Sound and the Humanities Spring Invited Lecture

Sound and the Humanities Spring Invited Lecture


DATE: March 7, 2023

TIME: 8:30am – 4:00pm

LOCATION: Multiple


Join us for a research presentation by Dr. Trevor Reed, Hopi scholar and Associate Professor of Law (Arizona State University), who works at the intersection of the arts, intellectual property, and Indigenous rights. The event will take place in the Great Performers Lounge of the Chan Centre, Tuesday, March 7, from 2:30-4PM. Talk will be followed by Q&A, then reception with refreshments.

Abstract

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The mass expropriation of Indigenous peoples’ voices, identities, knowledges, and performances to European-settler institutions and their publics continues to impact Indigenous communities today. For centuries, Indigenous creativity and expression have been captured and exploited, often in violation of Indigenous peoples’ laws, protocols, and standards of care. Institutions today must grapple with their legacies of intellectual and cultural abuse towards Indigenous peoples and emerging industry norms that increasingly demand respect for Indigenous rights, while also continuing to fulfill their missions to make knowledge resources available and accessible to the public, to the extent allowed by law. This paper seeks to further conversations regarding repair and redress for institutionalized cultural abuses by advocating for the infusion of restorative justice theory into archival practice and intellectual property management. (Image courtesy of Prof. Reed)

Co-convened by xwélmexw (Stó:lō/Skwah) artist, curator and writer, Professor Dylan Robinson (UBC School of Music) and Professor Julen Etxabe (Allard School of Law), Reed’s talk is the second event in the Cluster’s Spring 2023 Series on Indigenous Knowledge, Law & Sound.


Graduate Student Breakfast & Reading Group with Prof. Trevor Reed

We are excited to host a breakfast conversation for graduate students interested in getting to know Professor Reed and discussing a short reading together. If you are a graduate student in the area (UBC or otherwise) and you would like to attend, please REGISTER HERE by Friday, March 3rd. Space is limited to 12 students.

Attendees are encouraged to read Trevor’s brilliant 2019 article, “Sonic Sovereignty: Performing Hopi Authority in Öngtupqa” to facilitate conversation (but the group can absolutely chat about other topics!). The breakfast will take place Tuesday, March 7, from 8:30 – 10:00AM in Buchanan Tower 726.

We are grateful to the UBC School of Music and the Peter Allard School of Law for co-sponsoring this breakfast with us!

The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition


DATE: March 2, 2023

TIME: 5:00pm start

LOCATION: Online via Zoom


Photos of Thenmozhi Soundararajan and Anita Lal overlaid on a dark blue and mustard poster of their conversation on "The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition" hosted by UBC CISAR on March 2, 2023.

From renowned activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan comes her brilliant debut book, which is an analysis of caste-based oppression, the 1.9 billion people it harms daily, and a radical path toward healing.

Join the UBC Centre for India and South Asia Research for a book talk to understand why caste matters among the diaspora and how the Dalit Feminist perspective can fight caste based discrimination.

Thenmozhi Soundararajan is a Dalit American artist, community organizer, technologist, and theorist. Currently, Thenmozhi is the Executive Director of Equality Labs, which she co-founded. Equality Labs is the largest Dalit civil rights organization working to empower caste-oppressed people in the US and globally. Through her work at Equality Labs, Thenmozhi has mobilized South Asian Americans towards dismantling eons-long systems of oppression, with the goal of ending caste apartheid, gender-based violence, white supremacy, and religious intolerance. Thenmozhi previously co-founded Third World majority, an international media training organization and collective that supported people from disenfranchised groups in telling their own stories, in their own way.

Anita Lal is a fourth generation settler, born and raised in the traditional territories of Lhtako Dene and Semiahmoo, Katzie and Kwantlen First Nations, also known as British Columbia. She is the co-founder of Poetic Justice Foundation, a social justice organization, where she creates impactful and transformative programming to inspire and engage the South Asian community in change-making. Her approach is always inclusive, intersectional and critical; she draws attention to biases, inequalities and oppressive systems of casteism, racism and discrimination. Anita strongly believes in giving back to the community and serves on boards and advisory committees for the Province of BC’s South Asian Canadian Legacy Project, South Asian Studies Institute at The University of the Fraser Valley, and Seva Thrift Society.

Sponsored by the UBC Institute of Asian Research at UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, Equality Labs, Social Justice Institute UBC, and UBC Public Humanities.

A Workshop on Book Proposals


DATE: February 21, 2023

TIME: 12:00pm – 2:00pm

LOCATION: Zoom


A Workshop on Book Proposals led virtually by Courtney Berger, Executive Editor, Duke University Press.

10 UBC Humanities Scholars who are completing monograph manuscripts and will have a book proposal ready to exchange by early February will be selected to participate in a 2-hour workshop, followed by virtual half-hour one-on-ones with Courtney later in the week. This workshop is free but by application only. Although the workshop will be geared toward faculty members who are writing their first monograph, it will be open to all faculty members doing Humanities research in the Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Education, and Allard Law at UBC-Vancouver. Deadline for application is January 16, 2023.


This is one of four linked events for Humanities scholars writing monographs, in our Public Scholarship Series. Please also see:

December 8, 2022 | Publishing Your First Book: The Presses’ Perspectives
January 19, 2023 | Publishing Your First Book: A Seminar for Pre-Tenure Faculty: The Authors’ Perspectives
February 9, 2023 | Publishing in the Public Humanities