reflect on the journeys of surrealists Kurt Seligmann (Swiss), Wolfgang Paalen (Austrian), Alice Paalen (French), and Eva Sulzer (Swiss), to Alaska and British Columbia in 1938 and 1939 to experience firsthand the monumental and ceremonial arts of the Indigenous cultures of the Northwest Coast.

Café Europa Revisited: How to Survive Post-Communism

Join the department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies (CENES) on November 3 at 11 am Pacific Time for the virtual Sawchen Lecture Series, featuring Slavenka Drakulić in conversation with Professor emeritus Peter Stenberg, moderated by Dr. Markus Hallensleben. This talk is co-organized by the UBC CMS Narratives Research Group. Register here via Zoom: https://ubc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VMfSwDErS5qeNVdSyfRVHw There […]

Becoming Neighbours

Becoming Neighbours Workshops 2023 Saturday, March 25 9:00 am – 12:00 pm UBC Robson Square and on Zoom Becoming Neighbours is a 5-part community-engaged dialogue series, organized by Kinbrace Community Society and Worn Words Media. Each interactive workshop explores one of Kinbrace’s time-tested values to unpack the complexities of these practices in communities of forced displacement. The series includes panels (refugee […]