2022/3 ACAM Dialogues: Building Anti-Racism on Campus

— Applications are now CLOSED. Thank you for your interest. —
Deadline extension: Fri. Sept. 16 2022 @ 11:59pm (PT)
(Fall 2022 – Summer 2023 cohort)

How to apply

  • Application format: This application is also available in the following formats:
  • Email applications: Your application can also be submitted via email to acam.events@ubc.ca. You may attach the PDF or Word document containing your responses, or simply copy and paste the text into the body of the email.
  • 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 review the application with one of our organizers.
  • Additional options: 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 acam.events@ubc.ca.

About this project

This project is a virtual series of workshop-style discussions, facilitated by and for students at University of British Columbia. A cohort of selected students meets monthly throughout the year to collectively participate in low-barrier discussion circles, events, resource-sharing, and other activities focused on topics of interested related to the broad topic of anti-racism and its complexities.

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.

Note: The majority of this series will take place virtually by default due to COVID-19 safety and accessibility precautions. Depending on participants’ safety and accessibility needs, there may be options for in-person events with safety measures (e.g. masks, social distancing) in place.

This project is supported by generous donations from the Chan Family Foundation.

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

acam.events@ubc.ca