Recorded Resources - Past EDI.I Events

Jamboard of actions and commitments to our 2SLGBTQIA+ STEM colleagues from allies

Jamboard of actions and commitments to our 2SLGBTQIA+ STEM colleagues from allies For this initiative, we call on 2SLGBTQIA+ allies to share actions they have implemented that have brought about positive change and created a more equitable, inclusive and decolonized learning environment and workplace for UBC 2SLGBTQIA+ STEM community members. Actions could include anything from ensuring inclusive language is consistently used in department communications, to modifying a course’s reading list to include more 2SLGBTQIA+ scholars, to ensuring that everyone has “preferred name” stickers when organizing conferences or events. Allies, please share your actions on this Jamboard. The jamboard will be open until November 19th and communicated out the UBC STEM faculties on this day. On November 18th, allies are invited to join a drop-in session with Equity Strategists Maï Yasué (Faculty of Science) and Greg Lockwood (Faculty of Applied Science) at 3:30 pm to share and discuss upcoming and ongoing actions that lead to positive change for the 2SLGBTQIA+ STEM community. If you would like to join the drop-in session on Thursday, November 18 at 3:30pm - 4:30pm. Learn more about  2SLGBTQIA+ STEM and Transgender Day of Remembrance: International Day of LGBTQIA+ People in STEM Transgender Day of Remembrance at UBC Systemic inequalities for LGBTQ professionals in STEM If you are looking for readings and resources, here are a few to get you started: Towards More Trans-Inclusive Classrooms 14 Recommendations for LGBTQ+ Individuals in Biology Building LGBTQ-inclusive Chemical Engineering Classrooms and Departments

APSC Panel Discussion: Working with Indigenous Communities

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Image Panel Description:  This panel discussion will explore competencies required to be inclusive collaborators and create spaces for respectful engagement. Our panelists have established deep working relationships with the Indigenous communities they engage with, and lead by example in their authentic commitment to Truth and Reconciliation and the value they place on traditional ways of knowing. Date and time: Wednesday, November 10, at 1:00 - 2:00 PM Panelists: Madjid Mohseni, Professor, CHBE, Scientific Director, RES’EAU Centre for Mobilizing Innovation Maggie Low, Assistant Professor, SCARP, Co-Chair of the Indigenous Community Planning (ICP) Program John Bass, Associate Professor, SALA Moderated by: Dana-Lyn Mackenzie, Senior Manager, EDI & Indigeneity Register now

Reconciliation + Design: Dialogue 1 - Truth

4:30pm

Join us for the first dialogue of the Reconciliation + Design Series: Truth This reconciliation + design dialogue series is co-designed and led by UBC Civil Engineering Assistant Professor of Teaching Pam Wolf and Civil Engineering graduate student Danilo Caron. These dialogues are a scaled Indigenization complement to decolonization curriculum. Applied science invites anyone who reflects on reconciling their design processes to join the conversation. This is an interdisciplinary conversation on reconciliation and design. The speakers are Indigenous change-makers. We amplify their voices and listen to understand. Students and faculty practice authentic, experiential learning in dialogue circles, learning to weave together these Indigenous perspectives, ways of knowing, and ways of being, with our own as designers. The breakout room facilitators are students. They will be practicing their skills leading dialogue circles. Speaker: Danilo Caron Danilo Caron is a Master of Applied Science student in Civil Engineering and project engineer with Urban Systems Ltd. Born and raised in Kamloops, he is of mixed Italian and Anishinaabe heritage with ties to Castelfranco Veneto Italy and Sagamok Anishnawbek First Nation in Ontario. Since 2017, Danilo, his wife Jewell, and daughter Cicada have been visitors on Musqueam traditional, ancestral and unceded territory. Danilo combines his construction background and applied science education to his project and construction management research. His research focuses on project delivery methods, their ability to harness Indigenous ways of knowing, and how the engineering industry can advance reconciliation in the broader Canadian society. When Danilo isn't studying or working, he can be found running the local trails or walking the nearby beaches with Jewell and Cicada. Please direct any logistics questions to edii@apsc.ubc.ca; questions about the content can be directed to danilo.caron@ubc.ca or pamela.wolf@ubc.ca the co-designers and leaders of the series.

Save the Date: The 94 Truth & Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action

3:00pm - 4:30pm

The 94 TRC Calls to Action: A Participatory Reading:  On September 29th, to honour the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Day (Sept 30th), we invite you to join us for a participatory reading of the 94 Calls to Action from the 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission.  This document is foundational to the process of reconciliation in Canada and is a critical document for all to engage with. Through this reading, we will together make audible these Calls to Action.  We undertake this as one step toward engagement with implementation of the Indigenous Strategic Plan.     We are looking for 94 people to each read one of the 94 Calls in this event.  Both readers and listeners are welcome.  To sign up to attend, and/or to read one of the Calls to Action at this event, please register here:     TRC 94 Calls to Action Registration Form    This is a joint event among the Faculties of Applied Science, Science, Land & Food Systems and Forestry. Image Image Image Image

Anti-racist teaching series: Identifying and responding to harmful phrases

1:00pm - 3:00pm

This interactive and practice-based workshop provides a deep dive into common phrases that can further marginalize or exclude BIPOC learners. Using micro-aggressions research and practical tools, facilitators will guide learners through small group activities that interrogate specific harmful phrases, their roots, analogous or similar phrases, and antidotes for / responses to them. Ultimately, the aim of this workshop is to equip educators with the ability to recognize and interrupt harmful phrases or thought patterns.

