Past Event: Dr. Malini Ranganathan November 2nd
Ecologies of Social Difference and the Social Justice Institute present: Dr. Malini Ranganathan Racial Liberalism and the Coloniality of Urban Ecologies When: Thursday November 2nd, 12-1pm Where: Rm 1099, Buchanan Tower 1873 East Mall, UBC Lunch Provided Synopsis: How do we understand lead poisoning in water pipes, land dispossession and evictions, and real estate speculation on […]
ESD Annotated Bibliography
Ecologies of Social Difference Bibliography The University of British Columbia’s Ecologies of Social Difference Thematic Network (Social Justice @ UBC Network) is pleased to announce the release of an initial draft of an Annotated Bibliography on the intersection of inequality/social difference and critical nature studies/political ecology/environmental justice. This bibliography highlights academic research that investigates the […]
Past Event: Dr. Kim TallBear February 24th
Ecologies of Social Difference and the Social Justice Institute present: Dr. Kim TallBear, University of Alberta. Making Love and Relations Beyond Settler Sexualities When: Wednesday February 24th, noon Where: Jack Bell Room 028 This talk—a developing theoretical intervention—will serve as a provocation to think through the entangled politics of ethical non-monogamy, nurturing extended family and […]
Upcoming Event: Dr. Katie Gillespie March 3rd
Ecologies of Social Difference and the Social Justice Institute present: Dr. Katie Gillespie Placing Angola: Race, coloniality and human-animal encounters at the Louisiana State Penitentiary When: Mar 3, 11am – 12pm Where:Room 028, Jack Bell Building 2080 West Mall The Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola is a site embedded with historical U.S. legacies of plantation […]
Rituals of Ethnicity: Thangmi Identities Between Nepal and India
Dear colleagues, Please join me to celebrate the publication of my new book, Rituals of Ethnicity: Thangmi Identities Between Nepal and India (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015). The UBC book launch will take place on Thursday, October 1 at 5pm at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, followed by a reception. Afterwards, from 7pm […]
People of the Land: Dialogue series with the Mapuche Territorial Alliance September 22-23
People of the Land: Dialogue series with the Mapuche Territorial Alliance September 22-23, 2015 UBC | Unceded Coast Salish Territory People of the Land: Dialogue series with the Mapuche Territorial Alliance will bring together two Indigenous leaders from the Mapuche Nation –Alberto Curamil and Miguel Melin– with Indigenous activists and scholars from North America […]
