UNB Fredericton

March 12 | 12:10 - 1 p.m.
Harriet Irving Library | Lamsoq Polum | Room 109

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UNB Saint John

March 27 | 12:10 - 1 p.m.
Oland Hall | Room 203

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This event will be a wonderful opportunity to connect, share experiences and build a supportive community. Feel free to bring your lunch for what will be an enriching gathering.

Virtual

This session has been cancelled. It will be rescheduled to a later date.

This workshop will focus on tackling anti-Asian racism in higher education. We'll discuss practical ways to combat discrimination and promote inclusion, creating a more supportive environment for Asian students, staff and faculty.

Facilitator

Dr. Rose Ann Torres is a former director and assistant professor at Algoma University’s School of Social Work and now serves as special advisor for academic innovation and designs at Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig Indigenous post-secondary educational institute.

She has held positions at UNB and Polytechnic University of the Philippines. Dr. Torres holds a PhD in sociology and equity studies from OISE/University of Toronto and has co-edited 10 books.

Her research focuses on mental health care access, COVID-19's impact on Black and Asian faculty and students and anti-Asian racism. She pioneered Algoma University's master of social work program and has received several awards for research and teaching.

Dr. Torres's work covers critical social policy, feminist critical race theory and mental health culturalization.

March 20 | 4 - 6 p.m. | Location: TBD

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The Human Rights and Equity Office, in partnership with Promise of Home, invites Indigenous, Black and Racialized students, staff and faculty to join us in observing the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

We welcome your participation in a focus group discussion on "Building Anti-Racist and Decolonial Futures Together on Campus." This conversation will explore how our campus community can work together to create and sustain anti-racist practices and environments in higher education.

Facilitators | Dr. Gül Çalışkan

Dr. Çalışkan (she/her), is a professor of global sociology at St. Thomas University (STU) on unceded Wolastoq Territory. She received her PhD from York University in Toronto, where her dissertation focused on the diasporic citizenship of Turkish-background residents of Berlin.

Gül joined the sociology department at STU in 2013. Her research and teaching focus on the broad areas of citizenship (as a social practice) and global social justice within global and transnational sociology.

Postcolonial studies and postcolonial feminism inform her research and teaching. In her research, she engages in the narrative inquiry to examine the complex relations between global processes and everyday realities.

Gül teaches Introduction to Sociology; Sociology of Globalization; Globalization and Gender; Racialization and Ethnicity; Global Justice; Orientalism Islamophobia and Postcolonial Transgressions; Advanced Theory; Research for Social Change; and Qualitative Methods.

Dr. Sophie Lavoie

Dr. Lavoie (she/her) is a professor in the department of culture & media studies at UNB’s Fredericton campus, where she teaches Spanish Latin American language, literature and culture, women’s studies and film.

Her research publications are on women writers of Central America and social change, mostly in Nicaragua. She has also published on Latino-Canadian writers’ narratives of integration (Lady Rojas Benavente, Carmen Aguirre, Carmen Rodríguez).

Along with editing two anthologies of Latino-Canadian women’s poetry, she is a literary translator with various books published in English, French and Spanish.

Notably, she translated Mi’kmaq poet Rita Joe and Ojibwa-Cree elder Ma-Nee Chacaby’s memoirs into French, recently published a translation of NB Anglophone poets in two volumes and is finishing up a translation of NB LGBTQIA+ writers for Frog Hollow Books.

UNB Fredericton

March 31 | 11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Harriet Irving Library | Event space | Room 308

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Join us for an informative session about Kehkimin Wolastoqey Language Immersion School’s mission to sustain and strengthen the Wolastoqey language through immersive language and land-based education.

Discover how the school is creating future generations of fluent speakers and reconnecting students with the culture and life ways of the Wolastoqiyik.

Presenter

Lisa Perley-Dutcher is a Wolastoqi ehpit (Maliseet woman) from the Neqotkuk/Tobique First Nation. Her family roots are from the Kahkakuhsuwakutom naka Malsomuwakutom (Crow and Wolf Clan).

She is a mother of four sons (Shane, Andrew, Jonathan and Jeremy) and grandmother to four granddaughters (Sadie, Aurora, Dahlia and Gwyneth).

Lisa worked as a registered nurse for 30 years with a master’s degree in nursing from UNB. The focus of her career as a nurse has focused on contributing to the improvement of health outcomes for Indigenous peoples.

She worked as a community health nurse in one of the first communities that transferred health services to a First Nation community in the Atlantic region. She was also at the forefront of the First Nations and Inuit Home and Community Care Program when it was being launched into First Nations across the country.

She established the first Aboriginal Nursing Initiative director position at UNB’s faculty of nursing to help increase the recruitment and retention of Indigenous students.

She also worked as the director of mental wellness for the Atlantic Regions First Nation and Inuit Health Branch. Lisa and her husband Stephen are partner consultants, Mah-sos Education and Research Associates (MERA), providing online educational sessions, facilitation and research services on various topics related to Indigenous history and health.

She served as president of the Indigenous Nurses Association of Canada. She recently graduated from a two-year intensive Wolastoqey language program and is currently involved in language and cultural revitalization projects.