Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice UBC
The Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia is a degree-granting academic unit that exemplifies a commitment to ensuring critical advances in knowledge, democratic communities, and equity in scholarship, research, and teaching.
Our Noted Scholars Lecture Series hosts public lectures at the University, bringing international and local scholars to the campus and beyond.
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Dr. Lara Sheehi in Conversation with Dr. Jasbir Puar: "Palestine, Psychic Warfare, Debility"
Crip Colony: On the Ethics of the “Misrecognitive”’, with Dr. Sony Coráñez Bolton
Dr. Karen Lord - "Many Ways of Being Human"
Dr. Mila Zuo - "Decolonizing the Sensorium: Vulgarity, Chineseness, and Global Film Stardom"
Dr. Mary Zournazi - "Reparation, Creativity, & Justice"
“Curating Detours: a Decolonial Guide to Hawaiʻi”
Dr. Hortense Spillers - “At the Margins: Borders in the age of a Pandemic”
“Refugee Archives across the Transpacific – A Conversation”
Dr. Becki Ross - “Historicizing Criminalized Sex Work"
Dr. Diana Taylor - “Performance, Memory, Repair: Reflections on the Politics of Pandemics”
Dr. Christopher Patterson - "Making Queer Asiatic Worlds" (April 1, 2021)
“Pacific Borderlands: Sanctuary, Health and Precarious Migrants in British Columbia” – Round Table
Welcome Video
Dr. Michelle McGeough – "The Indigenous Sovereign Body"
Elliot Powell - "Werk It! Missy Elliott, queer hip hop, & the musical aesthetics of impropriety",
Laura Ishiguro - ""Absolutely nothing going on": Historicizing the settler Colonial everyday"
Lily Wong - "Sex work, media networks, & transpacific histories of affect"
Dr. Christine Kim - "Foreign intimacies, diasporic nostalgias, and North Korea",
"Rights of Nature, Corporate Social Responsibility and the Role of Higher Education Institutions"
"Decolonizing Travel Writing: Creative Scholarship in Asia"
Erin Manning on Neurodiversity, Black Life and the University as We Know It
Social Justice Faculty Showcase
Regenerative Refusals: Against the Logic of Possession Through Whiteness in Hawai`i and Polynesia
“The Contents of Rotimi’s Trunk: A Chapter in The Bookshop of Black Queer Diaspora”
“Who Reads The Second Sex Today? A Queer Translingual Contemporization”
“Everyday Exposure: Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada’s Chemical Valley”
Anti-Colonial Machine Conference: "Quartet for the End of Time"
“You Can Have Gay Sex in Video Games And Eat It Too”
“Variations Under Domestication”: Indigeneity, Financialization, and the Logics of Dispossession