Join guest speaker Dr. Ania Zbyszewska on March 14th as she explains how “just transition” from fossil fuels is understood and operationalized in specific contexts.
Join guest speaker Dr. Marius Kothor for an engaging presentation about the Nana Benz, a group of Togolese women entrepreneurs who have influenced both the batik textile industry and the political landscape of West Africa.
Join Dr Keith Carlson for an insightful presentation on how BC’s settler colonial systems were developed and the path toward building a respectful new relationship between Indigenous and settler societies.
The Department of History and Sociology invites the public to attend a Multidimensional Social Inquiry into ‘the Loneliness Problem’ a lecture from Dr. Tara Milbrandt and Dr. Ondine Park. Dr. Tara Milbrandt is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta, Augustana campus. Dr. Ondine Park is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in […]
The Department of History and Sociology invites the public to attend From Rabia to Fatima: A History of Female Education in Afghanistan, a lecture from Dr. Lauryn Oates. Dr. Lauryn Oates is the Executive Director of Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan. She is also an Adjunct Professor at UBC, and teaches graduate students in […]
The Department of History and Sociology invites the public to attend Class, Gender and Race on trial: An ethnography of “mental-health courtrooms” in Quebec, a lecture from Dr. Emmanuelle Bernheim. Dr. Emmanuelle Bernheim is a Professor in the Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section, at the University of Ottawa and holds the Canada Research Chair in Mental […]
The Department of History and Sociology invites the public to attend Frontier Caravans: Protest Performativity and the Making of Transnational Political Subjects, a lecture from Dr. Martha Balaguera Cuervo.
Join as the 2022 Okanagan Short Story Contest winners are announced at the Kelowna Downtown Library.
Writer in Residence, John Lent, will announce the winners of this year’s short story contest, with a chance to hear readings by the winners.
Join us for a lively discussion about the walls we do not see right in front of us.
The workshop will explore the aesthetics, tools, requirements, value and limits of works that mix spoken word and sound.
Want to learn engaging ways to share research? Come to an interactive workshop about using comics, graphic novels, chapbooks to share your research results or community messaging.
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Kelowna, BC Canada V1V 1V7
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We respectfully acknowledge the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples, in whose traditional, ancestral, unceded territory UBC Okanagan is situated.
