[Sjsall] upcoming events and opportunities
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Dear Friends and Students of SJS,
New course (could count as SJS elective):
ANTH 393 A05 (CRN: 23907)
Music and Society: Anthropologies of Music
Tuesdays: 14:30 – 16:20 on campus & some on-line instructional method
What does it mean to take the time to make music today when it would appear there are so many urgent social and political matters? This class critically engages music history, the lives of performers, the production of live performances, and experiences that involve music makers and organizers, their choices and their communities. Along the way, students will be introduced to foundational theories of ethnomusicology, ecomusicology, and sociomusicology. Performances have always been political and environmental in their manifestation, but the social activities that proceed and allow performance to happen are also transformative. This course traces experiences of popular music today back to fundamental issues of oppression,... social, and environmental (in)justice with particular attention to African, African Diasporic, and popular globalized musics. Assignments include attending and critically reporting on local performances as well as conducting ethnographic interviews with artists that students seek out. This class involves blended learning, with face-to-face in class learning for two hours and one hour of online and/or digital work per week. There is significant focus on multi-media recording, listening, and reflection exercises in addition to strategic in-class dialogic sessions with guest artists.
SEPT. 26:
SEPT. 27:
How Many Ways Can You Say Hello? (see attached)
We just want to extend an invitation to all on your Social Justice listserv, to attend a fun intercultural friendship building event with other UVic students, this Thursday, September 27, from 6:00pm at the UVic Continuing Studies Building, room 276. The goals of the event are to: make new friends; and learn amazing things about inclusion, human rights respect, and acceptance of other cultures and people
We will appreciate if you can share this invitation with your networks.
All the best
Moussa
Moussa Magassa
Human Rights Education Advisor
Equity and Human Rights Office
University of Victoria
Sedgewick Building, Room C118
T 250-472-4114 | F: 250-721-8570
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uvic.ca/equity
SEPT. 27:
Thursday, September 27th, 2-3pm, Rm 209, Law Building
Dr. Lisa Warden: "The Street Dog and the Slum Dweller: Twin Victims of Neoliberal Urban Renewal in India"
SEPT. 28:
MJAC is a co-sponsor of the powerful, new Canadian film about Western Sahara
(Spain's last colony and Africa's only colony)
Through the lives of two young women and their grandmothers
we learn about the colonization of Western Sahara and
Canada's role in the illegal mining of phosphates
SIROCCO: Winds of Resistance
**BC premier Friday, 28 September**
1923 Fernwood Road
doors 7:00 music 7:30 8:00 full-length film made
in the refugee camps of the Saharawi people
Europe and Saskatchewan
followed by discussion
admission by donation
refreshments & Nicaraguan fair trade, organic coffee available
presented by
Victoria Central American Support Committee
co-sponsors
Mining Justice Action Committee
Victoria Friends of Western Sahara
Barnard-Boecker Centre Foundation
https://www.facebook.com/vcasc/
https://www.victoriacasc.org/
https://www.facebook.com/MiningJusticeActionCommittee/
http://mjacvictoria.ca/ (poster)
https://www.facebook.com/fwsahara/
http://www.bbcf.ca/index.php
SEPT. 28:
Samuel Singer
"Trans Rights are (not just) Human Rights"
FREE PUBLIC TALK (refreshments provided)
Friday, Sept. 28th, 2018, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
UVic Fraser Bldg 158
COME & GO COFFEE @ BIBLIOCAFÉ
Friday, Sept. 28th, 2018, 3:00 – 4:30 PM
Join Samuel Singer for a coffee & casual conversation.
The Chair in Transgender Studies and the Lansdowne Lecture Series proudly presents Samuel Singer, Faculty of Law, Thompson Rivers University, and Founder of Montreal’s Trans Legal Clinic.
Samuel Singer is a long-time advocate for trans people. In 2017, he completed a comprehensive report for the Canadian Human Rights Commission on the development of trans rights in Canada. He founded the Trans Legal Clinic in Montreal in 2014 and served as its supervising lawyer. Before his legal studies, Singer worked for ASTT(e)Q, a Quebec trans health and advocacy project.
There has been much discussion of the role of human rights in addressing trans marginalization. In this talk, I argue that as advocates, we need to widen our lens by turning our attention to trans legal issues outside of human rights law. Drawing on a study of trans case law in Canada, I pull out lessons from cases in areas including family law, youth protection law, and disability law. I argue that a fulsome and intersectional approach to trans rights requires other legal tools beyond human rights to improve trans lives.
Also from Trans Studies:
Watch now! "Safety in Numbers: A Trans History." A beautiful short film by TELUS, narrated by the Chair in Transgender Studies, featuring materials from the Transgender Archives, and interviews from trans pioneers who attended the Moving Trans History Forward 2018 conference.
WORK STUDY JOB OPPORTUNITY:
WE'RE HIRING!
Are you a UVic student who is interested in working with the world's only Chair in Transgender Studies and the world's largest Transgender Archives?! APPLY TODAY to the Work Study program. Once you're approved, send your cover letter and resume to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
NACHOS NIGHT
The Chair in Transgender Studies invites all self-identified trans, non-binary, or Two-Spirit folks to a casual monthly drop-in gathering. You don’t have to be a student! While it is not exactly a free lunch, beer or pop and nachos are on the Chair!
Monday, October 22nd 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Monday, November 19th 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Monday, December 17th 4:00 - 6:00 PM
University Club - University of Victoria.
