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Representational Immersion and the Settler Gaze
Settler adaptations of Indigenous stories, for print, film, television, and video games, is a highly contested space, with a deep history of appropriation and representational violence (McCall, First Person Plural). In this post, which should be read as a work in progress, I explore how the settler gaze, defined by what David Garneau identifies as […]
Improving Online Instruction
As a final, “in-class,” assignment, the students in my knowledge dissemination course were charged with brainstorming 3 things they wished instructors would improve on in their online teaching. They were then asked to prototype a knowledge dissemination plan to best get that information to professors. They had 20 minutes. With their permission, I am […]
Job — Digital Pedagogies Facilitator (GAA)
Pay rate: $25 per hour Hours per week: 10 to 20 depending on availability Length of employment: Summer 2020 and potentially into Fall 2021 Application deadline: June 25, 2020 To apply: send your CV and cover letter to david.gaertner@ubc.ca Background: The Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies (CIS) is developing FNIS 100: Indigenous Foundations for online delivery. FNIS 100 […]
GRA to help develop a Place and Power requirement for the BA degree.
Pay rate: $27 to $32 per hour, depending on experience Hours per week: 10 to 20 depending on availability Length of employment: Summer 2020 and potentially into Fall 2021 Application deadline: May 15th,, 2020 To apply: send your CV and cover letter to david.gaertner@ubc.ca Background: The Faculty of Arts is attending to historical and institutional […]
#CovidCampus
Dear Colleagues, This is a short post summarizing some of the research I have done over the past few days in preparation to move my UBC classes online. I owe a debt of gratitude to all of the generous scholars who have posted materials on Twitter and elsewhere–most specifically Jacqueline Wernimont and Cathy N. Davidson […]
Indigenous Speculative Fiction Definitions & Questions
Below are definitions of Indigenous speculative fiction brainstormed at the end of term by students in English 373: Indigenous Speculative Fiction. You can read the syllabus for that class, including the reading list that these definitions are built from, here. We began the course with this simple definition of sf: Speculative fiction uses genre conventions […]
ENGL 373: Indigenous Speculative Fiction
Note: In the early marketing materials for this class I used a creative commons image of Marina Bay Sand and the Gardens by the Bay supertrees in Singapore. Using this image for a course like this erases Singapore’s own colonial history and the oppression of the Indigenous Malays. I have removed the image, but it may […]
Listen to Recoding Relations!
Check out our 4-part audio mini-series on Indigenous new media. Produced by David Gaertner, Melissa Haberl, and Autumn Schnell. All 4 episodes available for download and streaming here.
Call for Abstracts: Indigenous Relationality Workshop
Call for Abstracts Indigenous Relationality Workshop At the annual meeting of the Prairie Political Science Association (PPSA) September 14, 2019 Treaty Seven, Banff, AB We invite scholars, students, artists, activists and community leaders to submit presentation abstracts for the Indigenous Relationality Workshop (IRW) held during the PPSA annual meeting. The IRW hopes to create a […]
Reconciliation: “Like an Echo Turned Inside Out”
On the penultimate page of her 2017 dystopian speculative fiction novel, The Marrow Thieves, Métis author and editor Cherie Dimaline evokes the sound of an echo as a means elucidate the reunification of two residential school surviours: The scene is significant for a number of reasons, not least of all because it contains the only […]
