Nov 18, 2019
Fractured Land Screening
Dear EDST Community,
On behalf of the Ts’’kel and SCPE programs, I am pleased to invite you to a screening of the documentary Fractured Land (2015) on Monday, November 18 in the Ponderosa Commons Multipurpose Room (PCOH 2012).
Fractured Land follows Caleb Behn (Eh-Cho Dene and Dunne Za/Cree from Treaty 8 territory), trying to make a difference in BC. The film has followed Caleb for four years as he balances his opposition to fracking in Northern BC with his studies at law school. I encourage you to find more information about the film at http://www.fracturedland.com/ where you can also watch a trailer. From the site:
Caleb sports a Mohawk and tattoos, hunts moose, and wears a business suit. His father is a devout environmentalist and residential school survivor. His mother works in the oil and gas industry. His people, at the epicenter of some of the largest fracking operations on earth, are deeply divided. How does Caleb balance their need for jobs with his sacred duty to defend their territory?
Date: Monday, November 18
Time: 2:00-3:15pm
Location: PCOH 2012
Admission: FREE
There is no need to RSVP for this screening. I hope to see you there!
Nov 06, 2019
Dec 3, 2019
Music, Conscience, Education: Philosophy-Based Art and Art-Based Philosophy
Sam Rocha, Educational Studies
Coach House, Green College, UBC
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
5-6:30 pm
with reception to follow
In the series
Green College Special Lecture
https://greencollege.ubc.ca/civicrm/event/info?id=1082
Sam Rocha will share recorded and live selections from his recently released new album, Anamnesis, and discuss its philosophical implications for education.
Sam Rocha’s discography mirrors his publication record but he tends to spend most of his academic time talking about the latter. In this talk, he will begin from the recent release of his 2019 concept album, Anamnesis, to discuss its composition and inspiration by playing a few tracks from the album. From this point, he will offer a few notes on the concept that the album takes up as its title: anamnesis, a Greek word and Platonic idea that shares a twofold tradition in the realm of Roman Catholic liturgical theology and the philosophical idea that all knowledge is innate. These senses of the word are shown in this album in ways that can be artistically signalled to the listener, but Rocha will argue further that these notions of anamnesis lead from art pointing towards a philosophical notion of the conscience that has key implications for a philosophical understanding of education.
6201 Cecil Green Park Rd
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
Canada
Nov 05, 2019
Trilogies films
Information:
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The Centre for Culture, Identity and Education — in collaboration with the EDST GAAs — are launching “Trilogies”. Trilogies is an initiative that brings together, three narrative films, each time by the same director, and focussing on the intersections of culture, politics, identity, and education. Each film stands complete and independent save in its relation to the general theme — i.e. culture, identity and education. Each screening is followed by a facilitated discussion which will examine intersections of culture, identity and education issues reflected in the screenings. The final screening, on Dec 6th, will allow us a reading across all three films.
In November and December three films by pioneer Senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambéty (Colobane, Senegal 1945 – Paris, France 1998) will be screened, followed by a facilitated discussion by CCIE co-directors.
Please RSVP for each of these events here.
Touki Bouki (1973, 85 minutes)
Friday, November 8, 6:00pm – 8:30pm, PCOH 2012
“Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.”
Hyenas (1992, 110 minutes)
Friday, November 22, 6:00pm – 8:30pm, PCOH 2012
“Dramaan is the most popular man in Colobane [Senegal], but when a woman from his past, now exorbitantly wealthy, returns to the town, things begin to change.”
La petite vendeuse de soleil (The little girl selling the sun) (1999, 45 minutes)
Friday, December 6th, 6:00pm – 8:30pm, PCOH 2012
“A girl sells copies of Soleil, the government paper.”
Please RSVP for each of these events here.
Light refreshments will be offered. Events are all open to all.
For further details on each screening and the series, please see the attached event posters and the description below.
Description
The art of Senegalese director Djibril Diop (1945-1998) Mambety’s cinema lies in the tension created between the visual narrative and the aural narrative. His work has been considered hugely influential, and his films bridge Western practices of filmmaking and oral traditions from West Africa. Mambety’s film Touki Bouki is considered one of the foundational works of African cinema. Vlad Dima proposes a new reading of Mambety’s entire filmography from the perspective of sound. Following recent analytical patterns in film studies that challenge the primacy of the visual, Dima claims that Mambety uses voices, noise, and silence as narrative tools that generate their own stories and sonic spaces. By turning an ear to cinema, Dima pushes African aesthetics to the foreground of artistic creativity and focuses on the critical importance of sound in world cinema.
For a recommended reading in relation to Djibril Diop Mambéty’s work, please check the online title below.
Vlad Dima (2017). Sonic Space in Djibril Diop Mambety’s Films. Indiana: Indiana University Press.
Posters and access to trailers at the top. Feel free to disseminate
Oct 10, 2019
Nov 18, 2019
Nov 18, 2019 4 – 6:30 pm
PCOH BALLROOM (Ponderosa Commons North Oak House)
When and why did we lose our capacity to sense and respond to these and other pressing threats to the possibility of continued life on the planet?