OCT. 2:
The Corporate Mapping Project, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - BC, University of Victoria, and Wilderness Committee are pleased to present:
Tailings dam spills at Mount Polley and Mariana: Chronicles of disasters foretold - A public talk with Judith Marshall and Bruno Milanez
The 2014 tailings pond spill at the Mount Polley mine in central BC marked the single worst mining disaster in Canadian history. A year later, an even more horrendous spill occurred at the Mariana mine in Brazil, killing 19 people and leaving hundreds homeless, and contaminating a nearby river system. A recent Corporate Mapping Project report takes a close look at the mining disasters at Mount Polley and Mariana and reveals remarkable similarities in these disasters but also in the corporate, governmental and civil society responses afterwards.
Join us on Tuesday, October 2 to hear from the report’s author, Judith Marshall, and Bruno Milanez (PoEMAS, Brazil) about what we can learn from these disasters about corporate power and influence.
Where: Room 105, Hickman Building, University of Victoria (3800 Finnerty Road, Victoria)
When: October 2, 2018 - 7-9 PM
Registration - This is a free event but space is limited so please register at: www.ccpabc.ca/talings_spills_vic
OCT. 4 and 5:
The future of Jerusalem in the time of Trump
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Jonathan Kuttab
The Trump administration’s decision to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem is part of a dramatic shift in the status of Jerusalem. The government of Israel is acting on a plan to remove the city from its Palestinian base, further imperiling the status of the Palestinians in their homeland.
Hear the perspective of a Palestinian-American lawyer who practices law in East Jerusalem.
UVic – DTB A104
(David Turpin Building)
7:00pm
Thursday, October 4, 2018
Sponsored by Social Justice Studies, UVic
Oct. 5:
Palestine at the Crossroads: A Human Rights Perspective
The Trump administration’s shift towards partisan backing of Israel
imposes new difficulties on Palestinians,
including the Christian Palestinian minority.
Hear what is happening currently on the ground in Palestine from
respected international human rights lawyer Jonathan Kuttab, a
Palestinian-American lawyer with a practice in East Jerusalem.
First Metropolitan United Church
Room 119, entrance at 932 Balmoral Road
(at Quadra Street)
Friday, October 5, 2018 – 11:00 - 1:30
A light vegetarian lunch from Fig restaurant will be available by donation.
OCT. 12:
Women and Power: Leadership for Transformation and Possibility
Friday, October 12 - Sunday, October 14, 2018
St. Ann's Academy
Building on the successful conference of 2016, the Society of Friends of St. Ann’s Academy is providing yet another opportunity to explore the gender inequalities of our time. The conference entitled Women and power: Leadership for transformation and possibility will be held October 12-14, 2018 at St. Ann’s Academy. The 3-day event will deliver opportunities to collectively further our knowledge and ability to read, critique, and re-create ourselves and our communities. It will provide a space for dialogue, debate, sharing, active listening, joy, and creativity. We intend to move forward from identifying societal problems to developing ideas and tools needed to implement social change through the central themes of power and transformation.
City of Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps and MLA: Hon. Jinny Sims will deliver keynote speeches that consider how various movements negotiate, claim, and use power. A series of panel discussions will explore gender in efforts of reconciliation, the trades, politics, and the environment.
Sonia Furstenau, MLA, Green Party; Nella Nelson, Retired District Coordinator of Aboriginal Nations Education; ChrYs Tei, Executive Director of the Rainbow Health Co-operative; Maja Tait, Mayor of Sooke are amongst a range of diverse and dynamic panel members that will participate in discussions. Creative and art-making workshops will build community as we learn with local artists to re-image and re-paint the gendered Canadian landscape. A detailed agenda and registration can be accessed at www.sfsaa.org.
For general enquiries or more information about the conference, write to Satinder Virdi, Executive Director at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Alternatively contact Co-Presidents of the Society: Darlene Clover, 250-721-7816 or Lynne Milnes, 778-587-1567.
Satinder Virdi
Executive Director
Society of Friends of St. Ann's Academy
PO BOX 9188
835 Humboldt St
Victoria BC, V8W 9E6
778 679 2412
OCT. 13:
Coast Salish Pit Cook
Sharing culture by sharing a meal
Saturday, October 13, 2018 · 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m
All day event — drop in or stay all day!
This is a unique hands-on opportunity to participate in a traditional method of food preparation used by
Coast Salish people. The process will start in the early morning and as the food slowly cooks there will
be singing, drumming and the sharing of stories and traditional knowledge. On the menu to sample at
2:00 p.m. is camas harvested from our Conservation Nursery and other root vegetables.
SPECIAL EVENT
Teachings from Elders, Cheryl Bryce of Songhees Nation, community members, and Parks Canada.
Please RSVP using EventBrite.ca or contact us at 250-478-5122 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Regular admission applies.
New Film:
VICE Media presents the documentary feature film:
The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy with Jeremy Rifkin.
A new economic system to address climate change in the Anthropocene.
An open-source film with 2.6 million views in 19 languages.
Preparing students for the future.
View film here:
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Chief of Staff
The Office of Jeremy Rifkin
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Margo L. Matwychuk, PhD
Director, Social Justice Studies
c/o Dept of Anthropology
University of Victoria
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Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2
Office: Cornett B210
PH: (250) 721-6283
FAX: (250) 721-6215
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