The Psychology Indigenous Initiatives Committee is excited to share an upcoming talk by Dr. Dorothy Cucw-la7 Christian on Is the University Recognizing the Gifts of Indigenous Knowledges?
Dr. Christian is of the Secwepemc and Syilx Nations from the interior plateau regions of what is known as British Columbia in western Canada. She is Associate Director, Indigenous Policy & Pedagogy, Simon Fraser University.
A charismatic storyteller with a vast wealth of experience, Dr. Christian will discuss the framework of her forthcoming book, Fourth World Cinema: Narrative Sovereignty & Indigenous Knowledges, which is grounded in her research focusing on how Indigenous knowledges inform Indigenous film production practices. She will share stories from her experiences in the field that speak to the centrality of land, story, and cultural protocols.
Date and time: Friday, March 13, 6:30 – 8:00pm
Location: C400 UBC Robson Square, 800 Robson St.
This event is part of What Kind of University Do We Want?, a two-day gathering of academics, students, and community members—teachers, artists, organizers, and poets who care about the university’s future. Through shared conversation, we reflect on the university’s history and imagine what it could become. In Canada, the humanist university has been critiqued for its exclusionary foundations and failure to meet its public mission, while recent structural shifts have reduced accountability to faculty, students, staff, and the public. Caught between static educational models and managerial logics, universities often reproduce narrow, unimaginative forms. By asking this question, we seek to initiate an ongoing conversation about the limits of the present institution and how to envision a university that embraces multiple roles and imagines more just futures in an increasingly cruel world order.
Presented in partnership with UBC Public Humanities Hub, the Audain Gallery and the Institute for the Humanities at SFU.
About CINCH
The Celebrating INdigenous Culture and History (CINCH) event series is an initiative led by the Indigenous Initiatives Committee. The goal of CINCH is to build community and cultivate our knowledge of Indigenous culture and history on Turtle Island through film, theatre, dance and literature.
UBC’s Point Grey Campus is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) people. The land it is situated on has been a place of intergenerational learning for the Musqueam people from time immemorial.
