grad students
SAGE Coffee and Catch-up dates 2017
Dear SAGE Community!
We are going to continue the coffee sessions each Wednesday from 10:30-11:30 in the FNHL board room. Some weeks we will have speakers and other weeks it is just a chance for us all to catch up and check in.
Graduate Programs: CTLT, Teaching Assistants Institute
The TA Institute is open to any graduate student who is interested in teaching or TAing. The Institute includes sessions on teaching and learning theory, scholarship, classroom strategies, campus climate, and lesson design.
Design Thinking in Teaching
January 10, 2017
9:30 am–11:30 am
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Seminar Room 2.22
How do you design a successful lesson? This workshop will discuss common challenges in lesson planning and develop a toolkit of best practices and strategies. More info
Grad Student Mental Health
January 10, 2017
12:30 pm–2:30 pm
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Seminar Room 2.22
Do you ever feel overwhelmed as a TA and feel like students can see right through you? In this workshop, we will address raising self-awareness on “impostor syndrome” and identify strategies for self-care and navigating teaching and life as a grad student. More info
Developing a SoTL Project
January 10, 2017
3:00 pm–5:00 pm
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Seminar Room 2.22
This workshop will help you design a research project to evaluate the quality of teaching and learning in your course. Learn the fundamentals of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and create a blueprint for your very first SoTL project. More info
Metacognition, Lifelong Learning, and Disciplinary Practice
January 11, 2017
9:30 am–11:30 am
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Seminar Room 2.22
How can you help students become lifelong learners? This session will examine the idea of metacognition as a distinct and valuable practice in teaching and learning. More info
Transliteracies
January 11, 2017
12:30 pm–2:30 pm
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Seminar Room 2.22
This workshop explores how TAs can develop safer, more trans-inclusive pedagogical practices in their various role(s) in the classroom and on campus. More info
Giving Guest Lectures and Presentations
January 11, 2017
3:00 pm–5:00 pm
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Seminar Room 2.22
Learn more about guest lectures and presentations, and design a toolkit to prepare for successful lectures or presentations. More info
Experiential Learning: Concept and its Application in Lesson Planning
January 12, 2017
9:30 am–11:30 am
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Seminar Room 2.22
Explore the experiential learning cycle, its value in teaching contexts, and ways to integrate the model into your lesson planning and teaching. More info
Incorporating Results from SoTL
January 12, 2017
12:30 pm–2:30 pm
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Seminar Room 2.22
This professional development workshop is open to grad students interested in learning more about Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. More info
Unsettling Group Guidelines
January 12, 2017
3:00 pm–5:00 pm
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Seminar Room 2.22
Classroom guidelines are often used by educators with the intent to establish a “safe” learning environment. But others have argued that classroom guidelines sometimes fail to recognize and respond to issues of power and social position. More info
Thank You!
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Elissa Morris
Events Assistant | Centre for Teaching Learning and Technology
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver
214-1961 East Mall, Vancouver BC, V6T 1Z1 Canada
Phone 604 827 4871| elissa.morris@ubc.ca
http://www.ctlt.ubc.ca | @UBC_CTLT
CFP – Indigenous Expressions of Culture in Storytelling, Drama, Theatre and Performance – Traditional and Contemporary Canadian and Polish Upper Silesian Perspectives. Due: Dec 31, 2016
A Conference Organized by the University of Silesia, Poland and the University of the Fraser Valley, Canada
April 26-28, 2017, University of Silesia, Sosnowiec campus
Second Call for Proposals
Indigenous Expressions of Culture in Storytelling, Drama, Theatre and Performance –Traditional and Contemporary Canadian and Polish Upper Silesian Perspectives.
Confirmed Speaker: Tomson Highway (Cree)
“Storytelling is at the core of decolonizing, because it is a process of remembering, visioning and creating a just reality […] [it] becomes a lens through which we can envision our way out of cognitive imperialism” (Simpson 89)
The first of the intended series of conferences dedicated to the exploration of the complexity of Indigenous cultures of North America and minor cultures of Eastern/Central Europe – is a joint project of the Department of English and Indigenous Affairs Office, University of the Fraser Valley (UFV), Canada, and the Canadian Studies Centre, Department of American and Canadian Studies, Theatrum Research Group and the Centre for the Study of Minor Cultures at the University of Silesia (US), Poland. As Canadian and Polish scholars and educators working in the fields of Indigenous, minor, and transcultural literary and cultural studies, we propose that the first conference will explore the traditional and contemporary expressions of culture in Indigenous America, specifically Canada, and in the Eastern/Central European territory of Upper Silesia, specifically Poland, with a primary focus on the acts of resistance, survival and celebration of culture as enacted in storytelling, drama, theatre and performance (DTP). Performance is interpreted broadly including traditional and contemporary music and dance as well as festival events understood as modes of cultural storytelling. We envision the event as a meeting of Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars representing a variety of disciplines and Indigenous Canadian and Upper Silesian storytellers, writers, artists, performers, educators and community members.
