Upcoming GRSJ Social Justice @UBC winter lunch speaker series

Social Justice @UBC Noted Scholars Lecture Series

Book your calendar now for our fascinating winter series of Social Justice @UBC lunchtime speakers

All events are at Jack Bell Building, 2080 West Mall, Room 028, UBC

Directions to Room 028, Jack Bell Building:  http://bit.ly/R5WyjE

Lunch is provided on RSVP to wynn.archibald@ubc.ca

 

Wednesday January 22, 12-1pm

 

Dr. Alison Alkon 

Assistant Professor and Chair of Sociology, University of the Pacific

Black, White and Green: Food Justice, Farmers Markets and the Green Economy

 

Co-sponsored byEcologies of Social Difference: Social Justice @ UBC research network www.esd.ubc.ca

 

Wednesday January 29, 12-1pm

 

Dr. Joy Johnson 

Professor, School of Nursing, UBC and

Director, CIHR Institute Gender and Health

Integrating Gender Considerations In Health Research: Shaping Science For A Healthier World

 

Wednesday February 12, 12-1pm

 

Dr. JP Catungal 

Killam Postdoctoral Fellow – Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice and Department of Geography, UBC

Ethno-Specificity As Critique of The ‘Sexual Normal’: A Queer-Of-Colour Geography

 

Co-sponsored byJane Rule Endowment and Critical Studies in Sexuality (CSIS) http://csis.arts.ubc.ca

 

Wednesday February 26, 12-1pm

 

Dr. Annette Henry 

Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education, Faculty of Education, UBC

“We Welcome Applications From Members Of Visible Minority Groups”: Reflections On Race, Gender And Life At Three Universities

Wednesday March 19, 12-1pm

 

Madeleine Thien  

Author of Dogs at the Perimeter and Simple Recipes, Simon Fraser University Writer-in-Residence 2013-2014

 

Dr. Laura Moss

Associate Professor of Canadian Literature, Department of English, UBC and Acting Editor of Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review

 

 

Dr. Mary Chapman

Associate Professor of American Literature, Department of English, UBC

 

CWILA and the Problem of Counting for Race 

Co-sponsored byCanadian Women in the Literary Arts (CWILA) research network http://www.cwila.com