This year’s conference theme, “Place and Power,” highlights two concepts that are inextricably interconnected in British Columbia. Specifically, the theme was inspired by a new BA requirement in the Faculty of Arts at UBC (Vancouver), which engages BA students with the history and present of xʷməθkʷəyəm People, with settler colonialism in BC, and with the systems of power, inequality, community, and diversity that make this place.
Presenters were encouraged to interpret the theme in any manner that deepens collective understanding of this place, and particularly invited approaches that speak to pressing issues of our time, from the rights of Indigenous Peoples to climate justice and beyond.
The conference runs from Friday May 2 to Sunday May 4. Below is some more information about Anthropology community members presenting this year.
Friday May 2, 10:30am
Session: Crossing Borders to Understand Region: Place-based Teaching and Writing
Anthropology Alumni Natalie Baloy (PhD), “Crossing the Border in Regional Place-Based Research & Teaching”
Friday, May 2, 3:15pm
Session: Indigenous Title, Then and Now: Colonial Law, Land Policy and the Courts
Carole Blackburn: Dilemmas of Expert Witnessing and Anthropological Evidence in the Nuchatlaht v. British Columbia
Saturday, May 3, 3:30pm
Daisy Rosenblum joins a Multidisciplinary Conversation around Place and Relationships. Chaired by UBCO’s Christine Schreyer.
Saturday, May 3, 3:30pm
Session: Asian (Canadian) People and Stories Across Generations and Borders
Anthropology Grad Student, Bing Yan: “‘No wonder we are discriminated against’: Transnational experiences of ‘Suzhi’ and racism in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside” [virtual]
Anthropology Faculty, Millie Creighton, “Travelling by Choice: Empowering Former Internees while Educating Against Injustices through Tourism to British Columbian Places of Japanese Canadian Internment” [virtual]
For more information about the conference, please visit their website.
