Faculty of Art
Join us for this year’s ACAM320J public lecture, The Body at Play on Wednesday October 29! This public lecture invites Dr. May Farrales and Dr. Sharnjit Kaur Sandhra to share their work on the role of sports, in particular, basketball, in placemaking, identity shaping, and community engagement.
This event is free and open to the public, and light refreshments will be provided. Space is limited – please make sure to RSVP using the form below to reserve a seat!
About ACAM320J
ACAM320J: Asian Canadian Community Organizing is an undergraduate studio course, co-developed and co-led by Dr. JP Catungal (Assistant Professor Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice; Co-Director Centre for Asian Canadian Research and Engagement) and christina lee 李嘉明 (director of community capacity + strategic initiatives @ hua foundation). The Asian Canadian Research and Engagement (ACRE) Studio balances academic and community knowledge, in partnership with local community partners, to support students in designing and facilitating community-centred research projects.
Speakers
Sharnjit Kaur Sandhra (Sharn) is a Historian, educator, storyteller, and founder of Belonging Matters Consulting. Sharn worked as Coordinator at the South Asian Studies Institute at UFV for more than 12 years and as co-curator and co-manager of the Sikh Heritage Museum, National Historic Site and Gur Sikh Temple (gurdwara). Sharn became the first Sikh person to complete her PhD from the Department of History at UBC in 2022. Her PhD looks at the affective experiences of museum visitors through a critical race theory lens with the dissertation is titled “Museums as Spaces of Belonging: Racialized Power in the Margins.” Sharn is a passionate activist, building bridges between community and academia through museum work. She has been featured in the Knowledge Network series “B.C: An Untold History,” is co-author of “Challenging Racist BC: 150 Years and Counting,” and has been featured on local, and international podcasts and media.
May Farrales is a Filipinx interdisciplinary scholar whose teaching and research are animated by questions of racialization, queer politics, and logics of power fundamental to colonial, empire-building, and capitalist projects. Currently, she is engaged in a research program that takes seriously the relationships and politics of people of colour in the racial geographies of settler colonialism.
Moderators
christina lee 李嘉明 (she/they) is a 2.5 generation Cantonese settler, born and raised on the unceded and ancestral lands and territories stewarded by hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ (Downriver Halkomelem) and Skwxwú7mesh sníchim (Squamish) speaking peoples. Christina is the director of community capacity + strategic initiatives @ hua foundation, and is an adjunct faculty with the University of British Columbia’s Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies (ACAM) program. In her free time, Christina is an avid (but amateur) outrigger canoe paddler and soccer player, a sometimes-photographer, and strives to be every dog’s favourite auntie.
Dr. John Paul (JP) Catungal (he/him) is Assistant Professor in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, and Co-Director of the Centre for Asian Canadian Research and Engagement at UBC. As a queer, first generation, Filipinx Canadian scholar of Pangasinense descent, he currently works in partnership with local Filipinx, Asian Canadian and queer of colour organizations to explore the value of community engaged and arts-based research approaches for uplifting historically marginalized communities’ knowledges, creativity and histories.
