The Taliban take over of Afghanistan in 2021 has had a severe impacts on the country’s higher education system, with systemic threats to Academic Freedom accompanied by specific threats against scholars, students and activists (particularly women and ethnic minorities). In response, we have seen an increased demand for ‘scholarly resettlement’ pathways which would see Canadian […]
Please RSVP below. Speaker bio Pasang Yangjee Sherpa is an Assistant Professor of Lifeways in Indigenous Asia, jointly appointed to the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. She is a trained Sherpa anthropologist from Nepal. Her research, writing and pedagogy focuses on climate change and Indigeneity […]
Transnational Living and Indigeneity as Everyday Sherpa Reality