IGNITE! book club: David Chariandy in conversation with Ayesha S. Chaudhry

On June 30, Dr. David Chariandy, award-winning author of ‘Brother’, will be in conversation with Dr. Ayesha S. Chaudhry about her new book, ‘The Colour of God’. By revisiting a series of pivotal moments in her life, Dr. Chaudhry examines the colonial, racialized, and gendered beliefs and ideals with which she was raised. Braiding together Western, South Asian and Quranic storytelling styles, Chaudhry weaves her personal experiences with social commentary, and invites us to reimagine our ideas of self and family, state and citizenship, love and loss. This final IGNITE! event of the year is not to be missed.

Through the lens: Relations first

10:00am - 12:00pm

A virtual introduction to decolonizing your relations to the land, your work and your community. This workshop will include an overview of decolonizing practices and will require self-reflection and for participants to be prepared to share and discuss their own experiences. While the teachings & critical Indigenous theory shared by Ta7talíya Michelle Nahanee are grounded in Squamish world view, they are applicable across Indigenous Territories. Whether you are new to these conversations & practices, or you are wanting to reconnect to, and re-inspire, your unlearning journey, join us!

Special Panel Event: Indigenous perspectives within Applied Science professions and academia

3:30pm - 5:00pm

We are excited to invite you to a special panel as part of our Applied Science focus on National Indigenous History Month: Indigenous Perspectives within Applied Science Professions and Academia. Our goal is to help raise awareness, engage in dialogue, and discuss actions that we can and should be taking as a Faculty. Our aim is that this panel will elevate Indigenous voices within disciplines and share practices and knowledge Indigenous people bring to enrich the faculty and programs they work within. The panel will explore how Indigenous faculty in Applied Science disciplines approach their classrooms and professional practices. We will hear about their motivation and how they apply and create the tools they use and share with other peoples. We will learn how these faculty members design and decolonize their classrooms and practices.  Panelists: Ian Foulds, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, Principal's Research Chair - Indigenous Reconciliation in Engineering, School of Engineering, Okanagan Campus  Maggie Low, Assistant Professor, Indigenous Partnership Group, Co-Chair of the Indigenous Community Planning (ICP) program, School of Community & Regional Planning Margaret Moss, Associate Professor, Director of the First Nations House of Learning, School of Nursing Patrick Stewart, Architect and Adjunct Professor, Co-Editor of Our Voices: Indigeneity and Architecture, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Pam Wolf, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Civil Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science  Facilitators: Danilo Caron, Indigenous Student Engagement Coordinator UBC Engineering Student Services, Faculty of Applied Science Dana-Lyn Mackenzie, Senior Manager, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Indigeneity, Faculty of Applied Science  Hosts: James Olson, Dean, Faculty of Applied Science  Sheryl Staub-French, Associate Dean, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Indigeneity, Faculty of Applied Science 

Pride film screening: Two Soft Things, Two Hard Things

Commemorating both Indigenous History Month and Pride Month, the Equity and Inclusion Office is hosting a screening of Two Soft Things, Two Hard Things. The documentary follows a pride celebration in Nunavut, Canada, and discusses the impacts of colonization on traditional Inuit beliefs on sexuality, as well as processes of ‘unshaming’ which younger generations are undertaking. The screening will be followed by a discussion of key themes and takeaways.

Black women in the academy

9:30am - 11:00pm

The purpose of this speaker series is to foreground Black voices in fields where Blackness is particularly underrepresented, and provide actionable and measurable strategies to UBC to increase Black representation and Black excellence in these fields. Speakers from Canada and abroad are highlighted.

Anti-racist teaching series: Identity matters: Connecting power, privilege and bias to anti-racism work

9:19pm

This session introduces fundamental concepts such as power, privilege, and positionally, which are essential for understanding racism or developing anti-racist teaching practices.

Everyone is a wellness champion: Stories from the Rez

10:00am - 11:30am

This panel will feature inspirational role models from First Nations communities who use sports and physical activity to empower themselves and others. Join moderator Jordie Johnson as he converses with panel members Stephanie Nelson, Melanie Angus, Justin Kelly and Bernice Jensen for inspirational stories, straight from the Rez.

UBC: The National Forum on Anti-Asian Racism

12:00am - 12:00am (+1 day)

UBC convened a two-day virtual event to address the ongoing crisis of escalating anti-Asian racism in Canada. On June 10–11, 2021, a constellation of community organizers, scholars, and public intellectuals, along with key figures in government, health care, media, journalism, the corporate world and the not-for-profit sector convened for frank discussions about anti-Asian racism in our country with the aim of articulating bold and concrete recommendations for action.  The first day of programming was open to the public, with sessions focusing on the issues impacting Asian Canadians, coalition building across Asian Canadian communities, and effective access and advocacy for systemic change. The second day was a working session with sector leaders, informed by the outcomes of day one. The event culminated in a public session - an opportunity to share the list of bold actions and key priorities that will be presented for implementation.

Graduate students and TAs workshop

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Bandwidth Recovery: Helping Students Reclaim Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty, Racism, and other “Differentisms” Following the Celebrate Learning Week Keynote event, graduate students and TAs can attend an additional workshop to learn about several interventions designed to help students recover bandwidth, such as utilizing values affirmations, a growth mindset and more.

14 Not Forgotten

11:00am - 1:00pm

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