Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence Task Force Report Launch
After a year of intensive work, the UBC President’s Task Force on Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence (ARIE TF) has concluded its work and submitted its final report which includes 54 comprehensive recommendations for addressing various forms of racism and related forms of discrimination. The event featured remarks from the Task Force co-chairs and UBC leadership, as well as a panel discussion about the recommendations.
Place, Power, and the Production of Subjectivity: Taking a spatial turn in Arab Studies
23 September, 2021 Examining the relationship between place, power, and the production of subjectivitya in the Arab region – both historically and today. In this panel, we engage with three scholars from the region, Dr. Omar AlShehabi, Dr. Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab, and Dr. Amal Ghazal, whose writings explore the ways in which colonialism, knowledge production, and geography animate the lived experiences of people in the Arab region.
No politics Zone – Educational reform in the Arab Gulf states (CIES 2021 panel)
Thursday 29 April – 11:45 AM – 1:15 PM (Pacific Time (US & Canada))
- Organizer: Esraa Al-Muftah (Qatar University / University of British Columbia)
- The perpetual [gendered] crisis in education: A genealogical analysis of the desired ideal girl in (post)colonial Bahrain *Sara J.. Musaifer (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities)
- The political mechanisms of reforming educational systems in the Gulf region *Ibrahim Alhouti (UCL Institute of Education)
- Strategizing in higher education: A critical discourse analysis *Hadeel AlKhateeb (Qatar University)
- Academic mobility, between the past and the present: The case of Qatar University *Esraa Al-Muftah (Qatar University / University of British Columbia)
The Other Side of The Wall: A Palestinian Christian Narrative of Lament and Hope
The Cambridge Centre for Palestine Studies is inviting you to participate in a discussion on Revd. Dr. Munther Isaac’s most recent book: The Other Side of The Wall: A Palestinian Christian Narrative of Lament and Hope.
Course Syllabi in Faculties of Education: Bodies of Knowledge and Their Discontents, International Perspectives
Tuesday, December 1st, 2020, 2:00-3:00PM PST
Join co-editors André Elias Mazawi and Michelle Stack (2020 Wall Scholar) for a virtual launch of their new book: Course Syllabi in Faculties of Education: Bodies of Knowledge and Their Discontents, International and Comparative Perspectives.
Dr. Jo-ann Archibald (Q’um Q’um Xiiem), former associate dean for Indigenous Education and director of the Indigenous Teacher Education Program (NITEP), and professor of Educational Studies in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia will deliver a short reading from her chapter, “Embodying Raven’s Knowledge in Indigenous Teacher Education”.
Other contributors to the book will also be on-line to participate in a Q&A and discussion.
Select Publications List of André Elias Mazawi
A selection of Books, Articles, Chapters, Guest-edited Journal Issues, Audio-Visual Modules, Keynotes, Invited Presentations and Conference papers by André Elias Mazawi
(De)colonial Pedagogical Possibilities of Films & Film Festivals
Two-parts Special Issue of Postcolonial Directions in Education, guest co-edited by Sonia Medel and André Elias Mazawi in 2019-2020
‘Talking in/talking out’: Indigenous knowledge, filmmaking, and the decolonial poetics of visual sovereignty
A conversation with Indigenous filmmaker and cultural activist Dr. Dorothy Christian, Sonia Medel and André Elias Mazawi
Office of the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival (VLAFF), Woodward’s Building, Vancouver, BC, the early afternoon of June 7, 2019.
Positioning and introduction
Sonia Medel: I want to begin by welcoming you, Dorothy, and thank you for joining us for this conversation that will form part of the Postcolonial Directions in Education Special Issue on film and film festivals. I also want to acknowledge that we are engaging in this this conversation, here, in the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival (VLAFF) office, in the Woodward’s building, in Vancouver, on unceded Coast Salish, Tseil-wautulth, Musqueam and Squamish lands. This is very much a contested building and land, a reality that forms part of our ongoing dialogue behind the need for a Special Issue on the (de)colonial potential of film and film festivals. I would like to hand over the floor to you, Dorothy, by asking “Who is Dr. Dorothy Christian and why were you interested in joining us today?”.
CCIE’s first Trilogy: 3 films by Senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambéty
TRILOGIES: Intersections of culture, identity and education in cinema (Organized by André Elias Mazawi)
“Trilogies” is a CCIE initiative that brings together three narrative films, each time by the same director, and focussing on the intersections of culture, politics, identity, and education.
Each screening is followed by a facilitated discussion which will examine intersections of culture, identity and education issues reflected in the screenings.
The first Trilogy includes three films by pioneer Senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambéty (Colobane, Senegal 1945 – Paris, France 1998).
Watch the seminar: “Are school textbooks decolonisable? Entanglements of the ‘colonial present’ in Israel and Palestine” by André Elias Mazawi
Watch Dr. André Elias Mazawi’s seminar hosted by the Comparative, International, and Development for International and Development Education Centre (CIDEC), OISE, UoT.