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Candidate #1 Dr. Lauren E. Jerke
Public presentation and Q&A – Wednesday, April 24th 2024
Time: 10 am to 11:30 am
Location: PCN Multipurpose Room #2012
Format: Hybrid (in person and via Zoom)
Zoom details:
https://ubc.zoom.us/j/64216160549?pwd=V1hoRGZtOW9HNUpwT1c1bzdyYTR1QT09
Meeting ID: 642 1616 0549
Passcode: 488065
Title: Felt Understanding, and Showing Contradiction: Indigenous Education and Applied Theatre
Presentation Outline/abstract: Dr. Lauren E. Jerke’s teaching and research background is in theatre – using theatre and story as a way to address social injustice, for educational purposes, and community building. In this presentation, she will share how felt understanding and the importance of showing contradiction has supported her research and teaching practice to support Indigenous resurgence.
Bio: Dr. Lauren E. Jerke is Métis, and Polish-German. Her artistry, facilitation, and research is theatre-based, community-engaged, rooted in story, prioritizes lived experience, and aims to encourage critical understandings of social injustice and systemic oppression. Dr. Jerke has worked with diverse communities such as urban Indigenous women, Indigenous youth, people living with mental health issues, older adults living in care homes, prison inmates, judges, law students, youth in Malawi, and university students in Kunming (China). She has taught in the Indigenous Education and Theatre departments at the University of Victoria.