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Published on Sunday, 29 November -0001 16:00
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Dear Friends of SJS,
Blankets needed for Stolen Sisters March, February 17, 2018
A group is collecting blanket donations for the Stolen Sisters March in February to keep Elders warm at the Legislature! Please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you have a blanket to spare, any size, new or used (in decent shape) washed with unscented laundry soap. All donations greatly appreciated, and we can pick up! contact Shannon Hope - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Stolen Sisters Memorial March Victoria 2018Saturday, February 17 at 11:00amOur Place Society
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Contemporary Controversies:

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Diversity, Freedom of Speech and the University

Monday, Feb. 5, 3 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Harry Hickman Building, Room 105

The Knowledge and Place Task Force in the Faculty of Humanities is mandated to consider questions of equity, diversity and inclusion within the context of the University of Victoria’s Indigenous and international plans. Our focus is on the politics and ethics of knowledge in academic culture. Co-sponsored by the Office of the President and the Office of the Dean of Humanities, this event offers members of the university, and broader communities, an opportunity to engage in a dialogue on the tensions, complexities, and possibilities associated with freedom of speech and academic freedom within a post-secondary context that values equity, diversity and inclusion. It will also consider how universities, and members of the university community, might better navigate these intersections or perhaps even re-think how the issues are currently being framed. The invited panelists will share their expertise, reflections, and experiences as academics and/or as public intellectuals. The co-moderators will be Waaseyaa’sin Christine Sy, Gender Studies, and Neilesh Bose, Canada Research Chair, Global and Comparative History. The speakers are:

  • Dr. Farhana Sultana, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Syracuse
  • Dr. Rinaldo Walcott, Director, Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto
  • Dr. Mary Bryson, Senior Associate Dean and Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education, Faculty of Education, UBC
  • Rob Clifford, member of the Tsawout First Nation and PhD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

We acknowledge with respect the Lekwungen-speaking peoples on whose traditional territory the University of Victoria stands, and the Songhees, Esquimalt and WSÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.

Please join us for this important discussion.








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We acknowledge and respect the Songhees, Esquimalt and WSÁNEĆ peoples on whose traditional territory the university stands and whose relationships with the land continue to this day.

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