What it means to “exist at the edges of the Pacific Ocean”
UBC AHVA’s Dr. Camille Georgeson-Usher curates “We who have known tides” at the Vancouver Art Gallery (Nov. 2025–Apr. 2026), which looks at how the ocean has shaped the work of Indigenous artists.
The enigmatic Coast Salish Woolly Dog
UBC PhD candidate Alison Ariss contributes to The Teachings of Mutton: A Coast Salish Woolly Dog (Harbour Publishing, 2025), which tells the story of the now extinct Salish wool dog with perspectives from Musqueam, Squamish, Stó lō, Suquamish, Cowichan, Katzie, Snuneymuxw, and Skokomish weavers, Knowledge Keepers, and Elders.
The psychic dimensions of resistance and revolution
On September 10, 2025, Dr. Lara Sheehi and Dr. Jasbir Puar discuss the importance “psychic militancy” within violent systems and logics of settler colonialism and imperialism. Watch the recording of their conversation.