2023/24 ACAM Dialogues Cohort – Application Form

ACAM Dialogues Cohort – Application Form
**Deadline Extended**

— New application deadline: Fri. Sept. 22, 2023 @ 11:59 PM (PT) —
Fall 2023 – Summer 2024 cohort

How to apply

Fill out and submit the application using one of the following formats:

  1. Online survey. ACAM Dialogues Cohort – Application Form
  2. Word file. Click to download file: ACAM Dialogues Cohort – Application Form.docx. Submit via email to acam.events@ubc.ca with completed attached file.
  3. PDF form. Click to download file: ACAM Dialogues Cohort – Application Form.pdf. Submit via email to acam.events@ubc.ca with completed attached file.
  4. Video/phone call applications: You may apply via video/phone call. To do so, please email acam.events@ubc.ca to schedule a meeting where you will meet with one of the organizers to have a conversation about the questions on the application form.

Please email all application questions, requests, or concerns to acam.events[@]ubc.ca.

If you have specific accessibility requirements (e.g. ASL interpreter) or would like to submit your application in a format not listed here, please email us.

About the ACAM Dialogues cohort

The ACAM Dialogues is a series of workshop-style discussions, facilitated by and for students at University of British Columbia, based out of the Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies (ACAM) Program. A cohort of selected students meets monthly throughout the year to collectively participate in low-barrier discussion circles, events, resource-sharing, and other activities. The theme for the 2023/24 Dialogues is “Building Anti-Racism on Campus.”

The cohort brings together students from various disciplines and degrees of skill or experience around topics in anti-racism. Cohort members are students who are interested in and/or have some experience in generating critical frameworks around race as related to gender, sexuality, disability, class, settler colonialism, and other matrices of power, particularly in (but not limited to) Asian transnational contexts.

FAQs

What are the goals of this project?

This series is meant to create low-barrier and non-judgemental spaces to share resources and learn together, while enabling robust and critical conversations outside the classroom. We also want to build a space where students can offer peer support in the form of varying skills, vocabularies, and experiences related that may be specific yet interrelated under the project’s theme. While ACAM Dialogues organizers will facilitate meetings, cohort members will also share responsibilities around selecting particular topics of interest for monthly discussion. We hope this will help us build a practice of intentionality around conversations that may arise.

What are potential topics for cohort meetings?

  • Anti-racist community organizing, activism, and community-building
  • Critical topics in race, gender, sexuality, disability, class
  • Settler colonialism, imperialism and colonialism, Asian-Indigenous relations
  • Critical refugee studies, global migrations
  • Aesthetics, art and cultural productions, media industries
  • Mental health, wellness, medicine
  • Climate justice, food and food security, housing
  • and other topics of participants’ interests

Who can join the ACAM Dialogues cohort?

  • All UBC students (undergraduate, graduate, unclassified) of any program or academic standing
  • You do not have to be an ACAM or Arts student. We welcome all interested in collective dialogue around race and intricacies of power, regardless of your familiarity with these and related concepts
  • While we are open to all, we invite all interested applicants to be mindful of the project’s focus on contexts and experiences that resonate with BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, people of colour)

Learn more

Contact

Questions? Comments? Email us at acam.events[@]ubc.ca.