graduate students
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: Project Mgmt I – 2 Days
Registration is now open for:
Foundations of Project Management I: A Team Based Approach (A Mitacs Step Workshop – 2 Days)
Tuesday and Wednesday, December 6 and 7 | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (Note: students MUST commit to the two full days)
For further information or to register, visit www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/13345-foundations-project-management-i-team-based-approach-2-days
The direct registration link is https://community.grad.ubc.ca/gps/event/13345
Please visit the community.grad.ubc.ca forums for other graduate student opportunities including:
One-Time Only Course Offering: Leading the Way Towards a Low-Carbon Future. Graduate students from all departments welcome; commences January 2017. For more information see https://community.grad.ubc.ca/forum/3034
Seminar course: The Trump Impact: Change, Challenges Responses https://community.grad.ubc.ca/forum/3040
SPSS (Part 1) – Environment, Data Entry and One Variable Analysis Tues, Dec 6, 10 – 12 https://community.grad.ubc.ca/event/3020
Tips and Tricks for Formatting Your Thesis, Wed, Dec 7, 10:00 AM https://community.grad.ubc.ca/event/2948
Graduate Student Teaching Drop In, Wed, Dec 7, 1:30 PM https://community.grad.ubc.ca/event/2854
Writing Assignment and Assessment Design Workshop, Thurs, Dec 8, 9 – 12 https://community.grad.ubc.ca/event/3037
Citation Management using RefWorks, Thurs, Dec 8, 3:00 PM https://community.grad.ubc.ca/event/3021
Graduate Pathways to Success: Time Mgmt + Business Writing
There is still space available in this week’s sessions:
Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer, Thurs, Sept 29, 9:00 – 4:30 PM, https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/15595-intellectual-property-technology-transfer
Registration is now open for:
Time Management (Mitacs)
Do you find yourself frequently running out of time on a project? Are impending deadlines making you anxious? In this workshop you will learn how to create achievable plans and schedules, based on project management best practices.
Tuesday, October 4 | 9:00 AM to 5.00PM
For further information or to register, visit https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/13349-time-management
Direct link community.grad.ubc.ca/gps/event/13349
Postdoctoral fellows may register at www.postdocs.ubc.ca/event/354-time-management
Business Writing for Today’s Professional (Mitacs)
No matter what field you’re working in, written communication is a critical part of your day-to-day duties. Regardless of your comfort or skill level, you can benefit from learning techniques to entice your readers and achieve your goals. This workshop will help all professionals hone their writing skills using proven techniques and processes.
Wednesday, October 5 | 9:00 AM to 5.00PM
For further information or to register, https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/13372-business-writing-todays-professional. Direct link: https://community.grad.ubc.ca/gps/event/13372
Postdoctoral fellows may register at https://www.postdocs.ubc.ca/professional-development-events
Please visit the community.grad.ubc.ca forums and event calendar for other graduate student opportunities including:
What is Consulting? (Presented by the Boston Consulting Group), Oct 17, 5.00PM https://community.grad.ubc.ca/forum/2878
Free Learn to Teach Workshops hosted by the UBC CIRTL (Centre for Integration of Research, Learning and Teaching). https://community.grad.ubc.ca/forum/2875
Sharing your experiences using Open Access with the Library https://community.grad.ubc.ca/forum/2879
Upcoming Final Doctoral Examinations
FRIDAY, 16 SEPTEMBER 2016 – 9:00AM – FIRST NATIONS LONGHOUSE, BOARDROOM, 1985 WEST MALL
WEDNESDAY, 28 SEPTEMBER 2016 – 12:30PM – ROOM 200
Job – Exam Invigilator, UBC Access & Diversity. Due: Aug 31, 2016
**Preference will be given to Masters and PhD students; however, undergraduate students who are not taking courses with exams are welcome to apply. **
Duties include: starting, monitoring, and ending exams for students with disabilities in private spaces or group settings; setting up adaptive and computer equipment for the exams; ensuring examinees adhere to UBC and Access and Diversity exam procedures; maintaining good communication with Exam Coordinators and other invigilators; compiling detailed and accurate records and incident reports. Access and Diversity invigilators must strictly adhere to the University’s regulations and procedures regarding exams.
* Friendly demeanor and strong interpersonal skills.
* Contributes to a positive team environment.
