ACAM COMMUNITY PROJECT SHOWCASE
Are you interested in learning about some of the amazing research that ACAM students are doing? Do you want to see what collaboration looks like between students and Asian Canadian communities? Thinking of taking an ACAM course next term but not sure what kind of projects you can do? Join the Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies faculty, staff, and students at the Community Project Showcase event where you can chat with ACAM students, community members, and profs and learn about current projects. This is your chance to see what kinds of research is happening!
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PRESENTERS:
Dominique Bautista – ACAM Centennial Alumni Project: Retelling UBC’s History from an Asian Canadian Lens
Born and raised in Vancouver, Dominique proudly calls this city her home: a place with intersecting spaces that continuously challenge her to consider who she is and where she’s “really from”. As a cultural hybrid, she has always been intrigued by identity politics complicated by experiences of migration, largely based on her family’s narrative and ties to the transpacific. Growing up engulfed by diversity and difference have inspired her guiding passions and principles of learning from various communities and uncovering untold stories.
Dominique completed her undergrad from UBC in 2015 with a background in English Literature and Sociology to complement her ACAM degree. As she begins her journey as a humanities educator, she looks forward to continuing to engage with local and global communities. If not desperately seeking sunshine, she loves to share stories over a cup of tea! (Twitter: @_DBAUTISTA)
Christy Fong – “Save Chinatown, Support Chinese BBQ Meat Products”: Racialised Legislation, Community Activism, and Oral Histories in Vancouver’s Chinatown
Christy Fong is an English Literature Honours student in the last year of her undergraduate degree, which has been supplemented by the ACAM program. She works at the academic journal Canadian Literature as the web and communications assistant and at Arts ISIT as content editor and help desk staff. These experiences have increased her interest in digital humanities and new information technologies, which informs her research on social justice movements in Vancouver’s Chinatown. As a literature student, Christy is inspired by narrative medicine and embodied discourses, especially those centered around marginalised bodies and diasopric/migrant experiences.
Sloane Geddes – ‘Woven Together’ (documentary on material folklore)
Sloane Geddes is a 5th year undergraduate student in the department of Asian Studies. She and two other students—Taylor Sadler and Ozhen Amin—worked together on this documentary to tell the story of how cultural clothing weaves people together. In working on this project, Sloane discovered numerous parallels between the experiences of asian diasporic communities and her own cultural group—the ojibwe. She is currently working on a project looking at the intertwined histories of first nations people and members of the punjabi diaspora. The project focuses on coming to terms with cultural identity through the lens of her own family’s complicated history with the state, and the experiences of belonging to the punjabi second generation.
Eleanor Munk – The Pacific Canada Heritage Centre – Museum of Migration (PCHC – MoM) Society
Eleanor Munk is a recent graduate from Mount Allison University with a degree in Honours English Literature. In the years following her graduation, she has worked and volunteered with Pan-Pacific and Asian-Canadian communities and organizations such as Ricepaper Magazine and the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop. She is currently Marketing and Event Coordinator with the PCHC-MoM Society and Coordinator with the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society.
Nicole So – #ThisisChinatown campaign
Nicole So is a UBC alumni (2015) with a BA in English Literature and a minor in Asian Canadian and Asian Migration studies. Her recent work and involvement in Chinatown began with making the video “4 Reasons Why You Should Care about Vancouver’s Chinatown” for class. Since the launch and positive receptions of the video, Nicole has committed her summer to working on the Hong Kong-Canada Crosscurrents Project with Dr. Henry Yu, helping Heritage BC organize workshops to assess the intangible heritage of Vancouver’s Chinatown, and interning at Hua Foundation, a non-profit start up organization for Chinese-Canadian youth. She is also a Chapman & Innovations Grant 2015 recipient, for co-founding and directing “Project Young and Classy” in partnership with Strathcona Community Centre. Nicole enjoys indulging in good films and travelling in her spare time, and is a self-proclaimed bubble tea connoisseur.
Joanna Yang – Canadians that Never Arrived: The Komagata Maru and Our Absent History (documentary film)
Joanna is a first-generation Canadian born Chinese settler on the traditional and ancestral lands of the Coast Salish First Nations peoples. She graduated from the UBC Human Geography and Migration/Globalization Studies program in 2014 – just one year before the UBC ACAM program was approved. An aspiring visual storyteller, Joanna considers herself to be a life-long learner, constantly curating her storyboard.
+ more tba!!
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*Where: Lillooet Room (301), Irving K Barber Learning Centre, UBC, unceded Musqueam territory
*When: Friday November 20, 2015, 12 – 1pm
*Registration: RSVP now to save your seat as there is limited capacity! http://acamcommunity.eventbrite.ca
*Accessibility info:
From East Mall, enter the Learning Centre through the main doors. Lillooet Room is on level 3 in The Chapman Learning Commons.
There are two good sized elevators on the lobby level (east mall entrance) that access all levels of the Learning Centre.
Washrooms are located on all levels near the elevators. Each washroom has a modified stall, although they are not labelled. The designated disabled washrooms on levels 3 and 4 can be accessed by contacting campus security (604-822-2222). The designated disabled washroom on level 2, which is equipped with a specialized lift and harness, can be accessed by contacting Access & Diversity.
*Lunch (meat and vegetarian options) will be provided for those who RSVP. Please let us know if you have any special dietary needs.
If you have any questions, please email acam.events@ubc.ca
We hope to see you there!
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This event will be taking place on the traditional, unceded, ancestral homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) First Nation.
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