Cultural Studies
Events Fall 2011
October 3-October 7 – Social Justice Week: A Celebration of Nonviolent Action
Presentation: Chief Byron Louis, Okanagan Indian Band – Title, date, time, place TBA
Film Series, Monday through Thursday
Social Justice Workshops: Friday October 7, Fina Gallery, 9am-4pm
Each year the Cultural Studies Program organizes a series of events with nationally and internationally recognized scholars and cultural practitioners.
Annual Cultural Studies Speaker - Jo-Ann Episkenew
November 3
Embodied Storytelling, Embodied Research, and Decolonizing the Imagination
November 3 – 1-2:30pm – UNC 200 (Ballroom) Applied Literature and Health Research: A Close Reading of the Human Text
November 3 – 7-*:30 pm – Alternator Gallery
2010/11 - Handel Wright - Handel Kashope Wright is Canada Research Chair of Comparative Cultural Studies, Director of the Centre for Culture, Identity and Education and professor in the Educational Studies Department at the University of British Columbia, Canada. more information
2009/10 – Ruth Ozeki – Ruth Ozeki is an award winning novelist and filmmaker. During her visit, she provided a writing and meditation workshop and a public talk, entitled, “Food and Fiction: Redefining Environments.” (Video)
2008/09 – Sherene Razack – Dr. Razack is professor of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. During her visit, she met with students in a graduate seminar and presented a public talk: “Violence Against First Nations: An Ongoing Colonialism.” (Video)
2006/07 – Rinaldo Walcott – Dr. Walcott holds a Canada Research Chair in Social Justice and Cultural Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. He made two public presentations and took part in a graduate seminar. His presentations were entitled, “The Necessary Modesty of Cultural Studies” (UBC Okanagan Campus) and “Representin’: Thinking Identity in Art, Again” (Alternator Gallery). (Video?)
Culture/Power Series
The Culture/Power Series is a collaboration between the Cultural Studies Program and the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, and features speakers from the UBC Okanagan campus and the Okanagan region as well as academics and artists from across Canada.
2009/10 Speakers:
Ashok Mathur (Canada Research Chair in Cultural and Artistic Inquiry, Thompson Rivers University) “Reconciliation: Hoping through Failure and the Magical Mystery Tour of Demanding the Impossible”
Cindy Holmes (UBC Okanagan PhD Student) “’A Reputation for Tolerance’: Examining Contested Geographies of Belonging in Kelowna, BC.”
Allison Hargreaves (Assistant Professor, UBC Okanagan) “Legislation, Memorial, and Redress in the Case of Helen Betty Osborne.”
Imre Szeman (Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies, Alberta) “The Cultural Politics of Oil: New Narratives of Oil Crisis.”
Imre Szeman and Maria Whiteman (Assistant Professor, Alberta) “The Big Picture, or Photography After Nature.”
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