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FNIS 401X 101
FNIS 401X - Global Indigenous Rights, Politics and Policy explores what implementation of Indigenous rights means in Canada and around the world. Learn more about this FNIS course and others being offered in the 2018 Winter Session.
Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre
Professor Santa J. Ono, President and Vice-Chancellor invites you to attend a ceremony to witness the official opening of the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre and a Statement of Apology for UBC’s involvement in the system that supported the operation of the Indian Residential Schools. | Monday, April 9th 10:00am at the Koerner Plaza
FNIS 400 Research Practicum Student Presentations
Come join the students and their instructor to hear about their projects on Tuesday March 27, 2018 from 9:30am - 1:30pm at the Liu Institute for Global Issues (Multipurpose Room)
Open Dialogues: How to engage and support students in open pedagogies
Open Dialogues
"For David Gaertner, it is important that his students have the opportunity to create work with a broader impact that can live beyond the classroom walls. 'A big part of my pedagogy is getting students to think outside the limitations of the university,' explains Gaertner..."
"For David Gaertner, it is important that his students have the opportunity to create work with a broader impact that can live beyond the classroom walls. 'A big part of my pedagogy is getting students to think outside the limitations of the university,' explains Gaertner..."
Indigenous Communities and Family Violence: Changing the Conversation Co-Authored by Dr. Sarah Hunt
Dr. Sarah Hunt’s new co-authored report “Indigenous Communities and Family Violence: Changing the Conversation” was written with Dr. Cindy Holmes for the National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health. As stated by the authors the discussion paper is centred on “critically engaging with dominant frameworks and discourses around ‘family violence’ in the context of ongoing colonialism […]
NEW COURSE – GLOBAL INDIGENOUS STUDIES: ENGAGING THE PACIFIC
Learn more about FNIS 401V and other courses being offered in the 2017 Summer session.
January is Sexual Assault Awareness month at UBC
1. KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Change the Culture: Consent & Anti-Sexualized Violence on Campus by Kim Katrin Milan. Kim will be sharing with us her years of experience doing this work and exploring the topics of consent culture and how to be an ally. She approaches her work from an intersectional framework to deconstruct rape culture, across ability, gender, […]
FNIS 401U / Embodying Our Teachings: Critical Reflections on Our Relations with Land and Community
There are still seats available! If you are interested in this course, please fill out this brief survey: https://goo.gl/forms/ccoTZS8kd0BIInZf2 or contact Emily and Victoria at embodyingourteachings@gmail.com FNIS 401U will critically engage with how colonial encounters experienced by the community and the land have influenced the current learning environment at UBC. We will actively think through the […]
Call for Applications: BC Breath of Life Archival Institute for First Nations Languages
The First Nations & Endangered Languages (FNEL) program, in collaboration with many other resource people at UBC, is hosting a week-long intensive Archival Institute for First Nations Languages from May 14-20, 2017, to explore archives and museum collections at UBC in order to “breathe life” back into the manuscripts and other resources there, and to […]
FNIS 360D: DECHINTA PLACE-BASED SEMINAR
FNIS is offering a Global Seminar in the Northwest Territories on self determination in theory and practice. This seminar provides an opportunity for collaborative place based research on Yellowknives Dene territory.
