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Our Truth: Truth and Reconciliation at UBC

Our Truth: Truth and Reconciliation at UBC

From irsi.aboriginal.ubc.ca: “The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada was established to gather testimony on survivors’ experiences of the Indian Residential Schools. From the 18th to the 21st of September 2013, the Commission will be conducting the last of its west coast National Events in Vancouver. UBC has taken the extraordinary step of suspending classes […]

Sharing Our Truth: September 18th programming at the First Nations House of Learning

Sharing Our Truth: September 18th programming at the First Nations House of Learning

On Sept. 18,  CTLT and other UBC units will be hosting a full day of programming at the UBC Longhouse. You are encouraged to drop by for however long you are able to and participate with other members of the university who will be on campus that day.     9:00-10:00am (PNE broadcast) Welcome to the […]

Global Lounge Official Wordmark 2012

Workshop: Whose Knowledge Counts? Schools as Oppressors and Liberators

If you aren’t able to attend the national Truth and Reconciliation Commission event on Wednesday, you are invited to join an experiential workshop (3:00 – 4:30 pm) at the First Nations House of Learning with UBC Jump Start and the Simon K.Y. Lee Global Lounge & Resource Centre to engage in a critical discussion around […]

English 110, 013. Dr. Laura Moss.

English 110, 013. Dr. Laura Moss.

In this first year English class, concentrated on Canadian Literature, the students will be studying the history of the Indian Act, the role of residential schools in the Canadian education system, and ways poets, fiction writers, playwrights, and artists have responded to the long history of legislated racism in Canada.   An early assignment for the […]

Why should the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings on the Indian Residential Schools system be of interest to a UBC Forestry student?

Why should the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings on the Indian Residential Schools system be of interest to a UBC Forestry student?

Video seeking to make connections between Forestry as a field of study and as an industry, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Speaking My Truth

Speaking My Truth: Reflections on Reconciliation and Residential School

Book editors Jonathan Dewar, Glen Lowry, and Mike DeGagné will share their journey in the development of ‘Speaking My Truth’ collection, highlight the importance of sharing the stories to advance awareness of the Indian Residential School system and engage participants in the notions of apology, denial, and reconciliation.

Prototype 1: outhouse construction at Tàkwàzhän. Building the outhouse at Tàkwàzhän.

Open-Ending & Architecture: Design in the First Nations Context

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 9:30AM – 12:30PM #104 LASSERRE BUILDING As part of the West Coast National Event of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission activities at UBC, four members of the Architecture Program of the UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture will take this significant opportunity discuss their involvement working in project-based collaborations with First […]

Rima Wilkes

Why Reconciliation Matters

Rima Wilkes on the tragedy of Indian residential schools and the importance of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s National Event in Vancouver Two years ago, Associate Prof. of Sociology Rima Wilkes listened to the testimony of Indian residential school survivors at an event organized by UBC’s First Nations House of Learning. The moving […]

UBC Okanagan campus – The Road to Reconciliation:

UBC Okanagan campus – The Road to Reconciliation:

Aboriginal Programs and Services, the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, Indigenous Studies, and the Library have partnered to develop a series of events and programming that align with the goals and principles of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and that coincide with the last National Event in Vancouver.  In order to provide a wide-range […]

Understanding Truth and Reconciliation

UBC Okanagan campus – Understanding Truth and Reconciliation:

Aboriginal Programs and Services, the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, Indigenous Studies, and the Library have partnered to develop a series of events and programing that align with the goals and principles of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and that coincide with the last National Event in Vancouver. In order to provide a wide-range […]