Our next session will be held on Friday, November 4, 2022 at noon (PST). Will Valley (Associate Dean EDI, Faculty of Land and Food Systems) will be leading the session this week.
Starting October 2022, LFS Learning Centre will be hosting a new Lunch & Learn series on decolonization on the first Friday of every month at noon (PST). These sessions will be facilitated by Will Valley (Associate Dean, EDI at The Faculty of Land and Food Systems). These sessions will maintain the Lunch & Learn structure of being discussion-based and will have a short pre-reading associated with them to provide a brief context of the topic.
It is common to hear that we are in a historical moment defined by unprecedented levels of wealth and well-being, with the only perceived challenges being the possible interruption of the continued spread of this good news and its accompanying material gifts. But who is the “we” in these claims? For whom is this true and at whose expense?
The Gesturing Towards Decolonial Future’s Collective offers a pedagogical cartography of responses (7 min read) to the assertion that “everything is awesome”, through which they seek to invite active engagement with the limitations of this assertion in ways that might supplement the more point by point accountings of its inaccuracies and oversights. In this session, we will discuss the implications of the various positions represented in the cartography to help build the stamina that is necessary to sit with the contradictions, uncertainty, and ambivalence inherent to complex global challenges.
Join Will and The Learning Centre team this week to explore this cartography. To register for the session, please visit https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5cscumsqDwrG9OI5NHXco_FeqnmI0pzdWM1.
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Links shared during the session:
Stein, S., Hunt, D., Suša, R., & de Oliveira Andreotti, V. (2017). The educational challenge of unraveling the fantasies of ontological security. Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 11(2), 69-79.
Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15595692.2017.1291501