Our aim is to explore the richness of Indigenous expressions of culture in storytelling and DPT in Canada and Upper Silesia. We believe that the transcultural dialogue between scholars, artists and educators of marginalized cultures will be an enriching learning experience for all, but especially for Upper Silesians, colonized by diverse powers throughout history, whose most recent struggle for recognition, including the processes of cultural and linguistic revitalization, can benefit from such transcultural encounters.
The exploration of Canadian scholarship on Indigenous literatures and cultures, and especially the work of Indigenous playwrights, artists, performers, scholars/critics and educators is of great interest to the critics of minor/ Indigenous literatures and cultures in Europe. We believe that in spite of many differences between Indigenous cultures of America and minor cultures of Eastern/Central Europe, critical insights and analytical tools offered by Indigenous research methodologies, epistemologies and pedagogical theories can provide instructive, alternative ways of approaching the under-studied and under-theorized works of European minor/Indigenous writers, performers and artists. A panel discussion by specialists in this area will explore diverse perspectives on these complex issues.
Prospective participants are invited to submit proposals for traditional and non-traditional presentations that broadly address the theme of the conference. Submissions from graduate and postgraduate students at any stage of their research are welcome. The following list of topics should be regarded as neither exhaustive nor prescriptive:
- Re-reading and re-writing of history in DTP
- Poetics, aesthetics and politics of identity construction in DTP
- Storytelling, drama, theatre and performance as tools of decolonization and pedagogy
- Storytelling as a repository and archive of Indigenous knowledge
- Interrogating the concept of indigeneity: theorizing indigenous and minor cultures perspectives
- Indigeneity of Upper Silesia
- Transindigeneity and a dialogue of cultures
- Indigenous ontology, epistemology, axiology, and methodology and their translation into storytelling and DTP
- Use of oral traditions, stories, culture and history to promote activism
- Inventing home through stories and performance: a decolonizing approach to DTP
- Performing history and re-visioning of community memories DTP
- The role of the storytelling and DTP in the cultural revival of Canadian Indigenous cultures
- The role of the storytelling and DTP in the cultural revival of Upper Silesian culture and language
- (De)Construction of cultural identity in storytelling and DTP
- Traditional knowledge and values in storytelling and DTP
- Indigenous/ local knowledge and traditional and contemporary expressions of culture
- Performance of identity and language recovery and revitalization
- Language recovery and revitalization and identity construction
- Methodological practices of Native Performance Culture (NPC) as a possible model for the Upper Silesian expressions of culture
- Diversity of the traditional Indigenous forms of cultural expression in the contemporary Canadian Indigenous and Upper Silesian DTP
- Theories of affect and the enactment of Indigenous cultures in storytelling and DTP
- Traditional knowledge versus folklore and its performance
- Folklore and theatre
- The role of folklore in preserving Indigenous and minor cultures
- The condition of ritual in theatre – Canadian Indigenous and Slavic perspectives
- Contemporary storytelling methods in DTP
- The poetics of place and aesthetic values
- Poetic auto-creation and mythologizing of Indigenous cultures and landscapes
- Indigenous values and cosmologies and their translation into DTP
- Heritage tourism and storytelling
- Cultural festivals and their role in preserving and inventing cultures
With a comparative project in mind, we are initiating new avenues of research related to the marginalized local/ indigenous/minor cultures of Eastern/Central Europe studied in the context of Indigenous cultures of North America. We hope this pioneering venture in will lead to a greater understanding of the Indigenous and minor cultures functioning within major dominant national narratives of Canada and Poland.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
University of Silesia: University of the Fraser Valley
Eugenia Sojka
Aneta Głowacka Michelle LaFlamme
Sabina Sweta Sen Shirley Swelchalot Shxwha:yathel Hardman
Rafał Madeja
Deadline for abstracts: December 31st 2016 ;
Notification of acceptance: January 6th 2017
Please send proposals to: indigenoustheatre2017poland@gmail.com
Proposal submission address:
(i) Individual proposals should be 250-300 words.
(ii) For panels, in English, or Polish, please send the title of the panel and a 250-word presentation explaining the overall focus together with a 250-300 word abstract for each participant.
(iii) Please attach a short bio to your conference paper proposal.
All files should be clearly marked with the applicants’ name. Please make sure the files are in the PDF format.
Registration fee: covering welcome reception, all conference materials, coffee breaks, and conference banquet.
- $ 250 US – full time faculty
- $125 US – students and part-time faculty
Publication: selected papers based on the conference presentations will be published in a refereed monograph.
The conference website will be opened shortly.
Graduate Pathways to Success: workshops + new graduate student orientation in January
The January orientation schedule is available at http://orientation.grad.ubc.ca/schedules/january-2017/ and includes offerings from International Student Development (Jan 4 and 12), Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (Jan 5), and the Graduate Student Society (Jan 5). This information has been emailed to all incoming graduate students.