* Ability to work and remain calm while under stress.
* Effective written and oral communication. Successful candidates must have the ability to compose detailed reports using clear, concise business English.
* Outstanding attention to detail and ability to accurately follow procedures.
* Ability to exercise tact and discretion when handling sensitive and/or confidential matters.
* Punctuality and reliability essential.
* Ability to follow directions, work independently, and to work within a team environment.
* Flexible schedule and ability to commit to consistent shift availability: Average 12: hours/week.
*Must be available to take shifts between 7:30am and 10:00pm.
* Experience working with persons with disabilities, in education, or in a service-oriented environment are assets.
John W. Davies Memorial Award. Due: June 29, 2016
John W. Davies Memorial Award
Two awards of $3,000 are offered by the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Arctic Section in memory of John W. Davies, a former Chairman of the Section. The competition is open to any full time graduate student whose research will assist in providing solutions to problems encountered in the Arctic or in cold ocean environments.
Deadline: 29 June 2016 11:00 PM PST
More info: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/john-w-davies-memorial-award
GPS Workshop: Leading with Emotional Intelligence. 1-4 pm, Jun 14, 2016
Leading with Emotional Intelligence
Is there more to being smart than just IQ? Absolutely! Research consistently shows that a person’s Emotional Intelligence (EI) is a key factor associated with success in career advancement, relationships and overall well-being. It is also vital to leadership. The good news is that you can develop skills in EI to be a better leader: to develop and influence others, build relationships and create environments that support the realization of common goals. This workshop will establish links between EI and leadership, and will explore the fundamentals of emotional management. Learning to work with emotions, rather than denying and ignoring them, will have a positive impact on your life, career and leadership paths. This workshop will introduce you to the concept of EI and help you to develop skills to: manage your emotions, regulate your behavior and act wisely across situations, communicate what you want in a way that reduces negative reactions in others, take the lead in fostering a work environment that energizes, motivates and optimizes performance. Instructor: Sally Halliday
Beverages will be provided. Please bring your own mug.
Location: Thea Koerner House, 6371 Crescent Road, UBC
Date: June 14, 2016 Time: 1:00PM – 4:00 PM
Register: grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/13328-leading-emotional-intelligence
For information on upcoming Graduate Pathways to Success Events, please visit: www.grad.ubc.ca/pathways
Visit https://community.grad.ubc.ca/calendar for other graduate student workshops and events.
Graduate Pathways to Success: Volunteer and Employment Opportunities (GSS, Wellness, Orientation)
Many new workshops for July and the fall have recently been posted. Check out our upcoming sessions including Essentials of Productive Teams (July 6th) and Financial Literacy (July 7th) and more at https://www.grad.ubc.ca/current-students/graduate-pathways-success/workshops-events
Volunteer for New Graduate Student Orientation
The main new graduate student orientation will take place on Thursday, September 1st with other orientation activities scheduled through early September . Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies along with the Graduate Student Society and International Student Development will have several orientation-related volunteer positions to be filled.
Applicants must be current UBC Graduate Students in their 2nd year or later to apply. If you are interested, please send an email to: graduate.orientation@ubc.ca. We will provide specific information on volunteer positions once the event schedule is finalized.
Wellness Outreach, under UBC Student Health Service, is currently recruiting Graduate Wellness Peers!
The application deadline is June 30th, 2016. For questions please email amanda.unruh@ubc.ca.
Using a peer-to-peer approach, the Graduate Wellness Peers enhance campus wellbeing by contributing a graduate student lens to the larger university commitment to enhance student mental health and wellbeing. This includes working at the UBC Wellness Centre in a student support and education role and providing workshops and outreach to the graduate student population at UBC. As a Wellness Peer you will gain practical and transferable skills in health education and promotion, leadership, facilitation, collaboration and partnership building. To view the full posting, visit:https://community.grad.ubc.ca/forum/2634 .
The Graduate Student Society is hiring:
Interim VP University and Academic Affairs: (position is June 28-Aug 31; applications due June 14th)https://community.grad.ubc.ca/forum/2641
GSS Advocate: Applications due June 19th https://community.grad.ubc.ca/forum/2631
Qualitative Data Analyst: GSS Harassment and Discrimination Committee (volunteer position):https://community.grad.ubc.ca/forum/2633