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Starting a Conversation with Stephenie Kendricks: Unintended Consequences – A Podcast Centred Open Source Curriculum Featuring Heroes and Sheroes Working on Environmental Health and Environmental Justice Protections

Wednesday, September 24, 2025  12:00 to 1:00 pm Arts 368 – In Person Via Zoom – email icer.ok@ubc.ca for the link Abstract Environmental justice (EJ) and environmental health (EH) studies are poorly represented in postsecondary education. Various  governmental and NGO organizations support  the importance of EJ/EH education. Learning about EH and EJ lifts students’ knowledge […]

Starting a Conversation with Savannah Kosteniuk – Imaginative Intimacies: Black and Indigenous Relations and Place-making on the Prairies

Wednesday, Sept. 17 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm Arts 368 – in person For the Zoom link, please e-mail: icer.ok@ubc.ca Black and Indigenous communities play a key role in resisting systemic violence and imagining tangible and just futures beyond current conditions, yet the nuances of Black and Indigenous intercommunal relations, especially on the so-called Canadian […]

We’re hiring  Community Engaged Research Data Management Outreach Assistant!

 Community Engaged Research Data Management Outreach Assistant  NB: This is an Undergraduate Research Assistant role (upper-level undergraduate preferred)  Application Deadline: Sept. 5, 2025  Interviews: Sept. 10 & 11, 2025  Job Description:   The Institute for Community Engaged Research (ICER) unites researchers from a broad range of disciplinary backgrounds, including Anthropology, Gender Studies, Indigenous Studies, Economics, Education, […]

Mar.26 – Starting the Conversation with Bonny Lynn Donovan

Please join Bonny Lynn Donovan for her Starting the Conversation talk: Visiting with the tmxʷulaxʷ: Indigenous ecocultural literacy in the early learning years   Wednesday, March 26 12:00 to 1:00 pm Arts 368, In-person Via Zoom, please e-mail: Icer.ok@ubc.ca  Bonny Lynn’s qualitative study addresses ecological sustainability through Indigenous language reclamation and the intergenerational transfer of traditional […]

Mar.12 – CER Storyteller Series with Dr. John Wagner

Join us on Wednesday, March 12 for a conversation between Dr. John Wagner, and ICER director, Dr. Christine Schreyer! 11:00 am to 12:00: Storyteller conversation 12:00 to 1:00: Pizza lunch for in person attendees John Wagner  John is an environmental anthropologist situated on the UBC Okanagan campus. He has been studying water governance issues in […]