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EXTENDED DEADLINE: Mon. Sept. 27, 2021
About the project
The ACAM Dialogues: Building Anti-racism on Campus project is a student-facilitated, workshop-style series that aims to build strong foundations for student-driven coalition building and peer learning around anti-racist work. The project will involve a cohort of 20 selected students who will meet virtually, once per month, throughout the year to engage in collective, peer-based learning around anti-racism and what it means.
The hope is to bring together 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 diasporic contexts. This series will provide a low-barrier but robust space for students to build relationships with other students interested in anti-racism work on campus, peer learning and skill-building, offering and accessing peer support around community organizing and research interests, and enriching your research or community organizing practice alongside other students of different skills and experiences.
Some topics of interest may include (but are not limited to):
- 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
Note: The majority of this series will take place virtually by default, but depending on circumstances around COVID-19 safety precautions and the participants’ comfort levels and accessibility, there may be options for in-person events with safety measures (e.g. masks, social distancing) in place.
This series and its events will be facilitated by Olivia Lim and amanda wan, student staff at the UBC Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies program.
To learn more about the ACAM Dialogues project’s history or previous topics and events, visit our About page.
Meeting Schedule
The cohort will meet once per month, on the first Monday of every month.
What activities will cohort members participate in?
Cohort members will meet once per month for group activities, including:
- Discussion circles
- Attending community events and debriefing together
- Publishing insights in a special forum in the Tributaries: ACAM Student Journal
- Organizing and participating in 1-2 public events to share our learning with broader campus communities
Specific discussion topics and events will be chosen collectively, based on the cohort’s needs, interests, and availability. Depending on interest, cohort members may volunteer to co-facilitate sessions. You do not need to have previous experience with any of these activities to apply.
The 2021/2 series is supported by the generosity of the Caleb Chan Family 2030 Trust.
What is the criteria for applying to be a cohort member?
Applications are open to all UBC students (undergraduate, graduate, unclassified) of any program or academic standing. Some familiarity or awareness around discourses of race and power is helpful, but cohort member applications will not be evaluated or selected based on perceived level of familiarity. You do not need to be an ACAM student to apply.
Contact
For any questions, comments, or concerns about this series, please contact amanda at acam.events@ubc.ca.