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The UBC School of Nursing Consortium for Nursing History Inquiry is hosting a panel for Black History Month that will recognize the significant contributions of Black nurses to health care in British Columbia and Canada. "Black (in)Visibility: Black Nurses in Canada who Paved the Way" Thursday, February 25 12:00 - 1:45 pm PST... Online The panel will feature a keynote address by renowned historian Dr. Karen Flynn, an Associate Professor in the Departments of Gender and Women’s Studies and African-American Studies Program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Flynn’s book Moving Beyond Borders: A History of Black Canadian and Caribbean Women in the Diaspora won the Lavinia L. Dock Award from the American Association for the History of Nursing. Panelists: Dr. Lydia Wytenbroek, Assistant Professor, UBC School of Nursing at UBC Ismalia De Sousa, doctoral student, UBC School of Nursing Dr. Dzifa Dordunoo, Assistant Professor of Nursing, University of Victoria This panel is free and open to the public. See the full program and register here: https://nursing.ubc.ca/even/2021/black-nurses-who-paved-way

Early-career scholars: Check out these opportunities for public engagement projects. The Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship of $50,000 is for public-facing projects far enough along in development or execution that the nominee can present compelling, specific evidence that they will successfully engage the intended public. The Whiting Public Engagement Seed Grant of up to $10,000 supports projects at a somewhat earlier stage of development than the Fellowship, before the n...ominee has been able to establish a specific track record of success for the proposed public-facing work. Full details: https://www.whiting.org/sc/public-engagement-programs/about

UBC Knowledge Exchange has just released their 2019-2022 Knowledge Exchange Strategy to build capacity among UBC researchers across disciplines to engage beyond academia and contribute to creating positive change in society. Read about how Kx will support UBC researchers collaborate with non-academic partners through respectful research processes. https://research.ubc.ca///files/vpri/KxUnitStrategy_VF.pdf About Kx: https://innovation.ubc.ca/how-engageknowledge-exchange/about

The Boston Area Romanticist Colloquium and University of Buffalo are hosting a series of dialogues starting March 10th on Race, Blackness, and Romanticism. Convened by Dr. Patricia Matthew, Associate Professor of English at Montclair State University and Distinguished Visiting Scholar at SUNY-Buffalo’s Center for Diversity Innovation. Have a look at the full schedule and register here. https://www.patriciamatthew.com/dialogues Sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities, in conjunction with the University at Buffalo, including the College of Arts and Sciences, Humanities Institute, and James H. McNulty Chair of English Myung Mi Kim.

We hope you have been finding the Exhibitions Toolkit in our Public Scholarship Toolkit series useful. Here's another example of a virtual exhibit, created by the The GLBT Historical Society, on the history of AIDS Treatment Activism in the Bay Area, curated by Brenda Lein. https://www.glbthistory.org/aids-treatment-activism

The "Narrative Art & Visual Storytelling in Holocaust and Human Rights Education" project brings together researchers, visual artists, Holocaust survivors, librarians, and students in order to create free educational resources. It is led by Dr. Charlotte Schallié (University of Victoria). Artists work directly with survivors to co-create graphic novels based on their personal experiences before, during, and after the Holocaust with the help of historians and students. For I...nternational Holocaust Remembrance Day, they launched a short film, But I live, the story of survivor Emmie Arbel, made by Barbara Yelin. Watch it here. https://www.youtube.com/watch Project website: http://holocaustgraphicnovels.org/

The next seminar in the Museum of Anthropology's Visual + Material Culture Seminar Series will discuss a new and ongoing research project inquiring into past and current changes in the representation of Vancouver’s pasts within the city’s landscape. "Mapping the City: Public Histories and the Shifting Landscape of Vancouver" Speaker: Caitlin Gordon-Walker, Honorary research associate and sessional instructor, UBC Anthropology Department Thursday, November 26, 2020... 4 5 pm PST Online Register to attend: https://moa.ubc.ca//visual-material-culture-seminar-serie/

An upcoming UBC Science and Technology Studies colloquium on experimental ethics: Experimental Ethics: Pragmatism, Environment, and Social Reform Trevor Pearce (Philosophy, U of North Carolina, Charlotte, and UBC alumnus) Wednesday, November 18... 12:30 - 2:00 PST Online via Zoom Full details: https://sts.arts.ubc.ca/colloquium-events/sts-colloquium

Christopher B. Patterson (Social Justice Institute UBC) delivered a keynote at the annual conference of the Chinese Digital Game Research Association this month, entitled "Misunderstanding Games from Afar: Asia and the Cultural Politics of Play". https://www.youtube.com/watch

