Networks
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Network
The CSR network is focused on sharing leading edge research and encouraging lively debate among academics and practitioners regarding corporations and global sustainability. The Network will sponsor a range of activities at the Liu Institute including: panel discussions, guest speakers, film screenings, workshops, and conferences. If you are interested in joining the CSR Network and would like to be notified of upcoming events, please email your contact information to Sally Reay (sally.reay@ubc.ca). We invite participation from all sectors including NGOs, government, business, and academia.
Global and Transnational Ethnographies Research Network
The Global and Transnational Ethnographies Research Network brings together an interdisciplinary network of qualitative researchers with interests in the politics, ethics, and practice of research in transnational settings. The network seeks to generate dynamic and lively discussion about the relationship between politics and method, linking the “how” of transnational research practice to the “what” and the “what for.” It also provides the opportunity for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and faculty across disciplinary spaces to share innovative techniques and practices concerning the conduct of field research in a range of transnational contexts.
For more information, please visit: www.ligi.ubc.ca/global-transnational-ethnographies-research-network.htm
Global Health Network
The Liu Global Health Network (GHN) seeks to enable the development of broad, transdisciplinary conceptions of global health - towards a more inclusive approach. The Network will host a range of activities at the Liu Institute that:
- Challenge established and taken-for-granted perspectives on global health;
- Challenge established discourses for addressing global health related issues in local, national and global contexts and contributes to new ones;
- Explore and puts forward transdisciplinary developments in global health (Forestry, Arts, Humanities, Sciences);
- Address the implications of global health on the Liu themes of Sustainability, Security, and Social Justice.
Global health can be conceptualized as an area for study, research, and practice that places a priority on improving well-being of people in ways that are just, equitable, and sustainable. It emphasizes transnational issues, determinants, and solutions; involves many disciplines within and beyond the health sciences and promotes transdisciplinary collaboration. The Global Health Network takes an interdisciplinary problem-solving approach to explore new ideas and ways of learning to catalyze innovative thinking and positive societal change.
If you are interested in joining the Global Health Network and would like to be notified of upcoming events, please email your contact information to Regi Garcia (regarcia@gmail.com).
For more information, please visit: www.blogs.ubc.ca/globalhealth/
International Development Research Network (IDRN)
The International Development Research Network (IDRN) is an initiative of the Liu Institute for Global Issues (LIGI), located at the Univeristy of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Its vision is to provide a vibrant, interactive hub for researchers, practitioners, and communities from around the globe to collaborate on issues of development. IDRN is an inclusive social web, designed to connect people working on a broad spectrum of issues. Discussions will encompass a wide range of topics, from sustainability, to technology transfer, to urbanization, to education. If you are interested in joining the IDRN and would like to be notified of upcoming events, please send us your contact information by e-mail (idrn.ubc@gmail.com). We invite participation from all sectors including NGOs, government, business, and academia.
For more information, please visit: www.idrn-ubc.org/
Migration Network
The Liu Migration Network is a network of approximately one hundred graduate students working in the field of migration studies at UBC. The network, formerly called the Graduate Student Migration Network (GSMN), has been in existence since 2004. It is now affiliated with the Liu Institute, an arrangement that will provide more resources and opportunities for all members.
For more information, please visit: www.ligi.ubc.ca/migration_network.htm
Transitional Justice Network
The Transitional Justice Network (TJN) was founded in 2009 at the Liu Institute for Global Issues, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. TJN brings together a diverse group of scholars working on issues related to both formal and informal processes of social recovery and reconstruction, historical memory and transformation, and justice and the law to address the social, economic and political impact of organized violence and systematic deprivation.
For more information, please visit: www.tjn.moonfruit.com/
Research Groups
Affect, Politics and Theory
This reading group is a mix of UBC Professors and Graduate Students who meet to discuss key authors in the field of affect and politics. During their meetings, the group look at how each member is considering the concepts discussed in relation to their own research interests and the methodological implications of putting these concepts to work. The group began in 2008 reading about Space, however, in 2010-11 they changed focus to Affect and Politics. Reading theory opens a rich conversation between disciplines and diverse research areas, and enables new perspectives and questions.
For more information, please contact Ana Vivaldi (zipolite@interchange.ubc.ca).
Contemporary Conflict Group
The contemporary conflict group is a student-run platform for discussing the problems of quantitative and qualitative research on contemporary conflict. The group brings together students and faculty with an interdisciplinary background interested in and working on the issues of contemporary conflict, particularly, but not limited to, violent intra-state conflict. The overarching objective is to facilitate participants in the development and sharing of ideas and building a pool of knowledge and a support network around the challenging research on contemporary conflict.
For more information, please visit:
www.ligi.ubc.ca/conflict_group.htm
Gender & Sexuality in Latin America
The Liu Research Group on Gender and Sexuality in Latin America aims to contribute to ongoing discussions about Latin American gender relations, sexual politics, and feminist theories by bringing together graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and faculty interested in these issues. Through a series of reading sessions and film screenings this group seeks to challenge essentialist gender ideologies, explore contemporary social movements organized around issues of gender and sexuality, consider alternative sexualities, and interrogate notions about Latin America as a homogeneous region in critical ways.
For more information, please visit: www.blogs.ubc.ca/genderandsexuality/
Geographies of Governance, Transnationalism, and Inequality
This reading group operates under the umbrella of the Liu Migration Network, and looks at processes of globalization, systems of governance and patterns of inequality. The group aims to expand their understanding of new modes of transnational systems of governance that have been brought about by recent trends in globalization.
For more information, please contact Geraldina Polanco (gerald28@interchange.ubc.ca).
Global Queer Research Group
The Global Queer Research Group (GQRG) aims to connect scholars, activists, and community members around research and policy issues concerning lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer, communities, both locally and globally. Areas of focus within the GQRG include (but are not limited to) homophobic violence and anti-homosexual legislation, global l/g/b/t/q and intersex human rights issues, the rise of “homonationalism” in western Europe and North America, transitional justice for queer communities, queer migration and asylum issues, and HIV/AIDS.
For more information, please visit http://blogs.ubc.ca/gqrg/
Philippine Studies
The Philippine Studies Series: Academics, Action, Art aims to provide a venue for the discussion of Philippine issues within UBC; contribute to the promotion of multiculturalism, as well as the integration of the Filipino community in Canada; and help sustain a Vancouver-based network of scholars and community members interested in Philippine topics.
For more information, please visit: http://blogs.ubc.ca/philippinestudies/
Post/Colonial, Critical Race and Feminist Group
The Post/Colonial, Critical Race and Feminist Theory group is an Interdisciplinary study group focusing on contemporary theoretical and methodological advances in the scholarship of the ‘global’ as it relates to the following key topics: violence, displacement and social suffering; empire, race and sex; neoliberalism, the state and trans/nationalisms; Orientalism, modernity and Islamophobia. The group meets on a monthly basis and includes UBC faculty, graduate students, Community College Instructors and community activists. Meetings are organized around reading sessions, research presentations and film and video screenings.
For more information, contact Dr. Sunera Thobani (sth@interchange.ubc.ca)
