Events

REDI Empower Hour: The journey from “I am not racist “to I am anti-racist” with Dr. Neila Miled

Join us for the October 13th REDI Empower Hour. In this session we will open the conversation on different strategies to engage deeply with anti-racism and become true allies and anti-racists.

All-Day Sacred Fire Ceremony at the xʷcı̓cəsəm Garden at UBC Farm

The Indigenous Research Partnership, Faculty of Land and Food Systems, and The First Nations House of Learning invite you to an All-Day Sacred Fire Ceremony at xʷci̓cəsəm Garden at UBC Farm, on Friday September 30th, as one way to acknowledge, commemorate and appreciate the Canadian National Day of Truth and Reconciliation (TRC).

Recording: Diagnosing Truth, Healing and Conciliation Inside BC Health Care Systems with Dr. Danièle Behn Smith

Watch the recording of a conversation with Dr. Danièle Behn Smith, Deputy Provincial Health Officer, Indigenous Health. In this second Indigenous Speaker Series session, Dr. Behn Smith’s shares her unique perspective on how health and academic systems can best approach the work in relation to the processes of Truth and Reconciliation.

UBC Faculty of Medicine 2022 Commemorative Event for National Day for Truth and Reconciliation | Orange Shirt Day

Tuesday, September 27, 2022 | 10:00 am – 11:30 am PT | Virtual

Recording: We Are Children of Indian Residential School Survivors: Awakening Our Spirits, Our Purpose & Our Confidence

Thank you for joining us on Wednesday, September 21, 2022 from 12:00 pm – 3:30 pm (PST), for “We Are Children of Indian Residential School Survivors: Awakening Our Spirits, Our Purpose & Our Confidence”, the first session in this year’s Indigenous Speakers’ series. For those unable to attend a video recording is available.

Kristallnacht commemoration

Join the Kristallnacht commemorative program on November 9 at 7pm. Keynote speaker Liliane Pari Umuhoza is a human rights advocate who uses her life experience of surviving the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda and non-profit work to promote peace and summon global dialogue and actions against human right abuses.

REDI Empower Hour: Snapshots of our Ancestors with Derek Thompson – Thlaapkiituup

Join us for the September 15th REDI Empower Hour. In this session, Derek Thompson- Thlaapkiituup will talk about some of the history and the tensions that live there still, and to reimagine a past that is simultaneously accurate and works to empower those that have been dispossessed in the trajectory of our shared and unique pasts.