Y-Dang Troeung, Assistant Professor in the UBC Department of English Language & Literatures, is completing a manuscript on the afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia. This recent profile describes her research, which bridges the humanities and the social sciences. Read the profile here to learn more about her work at the intersection of transnational Asian literature and culture, critical refugee studies and critical disability studies. https://english.ubc.ca///reimagining-the-refugee-narrative

This panel examines how anti-Asian racism has shaped the contemporary Canadian university, as well as how scholars in and beyond critical race, Asian Canadian and Asian diaspora studies have responded through their research, teaching and community engagement. Taking place on the 10th year anniversary of Macleans’ infamous article on whether Canadian universities were Too Asian?, panelists look back at both the immediate and longer term academic and public dialogues, respons...es and organizing efforts that resulted from and exceeded this moment. They also consider what it means to be doing this work of retrospection in the context of resurgent eruptions of multiple forms of anti-Asian and broader racial violence during these pandemic times. Wednesday, November 18 12-1pm PST Online Panelists: Dr. Davina Bhandar (Athabasca University) Dr. Roland Sintos Coloma (Wayne State University) Dr. Christine Kim (UBC Department of English Language & Literatures) Dr. Henry Yu (UBC Department of History) Hosted by Social Justice Institute UBC and Asian Canadian & Asian Migration Studies UBC. https://www.facebook.com/events/2696215817261780/

For academics who have a doctoral degree in the humanities: Do you want to learn to write nonfiction genres such as essays, op-eds, and reviews? Apply for this 4-day public writing workshop hosted by Jackman Humanities Institute online in March. The instructor is Irina Dumitrescu (University of Bonn). Application deadline is November 27.

To shed light on a book’s journey to publication, Portage & Main Press is publishing a six-part series, How Does Publishing Work? Dallas Hunt (UBC Department of English Language & Literatures) is among the contributors to this instalment on developing your story and finding your process. http://www.portageandmainpress.com//how-to-write-a-book-h/

Jessica Wood, known as Si Sityaawks (Woman who creates change), from the Gitxsan and Tsimshian First Nations with roots among the Tahltan and Nisga’a Nations, is engaging in dialogue for a 5-part series called Matriarch Illuminations in November and December 2020. Jessica Wood is the current Policy Practitioner Fellow at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia and she will host fellow Matriarchs from across Turtle Island. Students,... staff, faculty and community members are invited to pour themselves a cup of tea and sit around the virtual table to listen. Format: A 45 min discussion, 15 min Q&A from 5:00 pm 6:00 pm on various evenings on Zoom Register now for the first event. Dreaming, Sovereignty & Matriation with Patricia M. Barkaskas, Associate Professor of Teaching, Peter A. Allard School of Law Monday, November 16, 2020 5:00 pm 6:00 pm PST https://sppga.ubc.ca//matriarch-illuminations-a-5-part-se/

Unexamined norms of embodiment have prevented generations of readers from noticing a trio of transgender characters at the heart of Henry James' novel, The Portrait of a Lady, says Victoria Coulson, Senior Lecturer in English and Related Literature at the University of York. Hear more this Friday at her virtual lecture hosted by UBC Department of English Language & Literatures. Gilbert Osmond, transwoman: Norms of embodiment and transgender recognition in The Portrait of a L...ady Dr. Victoria Coulson (University of York) 27 November 2020 3:00 PM (PST) Register to attend: https://english.ubc.ca//02/speaker-series-victoria-coulson/

Congratulations to Niigaanwewidam Sinclair, Professor in Native Studies at the University of Manitoba and UBC Department of English PhD! Looking forward to his memoir and collection of essays. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10164540882880235&set=a.10151557133740235&type=3&theater

Katja Thieme, Associate Professor of Teaching in UBC Journalism, Writing and Media, will be one of speakers at the panel on "Free Expression on Campus: Public Policy Responses to the Alleged 'Crisis'" hosted by the University of Alberta. Monday, November 16 3:30 PM 5 PM Mountain Time Online... Panelists: Richard Moon (University of Windsor) Samir Gandesha (Simon Fraser University) Katja Thieme (University of British Columbia) Cara Zwibel (Canadian Civil Liberties Association) Registration link and more details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/367339754380071/

Have you registered yet? Sign up to get the Zoom link to this Nov 25th workshop. You'll hear about the process of developing a scholarly exhibit as a new mode of research, how to work with a variety of tangible and intangible objects, how to work with various institutions, and more. https://www.facebook.com/events/1050600515364474/