Record breaking forest fires, irreversible bio-diversity loss, exponential deforestation, atypical floods, droughts, and extreme weather, toxic substances in the soil and the water, harmful carbon trading practices, illegal invasions of protected territories…
Ninawa Huni Kui will present the analysis and the wake up call that have been issued by the Huni Kui people who, along with other Indigenous groups, are considered the Guardians of the Amazon forest in in Brazil.
Talk sponsored by Dr. Vanessa Andreotti, CRC in Race Inequalities and Global Change, Department of Educational Studies, the Faculty of Education, and Indigenous Teacher Education Program.
“Nature is not a commodity. It is alive. And it is sacred! ”
Chief Ninawa Huni Kui is the President of the Federation of the Huni Kui People in Acre, Brazil. He is the spokesperson for nearly 15000 Indigenous people in 104 villages across 12 indigenous territories in the state of Acre, in Brazil. Ninawa is also a medicine student at the Amazonian University of Pando, in Bolivia.
Suggested donation at the door: $10.
All proceeds go towards the Federation of the Huni Kui People in Acre, Brazil.
Oct 09, 2019
Oct 29, 2019
Hosted by: Daniel Jordan and Dr. Robert VanWynsberghe.
Join us for an interactive workshop on thesis & proposal writing. Topics covered include making the most out of your coursework to develop your thesis, selecting your research committee, securing ethics approval, conducting a literature review, collecting data and more!
Daniel Jordan, BA (Hons.), is nearing completion of his master’s thesis in Adult Learning Education (ALE) at UBC. Daniel also runs a private residential addiction & trauma treatment centre with his family and is acting executive director of a learned society, International Network on Personal Meaning (INPM).
Dr. Robert VanWysnberghe is an Associate Professor in EDST.
Please RSVP
Master’s Thesis Session October 2019
Oct 01, 2019
Oct 15, 2019
We Should Be Writing
PCOH 1008
10:00 am – 1:30pm
Hosted by: Yotam Ronen and EDST’s GAAs
Join EDST’s Writing Group and guest speaker Dr. Alison Taylor for a mini-lecture and Q&A on blogging from 10:00am-10:30am followed by time to write until 1:30pm.
Please RSVP
We Should Be Writing October 2019
Sep 25, 2019
Nov 14, 2019
Connect with Education graduate students and alumni.
Listen to and share your career narratives and experiences.
November 14, 2019
5:00pm to 8:00 pm
Ponderosa Commons Oak House, Ballroom, UBC
Details:
https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/careerday/
RSVP here before Nov 1st
http://bit.ly/EDSTCareerDay
This event is organized by the EDST Graduate Academic Assistants.
For questions email edst.gaa@ubc.ca
Sep 10, 2019
Sep 24, 2019
Sep 24, 2019 (Tue)
New Start Time
9:30am – 12pm
PCOH 2012 (Ponderosa Commons Oak House)
Dr. Sam Rocha
Associate Professor
EDST (Educational Studies)
In past EDST workshops, I have focused on how to write and, most recently, how to edit. In both cases, I have made the assertion that writing and editing require reading. My analogy has been that trying to write without reading would be like trying to run a marathon after only eating a cracker. But how does one read? Is there a way to read that is especially conducive to writing?
In this workshop, I will explore this question with concrete tips on ways of reading that should benefit anyone who would like to see their reading as fuel for writing. In a sense, this is a workshop on how to read for the sake of writing, but I will take it a bit further as a time to contemplate what reading is and what value it might have in its own right.
Sep 09, 2019
Feb 17, 2020
Reading Week 2020
Dissertation Writing Retreats
UBC Grad Students Only
https://blogs.ubc.ca/loonlakeretreat/
Aug 23, 2019
Sep 17, 2019
Between Local Distinction and Global Reputation: University Rankings and Changing Employment in Japan
Dr. Mayumi Ishikawa (Professor, Center for Global Initiatives, Osaka University) to speak at UBC.
Date: Sept 17, 2019
Time: 12-1:30 pm
Location: PCOH 1215
The study examines the incompatibility between the excellence norms used in global rankings and the conventional domestic university hierarchy. The prestige of Japanese elite universities has been primarily constructed on exam selectivity of students and producing desirable graduates for the domestic labour market. Although such a conventional system is in need of adjustment under globalisation, replacing it with excellence norms of global rankings is destructive to employment and career systems that have defined the lives of Japan’s middle-class, white-collar workers for much of the postwar period. Unlike previous works on global university rankings often conducted from national or institutional perspectives, this study identifies a potential threat of the hegemonic “world-class” model to jobs, remunerations and upward social mobility of individuals from a case of Japan.
Bio : Mayumi Ishikawa’s (ishikawa@iai.osaka-u.ac.jp) research interests include the globalization of higher education and ethnographic studies of universities and of Malaysian Borneo, the internationalization of higher education, transnational mobility of students and scholars, world university rankings and the emergence of hegemony in academia, and power in the construction of knowledge. She edited Sekai daigaku ranking to chi no joretsuka [World University Rankings and the Hegemonic Restructuring of Knowledge], a volume in Japanese published from Kyoto University Press.
For more information contact michelle.stack@ubc.ca
