LFS Today Feb 18, 2021

Faculty Member Profile Updates

Faculty members are invited to do yearly review of their profile pages on our Faculty website: https://www.landfood.ubc.ca/faculty/
 
These profiles are some of the most visited pages, and are an important tool for promoting the Faculty to potential students, media, and industry. Please take this opportunity to update any out-of-date or missing information.
 
Please send any changes or additions to Eric Skalij (web-requests@landfood.ubc.ca).

Some areas you can check for updates:

• Job title(s)
• Publications (to save space, we recommend either your latest 5 or top 5, with a link to Google Scholar for more)
• Research area/activity is up-to-date
• List of courses you regularly teach
• Awards/honours received
• Links are working correctly

WorkDay Tip of the Week

This week’s tip answers: How Do I View My Team’s Absence Calendar?

Read on to find out how to see your team’s vacation and leave calendar. This can be a helpful tool for managers when submitting your unit’s 2021 vacation schedule.

View more tips here: my.landfood.ubc.ca/preparing-for-workday/

Upcoming UBC Connects Events

Kevin Kwan
Represent, Represent: The stories we tell change the world around us

Thursday, March 4, 2021
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Register here.

In this UBC Connects Masterclass, the author of Sex & Vanity, and Crazy Rich Asians will connect with a small group of Faculty of Arts students to discuss creative solutions to real-world problems. The talk will be moderated by Doretta Lau, an adjunct professor in the UBC Faculty of Arts Creative Writing Program. The class is free and open to the broader UBC community, but participants are asked to register in advance.
 

Desmond Cole and Robyn Maynard
Beyond the Police state: a conversation

Friday, March 12, 2021
2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Register here.

Grounded firmly in the urgencies of the present, Desmond Cole and Robyn Maynard will discuss the limitation of reform and the necessity of creating abolitionist futures.
Cole is a journalist, activist and author of the national #1 bestseller The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power.
Robyn Maynard is a Toronto-based writer and the author of Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present.

UBC Sustainability Initiative: Climate Justice Series

Countries and peoples that are least responsible for causing climate change are the ones suffering most from its effects. Join students, staff, and community leaders for an exploration of what climate justice means and why it is so critical to climate solutions.

Friday, March 5, 2021
11am-12:30pm
Register here.

Learn about climate justice in Africa, climate justice as a threat to Indigenous sovereignty, BC’s oil tanker and pipeline projects and climate justice, and the global policy framework for acting on climate.
 
Featuring UBC scholars Temitope Onifade (PH.D. student, Allard School of Law) and Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson (Masters student, Allard School of Law, Counsel to the Haida Nation), UBC Political Science Professor Kathryn Harrison, and UBC alumni and Staff Lawyer at West Coast Environmental Law Eugene Kung.