There is still space available in today’s workshop: Strengthening Teams: Managing Emotions, Conflict and Change
Monday, December 12 | 1:00 PM to 4:30 PM
For further information or to register, visit www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/15466-strengthening-teams-managing-emotions-conflict-change
Please visit the community.grad.ubc.ca forums for other graduate student opportunities including:
Call for Applications—UBC Sustainability Scholars (Paid Internship Opportunities) https://community.grad.ubc.ca/forum/3058
Tips and Tricks for Formatting your Thesis Wed, Dec 14, 10:00 AM https://community.grad.ubc.ca/event/2805
Citation Management using Zotero, Thurs, Dec 15, 3:00 PM https://community.grad.ubc.ca/event/3023
Contact: Jacqui Brinkman
Manager, Graduate Pathways to Success Program
Office of the Dean | Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus
170 – 6371 Crescent Road | Vancouver BC | V6T 1Z2 Canada
Phone 604 827 4578 | Fax 604 822 5802
jacqui.brinkman@ubc.ca
UBC Single Mothers Support Group
Are you a single mother attending UBC? Are you looking to connect with other single mothers on campus who share your experience of balancing work, studying and parenting schedules? A new group was created for single mothers on campus with the support of the YWCA, UNA and UTown@UBC.
Please see the tentative schedule below and please contact Aurelia Kinslow with any questions: aurelia.kinslow@ubc.ca.
Thank you,
Aurelia Kinslow
Tentative Schedule
Place: Old Barn Community Centre (attached to Bean Around the World)
Date (Friday 5:30-7:30pm) | notes | |
Jan meetings | Jan 6 | |
Jan 27 | ||
Feb meetings | Feb 10 | |
Feb 24 | ||
March meetings | Mar 17 | (spring break week) |
Mar 31 | ||
April Meetings | Apr 14 | Good Friday |
Apr 28 | ||
May meetings | May 12 | |
May 26 |
Indigenous Education Recruitment for PhD and EdD Info Session – 1 Oct, 2016

for Indigenous students, educators, and community members who might be interested in applying to a PhD or EdD program in one of the Departments or School in the Faculty of Education at UBC.
Associate Dean, Indigenous Education, Faculty of Education
Director, Native Indigenous Teacher Education Program (NITEP)
Professor of Indigenous Education in Teacher Education
Associate Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education
University of British Columbia | Unceded Musqueam Territory
Research Assistant, Project on Water Governance and Indigenous Law at UBC. Due: Sept 9, 2016 (12 pm)
The student research assistant will support projects for the Project on Water Governance and Indigenous Law, a multi-year SSHRC Partnership Grant.
Position will be approximately 10 hours per week from September to December, with the possibility of extension and further research collaboration.
Job Duties:
- logistics for partner meetings (accommodation, travel, handouts, room arrangements)
- taking notes -background research including literature reviews and data base assessment
- logistics for summer meeting
- social media
- support for administrative tasks including copy-editing, network building and data assessment Qualifications
- interest/knowledge in Aboriginal issues, organizations, and resources
- a solid work ethic
- strong research skills
- excellent computer skills including Office, WordPress, and if possible
Adobe Creative Suite
- proven written and verbal communication abilities
- strong interpersonal and organizational skills
- an ability and willingness to work independently and on a team
- accuracy and attention to detail in creating and reviewing documents and databases
- aptitudes in prioritization and meeting deadlines
- skill in design and layout
This position is open to upper year undergraduate and graduate students at UBC.
Please send your cover letter and resume to water.partners@ubc.ca. Deadline to apply: Noon, Friday, September 9th 2016.
Call for Submissions – Decolonizing Conference at OISE/U of T. Due: June 30, 2016
CIARS 2016 “DECOLONIZING CONFERENCE”
SAVE THE DATE: November 3-5th, 2016
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 30, 2016
Speakers | Keynotes Taiaiake Alfred, Joyce E. King, Walter D. Mignolo
Featured Speakers (and more!) | Haydon King, Jose Aylwin, Andrea Davis, Sandy Grande, Afua Cooper, Carl James, Njoki Wane, Peter McLaren, Lee Maracle, Sherene Razack, Eve Tuck
Submission Categories
1. Individual papers
2. Individual posters
3. Group poster sessions
4. Group panel sessions
5. Workshops (aimed at enhancing Undergraduate/Graduate Student learning)
6. Other Critical Contributions: Arts-based Installations and Other New Media (Poetry, Songs, Dance, audio-based media such as podcasts, Visual media such as Film)
Share with Your Networks!
Visit the website: http://www.decolonizingconference.com/
Download the PDF of the Full Call for Abstracts online: http://www.decolonizingconference.com/call-for-abstracts(attached)
Register online: $50 Faculty and $25 Students
+ Decolonizing Conference Poster (attached)
+ Call for Submissions (attached)