Canadian Studies at UBC

Evelyn Lau (author of Living Under Plastic) and Ray Hsu (author of Cold Sleep Permanent Afternoon) will be reading in the Robson Reading Series.

Podcast is forthcoming
Location: Lilloet Room, Barber Centre

September speakers: Peter Cole and Pat O’Riley (environmental justice scholars).
Peter Cole is an assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy at UBC, and a member of the Douglas First Nation (Southern Stl’atl’imx). His research interests include orality, narrativity, Aboriginal education, environmental thought, Indigenous self-determination, and Aboriginalizing methodology. He is the author of Coyote and Raven go Canoeing: Coming Home to the Village (McGill-Queen’s UP 2006) and co-editor, with Randolph Haluza-DeLay, Pat O’Riley,and Julian Agyeman of Speaking for Ourselves: Environmental Justice in Canada (UBC Press 2009).
Pat O’Riley is a visiting associate professor in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy at UBC, and an associate professor in the Department of Equity Studies, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies at York University. She is of Irish, French, and Mohawk heritage and married into Douglas First Nation. Her research interests include Indigenizing research methodology, Indigenous education, Indigenous technologies, community and environmental sustainability. Professor O’Riley is the author of Technology, Culture and Socioeconomics: A Rhizoanalysis of Educational Discourses (Peter Lang 2003), and co-editor, with Randolph Haluza-DeLay, Peter Cole, and Julian Agyeman of Speaking for Ourselves: Environmental Justice in Canada (UBC Press 2009).

Location: Graham House at Green College, 6201 Cecil Green Park Road